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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…

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Rotating-view thick-slice acquisition is highly SNR-efficient for mesoscale diffusion MRI (dMRI) but requires numerous rotating views to satisfy Nyquist sampling, resulting in long scan time. We propose a self-supervised Spatial-Angular…

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Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) is used to quantitatively characterize the microscopic structure of soft tissue due to the anisotropic diffusion of water in muscle. Applications such as fiber tractography or modeling of tumor spread in soft…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Nadya Shusharina , Xiaofeng Liu , Evangelia Kaza , Miranda Lam , Stephan Maier , Jonghye Woo

Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at lower field strengths (e.g., 3T) suffers from limited spatial resolution, making it challenging to capture fine anatomical details essential for clinical diagnosis and neuroimaging research. To overcome…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Zhe Wang , Yuhua Ru , Aladine Chetouani , Fang Chen , Fabian Bauer , Liping Zhang , Didier Hans , Rachid Jennane , Mohamed Jarraya , Yung Hsin Chen

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) plays a crucial role in the noninvasive investigation of tissue microstructural properties and structural connectivity in the \textit{in vivo} human brain. However, to effectively capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jing Yang , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Wenxin Fan , Juan Zou , Ruoyou Wu , Shanshan Wang

Purpose: Biophysical tissue models are increasingly used in the interpretation of diffusion MRI (dMRI) data, with the potential to provide specific biomarkers of brain microstructural changes. However, the general Standard Model has…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Santiago Coelho , Jose M. Pozo , Sune N. Jespersen , Derek K. Jones , Alejandro F. Frangi

While diffusion models have set a new benchmark for quality in Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) denoising, their clinical adoption is critically hindered by extreme computational costs, with inference times often exceeding thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tangtangfang Fang , Jingxi Hu , Xiangjian He , Jiaqi Yang

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI…

Brain network analysis plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing approaches for constructing structural brain networks from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-30 Xuhang Chen , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Kim-Fung Tsang , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Purpose: To introduce, develop, and evaluate a novel denoising technique for diffusion MRI that leverages non-linear redundancy in the data to boost the SNR while preserving signal information. Methods: We exploit non-linear redundancy of…

Recent advancements in large-scale Vision Transformers have made significant strides in improving pre-trained models for medical image segmentation. However, these methods face a notable challenge in acquiring a substantial amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yiqing Wang , Zihan Li , Jieru Mei , Zihao Wei , Li Liu , Chen Wang , Shengtian Sang , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Portable, ultra-low-field (ULF) magnetic resonance imaging has the potential to expand access to neuroimaging but currently suffers from coarse spatial and angular resolutions and low signal-to-noise ratios. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mark D. Olchanyi , Annabel Sorby-Adams , John Kirsch , Brian L. Edlow , Ava Farnan , Renfei Liu , Matthew S. Rosen , Emery N. Brown , W. Taylor Kimberly , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

We propose a novel approach to denoising diffusion magnetic resonance images (dMRI) using convolutional neural networks, that exploits the benefits of data acquired at multiple b-values to offset the need for many redundant observations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Filip Szczepankiewicz

Diffusion MRI tractography technique enables non-invasive visualization of the white matter pathways in the brain. It plays a crucial role in neuroscience and clinical fields by facilitating the study of brain connectivity and neurological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yiqiong Yang , Yitian Yuan , Baoxing Ren , Ye Wu , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Purpose: Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is confounded by its long acquisition duration, thereby thwarting the detection of rapid microstructural changes, especially when diffusivity variations are accompanied by rapid changes…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Andrada Ianuş , Noam Shemesh

Super-resolution, which aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution images, has drawn considerable attention and has been intensively studied in computer vision and remote sensing communities. The super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Rui Li , Xiaowei Zhao

Multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. However, missing modalities are commonly observed due to limitations in scan time, scan corruption, artifacts, motion, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Xiaojiao Xiao , Qinmin Vivian Hu , Guanghui Wang

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is one of the most important contemporary non-invasive modalities for probing tissue structure at the microscopic scale. The majority of dMRI techniques employ standard single diffusion encoding…

Mapping white matter tracts is an essential step towards understanding brain function. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is the only noninvasive technique which can detect in vivo anisotropies in the 3-dimensional diffusion of…

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