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Sampling complex free energy surfaces is one of the main challenges of modern atomistic simulation methods. The presence of kinetic bottlenecks in such surfaces often renders a direct approach useless. A popular strategy is to identify a…

The adaptive smoothing method (ASM) is a standard data-driven technique used in traffic state estimation. The ASM has free parameters which, in practice, are chosen to be some generally acceptable values based on intuition. However, we note…

We address the problem of solving mixed random linear equations. We have unlabeled observations coming from multiple linear regressions, and each observation corresponds to exactly one of the regression models. The goal is to learn the…

Compressed sensing (CS) in Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) essentially involves the optimization of 1) the sampling pattern in k-space under MR hardware constraints and 2) image reconstruction from the undersampled k-space data. Recently,…

The alternating minimization (AM) method is a fundamental method for minimizing convex functions whose variable consists of two blocks. How to efficiently solve each subproblems when applying the AM method is the most concerned task. In…

Undersampling is a common method in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to subsample the number of data points in k-space, reducing acquisition times at the cost of decreased image quality. A popular approach is to employ undersampling…

It is hard to train Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with stable convergence and avoid gradient vanishing and exploding problems, as the weights in the recurrent unit are repeated from iteration to iteration. Moreover, RNN is sensitive to the…

Image super-resolution (SR) is an underdetermined inverse problem, where a large number of plausible high-resolution images can explain the same downsampled image. Most current single image SR methods use empirical risk minimisation, often…

Motivated by image recovery in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we propose a new approach to solving linear inverse problems based on iteratively calling a deep neural-network, sometimes referred to as plug-and-play recovery. Our approach…

Accelerated MRI shortens acquisition time by subsampling in the measurement $\kappa$-space. Recovering a high-fidelity anatomical image from subsampled measurements requires close cooperation between two components: (1) a sampler that…

We propose both serial and parallel proximal (linearized) alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithms for training residual neural networks. In contrast to backpropagation-based approaches, our methods inherently mitigate…

Adaptive intelligence aims at empowering machine learning techniques with the additional use of domain knowledge. In this work, we present the application of adaptive intelligence to accelerate MR acquisition. Starting from undersampled…

Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) requires careful optimization of k-space sampling patterns to balance acquisition speed and image quality. While recent advances in deep learning have shown promise in optimizing Cartesian…

Model-based deep learning methods that combine imaging physics with learned regularization priors have been emerging as powerful tools for parallel MRI acceleration. The main focus of this paper is to determine the utility of the monotone…

$\textbf{Background:}$ Accelerating dynamic MRI is vital for advancing clinical applications and improving patient comfort. Commonly, deep learning (DL) methods for accelerated dynamic MRI reconstruction typically rely on uniformly applying…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) nowadays serves as an important modality for diagnostic and therapeutic guidance in clinics. However, the {\it slow acquisition} process, the dynamic deformation of organs, as well as the need for {\it…

Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has been a promising biomedical imaging technology in recent years. However, the point-by-point scanning mechanism results in low-speed imaging, which limits the application of PAM. Reducing sampling density…

Learning-based synthetic multi-contrast MRI commonly involves deep models trained using high-quality images of source and target contrasts, regardless of whether source and target domain samples are paired or unpaired. This results in…

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…

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images often suffer from noise contamination, which degrades image quality and affects further analysis. This research presents a complete approach to estimate their Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and noise…