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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that predominantly affects the elderly population and currently has no cure. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), as a non-invasive imaging technique, is essential for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Xinyue Yang , Meiliang Liu , Yunfang Xu , Xiaoxiao Yang , Zhengye Si , Zijin Li , Zhiwen Zhao

Ultrasound imaging is one of the most widely used diagnostic modalities, offering real-time, radiation-free assessment across diverse clinical domains. However, interpretation of ultrasound images remains challenging due to high noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Youssef Megahed , Robin Ducharme , Aylin Erman , Mark Walker , Steven Hawken , Adrian D. C. Chan

Neural fields excel in computer vision and robotics due to their ability to understand the 3D visual world such as inferring semantics, geometry, and dynamics. Given the capabilities of neural fields in densely representing a 3D scene from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon , Zsolt Kira , Rares Ambrus

This paper introduces a novel pipeline designed to bring ultrasound (US) plane pose estimation closer to clinical use for more effective navigation to the standard planes (SPs) in the fetal brain. We propose a semi-supervised segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Chiara Di Vece , Antonio Cirigliano , Meala Le Lous , Raffaele Napolitano , Anna L. David , Donald Peebles , Pierre Jannin , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov

The rapid increment of morbidity of brain stroke in the last few years have been a driving force towards fast and accurate segmentation of stroke lesions from brain MRI images. With the recent development of deep-learning, computer-aided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Hritam Basak , Rukhshanda Hussain , Ajay Rana

Recently, Ultra-High Field MRI (UHF-MRI) has become more available and one of the best tools to study the brain. One common step in quantitative neuroimaging is to segment the brain into several regions, which has been done using software…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Marc-Antoine Fortin , Anne Louise Kristoffersen , Michael Staff Larsen , Laurent Lamalle , Ruediger Stirnberg , Paal Erik Goa

Micro-expression recognition (MER), a critical subfield of affective computing, presents greater challenges than macro-expression recognition due to its brief duration and low intensity. While incorporating prior knowledge has been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Chuang Ma , Shaokai Zhao , Dongdong Zhou , Yu Pei , Zhiguo Luo , Liang Xie , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

The field of zero- to ultralow-field (ZULF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is currently experiencing a rapid growth, owing to the progress in optical magnetometry, and also attractive features of ZULF NMR, such as low hardware cost and…

It is well known that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (7T) and higher magnets can provide much better signal sensitivity compared with lower field strengths. However, variety of commercially available ultra-high-field MRI coils…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Akbar Alipour , Alan C Seifert , Bradley Delman , Gregor Adriany , Priti Balchandani

We developed a new magnetic resonance imaging method called multinuclear fingerprinting (MNF) which leverages simultaneously-acquired proton (1H) and sodium (23Na) data to generate seven quantitative maps of the whole brain: proton density…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Gonzalo G. Rodriguez , Zidan Yu , Lauren O'Donnell , Martijn A. Cloos , Guillaume Madelin

Accurate automatic tissue segmentation in fetal brain MRI is a crucial step in clinical diagnosis but remains challenging, particularly due to the dynamically changing anatomy and tissue contrast during fetal development. Existing…

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The recent demonstration that nanoparticles associated with various biological molecules and pharmacological agents can be administered systemically to humans, without toxicity from the particles, has opened a new era in the targeting of…

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Recent advancements in large-scale Vision Transformers have made significant strides in improving pre-trained models for medical image segmentation. However, these methods face a notable challenge in acquiring a substantial amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yiqing Wang , Zihan Li , Jieru Mei , Zihao Wei , Li Liu , Chen Wang , Shengtian Sang , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

We examine the collective behavior of two-dimensional nonlinear superconducting metamaterials using a non-contact spatially resolved imaging technique. The metamaterial is made up of sub-wavelength nonlinear oscillators in a strongly…

Recent innovations in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) hardware and software have reignited interest in low-field ($<1\,\mathrm{T}$) and ultra-low-field MRI ($<0.1\,\mathrm{T}$). These technologies offer advantages such as lower power…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Andreas Kofler , Dongyue Si , David Schote , Rene M Botnar , Christoph Kolbitsch , Claudia Prieto

A novel scanning probe technique is presented: Scanning microSQUID Force microscopy (SSFM). The instrument features independent topographic and magnetic imaging. The SSFM operates in a dilution refrigerator in cryogenic vacuum. Sample and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Veauvy , D. Mailly , K. Hasselbach

Objective. The technology employed in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems has evolved continuously, resulting in MRI scanners with stronger static magnetic fields (SMF) B0, faster and stronger gradient magnetic fields, and more…

Nowadays, pre-trained encoders are widely used in medical image segmentation due to their strong capability in extracting rich and generalized feature representations. However, existing methods often fail to fully leverage these features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiaolin Gou , Chuanlin Liao , Jizhe Zhou , Fengshuo Ye , Yi Lin

Brain development in the first few months of human life is a critical phase characterized by rapid structural growth and functional organization. Accurately predicting developmental outcomes during this time is crucial for identifying…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-31 Patrick Styll , Dowon Kim , Jiook Cha

Neuroanatomical segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is a prerequisite for volume, thickness and shape measurements. This work introduces a new highly accurate and versatile method based on 3D convolutional neural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Philip Novosad , Vladimir Fonov , D. Louis Collins