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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) is an essential tool for quantifying metabolites in the body, but the low spatial resolution limits its clinical applications. Deep learning-based super-resolution methods provided promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Siyuan Dong , Gilbert Hangel , Eric Z. Chen , Shanhui Sun , Wolfgang Bogner , Georg Widhalm , Chenyu You , John A. Onofrey , Robin de Graaf , James S. Duncan

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables 3-D imaging of anatomical structures. However, the acquisition of MR volumes with high spatial resolution leads to long scan times. To this end, we propose volumetric super-resolution forests (VSRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Aline Sindel , Katharina Breininger , Johannes Käßer , Andreas Hess , Andreas Maier , Thomas Köhler

Ultrasound video segmentation is clinically valuable yet difficult due to speckle noise, weak boundaries, and rapid anatomical deformation. Recent promptable foundation models enable point-guided segmentation, but their direct deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhaohu Xing , Yijun Yang , Zhenyan Han , Weiming Wang , Kaishun Wu , Lei Zhu

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) using intense XUV and soft X-ray pulses holds the promise to deliver information on the three dimensional shape as well as the optical properties of nano-scale objects in a single diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Paul Tuemmler , Julia Apportin , Thomas Fennel , Christian Peltz

Due to large pixel movement and high computational cost, estimating the motion of high-resolution frames is challenging. Thus, most flow-based Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) methods first predict bidirectional flows at low resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chenyang Wu , Jiayi Fu , Chun-Le Guo , Shuhao Han , Chongyi Li

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a method to extract quantitative tissue properties such as T1 and T2 relaxation rates from arbitrary pulse sequences using conventional magnetic resonance imaging hardware. MRF pulse sequences have…

Robustness against data inconsistencies, imaging artifacts and acquisition speed are crucial factors limiting the possible range of applications for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Therefore, we report a novel calibrationless parallel…

Purpose: To develop an accelerated, robust, and accurate diffusion MRI acquisition and reconstruction technique for submillimeter whole human brain in-vivo scan on a clinical scanner. Methods: We extend the ultra-high resolution diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Gabriel Ramos-Llordén , Lipeng Ning , Congyu Liao , Rinat Mukhometzianov , Oleg Michailovich , Kawin Setsompop , Yogesh Rathi

Whole-brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) is a non-invasive technique for assessing neurochemical distribution in the brain, offering valuable insights into brain functions and neural diseases. It greatly…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhiwei Huang , Uzay Emir , Andre Doring , Antoine Klauser , Ying Xiao , Mark Widmaier , Lijing Xin

Purpose: To address the systematic bias in whole-brain dual flip angle (DFA) T1-mapping at 7T by optimizing the flip angle pair and carefully selecting RF pulse shape and duration. Theory and Methods: Spoiled gradient echoes can be used to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 H. Olsson , M. Andersen , R. Wirestam , J. Lätt , G. Helms

Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) is an appealing Hyperspectral (HS) imaging modality for many applications demanding high spectral resolution, e.g., in fluorescence microscopy. However, the effective resolution of FTI is limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 A. Moshtaghpour , L. Jacques , V. Cambareri , P. Antoine , M. Roblin

Rotating-view thick-slice acquisition is highly SNR-efficient for mesoscale diffusion MRI (dMRI) but requires numerous rotating views to satisfy Nyquist sampling, resulting in long scan time. We propose a self-supervised Spatial-Angular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yinzhe Wu , Hongyu Rui , Fanwen Wang , Jiahao Huang , Zi Wang , Guang Yang

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Xu , Wenbo Li , Haoze Sun , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Long Peng , Jingjing Ren , Haoran Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Renjing Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

Purpose: To optimize the choice of the flip-angles of magnetization-prepared gradient echo (MP-GRE) sequences for improved accuracy, precision, and speed of 3D-T1rho mapping. Methods: We propose a new optimization approach for finding…

Purpose: Long scan time in phase encoding for forming complete K-space matrices is a critical drawback of MRI, making patients uncomfortable and wasting important time for diagnosing emergent diseases. This paper aims to reducing the scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yiming Liu , Yanwei Pang , Ruiqi Jin , Zhenchang Wang

The HTRU-S Low Latitude survey data within 1$^{\circ}$of the Galactic Centre (GC) were searched for pulsars using the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA). Unlike traditional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) pipelines, the FFA optimally folds the data…

Cardiac pulsation is a physiological confound of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time-series that introduces spurious signal fluctuations in proximity to blood vessels. fMRI alone is not sufficiently fast to resolve cardiac…

This paper presents a deep learning method for faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by reducing k-space data with sub-Nyquist sampling strategies and provides a rationale for why the proposed approach works well. Uniform subsampling is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Chang Min Hyun , Hwa Pyung Kim , Sung Min Lee , Sungchul Lee , Jin Keun Seo

U-shaped networks are widely used in various medical image tasks, such as segmentation, restoration and reconstruction, but most of them usually rely on centralized learning and thus ignore privacy issues. To address the privacy concerns,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Ziyuan Yang , Yingyu Chen , Huijie Huangfu , Maosong Ran , Hui Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Yi Zhang

A simple procedure for the design of recursive digital filters with an infinite impulse response (IIR) and non-recursive digital filters with a finite impulse response (FIR) is described. The fixed-lag smoothing filters are designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Hugh Lachlan Kennedy