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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical practice, but suffered from prolonged acquisition time. Although deep learning methods have been proposed to accelerate acquisition and demonstrate promising performance, they rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Hao Zhang , Qi Wang , Jian Sun , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Shihui Ying

MRI is an inherently slow process, which leads to long scan time for high-resolution imaging. The speed of acquisition can be increased by ignoring parts of the data (undersampling). Consequently, this leads to the degradation of image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Soumick Chatterjee , Mario Breitkopf , Chompunuch Sarasaen , Hadya Yassin , Georg Rose , Andreas Nürnberger , Oliver Speck

Recent contrastive learning methods have shown to be effective in various tasks, learning generalizable representations invariant to data augmentation thereby leading to state of the art performances. Regarding the multifaceted nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 MinGyu Choi , Wonseok Shin , Yijingxiu Lu , Sun Kim

This paper presents Contrastive Reconstruction, ConRec - a self-supervised learning algorithm that obtains image representations by jointly optimizing a contrastive and a self-reconstruction loss. We showcase that state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jonas Dippel , Steffen Vogler , Johannes Höhne

We present a new nonlinear dimensionality reduction method, MAPLE, that enhances UMAP by improving manifold modeling. MAPLE employs a self-supervised learning approach to more efficiently encode low-dimensional manifold geometry. Central to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyang Huang , Takanori Fujiwara , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Wandrille Duchemin , Andreas Kerren

The slow acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has led to the development of two complementary methods: acquiring multiple views of the anatomy simultaneously (parallel imaging) and acquiring fewer samples than necessary for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Anuroop Sriram , Jure Zbontar , Tullie Murrell , Aaron Defazio , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Nafissa Yakubova , Florian Knoll , Patricia Johnson

Object parts serve as crucial intermediate representations in various downstream tasks, but part-level representation learning still has not received as much attention as other vision tasks. Previous research has established that Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jiahao Xia , Wenjian Huang , Min Xu , Jianguo Zhang , Haimin Zhang , Ziyu Sheng , Dong Xu

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than joint-training methods relying on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hyuntak Cha , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

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

Pretext Invariant Representation Learning (PIRL) followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) has become a standard paradigm for learning with limited labels. We extend this approach to the Positive Unlabeled (PU) setting, where only a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Anish Acharya , Li Jing , Bhargav Bhushanam , Dhruv Choudhary , Michael Rabbat , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S Dhillon

Label-free optical absorption microscopy techniques continue to evolve as promising tools for label-free histopathological imaging of cells and tissues. However, critical challenges relating to specificity and contrast, as compared to…

Contrastive learning is a powerful framework for learning self-supervised representations that generalize well to downstream supervised tasks. We show that multiple existing contrastive learning methods can be reinterpreted as learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Daniel D. Johnson , Ayoub El Hanchi , Chris J. Maddison

Parallel imaging with linear predictability takes advantage of information present in multiple receive coils to accurately reconstruct the image with fewer samples. Commonly used algorithms based on linear predictability include GRAPPA and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Alex McManus , Stephen Becker , Nicholas Dwork

In this work, we propose a deep learning approach for parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, termed a variable splitting network (VS-Net), for an efficient, high-quality reconstruction of undersampled multi-coil MR data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Jinming Duan , Jo Schlemper , Chen Qin , Cheng Ouyang , Wenjia Bai , Carlo Biffi , Ghalib Bello , Ben Statton , Declan P O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

We propose Graph Contrastive Learning (GraphCL), a general framework for learning node representations in a self supervised manner. GraphCL learns node embeddings by maximizing the similarity between the representations of two randomly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Hakim Hafidi , Mounir Ghogho , Philippe Ciblat , Ananthram Swami

We propose Coordinate-based Internal Learning (CoIL) as a new deep-learning (DL) methodology for the continuous representation of measurements. Unlike traditional DL methods that learn a mapping from the measurements to the desired image,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Yu Sun , Jiaming Liu , Mingyang Xie , Brendt Wohlberg , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Recent breakthroughs in semi-supervised semantic segmentation have been developed through contrastive learning. In prevalent pixel-wise contrastive learning solutions, the model maps pixels to deterministic representations and regularizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Haoyu Xie , Changqi Wang , Mingkai Zheng , Minjing Dong , Shan You , Chong Fu , Chang Xu

Physics-driven deep learning (PD-DL) approaches have become popular for improved reconstruction of fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Though PD-DL offers higher acceleration rates than existing clinical fast MRI techniques, their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Merve Gülle , Mehmet Akçakaya

Parallel imaging techniques reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan time but image quality degrades as the acceleration factor increases. In clinical practice, conservative acceleration factors are chosen because no mechanism exists to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ilias I. Giannakopoulos , Lokesh B Gautham Muthukumar , Yvonne W. Lui , Riccardo Lattanzi

Parallel imaging is ubiquitous in MRI, enabling diverse applications such as ultra-high-resolution functional and quantitative imaging with greater temporal resolution or reduced scan times respectively. Successful unfolding is contingent…