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Quantitative MRI enables direct quantification of contrast agent concentrations in contrast-enhanced scans. However, the lengthy scan times required by conventional methods are inadequate for tracking contrast agent transport dynamically in…

Most of the existing wavelet image processing techniques are carried out in the form of single-scale reconstruction and multiple iterations. However, processing high-quality fMRI data presents problems such as mixed noise and excessive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Lingxi Xiao , Jinxin Hu , Yutian Yang , Yinqiu Feng , Zichao Li , Zexi Chen

Purpose: This study demonstrated an MR signal multitask learning method for 3D simultaneous segmentation and relaxometry of human brain tissues. Materials and Methods: A 3D inversion-prepared balanced steady-state free precession sequence…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Peng Cao , Jing Liu , Shuyu Tang , Andrew Leynes , Janine M. Lupo , Duan Xu , Peder E. Z. Larson

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides exquisite soft-tissue contrast without using ionizing radiation. The clinical application of MRI may be limited by long data acquisition times; therefore, MR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-10 Shen Zhao , Lee C. Potter , Kiryung Lee , Rizwan Ahmad

Deep neural networks have shown exemplary performance on semantic scene understanding tasks on source domains, but due to the absence of style diversity during training, enhancing performance on unseen target domains using only single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Sumanth Udupa , Prajwal Gurunath , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

Nuclear magnetic resonance signal dynamics as described by the Bloch equations are highly complex and often are without closed form solutions. This is especially the case for quantitative magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) scans in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Andrew S. Nencka , Eric S. Paulson

Interactions between the brain and body are of fundamental importance for human behavior and health. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures whole-brain activity noninvasively, and modeling how fMRI signals interact with…

Purpose: To improve image quality and accelerate the acquisition of 3D MRF. Methods: Building on the multi-axis spiral-projection MRF technique, a subspace reconstruction with locally low rank (LLR) constraint and a modified…

Magnetic resonance (MR) protocols rely on several sequences to assess pathology and organ status properly. Despite advances in image analysis, we tend to treat each sequence, here termed modality, in isolation. Taking advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Agisilaos Chartsias , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Chengjia Wang , Scott Semple , David E. Newby , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a time-efficient approach to quantitative MRI for multiparametric tissue mapping. The reconstruction of quantitative maps requires tailored algorithms for removing aliasing artefacts from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Perla Mayo , Matteo Cencini , Carolin M. Pirkl , Marion I. Menzel , Michela Tosetti , Bjoern H. Menze , Mohammad Golbabaee

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is the gold standard for diagnosing several heart diseases due to its non-invasive nature and proper contrast. MR imaging is time-consuming because of signal acquisition and image formation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Kian Anvari Hamedani , Narges Razizadeh , Shahabedin Nabavi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic and radiotherapy (RT) planning tool, offering detailed insights into the anatomy of the human body. The extensive scan time is stressful for patients, who must remain motionless…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) requires a trade-off between resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, and scan time, making high-resolution (HR) acquisition challenging. Therefore, super-resolution for MR image is a feasible solution. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Weifeng Wei , Heng Chen , Pengxiang Su

This article presents a novel undersampled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that leverages the concept of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). With radial undersampling, the corresponding imaging problem can be reformulated into an image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Tae Jun Jang , Chang Min Hyun

In quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging, traditional methods suffer from the so-called Partial Volume Effect (PVE) due to spatial resolution limitations. As a consequence of PVE, the parameters of the voxels containing more than one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Roberto Duarte , Audrey Repetti , Pedro A. Gómez , Mike Davies , Yves Wiaux

We propose an unsupervised convolutional neural network (CNN) for relaxation parameter estimation. This network incorporates signal relaxation and Bloch simulations while taking advantage of residual learning and spatial relations across…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Mengze Gao , Huihui Ye , Tae Hyung Kim , Zijing Zhang , Seohee So , Berkin Bilgic

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) is becoming increasingly important for research and clinical applications, however, state-of-the-art reconstruction methods for qMRI are computationally prohibitive. We propose a temporal multiscale approach to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Samuel Cortinhas , Mohammad Golbabaee , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is the primary imaging modality used to study brain microstructure in vivo. Reliable and computationally efficient parameter inference for common dMRI biophysical models is a challenging inverse problem, due to factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 William Consagra , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi

Magnetization transfer contrast magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MTC-MRF) is a novel quantitative imaging technique that simultaneously measures several tissue parameters of semisolid macromolecule and free bulk water. In this study, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Beomgu Kang , Hye-Young Heo , HyunWook Park

Existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) methods suffer from the existence of reflective objects, often resulting in blurry or distorted rendering. Instead of calculating a single radiance field, we propose a multi-space neural radiance field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ze-Xin Yin , Peng-Yi Jiao , Jiaxiong Qiu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Ren