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Purpose: Interpretability is essential for the clinical adoption of state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Conventional evaluation of ML reconstructions relies heavily on aggregate image metrics…

In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

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Cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is recognised as the benchmark modality for the comprehensive assessment of cardiac function. Nevertheless, the acquisition process of cine CMR is considered as an impediment due to its…

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Deep learning approaches to the segmentation of magnetic resonance images have shown significant promise in automating the quantitative analysis of brain images. However, a continuing challenge has been its sensitivity to the variability of…

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Long acquisition time (AQT) due to series acquisition of multi-modality MR images (especially T2 weighted images (T2WI) with longer AQT), though beneficial for disease diagnosis, is practically undesirable. We propose a novel deep network…

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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…

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Limited by imaging systems, the reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images from partial measurement is essential to medical imaging research. Benefiting from the diverse and complementary information of multi-contrast MR…

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Accuracy and consistency are two key factors in computer-assisted magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis. However, contrast variation from site to site caused by lack of standardization in MR acquisition impedes consistent measurements. In…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most dynamic and safe imaging techniques available for clinical applications. However, the rather slow speed of MRI acquisitions limits the patient throughput and potential indi cations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Risheng Liu , Yuxi Zhang , Shichao Cheng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

We consider a missing data problem in the context of automatic segmentation methods for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans. Usually, automated MRI scan segmentation is based on multiple scans (e.g., T1-weighted, T2-weighted, T1CE,…

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Image normalization, the correction for intra-volume inhomogeneities in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data has little significance for visual diagnosis, but is a crucial step before automated radiotherapy solutions. There are several…

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Quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) T1\r{ho} mapping is a promising approach for characterizing intrinsic tissue-dependent information. However, long scan time significantly hinders its widespread applications. Recently, low-rank tensor…

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Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) offers exceptional contrast for magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) at high spatio-temporal resolution. A common procedure in MPI starts with a calibration scan to measure the system matrix (SM), which is then used…

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Deep Learning (DL) methods can reconstruct highly accelerated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, but they rely on application-specific large training datasets and often generalize poorly to out-of-distribution data. Self-supervised…

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Deep learning-based methods have achieved prestigious performance for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, enabling fast imaging for many clinical applications. Previous methods employ convolutional networks to learn the image…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful imaging technique widely used for visualizing structures within the human body and in other fields such as plant sciences. However, there is a demand to develop fast 3D-MRI reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Arya Bangun , Zhuo Cao , Alessio Quercia , Hanno Scharr , Elisabeth Pfaehler

Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) has been widely used in clinical application and pathology research by helping doctors make more accurate diagnoses. On the other hand, accurate diagnosis by MRI remains a great challenge as images obtained…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most commonly applied tests in neurology and neurosurgery. However, the utility of MRI is largely limited by its long acquisition time, which might induce many problems including patient…

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Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CS-MRI) significantly accelerates MR data acquisition at a sampling rate much lower than the Nyquist criterion. A major challenge for CS-MRI lies in solving the severely ill-posed inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-30 Risheng Liu , Yuxi Zhang , Shichao Cheng , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a cost-effective alternative for medical imaging in resource-limited settings. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by two key challenges: prolonged scan times and reduced image…

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