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Diffusion MRI is a modern neuroimaging modality with a unique ability to acquire microstructural information by measuring water self-diffusion at the voxel level. However, it generates huge amounts of data, resulting from a large number of…
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We propose to use Gaussian process regression to accurately estimate the diffusion MRI signal at arbitrary locations in q-space. By estimating the signal on a grid, we can do synthetic diffusion spectrum imaging: reconstructing the ensemble…
Single-photon emission computed tomography for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI SPECT) is a widely used diagnostic tool for coronary artery disease. However, the procedure requires considerable scanning time, leading to patient discomfort…
This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…
Standardized performance evaluation of fluorescence imaging systems remains a critical unmet need in the field of fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS). While the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) TG311 report and recent FDA…
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