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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used for evaluation of hemodynamics. However, its routine use is limited by labor-intensive manual segmentation, CFD mesh creation, and time-consuming simulation. This study aims to train a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tina Yao , Endrit Pajaziti , Michael Quail , Silvia Schievano , Jennifer A Steeden , Vivek Muthurangu

This work introduces an unsupervised Divergence and Aliasing-Free neural network (DAF-FlowNet) for 4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4D Flow MRI) that jointly enhances noisy velocity fields and corrects phase wrapping artifacts.…

Phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides time-resolved quantification of blood flow dynamics that can aid clinical diagnosis. Long in vivo scan times due to repeated three-dimensional (3D) volume sampling over cardiac phases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Valery Vishnevskiy , Jonas Walheim , Sebastian Kozerke

Reconstructing 3D vessel structures from sparse-view dynamic digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images enables accurate medical assessment while reducing radiation exposure. Existing methods often produce suboptimal results or require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Zhentao Liu , Ruyi Zha , Huangxuan Zhao , Hongdong Li , Zhiming Cui

ECG-gated cine imaging in breath-hold enables high-quality diagnostics in most patients, arrhythmia and inability to hold breath, however, can severely corrupt outcomes. Real-time cardiac MRI in free-breathing leverages robust and faster…

PURPOSE To develop free-running multi-echo GRE for cardiac- and respiratory-motion-resolved whole-heart fat fraction quantification. METHODS Multi-echo readouts optimized for water-fat separation and quantification were integrated within a…

Purpose: To develop a framework to reconstruct large-scale volumetric dynamic MRI from rapid continuous and non-gated acquisitions, with applications to pulmonary and dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) imaging. Theory and Methods: The problem…

Understanding the motion states of the surrounding environment is critical for safe autonomous driving. These motion states can be accurately derived from scene flow, which captures the three-dimensional motion field of points. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jaeyeul Kim , Jungwan Woo , Ukcheol Shin , Jean Oh , Sunghoon Im

Dynamic 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) effectively extends the high-speed rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to represent volumetric videos. However, the large number of Gaussians, substantial temporal redundancies, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hyeongmin Lee , Kyungjune Baek

4D Flow Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4D Flow MRI) is a non-invasive technique for volumetric, time-resolved blood flow quantification. However, apparent trade-offs between acquisition time, image noise, and resolution limit clinical…

Several cardiovascular diseases are caused from localised abnormal blood flow such as in the case of stenosis or aneurysms. Prevailing theories propose that the development is caused by abnormal wall-shear stress in focused areas.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 S. W. Funke , M. Nordaas , Øyvind Evju , M. S. Alnæs , K. -A. Mardal

Reconstructing large-scale dynamic scenes from visual observations is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with critical implications for robotics and autonomous systems. While recent differentiable rendering methods such as Neural…

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Blood flow imaging provides important information for hemodynamic behavior within the vascular system and plays an essential role in medical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, obtaining high-quality flow images remains a significant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Han Zhang , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jean-Michel Morel , Raymond H. Chan

We introduce FLAG-4D, a novel framework for generating novel views of dynamic scenes by reconstructing how 3D Gaussian primitives evolve through space and time. Existing methods typically rely on a single Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guan Yuan Tan , Ngoc Tuan Vu , Arghya Pal , Sailaja Rajanala , Raphael Phan C. -W. , Mettu Srinivas , Chee-Ming Ting

It is a long-standing challenge to reconstruct Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) of the lung under respiratory motion. This work takes a step further to address a challenging setting in reconstructing a multi-phase}4D lung image from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Cheng Peng , Haofu Liao , S. Kevin Zhou , Rama Chellappa

Dynamic free-breathing fetal cardiac MRI is one of the most challenging modalities, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution to depict rapid changes in a small fetal heart. The ability of deep learning methods to recover…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Denis Prokopenko , Kerstin Hammernik , Thomas Roberts , David F A Lloyd , Daniel Rueckert , Joseph V Hajnal

Purpose: To develop a cardiac T1 mapping method for free-breathing 3D T1 mapping of the whole heart at 3T with transmit B1 (B1+) correction Methods: A free-breathing, ECG-gated inversion recovery sequence with spoiled gradient-echo readout…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Paul Kyu Han , Thibault Marin , Yanis Djebra , Vanessa Landes , Yue Zhuo , Georges El Fakhri , Chao Ma

Background: Three-dimensional, whole heart, balanced steady state free precession (WH-bSSFP) sequences provide delineation of intra-cardiac and vascular anatomy. However, they have long acquisition times. Here, we propose significant speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jennifer A. Steeden , Michael Quail , Alexander Gotschy , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Rodney Jones , Vivek Muthurangu

Ultra sparse-view computed tomography (CT) algorithms can reduce radiation exposure of patients, but those algorithms lack an explicit cycle consistency loss minimization and an explicit log-likelihood maximization in testing. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Hisaichi Shibata , Shouhei Hanaoka , Yukihiro Nomura , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Naoto Hayashi , Osamu Abe

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging serves as the gold-standard for evaluating cardiac morphology and function. Typically, a multi-view CMR stack, covering short-axis (SA) and 2/3/4-chamber long-axis (LA) views, is acquired for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Yundi Zhang , Chen Chen , Suprosanna Shit , Sophie Starck , Daniel Rueckert , Jiazhen Pan