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Background: MRI is crucial for brain imaging but is highly susceptible to motion artifacts due to long acquisition times. This study introduces PI-MoCoNet, a physics-informed motion correction network that integrates spatial and k-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Zach Eidex , Richard Qiu , Chih-Wei Chang , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Patient motion is well-known for degrading image quality during medical imaging. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) is susceptible to motion due to its usually long scan times. In hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Lynn Johann Frohwein , Florian Büther , Klaus Peter Schäfers

Motion represents one of the major challenges in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Since the MR signal is acquired in frequency space, any motion of the imaged object leads to complex artefacts in the reconstructed image in addition to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Veronika Spieker , Hannah Eichhorn , Kerstin Hammernik , Daniel Rueckert , Christine Preibisch , Dimitrios C. Karampinos , Julia A. Schnabel

Subject movement during the magnetic resonance examination is inevitable and causes not only image artefacts but also deteriorates the homogeneity of the main magnetic field (B0), which is a prerequisite for high quality data. Thus,…

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 deep learning-based approach that integrates MRI sequence parameters to improve the accuracy and generalizability of quantitative image synthesis from clinical weighted MRI. Our physics-driven neural network embeds MRI sequence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Lingjing Chen , Chengxiu Zhang , Yinqiao Yi , Yida Wang , Yang Song , Xu Yan , Shengfang Xu , Dalin Zhu , Mengqiu Cao , Yan Zhou , Chenglong Wang , Guang Yang

Musculoskeletal models have been widely used for detailed biomechanical analysis to characterise various functional impairments given their ability to estimate movement variables (i.e., muscle forces and joint moment) which cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Jie Zhang , Yihui Zhao , Fergus Shone , Zhenhong Li , Alejandro F. Frangi , Shengquan Xie , Zhiqiang Zhang

Correcting motion artifacts in MRI is important, as they can hinder accurate diagnosis. However, evaluating deep learning-based and classical motion correction methods remains fundamentally difficult due to the lack of accessible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Kun Wang , Tobit Klug , Stefan Ruschke , Jan S. Kirschke , Reinhard Heckel

Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods generally shorten the measuring time by acquiring less data than needed according to the sampling theorem. In order to obtain a proper image from such undersampled data, the reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Housen Li , Markus Haltmeier , Shuo Zhang , Jens Frahm , Axel Munk

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but unfortunately suffers from long scan times which, aside from increasing operational costs, can lead to image artifacts due to patient motion. Motion during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Ajil Jalal , Jonathan I. Tamir

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in comprehensive disease diagnosis in clinical medicine. However, acquiring certain modalities, such as T2-weighted images (T2WIs), is time-consuming and prone to be with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Qi Wang , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen , Shihui Ying

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data provides information concerning activity in the brain and in particular the interactions between brain regions. Resting state fMRI data is widely used for inferring connectivities in the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-04 Christina Stoehr , John A D Aston , Claudia Kirch

Purpose: Simulation of motion in the frequency domain during the MRI acquisition process is an important tool to study the effect of object motion. It is natural in this context to rely on a voxel-to-voxel difference metric between the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Ghiles Reguig , Marc Lapert , Stephane Lehericy , Romian Valabregue

Motion artefacts created by patient motion during an MRI scan occur frequently in practice, often rendering the scans clinically unusable and requiring a re-scan. While many methods have been employed to ameliorate the effects of patient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Michael Rotman , Rafi Brada , Israel Beniaminy , Sangtae Ahn , Christopher J. Hardy , Lior Wolf

Physics-driven deep learning methods have emerged as a powerful tool for computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) problems, pushing reconstruction performance to new limits. This article provides an overview of the recent developments…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Kerstin Hammernik , Thomas Küstner , Burhaneddin Yaman , Zhengnan Huang , Daniel Rueckert , Florian Knoll , Mehmet Akçakaya

This work addresses a central topic in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which is the motion-correction problem in a joint reconstruction and registration framework. From a set of multiple MR acquisitions corrupted by motion, we aim at -…

Estimating $T_2$ relaxation time distributions from multi-echo $T_2$-weighted MRI ($T_2W$) data can provide valuable biomarkers for assessing inflammation, demyelination, edema, and cartilage composition in various pathologies, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Hadas Ben-Atya , Moti Freiman

CT and MRI are two of the most informative modalities in spinal diagnostics and treatment planning. CT is useful when analysing bony structures, while MRI gives information about the soft tissue. Thus, fusing the information of both…

Inertial sensors can track object kinematics, however, unbounded drift from integrating noisy signals makes them impractical for MRI motion correction at millimeter resolution and minute-long scans. We introduce MR-Compass, which exploits…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Musa Tunc Arslan , Fatih Calakli , Joshua Auger , Hongli Fan , Alan J Macy , Simon K Warfield

Multi-slice magnetic resonance images of the fetal brain are usually contaminated by severe and arbitrary fetal and maternal motion. Hence, stable and robust motion correction is necessary to reconstruct high-resolution 3D fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Wen Shi , Haoan Xu , Cong Sun , Jiwei Sun , Yamin Li , Xinyi Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Yi Zhang , Guangbin Wang , Dan Wu