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Accurate brain parcellation in diffusion MRI (dMRI) space is essential for advanced neuroimaging analyses. However, most existing approaches rely on anatomical MRI for segmentation and inter-modality registration, a process that can…

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Generating realistic images to accurately predict changes in the structure of brain MRI is a crucial tool for clinicians. Such applications help assess patients' outcomes and analyze how diseases progress at the individual level. However,…

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Multi-echo Gradient Echo (mGRE) sequences provide valuable quantitative parametric maps, such as Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and transverse relaxation rate (R2*), sensitive to tissue iron and myelin. However, structural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Sizhe Fang , Deqiang Qiu

We propose two strategies to improve the quality of tractography results computed from diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) data. Both methods are based on the same PDE framework, defined in the coupled space of positions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-08 J. M. Portegies , R. H. J. Fick , G. R. Sanguinetti , S. P. L. Meesters , G. Girard , R. Duits

Computational models of biophysical tissue properties have been widely used in diffusion MRI (dMRI) research to elucidate the link between microstructural properties and MR signal formation. For brain tissue, the research community has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Santiago Coelho , Jose M. Pozo , Sune N. Jespersen , Alejandro F. Frangi

Poor performance of quantitative analysis in histopathological Whole Slide Images (WSI) has been a significant obstacle in clinical practice. Annotating large-scale WSIs manually is a demanding and time-consuming task, unlikely to yield the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sarah Cechnicka , James Ball , Hadrien Reynaud , Callum Arthurs , Candice Roufosse , Bernhard Kainz

Purpose: B1+ and T1 corrections and dynamic multi-coil shimming approaches were proposed to improve the fidelity of high isotropic resolution Generalized slice dithered enhanced resolution (gSlider) diffusion imaging. Methods: An extended…

Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) microstructure estimation from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is of great significance for the discovery and treatment of various neurological diseases. Current deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Taohui Xiao , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Enqing Dong , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Registration of diffusion MRI tractography is an essential step for analyzing group similarities and variations in the brain's white matter (WM). Streamline-based registration approaches can leverage the 3D geometric information of fiber…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Junyi Wang , Mubai Du , Ye Wu , Yijie Li , William M. Wells , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Purpose: Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is confounded by its long acquisition duration, thereby thwarting the detection of rapid microstructural changes, especially when diffusivity variations are accompanied by rapid changes…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Andrada Ianuş , Noam Shemesh

The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is the only non-invasive tool for studying white matter tracts and structural connectivity of the brain. These assessments rely heavily on tractography techniques, which reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Weide Liu , Camilo Calixto , Simon K. Warfield , Davood Karimi

Purpose: To propose a deep learning-based reconstruction framework for ultrafast and robust diffusion tensor imaging and fiber tractography. Methods: We propose SuperDTI to learn the nonlinear relationship between diffusion-weighted images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Hongyu Li , Zifei Liang , Chaoyi Zhang , Ruiying Liu , Jing Li , Weihong Zhang , Dong Liang , Bowen Shen , Xiaoliang Zhang , Yulin Ge , Jiangyang Zhang , Leslie Ying

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a learning-based approach to accelerate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions, particularly in scan-specific settings when only data from the under-sampled scan itself are available.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Yamin Arefeen , Brett Levac , Zach Stoebner , Jonathan Tamir

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography, the gold standard for in vivo estimation of brain white matter (WM) pathways, has long been considered indicative of macroscopic relationships with WM microstructure. However, recent advances in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Tian Yu , Yunhe Li , Michael E. Kim , Chenyu Gao , Qi Yang , Leon Y. Cai , Susane M. Resnick , Lori L. Beason-Held , Daniel C. Moyer , Kurt G. Schilling , Bennett A. Landman

Fiber tracking based on diffusion weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) allows for noninvasive reconstruction of fiber bundles in the human brain. In this chapter, we discuss sources of error and uncertainty in this technique, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-15 Thomas Schultz , Anna Vilanova , Ralph Brecheisen , Gordon Kindlmann

Building of atlases plays a crucial role in the analysis of brain images. In scenarios where early growth, aging or disease trajectories are of key importance, longitudinal atlases become necessary as references, most often created from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Heejong Kim , Martin Styner , Joseph Piven , Guido Gerig

Reconstructing high-fidelity magnetic resonance (MR) images from under-sampled k-space is a commonly used strategy to reduce scan time. The posterior sampling of diffusion models based on the real measurement data holds significant promise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jiayue Chu , Chenhe Du , Xiyue Lin , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires long acquisition times, raising costs, reducing accessibility, and making scans more susceptible to motion artifacts. Diffusion probabilistic models that learn data-driven priors can potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Rohan Sanda , Asad Aali , Andrew Johnston , Eduardo Reis , Gordon Wetzstein , Sara Fridovich-Keil

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI…