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Multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reflects information about human tissue from different perspectives and has many clinical applications. By utilizing the complementary information among different modalities, multi-contrast…

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Purpose: In many clinical MRI scenarios, existing imaging information can be used to significantly shorten acquisition time or to improve Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). In this paper the authors present a framework for fast MRI by exploiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Lior Weizman , Yonina C. Eldar , Dafna Ben-Basaht

Most existing algorithms for automatic 3D morphometry of human brain MRI scans are designed for data with near-isotropic voxels at approximately 1 mm resolution, and frequently have contrast constraints as well - typically requiring T1…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Benjamin Billot , Yael Balbastre , Azadeh Tabari , John Conklin , Daniel C. Alexander , Polina Golland , Brian L. Edlow , Bruce Fischl

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful noninvasive diagnostic imaging tool that provides unparalleled soft tissue contrast and anatomical detail. Noise contamination, especially in accelerated and/or low-field acquisitions, can…

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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

Recently, diffusion models (DM) have been applied in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution (SR) reconstruction, exhibiting impressive performance, especially with regard to detailed reconstruction. However, the current DM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangyuan Li , Chen Rao , Juncheng Mo , Zhanjie Zhang , Wei Xing , Lei Zhao

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medical imaging, providing a non-invasive and highly detailed look into the human body. However, the long acquisition times of MRI present challenges, causing patient discomfort, motion…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions require extensive scan times, limiting patient throughput and increasing susceptibility to motion artifacts. Accelerated parallel MRI techniques reduce acquisition time by undersampling k-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mingi Kang

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,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Jonas Denck , Jens Guehring , Andreas Maier , Eva Rothgang

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

Methods based on convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated tremendous improvements on single image super-resolution. However, the previous methods mainly restore images from one single area in the low resolution (LR) input, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xiaoyi Jia , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Kailing Guo

Multi-contrast MRI images provide complementary contrast information about the characteristics of anatomical structures and are commonly used in clinical practice. Recently, a multi-flip-angle (FA) and multi-echo GRE method (MULTIPLEX MRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Eric Z. Chen , Yongquan Ye , Xiao Chen , Jingyuan Lyu , Zhongqi Zhang , Yichen Hu , Terrence Chen , Jian Xu , Shanhui Sun

High resolution magnetic resonance~(MR) imaging~(MRI) is desirable in many clinical applications, however, there is a trade-off between resolution, speed of acquisition, and noise. It is common for MR images to have worse through-plane…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Can Zhao , Aaron Carass , Blake E. Dewey , Jerry L. Prince

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), image acquisitions are often undersampled in the measurement domain to accelerate the scanning process, at the expense of image quality. However, image quality is a crucial factor that influences the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Mehrtash Harandi , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Image super-resolution (SR) research has witnessed impressive progress thanks to the advance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in recent years. However, most existing SR methods are non-blind and assume that degradation has a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Jiahui Zhang , Shijian Lu , Fangneng Zhan , Yingchen Yu

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) is a valuable tool for studying metabolic activities in the human body, but the current applications are limited to low spatial resolutions. The existing deep learning-based MRSI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Siyuan Dong , Gilbert Hangel , Wolfgang Bogner , Georg Widhalm , Karl Rössler , Siegfried Trattnig , Chenyu You , Robin de Graaf , John Onofrey , James Duncan

Multi-image super-resolution (MISR) can achieve higher image quality than single-image super-resolution (SISR) by aggregating sub-pixel information from multiple spatially shifted frames. Among MISR tasks, burst super-resolution (BurstSR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tengda Huang , Yu Zhang , Tianren Li , Yufu Qu , Fulin Liu , Zhenzhong Wei

Super-resolving the Magnetic Resonance (MR) image of a target contrast under the guidance of the corresponding auxiliary contrast, which provides additional anatomical information, is a new and effective solution for fast MR imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Chun-Mei Feng , Yunlu Yan , Kai Yu , Yong Xu , Ling Shao , Huazhu Fu

While single-image super-resolution (SISR) has attracted substantial interest in recent years, the proposed approaches are limited to learning image priors in order to add high frequency details. In contrast, multi-frame super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Goutam Bhat , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Despite its exceptional soft tissue contrast, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) faces the challenge of long scanning times compared to other modalities like X-ray radiography. Shortening scanning times is crucial in clinical settings, as it…

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