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Although image restoration has advanced significantly, most existing methods target only a single type of degradation. In real-world scenarios, images often contain multiple degradations simultaneously, such as rain, noise, and haze,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hu Gao , Xiaoning Lei , Xichen Xu , Depeng Dang , Lizhuang Ma

In recent studies on MRI reconstruction, advances have shown significant promise for further accelerating the MRI acquisition. Most state-of-the-art methods require a large amount of fully-sampled data to optimise reconstruction models,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Junwei Yang , Pietro Liò

In recent years, machine learning (ML) based reconstruction has been widely investigated and employed in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. ML-based reconstructions can deliver clinically acceptable image quality under substantially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Chi Zhang , Michael Loecher , Cagan Alkan , Mahmut Yurt , Shreyas S. Vasanawala , Daniel B. Ennis

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) in high spatial resolution provides detailed anatomical information and is often necessary for accurate quantitative analysis. However, high spatial resolution typically comes at the expense of longer scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yuhua Chen , Yibin Xie , Zhengwei Zhou , Feng Shi , Anthony G. Christodoulou , Debiao Li

In recent years, accelerated MRI reconstruction based on deep learning has led to significant improvements in image quality with impressive results for high acceleration factors. However, from a clinical perspective image quality is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Christian Schlarmann , Thomas Küstner , Christian F. Baumgartner , Matthias Hein

This paper presents a generative model for super-resolution in routine clinical magnetic resonance images (MRI), of arbitrary orientation and contrast. The model recasts the recovery of high resolution images as an inverse problem, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

The most of CNN based super-resolution (SR) methods assume that the degradation is known (\eg, bicubic). These methods will suffer a severe performance drop when the degradation is different from their assumption. Therefore, some approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Bin Xia , Yapeng Tian , Yulun Zhang , Yucheng Hang , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao

Guided image super-resolution (GISR) aims to obtain a high-resolution (HR) target image by enhancing the spatial resolution of a low-resolution (LR) target image under the guidance of a HR image. However, previous model-based methods mainly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Man Zhou , Keyu Yan , Jinshan Pan , Wenqi Ren , Qi Xie , Xiangyong Cao

Methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated tremendous improvements on single image super-resolution. However, the previous methods mainly restore images from one single area in the low resolution (LR) input, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xiaoyi Jia , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Kailing Guo

Using single-task deep learning methods to reconstruct Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data acquired with different imaging sequences is inherently challenging. The trained deep learning model typically lacks generalizability, and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Wanyu Bian , Albert Jang , Fang Liu

In accelerated MRI reconstruction, the anatomy of a patient is recovered from a set of under-sampled and noisy measurements. Deep learning approaches have been proven to be successful in solving this ill-posed inverse problem and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Zalan Fabian , Berk Tinaz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Single image super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed problem which aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) observations. The crux of this problem lies in learning the complex mapping between low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Ding Liu , Zhaowen Wang , Nasser Nasrabadi , Thomas Huang

Portable low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems have gained renewed interest owing to their cost effectiveness and point-of-care imaging capabilities. Yet, portable MRI systems suffer from relatively low signal-to-noise ratio…

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images are desired for accurate diagnostics. In practice, image resolution is restricted by factors like hardware, cost and processing constraints. Recently, deep learning methods have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Venkateswararao Cherukuri , Tiantong Guo , Steven J. Schiff , Vishal Monga

Multi-contrast (MC) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction aims to incorporate a reference image of auxiliary modality to guide the reconstruction process of the target modality. Known MC reconstruction methods perform well with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Ziqi Gao , Yue Zhang , Xinwen Liu , Kaiyan Li , S. Kevin Zhou

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging modality and provides comprehensive anatomical and functional insights into the human body. However, its long acquisition times can lead to patient discomfort, motion artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

This chapter provides an overview of deep learning techniques for improving the spatial resolution of MRI, ranging from convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, to more advanced models including transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ziyu Li , Zihan Li , Haoxiang Li , Qiuyun Fan , Karla L. Miller , Wenchuan Wu , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Qiyuan Tian

Deep unfolding networks (DUNs), combining conventional iterative optimization algorithms and deep neural networks into a multi-stage framework, have achieved remarkable accomplishments in Image Restoration (IR), such as spectral imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiangming Wang , Haijin Zeng , Benteng Sun , Jiezhang Cao , Kai Zhang , Qiangqiang Shen , Yongyong Chen

Portable, low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners are increasingly being deployed in clinical settings. However, key barriers to their widespread use include low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), generally low image quality, and long…

Multi-contrast MRI images provide complementary contrast information about the characteristics of anatomical structures and are commonly used in clinical practice. Recently, a multi-flip-angle (FA) and multi-echo GRE method (MULTIPLEX MRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Eric Z. Chen , Yongquan Ye , Xiao Chen , Jingyuan Lyu , Zhongqi Zhang , Yichen Hu , Terrence Chen , Jian Xu , Shanhui Sun