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This paper describes a novel nonparametric model for modeling diffusion MRI signals in q-space. In q-space, diffusion MRI signal is measured for a sequence of magnetic strengths (b-values) and magnetic gradient directions (b-vectors). We…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is widely used to assess the brain white matter. One of the most common computations in dMRI involves cross-subject tract-specific analysis, whereby dMRI-derived biomarkers are compared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Davood Karimi , Hamza Kebiri , Ali Gholipour

As a newly emerging advance in deep generative models, diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results in many fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, and molecule design. The remote sensing (RS) community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yidan Liu , Jun Yue , Shaobo Xia , Pedram Ghamisi , Weiying Xie , Leyuan Fang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become one of the most important tools to screen humans in medicine, virtually every modern hospital is equipped with an NMR tomograph. The potential of NMR in 3D imaging tasks is by far greater, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-14 Ralf Stannarius

Advanced diffusion MRI models are being explored to study the complex microstructure of the brain with higher accuracy. However, these techniques require long acquisition times. Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) accelerates data acquisition by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 L. Tugan Muftuler , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Nonrigid registration is vital to medical image analysis but remains challenging for diffusion MRI (dMRI) due to its high-dimensional, orientation-dependent nature. While classical methods are accurate, they are computationally demanding,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Gianfranco Cortes , Xiaoda Qu , Baba C. Vemuri

Axonal damage is the primary pathological correlate of long-term impairment in multiple sclerosis (MS). Previous work has demonstrated a strong, quantitative relationship between decrease in axial diffusivity and axonal damage. In the…

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This paper presents novel single and multi-shell sampling schemes for diffusion MRI. In diffusion MRI, it is paramount that the number of samples is as small as possible in order that scan times are practical in a clinical setting. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-01 Alice P. Bates , Zubair Khalid , Jason D. McEwen , Rodney A. Kennedy , Alessandro Daducci , Erick J. Canales-Rodríguez

Diffusion MRI is a non-invasive, in-vivo biomedical imaging method for mapping tissue microstructure. Applications include structural connectivity imaging of the human brain and detecting microstructural neural changes. However, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Amir Sadikov , Xinlei Pan , Hannah Choi , Lanya T. Cai , Pratik Mukherjee

Magnetic resonance imaging technique known as DWI (diffusion-weighted imaging) allows measurement of water diffusivity on a pixel basis for evaluating pathology throughout the body and is now routinely incorporated into many body MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Andrea Barucci , Roberto Carpi , Marco Esposito , Maristella Olmastroni , Giovanna Zatelli

We investigate the space of weights spanned by a large collection of customized diffusion models. We populate this space by creating a dataset of over 60,000 models, each of which is a base model fine-tuned to insert a different person's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Amil Dravid , Yossi Gandelsman , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Rameen Abdal , Gordon Wetzstein , Alexei A. Efros , Kfir Aberman

Despite significant progress in generative modelling, existing diffusion models often struggle to produce anatomically precise female pelvic images, limiting their application in gynaecological imaging, where data scarcity and patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Johanna P. Müller , Anika Knupfer , Pedro Blöss , Edoardo Berardi Vittur , Bernhard Kainz , Jana Hutter

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

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Musculoskeletal disorders represent a significant global health burden and are a leading cause of disability worldwide. While MRI is essential for accurate diagnosis, its interpretation remains exceptionally challenging. Radiologists must…

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Diffusion models degrade images through noise, and reversing this process reveals an information hierarchy across timesteps. Scale-space theory exhibits a similar hierarchy via low-pass filtering. We formalize this connection and show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Prateksha Udhayanan , Abhinav Shrivastava

Despite the widespread use of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) for observing the structure of materials at the atomic scale, a detailed understanding of some relevant electron beam damage mechanisms is limited. Recent…

Recent advances in deep learning have shown that learning robust feature representations is critical for the success of many computer vision tasks, including medical image segmentation. In particular, both transformer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 David Li , Anvar Kurmukov , Mikhail Goncharov , Roman Sokolov , Mikhail Belyaev

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease characterized by diffuse and focal areas of tissue loss. Conventional MRI techniques such as T1-weighted and T2-weighted scans are generally used in the diagnosis and…

We present a new method for modeling tissue perfusion on the capillary scale. The microvasculature is represented by a network of one-dimensional vessel segments embedded in the extra-vascular space. Vascular and extra-vascular space…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Timo Koch , Martin Schneider , Rainer Helmig , Patrick Jenny

In this paper, we argue that iterative computation with diffusion models offers a powerful paradigm for not only generation but also visual perception tasks. We unify tasks such as depth estimation, optical flow, and amodal segmentation…

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