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Compressed sensing (CS) in Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) essentially involves the optimization of 1) the sampling pattern in k-space under MR hardware constraints and 2) image reconstruction from the undersampled k-space data. Recently,…

The inherent slow imaging speed of Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) has spurred the development of various acceleration methods, typically through heuristically undersampling the MRI measurement domain known as k-space. Recently, deep neural…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is mainly limited by long scanning time and vulnerable to human tissue motion artifacts, in 3D clinical scenarios. Thus, k-space undersampling is used to accelerate the acquisition of MRI while leading to…

This dissertation is devoted to provide advanced nonconvex nonsmooth variational models of (Magnetic Resonance Image) MRI reconstruction, efficient learnable image reconstruction algorithms and parameter training algorithms that improve the…

The key to dynamic or multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction lies in exploring inter-frame or inter-contrast information. Currently, the unrolled model, an approach combining iterative MRI reconstruction steps with…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has long been considered to be among "the gold standards" of diagnostic medical imaging. The long acquisition times, however, render MRI prone to motion artifacts, let alone their adverse contribution to the…

Purpose: A fast data-driven optimization approach, named bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS), is proposed for learning efficacious sampling patterns (SPs) with the purpose of reducing scan time in large-dimensional parallel MRI.…

There is growing interest in learning Fourier domain sampling strategies (particularly for magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) using optimization approaches. For non-Cartesian sampling patterns, the system models typically involve non-uniform…

Acquisition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans can be accelerated by under-sampling in k-space (i.e., the Fourier domain). In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the sub-sampling pattern in a data-driven fashion. Since…

The Spreading Projection Algorithm for Rapid K-space samplING, or SPARKLING, is an optimization-driven method that has been recently introduced for accelerated 2D T2*-w MRI using compressed sensing. It has then been extended to address 3D…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but long acquisition times limit throughput, patient comfort, and clinical accessibility. Diffusion-based generative models serve as strong image priors for reducing…

Image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data has been playing an important role for fast MRI. Recently, deep learning has demonstrated tremendous success in various fields and also shown potential to significantly speed up MR…

Acquiring fully-sampled MRI $k$-space data is time-consuming, and collecting accelerated data can reduce the acquisition time. Employing 2D Cartesian-rectilinear subsampling schemes is a conventional approach for accelerated acquisitions;…

Optimizing 3D k-space sampling trajectories for efficient MRI is important yet challenging. This work proposes a generalized framework for optimizing 3D non-Cartesian sampling patterns via data-driven optimization. We built a differentiable…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to be a slow imaging modality and undersampling in k-space has been used to increase the imaging speed. However, image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data is an ill-posed inverse problem.…

Recovering high-quality images from undersampled measurements is critical for accelerated MRI reconstruction. Recently, various supervised deep learning-based MRI reconstruction methods have been developed. Despite the achieved promising…

The SPARKLING algorithm was originally developed for accelerated 2D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the compressed sensing (CS) context. It yields non-Cartesian sampling trajectories that jointly fulfill a target sampling density while…

Accelerated MRI protocols routinely involve a predefined sampling pattern that undersamples the k-space. Finding an optimal pattern can enhance the reconstruction quality, however this optimization is a challenging task. To address this…

Purpose: Pushing MRI speed further demands more spatially-encoded information captured per unit time, e.g., by superimposing additional field modulations during oversampled readout. However, this can introduce calibration errors and…

We propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) approach that works synergistically with physics-based reconstruction methods to reduce artifacts in accelerated MRI. Given reconstructed coil k-spaces, our network predicts a k-space…