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Ensuring the realism of computer-generated synthetic images is crucial to deep neural network (DNN) training. Due to different semantic distributions between synthetic and real-world captured datasets, there exists semantic mismatch between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ganning Zhao , Tingwei Shen , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method, RELAX-MORE, for quantitative MRI (qMRI) reconstruction. The proposed method uses an optimization algorithm to unroll a model-based qMRI reconstruction into a deep learning…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wanyu Bian , Albert Jang , Fang Liu

Deep Learning (DL) has shown potential in accelerating Magnetic Resonance Image acquisition and reconstruction. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of tailored methods to guarantee that the reconstruction of small features is achieved with high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Francesco Calivá , Kaiyang Cheng , Rutwik Shah , Valentina Pedoia

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

We present a new approach for representing and reconstructing multidimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Our method builds on a novel, learned feature-based image representation that disentangles different types of features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Ruiyang Zhao , Fan Lam

Segmenting stroke lesions in MRI is challenging due to diverse acquisition protocols that limit model generalisability. In this work, we introduce two physics-constrained approaches to generate synthetic quantitative MRI (qMRI) images that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Liam Chalcroft , Jenny Crinion , Cathy J. Price , John Ashburner

Most publicly available brain MRI datasets are very homogeneous in terms of scanner and protocols, and it is difficult for models that learn from such data to generalize to multi-center and multi-scanner data. We propose a novel data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Maria Ines Meyer , Ezequiel de la Rosa , Nuno Barros , Roberto Paolella , Koen Van Leemput , Diana M. Sima

Federated learning (FL) based magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction can facilitate learning valuable priors from multi-site institutions without violating patient's privacy for accelerating MR imaging. However, existing methods rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Juan Zou , Cheng Li , Ruoyou Wu , Tingrui Pei , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently found emerging use in accelerated MRI reconstruction. DNNs typically learn data-driven priors from large datasets constituting pairs of undersampled and fully-sampled acquisitions. Acquiring such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Mahmut Yurt , Tolga Çukur

Most existing algorithms for automatic 3D morphometry of human brain MRI scans are designed for data with near-isotropic voxels at approximately 1 mm resolution, and frequently have contrast constraints as well - typically requiring T1…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Benjamin Billot , Yael Balbastre , Azadeh Tabari , John Conklin , Daniel C. Alexander , Polina Golland , Brian L. Edlow , Bruce Fischl

The heightened realism of AI-generated images can be attributed to the rapid development of synthetic models, including generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs). The malevolent use of synthetic images, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Haiwei Wu , Jiantao Zhou , Shile Zhang

Reducing MRI scan times can improve patient care and lower healthcare costs. Many acceleration methods are designed to reconstruct diagnostic-quality images from sparse k-space data, via an ill-posed or ill-conditioned linear inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Arda Atalık , Sumit Chopra , Daniel K. Sodickson

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a tool for improving accelerated MRI reconstruction. A common strategy among DL methods is the physics-based approach, where a regularized iterative algorithm alternating between data consistency and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Burhaneddin Yaman , Seyed Amir Hossein Hosseini , Steen Moeller , Jutta Ellermann , Kâmil Uǧurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Purpose To develop and evaluate a deep learning-based method (MC-Net) to suppress motion artifacts in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods MC-Net was derived from a UNet combined with a two-stage multi-loss function. T1-weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Lei Zhang , Xiaoke Wang , Michael Rawson , Radu Balan , Edward H. Herskovits , Elias Melhem , Linda Chang , Ze Wang , Thomas Ernst

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging modality and provides comprehensive anatomical and functional insights into the human body. However, its long acquisition times can lead to patient discomfort, motion artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

Traditional supervised learning with deep neural networks requires a tremendous amount of labelled data to converge to a good solution. For 3D medical images, it is often impractical to build a large homogeneous annotated dataset for a…

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) utilizes MRI signal phase to estimate local tissue susceptibility, which has been shown useful to provide novel image contrast and as biomarkers of abnormal tissue. QSM requires addressing a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Juan Liu , Kevin M. Koch

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Varun A. Kelkar , Sayantan Bhadra , Mark A. Anastasio

Neuroimaging consortia can enhance reliability and generalizability of findings by pooling data across studies to achieve larger sample sizes. To adjust for site and MRI protocol effects, imaging datasets are often harmonized based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-04 Shruti P. Gadewar , Alyssa H. Zhu , Iyad Ba Gari , Sunanda Somu , Sophia I. Thomopoulos , Paul M. Thompson , Talia M. Nir , Neda Jahanshad

Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) generates multiple medical images with rich and complementary information for routine clinical use; however, it suffers from a long acquisition time. Recent works for accelerating MRI, mainly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Lin Zhao , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Yikang Liu , Dinggang Shen , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun