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In cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, a 3D high-resolution segmentation of the heart is essential for detailed description of its anatomical structures. However, due to the limit of acquisition duration and respiratory/cardiac…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Shuo Wang , Chen Qin , Nicolo Savioli , Chen Chen , Declan O'Regan , Stuart Cook , Yike Guo , Daniel Rueckert , Wenjia Bai

The development of automated tools for brain morphometric analysis in infants has lagged significantly behind analogous tools for adults. This gap reflects the greater challenges in this domain due to: 1) a smaller-scaled region of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Lilla Zöllei , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Yangming Ou , P. Ellen Grant , Bruce Fischl

This chapter provides an overview of deep learning techniques for improving the spatial resolution of MRI, ranging from convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, to more advanced models including transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ziyu Li , Zihan Li , Haoxiang Li , Qiuyun Fan , Karla L. Miller , Wenchuan Wu , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Qiyuan Tian

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides affordable access to diagnostic imaging but suffers from prolonged acquisition and limited image quality. Accelerated imaging can be achieved with k-space undersampling, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains severely limited in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, despite rising rates of non-communicable diseases. Low-field MRI presents an affordable, locally…

A light-weight super-resolution (LSR) method from a single image targeting mobile applications is proposed in this work. LSR predicts the residual image between the interpolated low-resolution (ILR) and high-resolution (HR) images using a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Wei Wang , Xuejing Lei , Yueru Chen , Ming-Sui Lee , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Recently, Ultra-High Field MRI (UHF-MRI) has become more available and one of the best tools to study the brain. One common step in quantitative neuroimaging is to segment the brain into several regions, which has been done using software…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Marc-Antoine Fortin , Anne Louise Kristoffersen , Michael Staff Larsen , Laurent Lamalle , Ruediger Stirnberg , Paal Erik Goa

Improving the image resolution and acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem. There are mainly two strategies dealing with the speed-resolution trade-off: (1) $k$-space undersampling with high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wenqi Huang , Sen Jia , Ziwen Ke , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Jing Cheng , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

High-resolution (HR) MRI scans obtained from research-grade medical centers provide precise information about imaged tissues. However, routine clinical MRI scans are typically in low-resolution (LR) and vary greatly in contrast and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Jueqi Wang , Jacob Levman , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Petru-Daniel Tudosiu , M. Jorge Cardoso , Razvan Marinescu

This paper introduces a novel framework for image quality transfer based on conditional flow matching (CFM). Unlike conventional generative models that rely on iterative sampling or adversarial objectives, CFM learns a continuous flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Huu Tien Nguyen , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Most image super-resolution (SR) methods are developed on synthetic low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) image pairs that are constructed by a predetermined operation, e.g., bicubic downsampling. As existing methods typically learn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Sanghyun Son , Jaeha Kim , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Husan Yang , Kyoung Mu Lee

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) aims at reconstructing high-resolution LF images from their low-resolution counterparts. Although CNN-based methods have achieved remarkable performance in LF image SR, these methods cannot fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhengyu Liang , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Shilin Zhou

In this paper we propose a deep learning approach for segmenting sub-cortical structures of the human brain in Magnetic Resonance (MR) image data. We draw inspiration from a state-of-the-art Fully-Convolutional Neural Network (F-CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mahsa Shakeri , Stavros Tsogkas , Enzo Ferrante , Sarah Lippe , Samuel Kadoury , Nikos Paragios , Iasonas Kokkinos

Purpose: To present a fully open-source framework for quasi-real-time streaming and cloud-based processing of low-field (LF) MRI data, addressing the growing computational demands of advanced reconstruction and post-processing pipelines in…

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used for diagnosis and image-guided therapeutics. Due to hardware, physical and physiological limitations, acquisition of high-resolution MRI data takes long scan time at high system cost, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Qing Lyu , Chenyu You , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

The fusion of a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI) with a high-resolution multispectral image (HR-MSI) has emerged as an effective technique for achieving HSI super-resolution (SR). Previous studies have mainly concentrated on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ting Wang , Zipei Yan , Jizhou Li , Xile Zhao , Chao Wang , Michael Ng

22. Shortening acquisition time and reducing the motion-artifact are two of the most critical issues in MRI. As a promising solution, high-quality MRI image restoration provides a new approach to achieve higher resolution without costing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Hao Li , Jianan Liu

Segmentation of brain structures on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a highly relevant neuroimaging topic, as it is a prerequisite for different analyses such as volumetry or shape analysis. Automated segmentation facilitates the study…

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have enabled unified reasoning across images, audio, and video, but extending such capability to brain imaging remains largely unexplored. Bridging this gap is essential to link…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxiang Wei , Yanteng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Chengxuan Qian , Tianyang Wang , Vince D. Calhoun