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Reliable motion estimation and strain analysis using 3D+time echocardiography (4DE) for localization and characterization of myocardial injury is valuable for early detection and targeted interventions. However, motion estimation is…

Background and Objective: Hemodynamic analysis of blood flow through arteries and veins is critical for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, such as aneurysms and stenoses, and for investigating cardiovascular parameters, such as turbulence…

Intracardiac flow patterns are shaped by the coupled motion of the cardiac chambers and heart valves and provide important information about cardiac function. However, clinical flow imaging remains limited by exam times, noise, resolution,…

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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) is widely used since it can illustrate the structure and function of heart in a non-invasive and painless way. However, it is time-consuming and high-cost to acquire the high-quality scans due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-09 Jhih-Yuan Lin , Yu-Cheng Chang , Winston H. Hsu

As the original velocity field obtained from four-dimensional (4D) flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contains considerable amount of noises and errors, the available Divergence-free smoothing (DFS) method can be used to process the 4D…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Qi Gao , Xingli Liu , Hongping Wang , Fei Li , Peng Wu , Zhaozhuo Niu , Mansu Jin , RunJie Wei

In cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, a 3D high-resolution segmentation of the heart is essential for detailed description of its anatomical structures. However, due to the limit of acquisition duration and respiratory/cardiac…

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Cardiac motion estimation and segmentation play important roles in quantitatively assessing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning method for joint estimation of motion and…

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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging serves as the gold-standard for evaluating cardiac morphology and function. Typically, a multi-view CMR stack, covering short-axis (SA) and 2/3/4-chamber long-axis (LA) views, is acquired for a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Yundi Zhang , Chen Chen , Suprosanna Shit , Sophie Starck , Daniel Rueckert , Jiazhen Pan

Quantification of cardiac motion with cine Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMRI) is an integral part of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) diagnosis. Yet, the expert evaluation of motion abnormalities with CMRI is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Laura Alvarez-Florez , Jörg Sander , Mimount Bourfiss , Fleur V. Y. Tjong , Birgitta K. Velthuis , Ivana Išgum

Accurately estimating and correcting the motion artifacts are crucial for 3D image reconstruction of the abdominal and in-utero magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The state-of-art methods are based on slice-to-volume registration (SVR) where…

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Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

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Hemodynamic quantities are valuable biomedical risk factors for cardiovascular pathology such as atherosclerosis. Non-invasive, in-vivo measurement of these quantities can only be performed using a select number of modalities that are not…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-23 Julian Suk , Dieuwertje Alblas , Barbara A. Hutten , Albert Wiegman , Christoph Brune , Pim van Ooij , Jelmer M. Wolterink

Accelerating the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem, and many works have been proposed to reconstruct images from undersampled k-space data. However, if the main purpose is to extract certain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Chen Qin , Wenjia Bai , Jo Schlemper , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Daniel Rueckert

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can be used for evaluation of hemodynamics. However, its routine use is limited by labor-intensive manual segmentation, CFD mesh creation, and time-consuming simulation. This study aims to train a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tina Yao , Endrit Pajaziti , Michael Quail , Silvia Schievano , Jennifer A Steeden , Vivek Muthurangu

Automated cardiac interpretation in resource-constrained settings (RCS) is often hindered by poor-quality echocardiographic imaging, limiting the effectiveness of downstream diagnostic models. While super-resolution (SR) techniques have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Krishan Agyakari Raja Babu , Om Prabhu , Annu , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an indispensable role in cardiac diagnosis. To enable fast imaging, the k-space data can be undersampled but the image reconstruction poses a great challenge of high-dimensional processing.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Zi Wang , Min Xiao , Yirong Zhou , Chengyan Wang , Naiming Wu , Yi Li , Yiwen Gong , Shufu Chang , Yinyin Chen , Liuhong Zhu , Jianjun Zhou , Congbo Cai , He Wang , Di Guo , Guang Yang , Xiaobo Qu

Purpose: To introduce a novel deep learning based approach for fast and high-quality dynamic multi-coil MR reconstruction by learning a complementary time-frequency domain network that exploits spatio-temporal correlations simultaneously…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Chen Qin , Jinming Duan , Kerstin Hammernik , Jo Schlemper , Thomas Küstner , René Botnar , Claudia Prieto , Anthony N. Price , Joseph V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert

Four-dimensional (4D) Flow MRI can noninvasively measure cerebrovascular hemodynamics but remains underused clinically because current workflows rely on manual vessel segmentation and yield velocity fields sensitive to noise, artifacts, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Abhishek Singh , Vitaliy L. Rayz , Pavlos P. Vlachos

The main focus of this work is a novel framework for the joint reconstruction and segmentation of parallel MRI (PMRI) brain data. We introduce an image domain deep network for calibrationless recovery of undersampled PMRI data. The proposed…

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