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Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique sensitised to the diffusivity of water molecules, offering the capability to inspect tissue microstructures and is the only in-vivo method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sheng Chen , Zihao Tang , Mariano Cabezas , Xinyi Wang , Arkiev D'Souza , Michael Barnett , Fernando Calamante , Weidong Cai , Chenyu Wang

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

Typical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan may take 20 to 60 minutes. Reducing MRI scan time is beneficial for both patient experience and cost considerations. Accelerated MRI scan may be achieved by acquiring less amount of k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Pak Lun Kevin Ding , Zhiqiang Li , Yuxiang Zhou , Baoxin Li

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) allows for non-invasive imaging of the local fiber architecture of the human brain at a millimetric scale. Multiple classical approaches have been proposed to detect both single (e.g.,…

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (DMRI) is an effective imaging tool for diagnosis tasks that require motion tracking of a certain anatomy. To speed up DMRI acquisition, k-space measurements are commonly undersampled along spatial or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Di Xu , Hengjie Liu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is desirable in many clinical applications due to its contribution to more accurate subsequent analyses and early clinical diagnoses. Single image super resolution (SISR) is an effective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiaole Zhao , Yulun Zhang , Tao Zhang , Xueming Zou

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic and radiotherapy (RT) planning tool, offering detailed insights into the anatomy of the human body. The extensive scan time is stressful for patients, who must remain motionless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Shahinur Alam , Jinsoo Uh , Alexander Dresner , Chia-ho Hua , Khaled Khairy

Deep learning has been successfully applied to the single-image super-resolution (SISR) task with great performance in recent years. However, most convolutional neural network based SR models require heavy computation, which limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Chaofeng Wang , Zheng Li , Jun Shi

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly utilized for image-guided radiotherapy due to its outstanding soft-tissue contrast and lack of ionizing radiation. However, geometric distortions caused by gradient nonlinearity (GNL) limit…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

A large number of mathematical models have been proposed to describe the measured signal in diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and infer properties about the white matter microstructure. However, a head-to-head…

We propose a deep learning method for single image super-resolution (SR). Our method directly learns an end-to-end mapping between the low/high-resolution images. The mapping is represented as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy , Kaiming He , Xiaoou Tang

Rotating-view thick-slice acquisition is highly SNR-efficient for mesoscale diffusion MRI (dMRI) but requires numerous rotating views to satisfy Nyquist sampling, resulting in long scan time. We propose a self-supervised Spatial-Angular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yinzhe Wu , Hongyu Rui , Fanwen Wang , Jiahao Huang , Zi Wang , Guang Yang

Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Azadeh Sharafi , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction is an active inverse problem which can be addressed by conventional compressed sensing (CS) MRI algorithms that exploit the sparse nature of MRI in an iterative optimization-based manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Yuxiang Dai , Peixian Zhuang

Diffusion-weighted MRI is nowadays performed routinely due to its prognostic ability, yet the quality of the scans are often unsatisfactory which can subsequently hamper the clinical utility. To overcome the limitations, here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyun Kim , Jeong Hee Yoon , Jeong Min Lee , Jong Chul Ye

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides detailed anatomical information that is critical for diagnosis in the clinical application. However, HR MRI typically comes at the cost of long scan time, small spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Yuhua Chen , Anthony G. Christodoulou , Zhengwei Zhou , Feng Shi , Yibin Xie , Debiao Li

Prior work on the Image Quality Transfer on Diffusion MRI (dMRI) has shown significant improvement over traditional interpolation methods. However, the difficulty in obtaining ultra-high resolution Diffusion MRI scans poses a problem in…

Functional MRI (fMRI) is commonly used for interpreting neural activities across the brain. Numerous accelerated fMRI techniques aim to provide improved spatiotemporal resolutions. Among these, simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Omer Burak Demirel , Burhaneddin Yaman , Logan Dowdle , Steen Moeller , Luca Vizioli , Essa Yacoub , John Strupp , Cheryl A. Olman , Kâmil Uğurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

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