Related papers: Venc Design and Velocity Estimation for Phase Cont…
We propose a dictionary-matching-free pipeline for multi-parametric quantitative MRI image computing. Our approach has two stages based on compressed sensing reconstruction and deep learned quantitative inference. The reconstruction phase…
A large number of coils are able to provide enhanced signal-to-noise ratio and improve imaging performance in parallel imaging. Nevertheless, the increasing growth of coil number simultaneously aggravates the drawbacks of data storage and…
This paper presents a novel sequential estimator for the direction-of-arrival and polynomial coefficients of wideband polynomial-phase signals impinging on a sensor array. Addressing the computational challenges of Maximum-likelihood…
A new sparse signal recovery algorithm for multiple-measurement vectors (MMV) problem is proposed in this paper. The sparse representation is iteratively drawn based on the idea of zero-point attracting projection (ZAP). In each iteration,…
This paper proposes a two-stage segmentation model, variable-input based uncertainty measures and an uncertainty-guided post-processing method for prostate segmentation on 3D magnetic resonance images (MRI). The two-stage model was based on…
Purpose: Develop a processing scheme for Gradient Echo (GRE) phase to enable restoration of susceptibility-related (SuR) features in regions affected by imperfect phase unwrapping, background suppression and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…
We propose and analyze an Accelerated Rearrangement Method (ARM) for solving a class of nonconvex optimization problems involving two-phase composites. These problems include maximizing the (work) energy of a membrane governed by the…
Despite the significant role of turbomachinery in fluid-based energy transfer, precise simulation of rotating solid objects with complex geometry is a challenging task. In the present study, the volume penalization method (VPM) is combined…
The emergence and understanding of new design paradigms that exploit flow induced mechanical instabilities for propulsion or energy harvesting demands robust and accurate flow structure interaction numerical models. In this context, we…
In this study, we address the critical challenge of balancing speed and accuracy while maintaining interpretablity in visual odometry (VO) systems, a pivotal aspect in the field of autonomous navigation and robotics. Traditional VO systems…
Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) is a diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method that may be applied to the placenta to help diagnose abnormal pregnancies. IVIM requires prolonged scan times, followed by a model-based…
Purpose: To improve the image quality of highly accelerated multi-channel MRI data by learning a joint variational network that reconstructs multiple clinical contrasts jointly. Methods: Data from our multi-contrast acquisition was embedded…
In tomographic adaptive-optics (AO) systems, errors due to tomographic wave-front reconstruction limit the performance and angular size of the scientific field of view (FoV), where AO correction is effective. We propose a multi time-step…
We explore optical quantum engineering of phase-parameterized continuous-variable (CV) probe states to exploit nonclassical light to solve the problem of precise phase estimation. The optical interferometer consists of a single beam…
We propose a radical advance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MRI remains slow because it requires successive applications of magnetic field gradients to encode for spatial location. Parallel MRI accelerates imaging by permitting…
A fundamental task in phase retrieval is to recover an unknown signal $\vx\in \Rn$ from a set of magnitude-only measurements $y_i=\abs{\nj{\va_i,\vx}}, \; i=1,\ldots,m$. In this paper, we propose two novel perturbed amplitude models (PAMs)…
We study algorithms for solving quadratic systems of equations based on optimization methods over polytopes. Our work is inspired by a recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem, which estimates the unknown signal…
We aim to find a solution $\bm{x}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ to a system of quadratic equations of the form $b_i=\lvert\bm{a}_i^*\bm{x}\rvert^2$, $i=1,2,\ldots,m$, e.g., the well-known NP-hard phase retrieval problem. As opposed to recently proposed…
Given 2D point correspondences between an image pair, inferring the camera motion is a fundamental issue in the computer vision community. The existing works generally set out from the epipolar constraint and estimate the essential matrix,…
Imaging distributions of radioactive sources plays a substantial role in nuclear medicine as well as in monitoring nuclear waste and its deposit. Coded Aperture Imaging has been proposed as an alternative to parallel or pinhole collimators,…