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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

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) has demonstrated great potential in quantifying tissue susceptibility in various brain diseases. However, the intrinsic ill-posed inverse problem relating the tissue phase to the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ruimin Feng , Jiayi Zhao , He Wang , Baofeng Yang , Jie Feng , Yuting Shi , Ming Zhang , Chunlei Liu , Yuyao Zhang , Jie Zhuang , Hongjiang Wei

This article provides recommendations for implementing quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) for clinical brain research. It is a consensus of the ISMRM Electro-Magnetic Tissue Properties Study Group. While QSM technical development…

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) aims to visualize the three dimensional susceptibility distribution by solving the field-to-source inverse problem using the phase data in magnetic resonance signal. However, the inverse problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Chenglong Bao , Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping is a parametric imaging technique to estimate the magnetic susceptibilities of biological tissues from MRI phase measurements. This problem of estimating the susceptibility map is ill posed. Regularized…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Arvind Balachandrasekaran , Davood Karimi , Camilo Jaimes , Ali Gholipour

A learning-based posterior distribution estimation method, Probabilistic Dipole Inversion (PDI), is proposed to solve the quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) inverse problem in MRI with uncertainty estimation. In PDI, a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Jinwei Zhang , Hang Zhang , Mert Sabuncu , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh Nguyen , Yi Wang

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) can estimate the underlying tissue magnetic susceptibility and reveal pathology. Current deep-learning-based approaches to solve the QSM inverse problem are restricted on fixed image resolution.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Juan Liu , Kevin M. Koch

Recently, deep learning methods have been proposed for quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) data processing: background field removal, field-to-source inversion, and single-step QSM reconstruction. However, the conventional padding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Juan Liu

The data-driven approach of supervised learning methods has limited applicability in solving dipole inversion in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) with varying scan parameters across different objects. To address this generalization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Zhuang Xiong , Yang Gao , Yin Liu , Amir Fazlollahi , Peter Nestor , Feng Liu , Hongfu Sun

Deep neural networks have demonstrated great potential in solving dipole inversion for Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM). However, the performances of most existing deep learning methods drastically degrade with mismatched sequence…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Zhuang Xiong , Yang Gao , Feng Liu , Hongfu Sun

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

A learning-based posterior distribution estimation method, Probabilistic Dipole Inversion (PDI), is proposed to solve quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) inverse problem in MRI with uncertainty estimation. A deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Jinwei Zhang , Hang Zhang , Mert Sabuncu , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh Nguyen , Yi Wang

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

Purpose: For quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), the lack of ground-truth in clinical settings makes it challenging to determine suitable parameters for the dipole inversion. We propose a probabilistic Bayesian approach for QSM with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-01 Shuai Huang , James J. Lah , Jason W. Allen , Deqiang Qiu

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

In this work, we aim to learn an unpaired image enhancement model, which can enrich low-quality images with the characteristics of high-quality images provided by users. We propose a quality attention generative adversarial network (QAGAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Zhangkai Ni , Wenhan Yang , Shiqi Wang , Lin Ma , Sam Kwong

We propose Nonlinear Dipole Inversion (NDI) for high-quality Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) without regularization tuning, while matching the image quality of state-of-the-art reconstruction techniques. In addition to avoiding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Daniel Polak , Itthi Chatnuntawech , Jaeyeon Yoon , Siddharth Srinivasan Iyer , Jongho Lee , Peter Bachert , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Kawin Setsompop , Berkin Bilgic

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

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

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) inevitably suffers from streaking artifacts caused by zeros on the conical surface of the dipole kernel in k-space. This work proposes a novel and accurate QSM reconstruction method based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hyun-Seo Ahn , Sung-Hong Park , Jong Chul Ye