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The application of compressed sensing (CS)-enabled data reconstruction for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains a challenging problem. This is due to the fact that the information lost in k-space from the acceleration mask…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Guoyao Shen , Boran Hao , Mengyu Li , Chad W. Farris , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

As aliasing artefacts are highly structural and non-local, many MRI reconstruction networks use pooling to enlarge filter coverage and incorporate global context. However, this inadvertently impedes fine detail recovery as downsampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Wendi Ma , Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Wei Dai , Hongfu Sun , Shekhar S. Chandra

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…

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Deep learning models have a large number of free parameters that must be estimated by efficient training of the models on a large number of training data samples to increase their generalization performance. In real-world applications, the…

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In clinical practice, multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with different contrasts is usually acquired in a single study to assess different properties of the same region of interest in the human body. The whole acquisition process…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Kai Xuan , Lei Xiang , Xiaoqian Huang , Lichi Zhang , Shu Liao , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique of image acceleration which takes advantage of the localization of the field of view (FOV) of coils in an array. In this letter we show that metamaterial lenses based on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-01-08 Manuel J. Freire , Marcos A. Lopez , Jose M. Algarin , Felix Breuer , Ricardo Marqués

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poses unique challenges related to the speed of data acquisition and to the degree of undersampling necessary to achieve this speed. This Master's thesis introduces and evaluates two pre-processing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 H. Christian M. Holme

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amirmohammad Shamaei , Alexander Stebner , Salome , Bosshart , Johanna Ospel , Gouri Ginde , Mariana Bento , Roberto Souza

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides detailed structural information, while functional MRI (fMRI) captures temporal brain activity. In this work, we present a multimodal deep learning framework that integrates MRI and fMRI for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Anima Kujur , Zahra Monfared

Parallel imaging, a fast MRI technique, involves dynamic adjustments based on the configuration i.e. number, positioning, and sensitivity of the coils with respect to the anatomy under study. Conventional deep learning-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Rahul G. S. , Amrit Kumar Jethi , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition is an inherently prolonged process, whose acceleration has long been the subject of research. This is commonly achieved by obtaining multiple undersampled images, simultaneously, through parallel…

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Retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Robustness is one of the most critical requirements for practical utilization, since the test images…

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We recently published an approach named ROVir (Region-Optimized Virtual coils) that uses the beamforming capabilities of a multichannel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) receiver array to achieve coil compression (reducing an original set of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Justin P. Haldar

This contribution introduces a novel signal extrapolation algorithm and its application to image error concealment. The signal extrapolation is carried out by iteratively generating a model of the signal suffering from distortion. Thereby,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to be a slow imaging modality and undersampling in k-space has been used to increase the imaging speed. However, image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data is an ill-posed inverse problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

Generating multi-contrasts/modal MRI of the same anatomy enriches diagnostic information but is limited in practice due to excessive data acquisition time. In this paper, we propose a novel deep-learning model for joint reconstruction and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Wanyu Bian , Qingchao Zhang , Xiaojing Ye , Yunmei Chen

Purpose: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions of large MRI datasets often have a prohibitive computational cost that bottlenecks clinical deployment, especially for 3D non-Cartesian acquisitions. One common approach is to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Julio A. Oscanoa , Frank Ong , Siddharth S. Iyer , Zhitao Li , Christopher M. Sandino , Batu Ozturkler , Daniel B. Ennis , Mert Pilanci , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Luigi Bonati , Yue-Yu Zhang , Michele Parrinello

This paper presents a generative model for super-resolution in routine clinical magnetic resonance images (MRI), of arbitrary orientation and contrast. The model recasts the recovery of high resolution images as an inverse problem, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging produces detailed images of organs and tissues with better contrast, but it suffers from a long acquisition time, which makes the image quality vulnerable to say motion artifacts. Recently, many approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chun-Mei Feng , Huazhu Fu , Tianfei Zhou , Yong Xu , Ling Shao , David Zhang