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This paper presents a novel deformable registration framework, leveraging an image prior specified through a denoising function, for severely noise-corrupted placental images. Recent work on plug-and-play (PnP) priors has shown the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Jiarui Xing , Ulugbek Kamilov , Wenjie Wu , Yong Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

Recent work has shown the effectiveness of the plug-and-play priors (PnP) framework for regularized image reconstruction. However, the performance of PnP depends on the quality of the denoisers used as priors. In this letter, we design a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Guangxiao Song , Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Zhijie Wang , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Plug-and-play priors (PnP) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as an imaging prior. Unlike traditional regularized inversion, PnP does not require the prior to be expressible in the form of a regularization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Xiaojian Xu , Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Purpose: To develop a deep learning method on a nonlinear manifold to explore the temporal redundancy of dynamic signals to reconstruct cardiac MRI data from highly undersampled measurements. Methods: Cardiac MR image reconstruction is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Ziwen Ke , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Wenqi Huang , Jing Cheng , Sen Jia , Haifeng Wang , Xin Liu , Hairong Zheng , Leslie Ying , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

Radio map estimation (RME), also known as spectrum cartography, aims to reconstruct the strength of radio interference across different domains (e.g., space and frequency) from sparsely sampled measurements. To tackle this typical inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Le Xu , Lei Cheng , Junting Chen , Wenqiang Pu , Xiao Fu

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a critical, life-saving intervention aimed at restoring blood circulation and breathing in individuals experiencing cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. Accurate and real-time analysis of biomedical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Saidul Islam , Jamal Bentahar , Robin Cohen , Gaith Rjoub

Plug-and-play (PnP) is a non-convex framework that integrates modern denoising priors, such as BM3D or deep learning-based denoisers, into ADMM or other proximal algorithms. An advantage of PnP is that one can use pre-trained denoisers when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ernest K. Ryu , Jialin Liu , Sicheng Wang , Xiaohan Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic tool for cardiac diseases. However, a limitation of CMR is its slow imaging speed, which causes patient discomfort and introduces artifacts in the images. There…

Near-field radar imaging systems are used in a wide range of applications such as concealed weapon detection and medical diagnosis. In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing the three-dimensional (3D) complex-valued…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Okyanus Oral , Figen S. Oktem

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medical imaging, providing a non-invasive and highly detailed look into the human body. However, the long acquisition times of MRI present challenges, causing patient discomfort, motion…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is vital for diagnosing heart diseases, but long scan time remains a major drawback. To address this, accelerated imaging techniques have been introduced by undersampling k-space, which reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Donghang Lyu , Chinmay Rao , Marius Staring , Matthias J. P. van Osch , Mariya Doneva , Hildo J. Lamb , Nicola Pezzotti

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires reconstructing a real-time video of a beating heart from continuous highly under-sampled measurements. This task is challenging since the object to be reconstructed (the heart) is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Johannes F. Kunz , Stefan Ruschke , Reinhard Heckel

Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) enables us to probe the microstructural arrangement of cardiomyocytes within the myocardium in vivo and non-invasively, which no other imaging modality allows. This innovative technology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Michael Tanzer , Pedro Ferreira , Andrew Scott , Zohya Khalique , Maria Dwornik , Dudley Pennell , Guang Yang , Daniel Rueckert , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin

Plug-and-play (PnP) prior is a well-known class of methods for solving imaging inverse problems by computing fixed-points of operators combining physical measurement models and learned image denoisers. While PnP methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Weijie Gan , Shirin Shoushtari , Yuyang Hu , Jiaming Liu , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Understanding the structure of the heart at the microscopic scale of cardiomyocytes and their aggregates provides new insights into the mechanisms of heart disease and enables the investigation of effective therapeutics. Diffusion Tensor…

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is widely used to characterize cardiac morphology and function. To accelerate CMR imaging, various methods have been proposed to recover high-quality spatiotemporal CMR images from highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Xuanyu Tian , Lixuan Chen , Qing Wu , Xiao Wang , Jie Feng , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Motion-compensated MR reconstruction (MCMR) is a powerful concept with considerable potential, consisting of two coupled sub-problems: Motion estimation, assuming a known image, and image reconstruction, assuming known motion. In this work,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Jiazhen Pan , Daniel Rueckert , Thomas Küstner , Kerstin Hammernik

We introduce a novel energy formulation for Plug- and-Play (PnP) image recovery. Traditional PnP methods that use a convolutional neural network (CNN) do not have an energy based formulation. The primary focus of this work is to introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Jyothi Rikabh Chand , Mathews Jacob

Deep learning has achieved good success in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, in which convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn a mapping from the undersampled k-space to the fully sampled images. Although these deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-30 Ziwen Ke , Jing Cheng , Leslie Ying , Hairong Zheng , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

Cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is recognised as the benchmark modality for the comprehensive assessment of cardiac function. Nevertheless, the acquisition process of cine CMR is considered as an impediment due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Anam Hashmi , Julia Dietlmeier , Kathleen M. Curran , Noel E. O'Connor