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Multi-contrast MRI protocols increase the level of morphological information available for diagnosis. Yet, the number and quality of contrasts is limited in practice by various factors including scan time and patient motion. Synthesis of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Mahmut Yurt , Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem , Tolga Çukur

Acquiring images of the same anatomy with multiple different contrasts increases the diversity of diagnostic information available in an MR exam. Yet, scan time limitations may prohibit acquisition of certain contrasts, and images for some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Mahmut Yurt , Levent Karacan , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem , Tolga Çukur

Purpose: This study assessed the dosimetric accuracy of synthetic CT images generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data for focal brain radiation therapy, using a deep learning approach. Material and Methods: We conducted a study…

Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used imaging technique for measuring tissue deformation in moving organs. Due to tagged MRI's intrinsic low anatomical resolution, another matching set of cine MRI with higher resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass , Maureen Stone , Georges El Fakhri , Jonghye Woo

Image synthesis is used to generate synthetic CTs (sCTs) from on-treatment cone-beam CTs (CBCTs) with a view to improving image quality and enabling accurate dose computation to facilitate a CBCT-based adaptive radiotherapy workflow. As…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Chelsea A. H. Sargeant , Edward G. A. Henderson , Dónal M. McSweeney , Aaron G. Rankin , Denis Page

MRI quality control (QC) is challenging due to unbalanced and limited datasets, as well as subjective scoring, which hinder the development of reliable automated QC systems. To address these issues, we introduce an approach that pretrains a…

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging and Computed Tomography (CT) are the primary diagnostic imaging modalities quite frequently used for surgical planning and analysis. A general problem with medical imaging is that the acquisition process is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Vismay Agrawal , Avinash Kori , Vikas Kumar Anand , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

MR imaging will play a very important role in radiotherapy treatment planning for segmentation of tumor volumes and organs. However, the use of MR-based radiotherapy is limited because of the high cost and the increased use of metal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Cheng-Bin Jin , Hakil Kim , Wonmo Jung , Seongsu Joo , Ensik Park , Ahn Young Saem , In Ho Han , Jae Il Lee , Xuenan Cui

Compressed sensing based magnetic resonance imaging (CS-MRI) provides an efficient way to reduce scanning time of MRI. Recently deep learning has been introduced into CS-MRI to further improve the image quality and shorten reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 Wenzhong Zhou , Huiqian Du , Wenbo Mei , Liping Fang

Anatomical structures such as blood vessels in contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) images can be challenging to segment due to the variability in contrast medium diffusion. The combined use of ceCT and contrast-free (CT) CT images can improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Giammarco La Barbera , Haithem Boussaid , Francesco Maso , Sabine Sarnacki , Laurence Rouet , Pietro Gori , Isabelle Bloch

Recently, the cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGAN) has been widely used for synthesis of multi-domain medical images. The domain-specific nonlinear deformations captured by CycleGAN make the synthesized images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Chengjia Wang , Gillian Macnaught , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Tom MacGillivray , David Newby

Data diversity is critical to success when training deep learning models. Medical imaging data sets are often imbalanced as pathologic findings are generally rare, which introduces significant challenges when training deep learning models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Hoo-Chang Shin , Neil A Tenenholtz , Jameson K Rogers , Christopher G Schwarz , Matthew L Senjem , Jeffrey L Gunter , Katherine Andriole , Mark Michalski

Synthesizing MR imaging sequences is highly relevant in clinical practice, as single sequences are often missing or are of poor quality (e.g. due to motion). Naturally, the idea arises that a target modality would benefit from multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Hongwei Li , Johannes C. Paetzold , Anjany Sekuboyina , Florian Kofler , Jianguo Zhang , Jan S. Kirschke , Benedikt Wiestler , Bjoern Menze

Creating large scale high-quality annotations is a known challenge in medical imaging. In this work, based on the CycleGAN algorithm, we propose leveraging annotations from one modality to be useful in other modalities. More specifically,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Yucheng Liu , Naji Khosravan , Yulin Liu , Joseph Stember , Jonathan Shoag , Christopher E. Barbieri , Ulas Bagci , Sachin Jambawalikar

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is indispensable for diagnosing and planning treatment in various medical conditions due to its ability to produce multi-series images that reveal different tissue characteristics. However, integrating these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lijun Yan , Siwen Wang , Yizhou Yu , Yizhou Wang

Computed tomography (CT) is critical for various clinical applications, e.g., radiotherapy treatment planning and also PET attenuation correction. However, CT exposes radiation during acquisition, which may cause side effects to patients.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Dong Nie , Roger Trullo , Caroline Petitjean , Su Ruan , Dinggang Shen

Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is widely used for intraoperative imaging due to its rapid acquisition and low radiation dose. However, CBCT images typically suffer from artifacts and lower visual quality compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Maximilian Tschuchnig , Lukas Lamminger , Philipp Steininger , Michael Gadermayr

We developed a pipeline for registering pre-surgery Magnetic Resonance (MR) images and post-resection Ultrasound (US) images. Our approach leverages unpaired style transfer using 3D CycleGAN to generate synthetic T1 images, thereby…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Junyi Wang , Xi Zhu , Yikun Guo , Zixi Wang , Haichuan Gao , Le Zhang , Fan Zhang

Capturing high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images is a time consuming process, which makes it unsuitable for medical emergencies and pediatric patients. Low-resolution MR imaging, by contrast, is faster than its high-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Saqib Shamsi , Valay Bundele , Bhavesh Garg , Amit Sethi

Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images can be used for dose calculation in adaptive radiation therapy (ART). The main challenges are the large artefacts and inaccurate Hounsfield unit (HU) values. Currently, deformed planning CT images…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xiao Liang , Liyuan Chen , Dan Nguyen , Zhiguo Zhou , Xuejun Gu , Ming Yang , Jing Wang , Steve Jiang