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Motion during image acquisition can cause image degradation in all medical imaging modalities. This is particularly relevant in 2-D ultrasound imaging, since out-of-plane motion can only be compensated for movements smaller than elevational…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 S. Harput , K. Christensen-Jeffries , J. Brown , J. Zhu , G. Zhang , R. J. Eckersley , C. Dunsby , M-X. Tang

Motion artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are one of the frequently occurring artifacts due to patient movements during scanning. Motion is estimated to be present in approximately 30% of clinical MRI scans; however, motion has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Zhifeng Chen , Kamlesh Pawar , Kh Tohidul Islam , Himashi Peiris , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Motion artifacts often spoil the radiological interpretation of MR images, and in the most severe cases the scan needs be repeated, with additional costs for the provider. We discuss the application of a novel 3D retrospective rigid motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Gabrio Rizzuti , Tim Schakel , Niek R. F. Huttinga , Jan Willem Dankbaar , Tristan van Leeuwen , Alessandro Sbrizzi

Correcting motion artifacts in MRI is important, as they can hinder accurate diagnosis. However, evaluating deep learning-based and classical motion correction methods remains fundamentally difficult due to the lack of accessible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Kun Wang , Tobit Klug , Stefan Ruschke , Jan S. Kirschke , Reinhard Heckel

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging modality boasting great soft tissue contrast without ionizing radiation, but unfortunately suffers from long acquisition times. Long scan times can lead to motion artifacts,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Sofia Kardonik , Jonathan I. Tamir

Motion represents one of the major challenges in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Since the MR signal is acquired in frequency space, any motion of the imaged object leads to complex artefacts in the reconstructed image in addition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Veronika Spieker , Hannah Eichhorn , Kerstin Hammernik , Daniel Rueckert , Christine Preibisch , Dimitrios C. Karampinos , Julia A. Schnabel

Resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful imaging technique for studying functional development of the brain in utero. However, unpredictable and excessive movement of fetuses have limited its clinical…

Gating is a key feature in modern neural networks including LSTMs, GRUs and sparsely-gated deep neural networks. The backbone of such gated networks is a mixture-of-experts layer, where several experts make regression decisions and gating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Sewoong Oh , Sreeram Kannan , Pramod Viswanath

Motion free reconstruction of compressively sampled cardiac perfusion MR images is a challenging problem. It is due to the aliasing artifacts and the rapid contrast changes in the reconstructed perfusion images. In addition to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-11 Abdul Haseeb Ahmed , Ijaz M. Qureshi

Gait phase estimation based on inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals facilitates precise adaptation of exoskeletons to individual gait variations. However, challenges remain in achieving high accuracy and robustness, particularly during…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yuanlong Ji , Xingbang Yang , Ruoqi Zhao , Qihan Ye , Quan Zheng , Yubo Fan

3D Human Motion Indexing and Retrieval is an interesting problem due to the rise of several data-driven applications aimed at analyzing and/or re-utilizing 3D human skeletal data, such as data-driven animation, analysis of sports…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Neeraj Battan , Abbhinav Venkat , Avinash Sharma

Anatomically guided PET reconstruction using MRI information has been shown to have the potential to improve PET image quality. However, these improvements are limited to PET scans with paired MRI information. In this work we employed a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Weijie Gan , Huidong Xie , Carl von Gall , Günther Platsch , Michael T. Jurkiewicz , Andrea Andrade , Udunna C. Anazodo , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Hongyu An , Jorge Cabello

Several recent works have directly extended the image masked autoencoder (MAE) with random masking into video domain, achieving promising results. However, unlike images, both spatial and temporal information are important for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 David Fan , Jue Wang , Shuai Liao , Yi Zhu , Vimal Bhat , Hector Santos-Villalobos , Rohith MV , Xinyu Li

This paper proposes an end-to-end deep learning framework integrating optical motion capture with a Transformer-based model to enhance medical rehabilitation. It tackles data noise and missing data caused by occlusion and environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yeming Cai , Yang Wang , Zhenglin Li

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Rüveyda Yilmaz , Yuli Wu , Johannes Stegmaier , Volkmar Schulz

Multi-planar tagged MRI is the gold standard for regional heart wall motion evaluation. However, accurate recovery of the 3D true heart wall motion from a set of 2D apparent motion cues is challenging, due to incomplete sampling of the true…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Meng Ye , Bingyu Xin , Bangwei Guo , Leon Axel , Dimitris Metaxas

In tomographic imaging, anatomical structures are reconstructed by applying a pseudo-inverse forward model to acquired signals. Geometric information within this process is usually depending on the system setting only, i. e., the scanner…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Alexander Preuhs , Michael Manhart , Philipp Roser , Elisabeth Hoppe , Yixing Huang , Marios Psychogios , Markus Kowarschik , Andreas Maier

Whole-body PET imaging is often hindered by respiratory motion during acquisition, causing significant degradation in the quality of reconstructed activity images. An additional challenge in PET/CT imaging arises from the respiratory phase…

We introduce an unsupervised motion-compensated image reconstruction algorithm for free-breathing and ungated 3D cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We express the image volume corresponding to each specific motion phase as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Joseph Kettelkamp , Ludovica Romanin , Sarv Priya , Mathews Jacob

Physiological motion can affect the diagnostic quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). While various retrospective motion correction methods exist, many struggle to generalize across different motion types and body regions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Qi Wang , Veronika Ecker , Marcel Früh , Sergios Gatidis , Thomas Küstner