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A hallucination-free and computationally efficient algorithm for enhancing the resolution of brain MRI images is demonstrated.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Sifeng He , Bahram Jalali

Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoyi Wen , Fei Jiang

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers affordable access to diagnostic imaging but faces challenges such as prolonged acquisition times and reduced image quality. Although accelerated imaging via k-space undersampling helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Due to the significant information loss in low-resolution (LR) images, it has become extremely challenging to further advance the state-of-the-art of single image super-resolution (SISR). Reference-based super-resolution (RefSR), on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Zhe Lin , Hairong Qi

Background: High-resolution MRI is critical for diagnosis, but long acquisition times limit clinical use. Super-resolution (SR) can enhance resolution post-scan, yet existing deep learning methods face fidelity-efficiency trade-offs.…

This paper introduces a novel method for brain segmentation using only FLAIR MRIs, specifically targeting cases where access to other imaging modalities is limited. By leveraging existing automatic segmentation methods, we train a network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Edern Le Bot , Rémi Giraud , Boris Mansencal , Thomas Tourdias , Josè V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupé

Face super-resolution (FSR), also known as face hallucination, which is aimed at enhancing the resolution of low-resolution (LR) face images to generate high-resolution (HR) face images, is a domain-specific image super-resolution problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Junjun Jiang , Chenyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma

We present a tool for resolution recovery in multimodal clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Such images exhibit great variability, both biological and instrumental. This variability makes automated processing with neuroimaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

We propose a two-stage algorithm for the super-resolution of MR images from their low-frequency k-space samples. In the first stage we estimate a resolution-independent mask whose zeros represent the edges of the image. This builds off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Greg Ongie , Mathews Jacob

While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) offers valuable insights into brain activity, it is limited by high operational costs and significant infrastructural demands. In contrast, electroencephalography (EEG) provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kristofer Grover Roos , Atsushi Fukuda , Quan Huu Cap

Probabilistic atlas priors have been commonly used to derive adaptive and robust brain MRI segmentation algorithms. Widely-used neuroimage analysis pipelines rely heavily on these techniques, which are often computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Adrian V. Dalca , Evan Yu , Polina Golland , Bruce Fischl , Mert R. Sabuncu , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Access to and availability of MRI scanners is typically limited by their cost, siting and infrastructure requirements. This precludes MRI diagnostics, the reference standard for neurological assessment, in patients who cannot be transported…

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful tool for investigating human brain function. However, the high cost of data acquisition and the inherent subjectivity of psychiatric rating scales often lead to datasets with small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiyao Wang , Peiyu Duan , Nicha C. Dvornek , Lawrence H. Staib , Denis Sukhodolsky , Pamela Ventola , James S. Duncan

This paper proposes LLaFS, the first attempt to leverage large language models (LLMs) in few-shot segmentation. In contrast to the conventional few-shot segmentation methods that only rely on the limited and biased information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen , Deyi Ji , Jieping Ye , Jun Liu

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful tool for probing brain function, yet reliable clinical diagnosis is hampered by low signal-to-noise ratios, inter-subject variability, and the limited frequency awareness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junhao Jia , Yifei Sun , Yunyou Liu , Cheng Yang , Changmiao Wang , Feiwei Qin , Yong Peng , Wenwen Min

Image registration is a fundamental task for medical imaging. Resampling of the intensity values is required during registration and better spatial resolution with finer and sharper structures can improve the resampling performance and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

The acquisition of MRI images offers a trade-off in terms of acquisition time, spatial/temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Thus, for instance, increasing the time efficiency of MRI often comes at the expense of reduced SNR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-10-28 Sudipto Dolui , Alan Kuurstra , Iván C. Salgado Patarroyo , Oleg V. Michailovich

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in clinical settings. However, the inherent long scan time of MRI restricts its widespread applicability. Deep learning-based image super-resolution (SR) methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Hao Li , Quanwei Liu , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Yanni Dong , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lv

It is widely agreed that reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) achieves superior results by referring to similar high quality images, compared to single image super-resolution (SISR). Intuitively, the more references, the better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Lin Zhang , Xin Li , Dongliang He , Errui Ding , Zhaoxiang Zhang

To address many of the deficiencies in optical neuroimaging technologies such as poor spatial resolution, time-consuming reconstruction, low penetration depth, and contact-based measurement, a novel, noncontact, time-resolved laser speckle…