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Image registration is a fundamental task for medical imaging. Resampling of the intensity values is required during registration and better spatial resolution with finer and sharper structures can improve the resampling performance and…

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In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Spatial resolution is a critical imaging parameter in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Acquiring high resolution MRI data usually takes long scanning time and would subject to motion artifacts due to hardware, physical, and physiological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Zhao Xiaole , Huali Zhang , Hangfei Liu , Yun Qin , Tao Zhang , Xueming Zou

Background: Respiratory-resolved four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (4D-MRI) provides essential motion information for accurate radiation treatments of mobile tumors. However, obtaining high-quality 4D-MRI suffers from long…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Maarten Terpstra , Matteo Maspero , Joost Verhoeff , Cornelis van den Berg

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

We evaluate a new approach for achieving diffusion MRI data with high spatial resolution, large volume coverage, and fast acquisition speed. A recent method called gSlider-SMS enables whole-brain sub-millimeter diffusion MRI with high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Justin P. Haldar , Qiuyun Fan , Kawin Setsompop

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but unfortunately suffers from long scan times which, aside from increasing operational costs, can lead to image artifacts due to patient motion. Motion during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Ajil Jalal , Jonathan I. Tamir

The capabilities of super-resolution reconstruction (SRR)---techniques for enhancing image spatial resolution---have been recently improved significantly by the use of deep convolutional neural networks. Commonly, such networks are learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Michal Kawulok , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Pawel Benecki , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

Cardiac cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the important means to assess cardiac functions and vascular abnormalities. Mitigating artifacts arising during image reconstruction and accelerating cardiac cine MRI acquisition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Xiaoxiang Han , Yang Chen , Qiaohong Liu , Yiman Liu , Keyan Chen , Yuanjie Lin , Weikun Zhang

In clinical practice, 2D magnetic resonance (MR) sequences are widely adopted. While individual 2D slices can be stacked to form a 3D volume, the relatively large slice spacing can pose challenges for both image visualization and subsequent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xin Wang , Zhiyun Song , Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Lichi Zhang , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reduces scan time but often degrades image quality. While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) show promise for MRI reconstruction, they struggle at high acceleration factors due to weak prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Eytan Kats , Mattias P. Heinrich

Medical image super-resolution (MedSR) is essential for improving diagnostic precision across diverse imaging modalities such as MRI, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, and Fundus imaging. Despite rapid advances in deep learning, challenges remain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Subhash Gurappa , Trivikram Satharasi , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar

Purpose: To investigate whether a vision-language foundation model can enhance undersampled MRI reconstruction by providing high-level contextual information beyond conventional priors. Methods: We proposed a semantic distribution-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruimin Feng , Xingxin He , Ronald Mercer , Zachary Stewart , Fang Liu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging modality and provides comprehensive anatomical and functional insights into the human body. However, its long acquisition times can lead to patient discomfort, motion artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

Guided image super-resolution (GISR) aims to obtain a high-resolution (HR) target image by enhancing the spatial resolution of a low-resolution (LR) target image under the guidance of a HR image. However, previous model-based methods mainly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Man Zhou , Keyu Yan , Jinshan Pan , Wenqi Ren , Qi Xie , Xiangyong Cao

Dynamic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has generated great research interest, as it can provide both spatial and temporal information for clinical diagnosis. However, slow imaging speed or long scanning time is still one of the challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Ziwen Ke , Shanshan Wang , Huitao Cheng , Leslie Ying , Qiegen Liu , Hairong Zheng , Dong Liang

Deep Learning (DL) has shown potential in accelerating Magnetic Resonance Image acquisition and reconstruction. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of tailored methods to guarantee that the reconstruction of small features is achieved with high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Francesco Calivá , Kaiyang Cheng , Rutwik Shah , Valentina Pedoia

High-resolution slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) from multiple motion-corrupted low-resolution 2D slices constitutes a critical step in image-based diagnostics of moving subjects, such as fetal brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).…

We went below the MRI acceleration factors (a.k.a., k-space undersampling) reported by all published papers that reference the original fastMRI challenge, and then considered powerful deep learning based image enhancement methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Aleksandr Belov , Joel Stadelmann , Sergey Kastryulin , Dmitry V. Dylov