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This paper considers the problem of undersampled MRI reconstruction. We propose a novel Transformer-based framework for directly processing signal in k-space, going beyond the limitation of regular grids as ConvNets do. We adopt an implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Ziheng Zhao , Tianjiao Zhang , Weidi Xie , Yanfeng Wang , Ya Zhang

In dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), k-space is typically undersampled due to limited scan time, resulting in aliasing artifacts in the image domain. Hence, dynamic MR reconstruction requires not only modeling spatial frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Jiazhen Pan , Suprosanna Shit , Özgün Turgut , Wenqi Huang , Hongwei Bran Li , Nil Stolt-Ansó , Thomas Küstner , Kerstin Hammernik , Daniel Rueckert

Conventional cardiac cine MRI methods rely on retrospective gating, which limits temporal resolution and the ability to capture continuous cardiac dynamics, particularly in patients with arrhythmias and beat-to-beat variations. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Wenqi Huang , Veronika Spieker , Siying Xu , Gastao Cruz , Claudia Prieto , Julia Schnabel , Kerstin Hammernik , Thomas Kuestner , Daniel Rueckert

Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural network-based machine learning techniques have received interest as a means of accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A number of ideas inspired by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-03 Florian Knoll , Kerstin Hammernik , Chi Zhang , Steen Moeller , Thomas Pock , Daniel K. Sodickson , Mehmet Akcakaya

Clinical MRI frequently acquires anisotropic volumes with high in-plane resolution and low through-plane resolution to reduce acquisition time. Multiple orientations are therefore acquired to provide complementary anatomical information.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Heejong Kim , Abhishek Thanki , Roel van Herten , Daniel Margolis , Mert R Sabuncu

The key to dynamic or multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction lies in exploring inter-frame or inter-contrast information. Currently, the unrolled model, an approach combining iterative MRI reconstruction steps with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Bingyu Xin , Meng Ye , Leon Axel , Dimitris N. Metaxas

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

The inherent slow imaging speed of Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) has spurred the development of various acceleration methods, typically through heuristically undersampling the MRI measurement domain known as k-space. Recently, deep neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Wei Peng , Li Feng , Guoying Zhao , Fang Liu

Purpose: To develop a scan-specific model that estimates and corrects k-space errors made when reconstructing accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Methods: Scan-Specific Artifact Reduction in k-space (SPARK) trains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Yamin Arefeen , Onur Beker , Jaejin Cho , Heng Yu , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Berkin Bilgic

Noise characterization in MRI has multiple applications, including quality assurance and protocol optimization. It is particularly important in the presence of parallel imaging acceleration, where the noise distribution can contain severe…

Parallel magnetic resonance imaging has served as an effective and widely adopted technique for accelerating scans. The advent of sparse sampling offers aggressive acceleration, allowing flexible sampling and better reconstruction.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Xinlin Zhang , Di Guo , Yiman Huang , Ying Chen , Liansheng Wang , Feng Huang , Xiaobo Qu

In spite of its extensive adaptation in almost every medical diagnostic and examinatorial application, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is still a slow imaging modality which limits its use for dynamic imaging. In recent years, Parallel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 George Yiasemis , Chaoping Zhang , Clara I. Sánchez , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

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…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Frank Ong , Martin Uecker , Michael Lustig

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides affordable access to diagnostic imaging but suffers from prolonged acquisition and limited image quality. Accelerated imaging can be achieved with k-space undersampling, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data plays an important role in accelerating the acquisition of MR data, and a lot of deep learning-based methods have been exploited recently. Despite the achieved inspiring results, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Chen Hu , Cheng Li , Haifeng Wang , Qiegen Liu , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Motion artifacts are a pervasive problem in MRI, leading to misdiagnosis or mischaracterization in population-level imaging studies. Current retrospective rigid intra-slice motion correction techniques jointly optimize estimates of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Nalini M. Singh , Neel Dey , Malte Hoffmann , Bruce Fischl , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Robert Frost , Adrian V. Dalca , Polina Golland

We present a novel approach for super-resolution that utilizes implicit neural representation (INR) to effectively reconstruct and enhance low-resolution videos and images. By leveraging the capacity of neural networks to implicitly encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mary Aiyetigbo , Wanqi Yuan , Feng Luo , Nianyi Li

Accelerated MRI involves collecting partial $k$-space measurements to reduce acquisition time, patient discomfort, and motion artifacts, and typically uses regular undersampling patterns or human-designed schemes. Recent works have studied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Siddhant Gautam , Angqi Li , Nicole Seiberlich , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have recently advanced the field of deep learning due to their ability to learn continuous representations of signals without the need for large training datasets. Although INR methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Gary Egan , Mehrtash Harandi , Zhaolin Chen

Magnetic resonance (MR) images collected in 2D clinical protocols typically have large inter-slice spacing, resulting in high in-plane resolution and reduced through-plane resolution. Super-resolution technique can enhance the through-plane…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xin Wang , Sheng Wang , Honglin Xiong , Kai Xuan , Zixu Zhuang , Mengjun Liu , Zhenrong Shen , Xiangyu Zhao , Lichi Zhang , Qian Wang