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Global correlations are widely seen in human anatomical structures due to similarity across tissues and bones. These correlations are reflected in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans as a result of close-range proton density and T1/T2…

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Local Feature Matching, an essential component of several computer vision tasks (e.g., structure from motion and visual localization), has been effectively settled by Transformer-based methods. However, these methods only integrate…

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By developing sophisticated image priors or designing deep(er) architectures, a variety of image Super-Resolution (SR) approaches have been proposed recently and achieved very promising performance. A natural question that arises is whether…

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Fast and accurate MRI image reconstruction from undersampled data is crucial in clinical practice. Deep learning based reconstruction methods have shown promising advances in recent years. However, recovering fine details from undersampled…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

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