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Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a powerful MRI technique that has shown great potential in quantifying tissue susceptibility in numerous neurological disorders. However, the intrinsic ill-posed dipole inversion problem greatly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-31 Yicheng Chen , Angela Jakary , Sivakami Avadiappan , Christopher P. Hess , Janine M. Lupo

Introduction: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) is generally acquired with full brain coverage, even though many QSM brain-iron studies focus on the deep grey matter (DGM) region only. Reducing the spatial coverage to the DGM…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-02 Xuanyu Zhu , Yang Gao , Feng Liu , Stuart Crozier , Hongfu Sun

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) dipole inversion is an ill-posed inverse problem for quantifying magnetic susceptibility distributions from MRI tissue phases. While supervised deep learning methods have shown success in specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Zhuang Xiong , Wei Jiang , Yang Gao , Feng Liu , Hongfu Sun

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) has been increasingly applied in longitudinal studies of neurodegenerative diseases and aging to assess temporal alterations in brain iron and myelin. The accuracy of such investigations depends on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-05 Jiye Kim , Hwihun Jeong , Taechang Kim , Eunseon Jeong , Jinhee Jang , Yangsean Choi , Jongho Lee

The starting point in quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a theoretical model that is used to map susceptibility distributions from magnetic field measurements. It requires regularisation techniques to avoid artefacts in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Rob F. Remis , Peter M. van den Berg

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) estimates tissue magnetic susceptibility distributions from Magnetic Resonance (MR) phase measurements by solving an ill-posed dipole inversion problem. Conventional single orientation QSM methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Kuo-Wei Lai , Manisha Aggarwal , Peter van Zijl , Xu Li , Jeremias Sulam

In the human brain, essential iron molecules for proper neurological functioning exist in transferrin (tf) and ferritin (Fe3) forms. However, its unusual increment manifests iron overload, which reacts with hydrogen peroxide. This reaction…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-10 Shradha Verma , Tripti Goel , M Tanveer

Purpose: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) reconstruction is a challenging inverse problem driven by poor conditioning of the field to susceptibility transformation. State-of-art QSM reconstruction methods either suffer from image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Juan Liu , Andrew S. Nencka , L. Tugan Muftuler , Brad Swearingen , Robin Karr , Kevin M. Koch

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers superior soft tissue contrast and is widely used in biomedicine. However, conventional MRI is not quantitative, which presents a bottleneck in image analysis and digital healthcare. Typically,…

Recently, deep neural network-powered quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), QSMnet, successfully performed ill conditioned dipole inversion in QSM and generated high-quality susceptibility maps. In this paper, the network, which was…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Woojin Jung , Jaeyeon Yoon , Joon Yul Choi , Jae Myung Kim , Yoonho Nam , Eung Yeop Kim , Jongho Lee

Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) provides researchers insight into pathological and physiological alterations of living tissue, with the help of which researchers hope to predict (local) therapeutic efficacy early and…

Applications · Statistics 2008-07-30 Xiaoxi Zhang , Timothy D. Johnson , Roderick J. A. Little , Yue Cao

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) quantifies tissue magnetic susceptibility from magnetic-resonance phase data and plays a crucial role in brain microstructure imaging, iron-deposition assessment, and neurological-disease research.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Xuan Cai , Ruo-Mi Guo , Xiao-Wen Luo , Jing Zhao , Silun Wang , Tao Tan , Yue Liu , Hongbin Han , Mengting Liu

Motivation - The test-retest reliability of quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is affected by parameters of the acquisition protocol such as the angulation of acquisition plane with respect to the B0 field direction and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Shuai Huang , Thomas Denney , Deqiang Qiu

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers significant advantages over weighted images by providing objective parameters related to tissue properties. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated effectiveness in estimating quantitative maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shishuai Wang , Hua Ma , Juan A. Hernandez-Tamames , Stefan Klein , Dirk H. J. Poot

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) provides a valuable tool for quantifying susceptibility distributions in human brains; however, two types of opposing susceptibility sources (i.e., paramagnetic and diamagnetic), may coexist in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Min Li , Chen Chen , Zhenghao Li , Yin Liu , Shanshan Shan , Peng Wu , Pengfei Rong , Feng Liu , G. Bruce Pike , Alan H. Wilman , Hongfu Sun , Yang Gao

Deep learning based Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) has shown great potential in recent years, obtaining similar results to established non-learning approaches. Many current deep learning approaches are not data consistent,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Francesco Cognolato , Kieran O'Brien , Jin Jin , Simon Robinson , Frederik B. Laun , Markus Barth , Steffen Bollmann

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) allows images to be compared across sites and time points, which is particularly important for assessing long-term conditions or for longitudinal studies. The multiparametric mapping (MPM)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Klara Baś , Christian Lambert , John Ashburner

Quantitative MRI is highly desirable in terms of intrinsic tissue parameters such as T1, T2 and proton density. This approach promises to minimize diagnostic variability and differentiate normal and pathological tissues by comparing tissue…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Qing Lyu , Ge Wang

An approach to reduce motion artifacts in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping using deep learning is proposed. We use an affine motion model with randomly created motion profiles to simulate motion-corrupted QSM images. The simulated QSM…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Chao Li , Hang Zhang , Jinwei Zhang , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

Abnormal iron accumulation in the brain subcortical nuclei has been reported to be correlated to various neurodegenerative diseases, which can be measured through the magnetic susceptibility from the quantitative susceptibility mapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Chao Chai , Pengchong Qiao , Bin Zhao , Huiying Wang , Guohua Liu , Hong Wu , E Mark Haacke , Wen Shen , Chen Cao , Xinchen Ye , Zhiyang Liu , Shuang Xia