DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13882326
title: DL-Spectral Challenge data and information

description: This record contains the materials for the DL-sparse-view CT Challenge

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The training data for developing the neural networks is in the subfolder "data".All files are compressed with gzip in order to facilate faster downloads.Data are partitioned into four batches, which also facilates downloading of theindividual files. Data are in python numpy's .npy format.After uncompressing with gunzip the .npy files can be read into pythonwith the numpy.load command, yielding single precision floating point arraysof the proper dimensions.

In the "data" folder are:Phantom_batch?.npyThese arrays are 1000x512x512.1000 images of pixel dimensions 512x512.These are the true images.

FBP128_batch?.npyThese arrays are 1000x512x512.1000 images of pixel dimensions 512x512.These are the FBP reconstructed images from the 128-view sinograms.

Sinogram_batch?.npyThese arrays are 1000x128x1024.1000 sinograms of 128 projections over 360 degree scanning onto a 1024-pixel linear detector. 

There are four batches. Thus 4000 sets of data/image pairs are available for trainingthe neural networks for image reconstruction.The goal is to train a network that accepts the FBP128 image (and/or the 128-view sinogram)to yield an image that is as close as possible to the corresponding Phantom image.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTENTS of validation-data/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Data is in the same arrangement as in the "data/" folder except that there are only 10 cases.As a result they data are not split into batches and they are not compressed.Phantom_validation.npyThese arrays are 10x512x512.10 images of pixel dimensions 512x512.These are the true images for the validation stage.  !!!! KEEP THIS SECRET !!!!

FBP128_validation.npyThese arrays are 10x512x512.10 images of pixel dimensions 512x512.These are the FBP reconstructed images from the 128-view sinograms.

Sinogram_validation.npyThese arrays are 10x128x1024.10 sinograms of 128 projections over 360 degree scanning onto a 1024-pixel linear detector. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contents of this folder----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"smallbatch" datametrics.pyconverMatlab.pyREADME (you're reading this now)

A "smallbatch" set of data is in this folder, containing only 10 phantoms, fbp images, and sinograms.

These data files are for viewing and are used to demonstrate themetrics that will be used to evaluate the submitted images for this Grand Challenge.Running the program metrics.py will compare the FBP128 images against the ground truth (Phantom images).Hopefully your network will yield images that have lower RMSEs!The two metrics are mean image RMSE, and worst-case ROI RMSE for a 25x25 pixel ROI.The formulas for these metrics are in [put appropriate url link here],and the metrics.py code can also be inspected to see how the calculation is performed.

The contest data are in numpy's .npy format and test image submission should also usethis format. For matlab users, a script "convertMatlab.py" is included that shows howto convert the "smallbatch" data to matlab's .mat format. Also, converting back to .npyis shown in this script.