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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is one of the leading depth sensing modalities. However, the usage of multiple receive channels lead to relative high costs and prevent the penetration of MIMOs in many areas such as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Tomer Weiss , Nissim Peretz , Sanketh Vedula , Arie Feuer , Alex Bronstein

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has long been considered to be among "the gold standards" of diagnostic medical imaging. The long acquisition times, however, render MRI prone to motion artifacts, let alone their adverse contribution to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Tomer Weiss , Ortal Senouf , Sanketh Vedula , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Alex Bronstein

In clinical imaging, magnetic resonance (MR) image volumes are often acquired as stacks of 2D slices with decreased scan times, improved signal-to-noise ratio, and image contrasts unique to 2D MR pulse sequences. While this is sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Samuel W. Remedios , Shuwen Wei , Shuo Han , Jinwei Zhang , Aaron Carass , Kurt G. Schilling , Dzung L. Pham , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

Purpose: To implement and evaluate a sequential approach to obtain semi-quantitative T1-weighted MPRAGE images, unbiased by B1 inhomogeneities at 7T. Methods: In the reference gradient echo used for normalization of the MPRAGE image, flip…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 H. Olsson , G. Helms

22. Shortening acquisition time and reducing the motion-artifact are two of the most critical issues in MRI. As a promising solution, high-quality MRI image restoration provides a new approach to achieve higher resolution without costing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Hao Li , Jianan Liu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) nowadays serves as an important modality for diagnostic and therapeutic guidance in clinics. However, the {\it slow acquisition} process, the dynamic deformation of organs, as well as the need for {\it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Morteza Mardani , Georgios B. Giannakis , Kamil Ugurbil

Purpose: T2* quantification from gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging is particularly affected by subject motion due to the high sensitivity to magnetic field inhomogeneities, which are influenced by motion and might cause signal loss.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Hannah Eichhorn , Veronika Spieker , Kerstin Hammernik , Elisa Saks , Lina Felsner , Kilian Weiss , Christine Preibisch , Julia A. Schnabel

We propose a k-space preconditioning formulation for accelerating the convergence of iterative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstructions from non-uniformly sampled k-space data. Existing methods either use sampling density…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Frank Ong , Martin Uecker , Michael Lustig

Purpose: This study aims to improve 0.55T T2-weighted PROPELLER lung MRI through a self-supervised joint reconstruction and denoising model. Methods: T2-weighted 0.55T lung MRI dataset including 44 patients with previous covid infection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Jingjia Chen , Haoyang Pei , Christoph Maier , Mary Bruno , Qiuting Wen , Seon-Hi Shin , William Moore , Hersh Chandarana , Li Feng

Magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple sources often show differences in image contrast related to acquisition settings or the used scanner type. For long-term studies, longitudinal comparability is essential but can be impaired by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Alicia Durrer , Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Tim Sinnecker , Matthias Weigel , Robin Sandkühler , Cristina Granziera , Özgür Yaldizli , Philippe C. Cattin

Acquiring images in high resolution is often a challenging task. Especially in the medical sector, image quality has to be balanced with acquisition time and patient comfort. To strike a compromise between scan time and quality for Magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Maja Schlereth , Moritz Schillinger , Katharina Breininger

Purpose: To improve upon Extreme MRI, a recently proposed method by Ong Et al. for reconstructing high spatiotemporal resolution, 3D non-Cartesian acquisitions by incorporating motion compensation into these reconstructions using an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Zachary Miller , Luis Torres , Sean Fain , Kevin Johnson

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important medical imaging modality, while it requires a long acquisition time. To reduce the acquisition time, various methods have been proposed. However, these methods failed to reconstruct images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Qiaosi Yi , Jinhao Liu , Le Hu , Faming Fang , Guixu Zhang

Purpose: To develop an accelerated Cartesian MRF implementation using a multi-shot EPI sequence for rapid simultaneous quantification of T1 and T2 parameters. Methods: The proposed Cartesian MRF method involved the acquisition of highly…

We introduce a novel optimization algorithm for image recovery under learned sparse and low-rank constraints, which we parameterize as weighted extensions of the $\ell_p^p$-vector and $\mathcal S_p^p$ Schatten-matrix quasi-norms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , Iaroslav Koshelev

We developed a deep learning-based model observer (DLMO) to evaluate a multi-coil sensitivity encoding parallel MRI system at different accelerations on the Rayleigh discrimination task as a surrogate measure of resolution. We inserted…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Zitong Yu , Rongping Zeng , Frank Samuelson , Prabhat Kc

Efficient and accurate low-rank approximations of multiple data sources are essential in the era of big data. The scaling of kernel-based learning algorithms to large datasets is limited by the O(n^2) computation and storage complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Martin Stražar , Tomaž Curk

Multi-contrast images are commonly acquired together to maximize complementary diagnostic information, albeit at the expense of longer scan times. A time-efficient strategy to acquire high-quality multi-contrast images is to accelerate…

Cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is considered the gold standard for cardiac function evaluation. However, cine CMR acquisition is inherently slow and in recent decades considerable effort has been put into accelerating scan…

The advancement of sensing technology has driven the widespread application of high-dimensional data. However, issues such as missing entries during acquisition and transmission negatively impact the accuracy of subsequent tasks. Tensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Jie Yang , Chang Su , Yuhan Zhang , Jianjun Zhu , Jianli Wang