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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides a distinctive means to probe the microstructural architecture of living tissue, facilitating applications such as brain connectivity analysis, modeling across multiple conditions, and the estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jongyeon Yoon , Elyssa M. McMaster , Michael E. Kim , Gaurav Rudravaram , Kurt G. Schilling , Bennett A. Landman , Daniel Moyer

Fiber orientation distributions (FODs) is a popular model to represent the diffusion MRI (dMRI) data. However, imaging artifacts such as susceptibility-induced distortion in dMRI can cause signal loss and lead to the corrupted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Shuo Huang , Lujia Zhong , Yonggang Shi

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have exhibited significant effectiveness in computer vision tasks, particularly in image generation. However, their notable performance heavily relies on labelled datasets, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Keqiang Fan , Xiaohao Cai , Mahesan Niranjan

Cortical thickness measurements from magnetic resonance imaging, an important biomarker in many neurodegenerative and neurological disorders, are derived by many tools from an initial voxel-wise tissue segmentation. White matter (WM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Vinzenz Uhr , Ivan Diaz , Christian Rummel , Richard McKinley

Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) is the only method we currently have to measure connections between different parts of the human brain in vivo. To elucidate the structure of these connections, algorithms for tracking bundles of axonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-05 Charles Zheng , Franco Pestilli , Ariel Rokem

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an important neuroimaging technique with high acquisition costs. Deep learning approaches have been used to enhance dMRI and predict diffusion biomarkers through undersampled dMRI. To generate more comprehensive raw…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Juanhua Zhang , Ruodan Yan , Alessandro Perelli , Xi Chen , Chao Li

We suggest to utilize the rich information content about microstructural tissue properties entangled in asymmetric balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) profiles to estimate multiple diffusion metrics simultaneously by neural…

In Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) or High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI), a tensor field or a spherical function field (e.g., an orientation distribution function field), can be estimated from measured diffusion weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Jian Cheng , Peter J. Basser

Diffusion model (DM) based Video Super-Resolution (VSR) approaches achieve impressive perceptual quality. However, they suffer from error accumulation, spatial artifacts, and a trade-off between perceptual quality and fidelity, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jingyi Xu , Meisong Zheng , Ying Chen , Minglang Qiao , Xin Deng , Mai Xu

Accurate dose distribution prediction is crucial in the radiotherapy planning. Although previous methods based on convolutional neural network have shown promising performance, they have the problem of over-smoothing, leading to prediction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Xin Liao , Zhenghao Feng , Jianghong Xiao , Xingchen Peng , Yan Wang

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in brain white matter probes tissue microstructure and allows for the estimation of compartmental diffusion parameters. Recently, it became apparent that traditional single-direction diffusion…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Marco Reisert , Valerij G. Kiselev , Bibek Dhital

Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kushagra Pandey , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Felix Draxler , Theofanis Karaletsos , Stephan Mandt

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

This article introduces a new methodology for reconstructing the white matter fiber pathways of brain in diffusion MRI. Usually, the signal intensity values will be lesser in the direction of higher diffusivity. The proposed approach picks…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Ashishi Puri , Sanjeev Kumar

The individual course of white matter fiber tracts is an important key for analysis of white matter characteristics in healthy and diseased brains. Uniquely, diffusion-weighted MRI tractography in combination with region-based or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter Neher , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Purpose: In diffusion MRI (dMRI), the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain tissue microstructure and connectivity can be severely impeded by an incomplete field-of-view (FOV). This work aims to develop a method for imputing the…

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is essential for reliable clinical diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in image generation and segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Sara Yavari , Rahul Nitin Pandya , Jacob Furst

In this manuscript, we are concerned with data generated from a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) experiment. The goal is to parameterize manifold-like white matter tracts, such as the corpus callosum, using principal surfaces. We approach the…

Diffusion models are distinguished by their exceptional generative performance, particularly in producing high-quality samples through iterative denoising. While current theory suggests that the number of denoising steps required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Gen Li , Changxiao Cai , Yuting Wei