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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a valuable tool to map brain microstructure and connectivity by analyzing water molecule diffusion in tissue. However, acquiring dMRI data requires to capture multiple 3D brain volumes in a short time, often leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Sedigheh Dargahi , Sylvain Bouix , Christian Desrosiers

\hspace{2mm} Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the brain offers unique capabilities including noninvasive probing of tissue microstructure and structural connectivity. It is widely used for clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a tool for improving accelerated MRI reconstruction. A common strategy among DL methods is the physics-based approach, where a regularized iterative algorithm alternating between data consistency and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Burhaneddin Yaman , Seyed Amir Hossein Hosseini , Steen Moeller , Jutta Ellermann , Kâmil Uǧurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Purpose: To introduce a fast and improved direct reconstruction method for multi-shot diffusion weighted (msDW) scans for high-resolution studies. Methods:Multi-shot EPI methods can enable higher spatial resolution for diffusion MRI…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Merry Mani , Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Vincent Magnotta , Mathews Jacob

In this paper, we propose a method for denoising diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the brain using a convolutional neural network trained on realistic, synthetic MR data. We compare our results to averaging of repeated scans, a widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Kamil Gorczewski , Kamil Cepuch , Agata Zawadzka

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a unique imaging technique for in vivo characterization of tissue microstructure and white matter pathways. However, its relatively long acquisition time implies greater motion artifacts when imaging, for example,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yoonmi Hong , Wei-Tang Chang , Geng Chen , Ye Wu , Weili Lin , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) produces excellent soft tissue contrast, albeit it is an inherently slow imaging modality. Promising deep learning methods have recently been proposed to reconstruct accelerated MRI scans. However, existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Tolga Cukur , Vishal M. Patel

Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) is an advanced imaging technique commonly used in neuroscience and neurological clinical research through a Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) model. Volumetric scalar metrics including fractional anisotropy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Zihao Tang , Xinyi Wang , Lihaowen Zhu , Mariano Cabezas , Dongnan Liu , Michael Barnett , Weidong Cai , Chengyu Wang

Motion artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are one of the frequently occurring artifacts due to patient movements during scanning. Motion is estimated to be present in approximately 30% of clinical MRI scans; however, motion has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Zhifeng Chen , Kamlesh Pawar , Kh Tohidul Islam , Himashi Peiris , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

We propose a novel unsupervised deep-learning-based algorithm for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. Dynamic MRI requires rapid data acquisition for the study of moving organs such as the heart. Existing reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Jaejun Yoo , Kyong Hwan Jin , Harshit Gupta , Jerome Yerly , Matthias Stuber , Michael Unser

Current deep learning approaches for diffusion MRI modeling circumvent the need for densely-sampled diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) by directly predicting microstructural indices from sparsely-sampled DWIs. However, they implicitly make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Mengwei Ren , Heejong Kim , Neel Dey , Guido Gerig

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

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Light microscopy is a widespread and inexpensive imaging technique facilitating biomedical discovery and diagnostics. However, light diffraction barrier and imperfections in optics limit the level of detail of the acquired images. The…

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We present a new approach for representing and reconstructing multidimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Our method builds on a novel, learned feature-based image representation that disentangles different types of features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Ruiyang Zhao , Fan Lam

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

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a vital diagnostic tool, but its inherently long acquisition times reduce clinical efficiency and patient comfort. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly diffusion models, have improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Jinkui Hao , Bo Zhou

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a widely used technique in seismic processing to produce high resolution Earth models that fully explain the recorded seismic data. FWI is a local optimisation problem which aims to minimise in a…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Christopher Zerafa , Pauline Galea , Cristiana Sebu

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) can support lesion detection and characterization in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), however especially high b-value diffusion-weighted acquisitions can be prone to intensity artifacts that can…

Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Cagdas Ulas , Christine Preibisch , Jonathan Sperl , Thomas Pyka , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Bjoern Menze

We introduce MRF-DiPh, a novel physics informed denoising diffusion approach for multiparametric tissue mapping from highly accelerated, transient-state quantitative MRI acquisitions like Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF). Our method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Perla Mayo , Carolin M. Pirkl , Alin Achim , Bjoern Menze , Mohammad Golbabaee