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Due to numerous hardware shortcomings, medical image acquisition devices are susceptible to producing low-quality (i.e., low contrast, inappropriate brightness, noisy, etc.) images. Regrettably, perceptually degraded images directly impact…

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Accelerated magnetic resonance imaging involves reconstructing fully sampled images from undersampled k-space measurements. Current state-of-the-art approaches have mainly focused on either end-to-end supervised training inspired by…

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Medical image synthesis is an important topic for both clinical and research applications. Recently, diffusion models have become a leading approach in this area. Despite their strengths, many existing methods struggle with (1) limited…

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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) is a clinical imaging modality for measuring tissue metabolite levels in-vivo. An accurate estimation of spectral parameters allows for better assessment of spectral quality and metabolite…

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Flow based generative models have charted an impressive path across multiple visual generation tasks by adhering to a simple principle: learning velocity representations of a linear interpolant. However, we observe that training velocity…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the noninvasive imaging modalities that can produce high-quality images. However, the scan procedure is relatively slow, which causes patient discomfort and motion artifacts in images. Accelerating…

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This paper proposes an explicit way to optimize the super-resolution network for generating visually pleasing images. The previous approaches use several loss functions which is hard to interpret and has the implicit relationships to…

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High resolution magnetic resonance~(MR) imaging~(MRI) is desirable in many clinical applications, however, there is a trade-off between resolution, speed of acquisition, and noise. It is common for MR images to have worse through-plane…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Can Zhao , Aaron Carass , Blake E. Dewey , Jerry L. Prince

Unsupervised real-world super-resolution (SR) faces critical challenges due to the complex, unknown degradation distributions in practical scenarios. Existing methods struggle to generalize from synthetic low-resolution (LR) and…

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Flow-based methods have demonstrated promising results in addressing the ill-posed nature of super-resolution (SR) by learning the distribution of high-resolution (HR) images with the normalizing flow. However, these methods can only…

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Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

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Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a cost-effective alternative for medical imaging in resource-limited settings. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by two key challenges: prolonged scan times and reduced image…

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Phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides time-resolved quantification of blood flow dynamics that can aid clinical diagnosis. Long in vivo scan times due to repeated three-dimensional (3D) volume sampling over cardiac phases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Valery Vishnevskiy , Jonas Walheim , Sebastian Kozerke

Federated learning (FL) based magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction can facilitate learning valuable priors from multi-site institutions without violating patient's privacy for accelerating MR imaging. However, existing methods rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Juan Zou , Cheng Li , Ruoyou Wu , Tingrui Pei , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Recent years have witnessed substantial advancements in the field of 3D reconstruction from 2D images, particularly following the introduction of the neural radiance field (NeRF) technique. However, reconstructing a 3D high dynamic range…

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Supervised deep learning approaches can artificially increase the resolution of microscopy images by learning a mapping between two image resolutions or modalities. However, such methods often require a large set of hard-to-get…

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