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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a valuable clinical diagnostic modality for spine pathologies with excellent characterization for infection, tumor, degenerations, fractures and herniations. However in surgery, image-guided spinal…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides high spatial resolution and excellent soft-tissue contrast without using harmful ionising radiation. Dynamic MRI is an essential tool for interventions to visualise movements or changes of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Soumick Chatterjee , Chompunuch Sarasaen , Georg Rose , Andreas Nürnberger , Oliver Speck

Many developmental processes, such as plasticity and aging, or pathological processes such as neurological diseases are characterized by modulations of specific cellular types and their microstructures. Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Marco Palombo , Noam Shemesh , Itamar Ronen , Julien Valette

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a promising method to analyze the subtle changes in the tissue structure. However, the lengthy acquisition time is a major limitation in the clinical application of dMRI. Different image…

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In this paper, we propose a method for denoising diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the brain using a convolutional neural network trained on realistic, synthetic MR data. We compare our results to averaging of repeated scans, a widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Kamil Gorczewski , Kamil Cepuch , Agata Zawadzka

22. Shortening acquisition time and reducing the motion-artifact are two of the most critical issues in MRI. As a promising solution, high-quality MRI image restoration provides a new approach to achieve higher resolution without costing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Hao Li , Jianan Liu

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a unique imaging technique for in vivo characterization of tissue microstructure and white matter pathways. However, its relatively long acquisition time implies greater motion artifacts when imaging, for example,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yoonmi Hong , Wei-Tang Chang , Geng Chen , Ye Wu , Weili Lin , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is essential for studying brain microstructure, but high-resolution imaging remains challenging due to the inherent trade-offs between acquisition time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional methods often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yinzhe Wu , Jiahao Huang , Fanwen Wang , Mengze Gao , Congyu Liao , Guang Yang , Kawin Setsompop

Purpose: This study presents a variable resolution (VR) sampling and deep learning reconstruction approach for multi-spectral MRI near metal implants, aiming to reduce scan times while maintaining image quality. Background: The rising use…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging modality. However, long acquisition times remain a significant challenge, leading to increased costs, and reduced patient comfort. Recent studies have shown the potential of…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

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While functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) offers valuable insights into cognitive processes, its inherent spatial limitations pose challenges for detailed analysis of the fine-grained functional architecture of the brain. More…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Fernando Pérez-Bueno , Hongwei Bran Li , Matthew S. Rosen , Shahin Nasr , Cesar Caballero-Gaudes , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) enables non-invasive investigation of tissue microstructure. The Standard Model (SM) of white matter aims to disentangle dMRI signal contributions from intra- and extra-axonal water compartments.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Tom Hendriks , Gerrit Arends , Edwin Versteeg , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland , Chantal M. W. Tax

Deep learning-based dMRI super-resolution methods can effectively enhance image resolution by leveraging the learning capabilities of neural networks on large datasets. However, these methods tend to learn a fixed scale mapping between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Ruoyou Wu , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Juan Zou , Jing Yang , Wenxin Fan , Yong Liang , Shanshan Wang

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) plays a vital role in both clinical diagnostics and neuroscience research. However, its inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially under high diffusion weighting, significantly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Jine Xie , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is the only non-invasive approach for estimation of intra-voxel tissue microarchitecture and reconstruction of in vivo neural pathways for the human brain. With improvement in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Vishwesh Nath , Sudhir K. Pathak , Kurt G. Schilling , Walt Schneider , Bennett A. Landman

Deep learning-based super-resolution models have the potential to revolutionize biomedical imaging and diagnoses by effectively tackling various challenges associated with early detection, personalized medicine, and clinical automation.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Yuanzheng Ma , Xinyue Wang , Benqi Zhao , Ying Xiao , Shijie Deng , Jian Song , Xun Guan

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance images (MRI) provide detailed anatomical information important for clinical application and quantitative image analysis. However, HR MRI conventionally comes at the cost of longer scan time, smaller…

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