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Purpose To develop a computer based method for the automated assessment of image quality in the context of diabetic retinopathy (DR) to guide the photographer. Methods A deep learning framework was trained to grade the images automatically.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Sajib Kumar Saha , Basura Fernando , Jorge Cuadros , Di Xiao , Yogesan Kanagasingam

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

Image quality assessment (IQA) plays a critical role in optimizing radiation dose and developing novel medical imaging techniques in computed tomography (CT). Traditional IQA methods relying on hand-crafted features have limitations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Tao Song , Ruizhi Hou , Lisong Dai , Lei Xiang

Current spatiotemporal deep learning approaches to Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) build artefact-removal models customised to a particular k-space subsampling pattern which is used for fast (compressed) acquisition. This may not be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Ketan Fatania , Carolin M. Pirkl , Marion I. Menzel , Peter Hall , Mohammad Golbabaee

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,…

Cardiac cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the important means to assess cardiac functions and vascular abnormalities. Mitigating artifacts arising during image reconstruction and accelerating cardiac cine MRI acquisition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Xiaoxiang Han , Yang Chen , Qiaohong Liu , Yiman Liu , Keyan Chen , Yuanjie Lin , Weikun Zhang

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) refers to a class of MRI methods for quantifying the spatial distribution of biological tissue parameters. Traditional qMRI methods usually deal separately with artifacts arising from accelerated data acquisition,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Xiaojian Xu , Weijie Gan , Satya V. V. N. Kothapalli , Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Robustness of deep learning methods for limited angle tomography is challenged by two major factors: a) due to insufficient training data the network may not generalize well to unseen data; b) deep learning methods are sensitive to noise.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Yixing Huang , Alexander Preuhs , Guenter Lauritsch , Michael Manhart , Xiaolin Huang , Andreas Maier

Automated question quality rating (AQQR) aims to evaluate question quality through computational means, thereby addressing emerging challenges in online learnersourced question repositories. Existing methods for AQQR rely solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lin Ni , Qiming Bao , Xiaoxuan Li , Qianqian Qi , Paul Denny , Jim Warren , Michael Witbrock , Jiamou Liu

For several years, numerous attempts have been made to reduce noise and artifacts in MRI. Although there have been many successful methods to address these problems, practical implementation for clinical images is still challenging because…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Daiki Tamada

We present a novel method that allows for measuring the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images dependent on the image resolution and the image noise. For this purpose, we introduce a new thresholding technique so that noise and the signal…

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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only imaging modality for non-invasive movement detection of in vivo water molecules, with significant clinical and research applications. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) MRI acquired by…

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

Motion artifact reduction is one of the important research topics in MR imaging, as the motion artifact degrades image quality and makes diagnosis difficult. Recently, many deep learning approaches have been studied for motion artifact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Gyutaek Oh , Jeong Eun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Deep learning-based automated diagnosis of lung cancer has emerged as a crucial advancement that enables healthcare professionals to detect and initiate treatment earlier. However, these models require extensive training datasets with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aryan Goyal , Ashish Mittal , Pranav Rao , Manoj Tadepalli , Preetham Putha

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

The growing complexity of particle detectors makes their construction and quality control a new challenge. We present studies that explore the use of deep learning-based computer vision techniques to perform quality checks of detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-18 N. Akchurin , J. Damgov , S. Dugad , P. G C , S. Grönroos , K. Lamichhane , J. Martinez , T. Quast , S. Undleeb , A. Whitbeck

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) can support lesion detection and characterization in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), however especially high b-value diffusion-weighted acquisitions can be prone to intensity artifacts that can…

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art results for accelerated MRI reconstruction. Most research on deep learning based imaging focuses on improving neural network architectures trained and evaluated on fixed and homogeneous training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Kang Lin , Anselm Krainovic , Kun Wang , Reinhard Heckel

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen , Laurie R. Margolies , Joseph H. Rothstein , Eugene Fluder , Russell B. McBride , Weiva Sieh