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Skull stripping is usually the first step for most brain analysisprocess in magnetic resonance images. A lot of deep learn-ing neural network based methods have been developed toachieve higher accuracy. Since the 3D deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Zhen Liu , Borui Xiao , Yuemeng Li , Yong Fan

Purpose: A fast data-driven optimization approach, named bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS), is proposed for learning efficacious sampling patterns (SPs) with the purpose of reducing scan time in large-dimensional parallel MRI.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Gabor T. Herman , Ravinder R. Regatte

Purpose: The goal of this work was to develop a deep network for whole-head segmentation including clinical MRIs with abnormal anatomy, and compile the first public benchmark dataset for this purpose. We collected 98 MRIs with volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Andrew M Birnbaum , Adam Buchwald , Peter Turkeltaub , Adam Jacks , George Carra , Shreya Kannana , Yu Huang , Abhisheck Datta , Lucas C Parra , Lukas A Hirsch

This study presents an integrated approach for advancing functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) neuroimaging through the synthesis of data and application of machine learning models. By addressing the scarcity of high-quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Eitan Waks

Deep learning has shown excellent performance in analysing medical images. However, datasets are difficult to obtain due privacy issues, standardization problems, and lack of annotations. We address these problems by producing realistic…

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Accurate brain tumor diagnosis relies on the assessment of multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequences. However, in clinical practice, the acquisition of certain sequences may be affected by factors like motion artifacts or contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Moinak Bhattacharya , Saumya Gupta , Annie Singh , Chao Chen , Gagandeep Singh , Prateek Prasanna

Head MRI pre-processing involves converting raw images to an intensity-normalized, skull-stripped brain in a standard coordinate space. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end weakly supervised learning approach, called Neural…

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Rigid motion tracking is paramount in many medical imaging applications where movements need to be detected, corrected, or accounted for. Modern strategies rely on convolutional neural networks (CNN) and pose this problem as rigid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Benjamin Billot , Neel Dey , Daniel Moyer , Malte Hoffmann , Esra Abaci Turk , Borjan Gagoski , Ellen Grant , Polina Golland

Generative modelling and synthetic data can be a surrogate for real medical imaging datasets, whose scarcity and difficulty to share can be a nuisance when delivering accurate deep learning models for healthcare applications. In recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Virginia Fernandez , Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya , Pedro Borges , Mark S. Graham , Tom Vercauteren , M. Jorge Cardoso

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a technology for non-invasive imaging of anatomical features in detail. It can help in functional analysis of organs of a specimen but it is very costly. In this work, methods for (i) virtual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Somoballi Ghoshal , Shremoyee Goswami , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

Brain mapping research in most neuroanatomical laboratories relies on conventional processing techniques, which often introduce histological artifacts such as tissue tears and tissue loss. In this paper we present techniques and algorithms…

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Neural network pruning serves as a critical technique for enhancing the efficiency of deep learning models. Unlike unstructured pruning, which only sets specific parameters to zero, structured pruning eliminates entire channels, thus…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is essential for noninvasive generation of high-quality images of human tissues. Accurate segmentation of MRI data is critical for medical applications like brain anatomy analysis and disease detection.…

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The effectiveness of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models critically depends on the semantic diversity and quality of their training data. However, while existing synthetic data generation methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuanxiang Huangfu , Chaochao Wang , Weilei Wang

Spine image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment of spine diseases. The complex structure of the spine and the high morphological similarity between individual vertebrae and adjacent intervertebral discs make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Dingwei Fan , Junyong Zhao , Chunlin Li , Mingliang Wang , Qi Zhu , Haipeng Si , Daoqiang Zhang , Liang Sun

We present a keypoint-based foundation model for general purpose brain MRI registration, based on the recently-proposed KeyMorph framework. Our model, called BrainMorph, serves as a tool that supports multi-modal, pairwise, and scalable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Alan Q. Wang , Rachit Saluja , Heejong Kim , Xinzi He , Adrian Dalca , Mert R. Sabuncu

A central challenge in the computational modeling of neural dynamics is the trade-off between accuracy and simplicity. At the level of individual neurons, nonlinear dynamics are both experimentally established and essential for neuronal…

Nonlinear registration of 2D histological sections with corresponding slices of MRI data is a critical step of 3D histology reconstruction. This task is difficult due to the large differences in image contrast and resolution, as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Marc Modat , Loic Peter , Allison Stevens , Roberto Annunziata , Tom Vercauteren , Ed Lein , Bruce Fischl , Sebastien Ourselin

Biomedical images are noisy. The imaging equipment itself has physical limitations, and the consequent experimental trade-offs between signal-to-noise ratio, acquisition speed, and imaging depth exacerbate the problem. Denoising is,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Mikhail Papkov , Kenny Roberts , Lee Ann Madissoon , Omer Bayraktar , Dmytro Fishman , Kaupo Palo , Leopold Parts

Correlation of neuropathology with MRI has the potential to transfer microscopic signatures of pathology to in vivo scans. There is increasing interest in building these correlations from 3D reconstructed stacks of slab photographs, which…