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Deep MRI reconstruction is commonly performed with conditional models that de-alias undersampled acquisitions to recover images consistent with fully-sampled data. Since conditional models are trained with knowledge of the imaging operator,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Alper Güngör , Salman UH Dar , Şaban Öztürk , Yilmaz Korkmaz , Gokberk Elmas , Muzaffer Özbey , Tolga Çukur

Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Marius de Groot , Meike Vernooij , Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Esther Bron

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is an imaging technique with exquisite sensitivity to the microstructural properties of heterogeneous media. The conventionally adopted acquisition schemes involving single pulsed field gradients…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Deneb Boito , Cem Yolcu , Evren Özarslan

High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is a type of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) that measures diffusion signals on a sphere in q-space. It has been widely used in data acquisition for human brain structural…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-12 William Consagra , Arun Venkataraman , Zhengwu Zhang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in brain disease diagnosis, but it is not always feasible for certain patients due to physical or clinical constraints. Recent studies attempt to synthesize MRI from Computed Tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Junming Liu , Yifei Sun , Weihua Cheng , Yujin Kang , Yirong Chen , Ding Wang , Guosun Zeng

Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Cagdas Ulas , Christine Preibisch , Jonathan Sperl , Thomas Pyka , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Bjoern Menze

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is an imaging technology designed to probe anatomical architectures of biological samples in an in vivo and non-invasive manner through measuring water diffusion. The contribution of this paper is…

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a non-invasive tool for watching the microstructure of fibrous nerve and muscle tissue. From dMRI, it is possible to estimate 2-rank diffusion tensors imaging (DTI) fields, that are widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Hernan Dario Vargas Cardona , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Alvaro A. Orozco

Generative modeling has recently undergone remarkable advancements, primarily propelled by the transformative implications of Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs). The impressive capability of these models, however, often entails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is essential for studying brain microstructure, but high-resolution imaging remains challenging due to the inherent trade-offs between acquisition time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yinzhe Wu , Jiahao Huang , Fanwen Wang , Mengze Gao , Congyu Liao , Guang Yang , Kawin Setsompop

Tractography from high-dimensional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allows brain's structural connectivity analysis. Recent dMRI studies aim to compare connectivity patterns across subject groups and disease populations to…

In MRI, deep neural networks have been proposed to reconstruct diffusion model parameters. However, the inputs of the networks were designed for a specific diffusion gradient scheme (i.e., diffusion gradient directions and numbers) and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Juhung Park , Woojin Jung , Eun-Jung Choi , Se-Hong Oh , Dongmyung Shin , Hongjun An , Jongho Lee

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is currently the only method for in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter (WM) connections. Tractometry is an advanced tractography analysis technique for along-tract profiling to investigate the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-29 Ruixi Zheng , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Xi Zhu , Zhou Lan , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion models, as powerful generative models, have found a wide range of applications and shown great potential in solving image reconstruction problems. Some works attempted to solve MRI reconstruction with diffusion models, but these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Xingjian Tang , Jingwei Guan , Linge Li , Ran Shi , Youmei Zhang , Mengye Lyu , Li Yan

White matter structures composed of myelinated axons in the living human brain are primarily studied by diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI). These long-range projections are typically characterized in a two-step process: dMRI is used to estimate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-09 Matthew Cieslak , Tegan Brennan , Wendy Meiring , Lukas J. Volz , Clint Greene , Alexander Asturias , Subhash Suri , Scott T. Grafton

Purpose: To develop an algorithm for robust partial Fourier (PF) reconstruction applicable to diffusion-weighted (DW) images with non-smooth phase variations. Methods: Based on an unrolled proximal splitting algorithm, a neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Fasil Gadjimuradov , Thomas Benkert , Marcel Dominik Nickel , Andreas Maier

The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a promising method to analyze the subtle changes in the tissue structure. However, the lengthy acquisition time is a major limitation in the clinical application of dMRI. Different image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Abhijit Baul , Nian Wang , Choyi Zhang , Leslie Ying , Yuchou Chang , Ukash Nakarmi

Adapting the Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) for direct image super-resolution is wasteful, given that a simple Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can recover the main low-frequency content. Therefore, we present ResDiff, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Shuyao Shang , Zhengyang Shan , Guangxing Liu , LunQian Wang , XingHua Wang , Zekai Zhang , Jinglin Zhang

Volumetric optical microscopy using non-diffracting beams enables rapid imaging of 3D volumes by projecting them axially to 2D images but lacks crucial depth information. Addressing this, we introduce MicroDiffusion, a pioneering tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mude Hui , Zihao Wei , Hongru Zhu , Fei Xia , Yuyin Zhou