Revisiting Ψ DONet: Microlocally Inspired Filters for Incomplete-Data Tomographic Reconstructions

In this paper, we revisit a supervised learning approach based on unrolling first introduced in [Citation1] and called Ψ DONet, by providing a deeper microlocal interpretation for its theoretical analysis, and extending its study to the case of sparse-angle tomography. Furthermore, we refine the implementation of the original Ψ DONet considering special filters whose structure is specifically inspired by the streak artifact singularities characterizing tomographic reconstructions from incomplete data. This allows to considerably lower the number of (learnable) parameters while preserving (or even slightly improving) the same quality for the reconstructions from limited-angle data and providing a proof-of-concept for the case of sparse-angle tomographic data.