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Radiation-induced acoustic (RA) imaging is a promising technique for visualizing radiation energy deposition in tissues, enabling new imaging modalities and real-time therapy monitoring. However, it requires measuring hundreds or even…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) of the developing brain can provide valuable insights into the white matter development. However, slice thickness in fetal dMRI is typically high (i.e., 3-5 mm) to freeze the in-plane motion, which reduces the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Hamza Kebiri , Gabriel Girard , Yasser Aleman-Gomez , Thomas Yu , Andras Jakab , Erick Jorge Canales-Rodriguez , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

This paper is a contribution to the "BraTS 2023 Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting Challenge". The task of this challenge is to transform tumor tissue into healthy tissue in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Alicia Durrer , Philippe C. Cattin , Julia Wolleb

Purpose: Intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) offers precise tumor coverage while sparing organs at risk (OARs) in head and neck (H&N) cancer. However, its sensitivity to anatomical changes requires frequent adaptation through online…

Computational neuroimaging involves analyzing brain images or signals to provide mechanistic insights and predictive tools for human cognition and behavior. While diffusion models have shown stability and high-quality generation in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Haokai Zhao , Haowei Lou , Lina Yao , Wei Peng , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M Pohl , Yu Zhang

Healthy tissue inpainting has significant applications, including the generation of pseudo-healthy baselines for tumor growth models and the facilitation of image registration. In previous editions of the BraTS Local Synthesis of Healthy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Alicia Durrer , Florentin Bieder , Paul Friedrich , Bjoern Menze , Philippe C. Cattin , Florian Kofler

Generating high-quality synthetic data is crucial for addressing challenges in medical imaging, such as domain adaptation, data scarcity, and privacy concerns. Existing image quality metrics often rely on reference images, are tailored for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Karl Van Eeden Risager , Torkan Gholamalizadeh , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Recently, generative diffusion priors have made huge strides as inverse problem solvers, including the ability to be adapted for inference on out-of-distribution data. Concurrently, implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Maliha Hossain , Haley Duba-Sullivan , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) provides critical insights into the microstructural and connectional organization of the human brain. However, the availability of high-field, open-access datasets that include raw k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Shanshan Wang , Shoujun Yu , Jian Cheng , Sen Jia , Changjun Tie , Jiayu Zhu , Haohao Peng , Yijing Dong , Jianzhong He , Fan Zhang , Yaowen Xing , Xiuqin Jia , Qi Yang , Qiyuan Tian , Hua Guo , Guobin Li , Hairong Zheng

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (diffusion MRI) is a non-invasive microstructure assessment technique. Scalar measures, such as FA (fractional anisotropy) and MD (mean diffusivity), quantifying micro-structural tissue properties can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xuan Gu , Hans Knutsson , Markus Nilsson , Anders Eklund

The application of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to image denoising has notably challenged traditional denoising methods, particularly within complex noise scenarios prevalent in medical imaging. Despite the effectiveness of traditional and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-31 Reeshad Khan , John Gauch , Ukash Nakarmi

Objective:This study introduces a residual error-shifting mechanism that drastically reduces sampling steps while preserving critical anatomical details, thus accelerating MRI reconstruction. Approach:We propose a novel diffusion-based SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Zach Eidex , Qiang Li , Erik H. Middlebrooks , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

3D reconstruction from a single image is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Learning-based methods address its inherent scale ambiguity by leveraging increasingly large labeled and unlabeled datasets, to produce geometric priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vitor Guizilini , Pavel Tokmakov , Achal Dave , Rares Ambrus

Synthetic longitudinal brain MRI simulates brain aging and would enable more efficient research on neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions. Synthetically generated, age-adjusted brain images could serve as valuable alternatives…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Anna Zapaishchykova , Benjamin H. Kann , Divyanshu Tak , Zezhong Ye , Daphne A. Haas-Kogan , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

Purpose: To develop a data-efficient strategy for accelerated MRI reconstruction with Diffusion Probabilistic Generative Models (DPMs) that enables faster scan times in clinical stroke MRI when only limited fully-sampled data samples are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Yamin Arefeen , Sidharth Kumar , Steven Warach , Hamidreza Saber , Jonathan Tamir

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but long acquisition times limit throughput, patient comfort, and clinical accessibility. Diffusion-based generative models serve as strong image priors for reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sriram Ravula , Brett Levac , Yamin Arefeen , Ajil Jalal , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jonathan I. Tamir

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…

Medical image super-resolution (MedSR) is essential for improving diagnostic precision across diverse imaging modalities such as MRI, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, and Fundus imaging. Despite rapid advances in deep learning, challenges remain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Subhash Gurappa , Trivikram Satharasi , Yashas Hariprasad , Sundararaj Sitharama Iyengar

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