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We introduce the idea of inter-slice image augmentation whereby the numbers of the medical images and the corresponding segmentation labels are increased between two consecutive images in order to boost medical image segmentation accuracy.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Zhaotao Wu , Jia Wei , Wenguang Yuan , Jiabing Wang , Tolga Tasdizen

Line spectral estimation (LSE) from multi snapshot samples is studied utilizing the variational Bayesian methods. Motivated by the recently proposed variational line spectral estimation (VALSE) method for a single snapshot, we develop the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-30 Qi Zhang , Jiang Zhu , Peter Gerstoft , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Zhiwei Xu

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinical diagnosis. However, its long acquisition time remains a critical issue. Parallel imaging (PI) is a common approach to reduce acquisition time by periodically skipping…

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Methods: Nine SSL methods spanning four pretext-task families were pretrained from scratch using the same 10{,}412 3D CT scans (1.89~M 2D axial slices) covering varied disease sites. The pretrained Swin Transformer encoder from each method…

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This paper presents a new approach for contrast enhancement of spinal cord medical images based on multirate scheme incorporated into multiscale retinex algorithm. The proposed work here uses HSV color space, since HSV color space separates…

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Despite significant advancements in automatic brain tumor segmentation methods, their performance is not guaranteed when certain MR sequences are missing. Addressing this issue, it is crucial to synthesize the missing MR images that reflect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Jihoon Cho , Seunghyuck Park , Jinah Park

A new method of measuring long spin-lattice relaxation times ($T_1$) is proposed. Being a single scan technique, the method is at least one order of magnitude faster than the conventional technique. This method (Single-Scan or Slice…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rangeet Bhattacharyya , Anil Kumar

This study formally adapts the time-domain linear sampling method (TLSM) for ultrasonic imaging of stationary and evolving fractures in safety-critical components. The TLSM indicator is then applied to the laboratory test data of [22, 18]…

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Image simulation for scanning transmission electron microscopy at atomic resolution for samples with realistic dimensions can require very large computation times using existing simulation algorithms. We present a new algorithm named PRISM…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-24 Colin Ophus

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a novel scene representation approach. However, existing vision-only 3D-GS methods often rely on hand-crafted heuristics for point-cloud densification and face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sheng Hong , Chunran Zheng , Yishu Shen , Changze Li , Fu Zhang , Tong Qin , Shaojie Shen

We consider the simultaneous deblurring of a set of noisy images whose point spread functions are different but known and spatially invariant, and the noise is Gaussian. Currently available iterative algorithms that are typically used for…

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Multifocal microscopy (MFM) offers high-speed three-dimensional imaging through the simultaneous image capture from multiple focal planes. Conventional MFM systems use a fabricated grating in the emission path for a single emission…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 M. Junaid Amin , Sabine Petry , Haw Yang , Joshua W. Shaevitz

MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Matthias Hein , Christian F. Baumgartner

Reconstructing high-fidelity magnetic resonance (MR) images from under-sampled k-space is a commonly used strategy to reduce scan time. The posterior sampling of diffusion models based on the real measurement data holds significant promise…

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Multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) image registration is useful in the clinic to achieve fast and accurate imaging-based disease diagnosis and treatment planning. Nevertheless, the efficiency and performance of the existing registration…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Weijian Huang , Hao Yang , Xinfeng Liu , Cheng Li , Ian Zhang , Rongpin Wang , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Purpose: In many clinical MRI scenarios, existing imaging information can be used to significantly shorten acquisition time or to improve Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). In this paper the authors present a framework for fast MRI by exploiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Lior Weizman , Yonina C. Eldar , Dafna Ben-Basaht