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Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang

Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Kaisar Kushibar , Sergi Valverde , Sandra Gonzalez-Villa , Jose Bernal , Mariano Cabezas , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Llado

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI…

Limited accessibility to high field MRI scanners (such as 7T, 11T) has motivated the development of post-processing methods to improve low field images. Several existing post-processing methods have shown the feasibility to improve 3T…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Prabhjot Kaur , Atul Singh Minhas , Chirag Kamal Ahuja , Anil Kumar Sao

Accurate hippocampus segmentation in brain MRI is critical for studying cognitive and memory functions and diagnosing neurodevelopmental disorders. While high-field MRIs provide detailed imaging, low-field MRIs are more accessible and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Himashi Peiris , Zhaolin Chen

The need for affordable and appropriate medical technologies for developing countries continue to rise as challenges such as inadequate energy supply, limited technical expertise and poor infrastructure persists. Low-field MRI is a…

High resolution (HR) 3D images are widely used nowadays, such as medical images like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT). However, segmentation of these 3D images remains a challenge due to their high spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Hongyi Wang , Lanfen Lin , Hongjie Hu , Qingqing Chen , Yinhao Li , Yutaro Iwamoto , Xian-Hua Han , Yen-Wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for screening, diagnosis, image-guided therapy, and scientific research. A significant advantage of MRI over other imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and nuclear imaging is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

This article presents a novel undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that leverages the concept of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). With radial undersampling, the corresponding imaging problem can be reformulated into an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Tae Jun Jang , Chang Min Hyun

Ultrahigh field (UHF) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio and, thereby, higher spatial resolution. However, UHF MRI introduces challenges such as transmit radiofrequency (RF) field (B1+) inhomogeneities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zhengyi Lu , Hao Liang , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

High resolution magnetic resonance~(MR) imaging~(MRI) is desirable in many clinical applications, however, there is a trade-off between resolution, speed of acquisition, and noise. It is common for MR images to have worse through-plane…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Can Zhao , Aaron Carass , Blake E. Dewey , Jerry L. Prince

Capturing high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images is a time consuming process, which makes it unsuitable for medical emergencies and pediatric patients. Low-resolution MR imaging, by contrast, is faster than its high-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Saqib Shamsi , Valay Bundele , Bhavesh Garg , Amit Sethi

Recent years have witnessed the great advances of deep neural networks (DNNs) in light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR). However, existing DNN-based LF image SR methods are developed on a single fixed degradation (e.g., bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yingqian Wang , Zhengyu Liang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Three-dimensional segmentation in magnetic resonance images (MRI), which reflects the true shape of the objects, is challenging since high-resolution isotropic MRIs are rare and typical MRIs are anisotropic, with the out-of-plane dimension…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Hanxue Gu , Hongyu He , Roy Colglazier , Jordan Axelrod , Robert French , Maciej A Mazurowski

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technology that can measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) quantitatively. However, since only a small portion of blood is labeled compared to the whole tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Jianan Cui , Kuang Gong , Paul Han , Huafeng Liu , Quanzheng Li

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to have reduced signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) at lower field strengths, leading to signal degradation when producing a low-field MRI image from a high-field one. Therefore, reconstructing a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhuo-Xu Cui , Congcong Liu , Chentao Cao , Yuanyuan Liu , Jing Cheng , Qingyong Zhu , Yanjie Zhu , Haifeng Wang , Dong Liang

This paper presents an annotated dataset of brain MRI images designed to advance the field of brain symmetry study. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained interest in analyzing brain symmetry in neonatal infants, and challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Arnaud Gucciardi , Safouane El Ghazouali , Francesca Venturini , Vida Groznik , Umberto Michelucci

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is universally acknowledged as an excellent tool to extract detailed spatial information with minimally invasive measurements. Efforts toward ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI are made to simplify the scanners and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Antonio Vigilante

Supervised deep learning approaches can artificially increase the resolution of microscopy images by learning a mapping between two image resolutions or modalities. However, such methods often require a large set of hard-to-get…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Marzieh Gheisari , Auguste Genovesio

Light field (LF) images acquired by hand-held devices usually suffer from low spatial resolution as the limited sampling resources have to be shared with the angular dimension. LF spatial super-resolution (SR) thus becomes an indispensable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Jie Chen , Sam Kwong