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Motion artifacts caused by prolonged acquisition time are a significant challenge in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), hindering accurate tissue segmentation. These artifacts appear as blurred images that mimic tissue-like appearances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Sunyoung Jung , Yoonseok Choi , Mohammed A. Al-masni , Minyoung Jung , Dong-Hyun Kim

High-quality 3D fetal brain MRI reconstruction from motion-corrupted 2D slices is crucial for clinical diagnosis. Reliable slice-to-volume registration (SVR)-based motion correction and super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jiangjie Wu , Lixuan Chen , Zhenghao Li , Xin Li , Saban Ozturk , Lihui Wang , Rongpin Wang , Hongjiang Wei , Yuyao Zhang

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

Real-time semantic segmentation, which can be visually understood as the pixel-level classification task on the input image, currently has broad application prospects, especially in the fast-developing fields of autonomous driving and drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Guangwei Gao , Guoan Xu , Juncheng Li , Yi Yu , Huimin Lu , Jian Yang

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

Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is increasingly used to study the fetal brain in utero. An important computation enabled by dMRI is streamline tractography, which has unique applications such as tract-specific analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Camilo Calixto , Camilo Jaimes , Matheus D. Soldatelli , Simon K. Warfield , Ali Gholipour , Davood Karimi

Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern diagnostics; however, interpreting high-resolution radiological data remains time-consuming and susceptible to variability among clinicians. Traditional image processing techniques often lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Melika Filvantorkaman , Maral Filvan Torkaman

Quantitative, volumetric analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a fundamental way researchers study the brain in a host of neurological conditions including normal maturation and aging. Despite the availability of open-source brain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Aakash Kaku , Chaitra V. Hegde , Jeffrey Huang , Sohae Chung , Xiuyuan Wang , Matthew Young , Alireza Radmanesh , Yvonne W. Lui , Narges Razavian

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides unique insights into fetal brain microstructure in utero. Longitudinal and cross-sectional fetal dMRI studies can reveal crucial neurodevelopmental changes but require precise spatial alignment across scans and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Bo Li , Qi Zeng , Simon K. Warfield , Davood Karimi

Skullstripping is defined as the task of segmenting brain tissue from a full head magnetic resonance image~(MRI). It is a critical component in neuroimage processing pipelines. Downstream deformable registration and whole brain segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Amod Jog , P. Ellen Grant , Joseph L. Jacobson , Andre van der Kouwe , Ernesta M. Meintjes , Bruce Fischl , Lilla Zöllei

Accurate automatic tissue segmentation in fetal brain MRI is a crucial step in clinical diagnosis but remains challenging, particularly due to the dynamically changing anatomy and tissue contrast during fetal development. Existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Haoan Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Xinyi Xu , Yao Shen , Jiwei Sun , Cong Sun , Guangbin Wang , Zhaopeng Cui , Dan Wu

Accurate fetal brain tissue segmentation and biometric analysis are essential for studying brain development in utero. The FeTA Challenge 2024 advanced automated fetal brain MRI analysis by introducing biometry prediction as a new task…

Deep learning approaches may help radiologists in the early diagnosis and timely treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Accurate cerebral vessel segmentation of Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiographs (TOF-MRAs) is an essential step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 V. de Vos , K. M. Timmins , I. C. van der Schaaf , Y. Ruigrok , B. K. Velthuis , H. J. Kuijf

Segmentation of fetal brain tissue from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in the study of in utero neurodevelopment. However, automated tools face substantial domain shift challenges as they must be robust to highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Vladyslav Zalevskyi , Thomas Sanchez , Margaux Roulet , Jordina Aviles Verddera , Jana Hutter , Hamza Kebiri , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

Dynamic free-breathing fetal cardiac MRI is one of the most challenging modalities, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution to depict rapid changes in a small fetal heart. The ability of deep learning methods to recover…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Denis Prokopenko , Kerstin Hammernik , Thomas Roberts , David F A Lloyd , Daniel Rueckert , Joseph V Hajnal

Fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used in prenatal diagnosis and to assess early brain development. Accurate segmentation of the different brain tissues is a vital step in several brain analysis tasks, such as cortical surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Liu Li , Qiang Ma , Matthew Sinclair , Antonios Makropoulos , Joseph Hajnal , A. David Edwards , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert , Amir Alansary

Multi-slice magnetic resonance images of the fetal brain are usually contaminated by severe and arbitrary fetal and maternal motion. Hence, stable and robust motion correction is necessary to reconstruct high-resolution 3D fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Wen Shi , Haoan Xu , Cong Sun , Jiwei Sun , Yamin Li , Xinyi Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Yi Zhang , Guangbin Wang , Dan Wu

Fetal motion is unpredictable and rapid on the scale of conventional MR scan times. Therefore, dynamic fetal MRI, which aims at capturing fetal motion and dynamics of fetal function, is limited to fast imaging techniques with compromises in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-01 Junshen Xu , Esra Abaci Turk , P. Ellen Grant , Polina Golland , Elfar Adalsteinsson

This study's objective was to segment spinal metastases in diagnostic MR images using a deep learning-based approach. Segmentation of such lesions can present a pivotal step towards enhanced therapy planning and validation, as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Georg Hille , Johannes Steffen , Max Dünnwald , Mathias Becker , Sylvia Saalfeld , Klaus Tönnies

T2 mapping in fetal brain MRI has the potential to improve characterization of the developing brain, especially at mid-field (0.55T), where T2 decay is slower. However, this is challenging as fetal MRI acquisition relies on multiple…