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Ultrasound is a widely accessible and cost-effective medical imaging tool commonly used for prenatal evaluation of the fetal brain. However, it has limitations, particularly in the third trimester, where the complexity of the fetal brain…

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Head motion is an omnipresent confounder of magnetic resonance image (MRI) analyses as it systematically affects morphometric measurements, even when visual quality control is performed. In order to estimate subtle head motion, that remains…

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Finding an appropriate representation of dynamic activities in the brain is crucial for many downstream applications. Due to its highly dynamic nature, temporally averaged fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) can only provide a…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is the only noninvasive method for quantifying microstructure and reconstructing white-matter pathways in the living human brain. Fluctuations from multiple sources create significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Shreyas Fadnavis , Joshua Batson , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Data from a multi-parametric MRI study of patients with possible early-stage prostate cancer was assessed with a view to creating an efficient clinical protocol. Based on a correlation analysis suggesting that diffusion-weighted imaging…

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Objective. This work investigates the use of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automatically perform measurements of fetal body parts, including head circumference, biparietal diameter, abdominal circumference and femur length,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Szymon Płotka , Adam Klasa , Aneta Lisowska , Joanna Seliga-Siwecka , Michał Lipa , Tomasz Trzciński , Arkadiusz Sitek

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Michelle Su , Cemre Ariyurek , Serge Vasylechko , Onur Afacan , Sila Kurugol

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

Accurate fetal birth weight (FBW) estimation is essential for optimizing delivery decisions and reducing perinatal mortality. However, clinical methods for FBW estimation are inefficient, operator-dependent, and challenging to apply in…

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a relatively modern technique used to study tissue microstructure in a non-invasive way. Non-Gaussian diffusion representation is related to the restricted diffusion and can provide information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Tomasz Pieciak , Maryam Afzali , Fabian Bogusz , Aja-Fernández , Derek K. Jones

The noise in diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) decreases the accuracy and precision of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) derived microstructural parameters and leads to prolonged acquisition time for achieving improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Qiyuan Tian , Ziyu Li , Qiuyun Fan , Jonathan R. Polimeni , Berkin Bilgic , David H. Salat , Susie Y. Huang

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) refers to a class of MRI methods for quantifying the spatial distribution of biological tissue parameters. Traditional qMRI methods usually deal separately with artifacts arising from accelerated data acquisition,…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) derived scalar maps are effective for assessing neurodegenerative diseases and microstructural properties of white matter in large number of brain conditions. However, DW-MRI inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Gabriel Girard , Manon Edde , Félix Dumais , Yoan David , Matthieu Dumont , Guillaume Theaud , Jean-Christophe Houde , Arnaud Boré , Maxime Descoteaux , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

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

This study, we propose a novel Q-space Guided Collaborative Attention Translation Networks (Q-CATN) for multi-shell, high-angular resolution DWI (MS-HARDI) synthesis from flexible q-space sampling, leveraging the commonly acquired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Pengli Zhu , Yingji Fu , Nanguang Chen , Anqi Qiu

Quantitative information on tumor heterogeneity and cell load could assist in designing effective and refined personalized treatment strategies. It was recently shown by us that such information can be inferred from the diffusion parameter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Yi Yin , Kai Breuhahn , Hans-Ulrich Kauczor , Oliver Sedlaczek , Irene E. Vignon-Clementel , Dirk Drasdo

Stroke is a common disabling neurological condition that affects about one-quarter of the adult population over age 25; more than half of patients still have poor outcomes, such as permanent functional dependence or even death, after the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Chia-Ling Tsai , Hui-Yun Su , Shen-Feng Sung , Wei-Yang Lin , Ying-Ying Su , Tzu-Hsien Yang , Man-Lin Mai

Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI), which uses iterative methods to estimate high-resolution subsurface models from seismograms, is a powerful imaging technique in exploration geophysics. In recent years, the computational cost of FWI…

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Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a promising technique for achieving high-resolution imaging in medical ultrasound. However, conventional FWI methods suffer from issues related to computational efficiency, dependence on initial models, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Qiang Li , Heyu Ma , Chengcheng Liu , Dean Ta

Ultrasound computed tomography is emerging as a promising safe and accessible modality for soft-tissue medical imaging, with full waveform inversion playing a key role in unlocking its full potential for high-resolution, quantitative…

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