ScatterFusionNet: physics-informed deep scatter correction for dual-detector CT using Klein-Nishina prior.

ScatterFusionNet: physics-informed deep scatter correction for dual-detector CT using Klein-Nishina prior.

Sun, Huahai; Zhang, Wenyu; Li, Liang
Physics in medicine and biology 2026 Vol. 71
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Abstract

Scatter artifacts degrade cone-beam computed tomography (CT) image quality, yet acquiring ground-truth scatter-free data in clinical settings requires time-consuming measurements. Purely data-driven deep learning methods exhibit limited generalization across anatomical regions, often learning anatomy-specific shortcuts rather than fundamental scattering physics. We aim to develop a physics-informed scatter correction framework that enables robust cross-anatomy generalization without extensive site-specific training data.We propose ScatterFusionNet, a physics-informed neural network that incorporates Klein-Nishina (KN) scattering priors to embed angular scattering constraints into the learning process. The network fuses side-detector measurements from dual-detector CT with a multi-scale backbone via feature-wise linear modulation, where KN prior maps guide feature modulation in a physically grounded manner. The model is trained on Monte Carlo simulations and fine-tuned using a single right-ear dataset.When evaluated on unseen right-teeth and left-teeth datasets, the proposed method achieves 5.7% and 3.6% contrast-to-noise ratio improvements, respectively, closely matching beam stop array ground truth. Under identical training protocols, a classical SE UNet baseline shows only marginal gains (0.8% and 1.0%), indicating substantially weaker cross-anatomy generalization.These results demonstrate that embedding physics-informed priors into deep networks is critical for building robust scatter correction systems. By integrating KN constraints with dual-detector measurements, the proposed framework enhances generalizability across anatomical sites while reducing dependence on extensive anatomy-specific training data.

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