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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

Accelerating magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction process is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the excessive under-sampling operation in k-space. In this paper, we propose a recurrent transformer model, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Pengfei Guo , Yiqun Mei , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Vishal M. Patel

Analyzing temporal developments is crucial for the accurate prognosis of many medical conditions. Temporal changes that occur over short time scales are key to assessing the health of physiological functions, such as the cardiac cycle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chengzhi Shen , Martin J. Menten , Hrvoje Bogunović , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hendrik Scholl , Sobha Sivaprasad , Andrew Lotery , Daniel Rueckert , Paul Hager , Robbie Holland

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) enables the simultaneous quantification of multiple properties of biological tissues. It relies on a pseudo-random acquisition and the matching of acquired signal evolutions to a precomputed…

We propose a dictionary-matching-free pipeline for multi-parametric quantitative MRI image computing. Our approach has two stages based on compressed sensing reconstruction and deep learned quantitative inference. The reconstruction phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Mohammad Golbabaee , Guido Buonincontri , Carolin Pirkl , Marion Menzel , Bjoern Menze , Mike Davies , Pedro Gomez

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is a valuable non-invasive tool for identifying cardiovascular diseases. For instance, Cine MRI is the benchmark modality for assessing the cardiac function and anatomy. On the other hand, multi-contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 George Yiasemis , Nikita Moriakov , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a cornerstone of clinical neuroimaging, yet conventional MRIs provide qualitative information heavily dependent on scanner hardware and acquisition settings. While quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers intrinsic…

In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

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

Purpose: To simulate effective transverse relaxation ($T_2^*$) as a part of MR simulation. $T_2^*$ consists of reversible ($T_2^{\prime}$) and irreversible ($T_2$) components. Whereas simulations of $T_2$ are easy, $T_2^{\prime}$ is not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Hidenori Takeshima

Fast spin-echo (FSE) pulse sequences for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offer important imaging contrast in clinically feasible scan times. T2-shuffling is widely used to resolve temporal signal dynamics in FSE acquisitions by exploiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Molin Zhang , Junshen Xu , Yamin Arefeen , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) enables us to probe the microstructural arrangement of cardiomyocytes within the myocardium in vivo and non-invasively, which no other imaging modality allows. This innovative technology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Michael Tanzer , Pedro Ferreira , Andrew Scott , Zohya Khalique , Maria Dwornik , Dudley Pennell , Guang Yang , Daniel Rueckert , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic and radiotherapy (RT) planning tool, offering detailed insights into the anatomy of the human body. The extensive scan time is stressful for patients, who must remain motionless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Shahinur Alam , Jinsoo Uh , Alexander Dresner , Chia-ho Hua , Khaled Khairy

Quantitative T1rho mapping has shown promise in clinical and research studies. However, it suffers from long scan times. Deep learning-based techniques have been successfully applied in accelerated quantitative MR parameter mapping.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Yuanyuan Liu , Jinwen Xie , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Qingyong Zhu , Jing Cheng , Dong Liang , Yanjie Zhu

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

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

Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Cagdas Ulas , Christine Preibisch , Jonathan Sperl , Thomas Pyka , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Bjoern Menze

Learning compressed representations of multivariate time series (MTS) facilitates data analysis in the presence of noise and redundant information, and for a large number of variates and time steps. However, classical dimensionality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Lorenzo Livi , Karl Øyvind Mikalsen , Michael Kampffmeyer , Robert Jenssen

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) and other highly accelerated transient-state parameter mapping techniques enable simultaneous quantification of multiple tissue properties, but often suffer from aliasing artifacts due to compressed…

Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shifts more and more into the focus of clinical research. Especially determination of relaxation times without/and with contrast agents becomes the foundation of tissue characterization,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Thomas Kampf , Theresa Reiter , Wolfgang Rudolf Bauer