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We propose a k-space preconditioning formulation for accelerating the convergence of iterative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstructions from non-uniformly sampled k-space data. Existing methods either use sampling density…

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To reduce scanning time and/or improve spatial/temporal resolution in some MRI applications, parallel MRI (pMRI) acquisition techniques with multiple coils acquisition have emerged since the early 1990s as powerful 3D imaging methods that…

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Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

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Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases affecting the central nervous system. Lesions produced by the MS can be observed through two modalities of magnetic resonance (MR), known as T2W and FLAIR sequences,…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in diagnosis, management and monitoring of many diseases. However, it is an inherently slow imaging technique. Over the last 20 years, parallel imaging, temporal encoding and compressed…

Quantitative mapping of magnetic resonance (MR) parameters have been shown as valuable methods for improved assessment of a range of diseases. Due to the need to image an anatomic structure multiple times, parameter mapping usually requires…

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Compressed sensing (CS) theory assures us that we can accurately reconstruct magnetic resonance images using fewer k-space measurements than the Nyquist sampling rate requires. In traditional CS-MRI inversion methods, the fact that the…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is mainly limited by long scanning time and vulnerable to human tissue motion artifacts, in 3D clinical scenarios. Thus, k-space undersampling is used to accelerate the acquisition of MRI while leading to…

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CT imaging works by reconstructing an object of interest from a collection of projections. Traditional methods such as filtered-back projection (FBP) work on projection images acquired around a fixed rotation axis. However, for some CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Diyu Yang , Craig A. J. Kemp , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is hampered by long scan times and only qualitative image contrasts that prohibit a direct comparison between different systems. To address these limitations, model-based reconstructions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Xiaoqing Wang , Zhengguo Tan , Nick Scholand , Volkert Roeloffs , Martin Uecker

Purpose A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exam typically consists of several sequences that yield different image contrasts. Each sequence is parameterized through multiple acquisition parameters that influence image contrast,…

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Parallel imaging is widely used in magnetic resonance imaging as an acceleration technology. Traditional linear reconstruction methods in parallel imaging often suffer from noise amplification. Recently, a non-linear robust…

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Dynamic MR image reconstruction from incomplete k-space data has generated great research interest due to its capability in reducing scan time. Nevertheless, the reconstruction problem is still challenging due to its ill-posed nature. Most…

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Multi-contrast images are commonly acquired together to maximize complementary diagnostic information, albeit at the expense of longer scan times. A time-efficient strategy to acquire high-quality multi-contrast images is to accelerate…

In this paper, we address the problem of synthesizing multi-parameter magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) data, i.e. Apparent Diffusion Coefficients (ADC) and T2-weighted (T2w), containing clinically significant (CS) prostate cancer (PCa)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Zhiwei Wang , Yi Lin , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Xin Yang

Compressed sensing (CS) is a powerful method routinely employed to accelerate image acquisition. It is particularly suited to situations when the image under consideration is sparse but can be sampled in a basis where it is non-sparse. Here…

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Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers affordable access to diagnostic imaging but faces challenges such as prolonged acquisition times and reduced image quality. Although accelerated imaging via k-space undersampling helps…

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Magnetic Resonance (MR) Fingerprinting is an emerging multi-parametric quantitative MR imaging technique, for which image reconstruction methods utilizing low-rank and subspace constraints have achieved state-of-the-art performance.…

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