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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging modality. However, long acquisition times remain a significant challenge, leading to increased costs, and reduced patient comfort. Recent studies have shown the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amirmohammad Shamaei , Alexander Stebner , Salome , Bosshart , Johanna Ospel , Gouri Ginde , Mariana Bento , Roberto Souza

Purpose: To propose and evaluate an accelerated $T_{1\rho}$ quantification method that combines $T_{1\rho}$-weighted fast spin echo (FSE) images and proton density (PD)-weighted anatomical FSE images, leveraging deep learning models for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Junru Zhong , Chaoxing Huang , Ziqiang Yu , Fan Xiao , Siyue Li , Tim-Yun Michael Ong , Ki-Wai Kevin Ho , Queenie Chan , James F. Griffith , Weitian Chen

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging produces detailed images of organs and tissues with better contrast, but it suffers from a long acquisition time, which makes the image quality vulnerable to say motion artifacts. Recently, many approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chun-Mei Feng , Huazhu Fu , Tianfei Zhou , Yong Xu , Ling Shao , David Zhang

Deep Learning (DL) methods can reconstruct highly accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, but they rely on application-specific large training datasets and often generalize poorly to out-of-distribution data. Self-supervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Hongze Yu , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Yun Jiang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is considered today the golden-standard modality for soft tissues. The long acquisition times, however, make it more prone to motion artifacts as well as contribute to the relatively high costs of this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Tomer Weiss , Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Alex Bronstein

Acquiring fully-sampled MRI $k$-space data is time-consuming, and collecting accelerated data can reduce the acquisition time. Employing 2D Cartesian-rectilinear subsampling schemes is a conventional approach for accelerated acquisitions;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 George Yiasemis , Clara I. Sánchez , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to be a slow imaging modality and undersampling in k-space has been used to increase the imaging speed. However, image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data is an ill-posed inverse problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

This paper presents a deep learning method for faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by reducing k-space data with sub-Nyquist sampling strategies and provides a rationale for why the proposed approach works well. Uniform subsampling is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Chang Min Hyun , Hwa Pyung Kim , Sung Min Lee , Sungchul Lee , Jin Keun Seo

A central limitation of multiple-acquisition magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the degradation in scan efficiency as the number of distinct datasets grows. Sparse recovery techniques can alleviate this limitation via randomly undersampled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 L Kerem Senel , Toygan Kilic , Alper Gungor , Emre Kopanoglu , H Emre Guven , Emine U Saritas , Aykut Koc , Tolga Cukur

Motivated by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, multi-reference alignment (MRA) models the task of recovering an unknown signal from multiple noisy observations corrupted by random rotations. The standard approach,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Shay Kreymer , Amnon Balanov , Tamir Bendory

Relaxometry studies in preterm and at-term newborns have provided insight into brain microstructure, thus opening new avenues for studying normal brain development and supporting diagnosis in equivocal neurological situations. However, such…

We propose a simple all-in-line single-shot scheme for diagnostics of ultrashort laser pulses, consisting of a multi-mode fiber, a nonlinear crystal and a CCD camera. The system records a 2D spatial intensity pattern, from which the pulse…

Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging is a significant and essential medical imaging technique.However, multi-contrast imaging has longer acquisition time and is easy to cause motion artifacts. In particular, the acquisition time for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Yuxia Huang , Zhonghui Wu , Xiaoling Xu , Minghui Zhang , Shanshan Wang , Qiegen Liu

Long scan time significantly hinders the widespread applications of three-dimensional multi-contrast cardiac magnetic resonance (3D-MC-CMR) imaging. This study aims to accelerate 3D-MC-CMR acquisition by a novel method based on score-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Yuanyuan Liu , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Shucong Qin , Congcong Liu , Hairong Zheng , Haifeng Wang , Yihang Zhou , Dong Liang , Yanjie Zhu

Optimizing k-space sampling trajectories is a promising yet challenging topic for fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This work proposes to optimize a reconstruction method and sampling trajectories jointly concerning image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Guanhua Wang , Tianrui Luo , Jon-Fredrik Nielsen , Douglas C. Noll , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Purpose: To develop a self-supervised scan-specific deep learning framework for reconstructing accelerated multiparametric quantitative MRI (qMRI). Methods: We propose REFINE-MORE (REference-Free Implicit NEural representation with MOdel…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ruimin Feng , Albert Jang , Xingxin He , Fang Liu

In multi echo imaging, multiple T1/T2 weighted images of the same cross section is acquired. Acquiring multiple scans is time consuming. In order to accelerate, compressed sensing based techniques have been proposed. In recent times, it has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Jyoti Maggu , Prerna Singh , Angshul Majumdar

Quantification of tissue parameters using MRI is emerging as a powerful tool in clinical diagnosis and research studies. The need for multiple long scans with different acquisition parameters prohibits quantitative MRI from reaching…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-07 Amir Heydari , Abbas Ahmadi , Tae Hyung Kim , Berkin Bilgic

The purpose of this study was to accelerate MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) acquisitions using deep learning-based (DL) reconstruction at 3T and 0.55T. A total of 35 healthy volunteers underwent conventional two-fold accelerated MRCP…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Jinho Kim , Marcel Dominik Nickel , Florian Knoll

Cardiac MRI (CMRI) is a cornerstone imaging modality that provides in-depth insights into cardiac structure and function. Multi-contrast CMRI (MCCMRI), which acquires sequences with varying contrast weightings, significantly enhances…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 George Yiasemis , Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen