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Accelerated magnetic resonance imaging involves reconstructing fully sampled images from undersampled k-space measurements. Current state-of-the-art approaches have mainly focused on either end-to-end supervised training inspired by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Xinzhe Luo , Yingzhen Li , Chen Qin

k-space undersampling is a standard technique to accelerate MR image acquisitions. Reconstruction techniques including GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partial Parallel Acquisition(GRAPPA) and its variants are utilized extensively in clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Nader Tavaf , Amirsina Torfi , Kamil Ugurbil , Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele

Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kerem C. Tezcan , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

Purpose: To develop a self-supervised scan-specific deep learning framework for reconstructing accelerated multiparametric quantitative MRI (qMRI). Methods: We propose REFINE-MORE (REference-Free Implicit NEural representation with MOdel…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ruimin Feng , Albert Jang , Xingxin He , Fang Liu

Optimizing k-space sampling trajectories is a promising yet challenging topic for fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work proposes to optimize a reconstruction method and sampling trajectories jointly concerning image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Guanhua Wang , Tianrui Luo , Jon-Fredrik Nielsen , Douglas C. Noll , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Recent medical image reconstruction techniques focus on generating high-quality medical images suitable for clinical use at the lowest possible cost and with the fewest possible adverse effects on patients. Recent works have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Shijun Liang , Anish Lahiri , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Deep learning techniques have gained considerable attention for their ability to accelerate MRI data acquisition while maintaining scan quality. In this work, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based framework for learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Aryan Dhar , Siddhant Gautam , Saiprasad Ravishankar

We investigated whether a combination of k-space undersampling and variable density averaging enhances image quality for low-SNR MRI acquisitions. We implemented 3D Cartesian k-space prospective undersampling with a variable number of…

Quantitative T1rho mapping has shown promise in clinical and research studies. However, it suffers from long scan times. Deep learning-based techniques have been successfully applied in accelerated quantitative MR parameter mapping.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Yuanyuan Liu , Jinwen Xie , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Qingyong Zhu , Jing Cheng , Dong Liang , Yanjie Zhu

Purpose: In many clinical MRI scenarios, existing imaging information can be used to significantly shorten acquisition time or to improve Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). In this paper the authors present a framework for fast MRI by exploiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Lior Weizman , Yonina C. Eldar , Dafna Ben-Basaht

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is renowned for its exceptional soft tissue contrast and high spatial resolution, making it a pivotal tool in medical imaging. The integration of deep learning algorithms offers significant potential for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Wanyu Bian

The main disadvantage of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are its long scan times and, in consequence, its sensitivity to motion. Exploiting the complementary information from multiple receive coils, parallel imaging is able to recover…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Martin Uecker

We consider an MRI reconstruction problem with input of k-space data at a very low undersampled rate. This can practically benefit patient due to reduced time of MRI scan, but it is also challenging since quality of reconstruction may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Qiaoying Huang , Dong Yang , Pengxiang Wu , Hui Qu , Jingru Yi , Dimitris Metaxas

Accelerating MRI scans is one of the principal outstanding problems in the MRI research community. Towards this goal, we hosted the second fastMRI competition targeted towards reconstructing MR images with subsampled k-space data. We…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most dynamic and safe imaging techniques available for clinical applications. However, the rather slow speed of MRI acquisitions limits the patient throughput and potential indi cations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Risheng Liu , Yuxi Zhang , Shichao Cheng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Objective: To propose and validate an unsupervised MRI reconstruction method that does not require fully sampled k-space data. Materials and Methods: The proposed method, deep image prior with structured sparsity (DISCUS), extends the deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Muhammad Ahmad Sultan , Chong Chen , Yingmin Liu , Katarzyna Gil , Karolina Zareba , Rizwan Ahmad

Algorithms for Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from undersampled measurements exploit prior information to compensate for missing k-space data. Deep learning (DL) provides a powerful framework for extracting such information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Kerem C. Tezcan , Christian F. Baumgartner , Roger Luechinger , Klaas P. Pruessmann , Ender Konukoglu

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a complex signal from amplitude-only measurements, a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Current theory and algorithms often ignore signal priors. By contrast, we evaluate here a variety of image priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Stanislas Ducotterd , Zhiyuan Hu , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Cardiac MRI (CMRI) is a cornerstone imaging modality that provides in-depth insights into cardiac structure and function. Multi-contrast CMRI (MCCMRI), which acquires sequences with varying contrast weightings, significantly enhances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 George Yiasemis , Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Medical image enhancement is crucial for improving the quality and interpretability of diagnostic images, ultimately supporting early detection, accurate diagnosis, and effective treatment planning. Despite advancements in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chun Wai Chin , Haniza Yazid , Hoi Leong Lee