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Capturing high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images is a time consuming process, which makes it unsuitable for medical emergencies and pediatric patients. Low-resolution MR imaging, by contrast, is faster than its high-resolution…

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Faithfully reconstructing 3D geometry and generating novel views of scenes are critical tasks in 3D computer vision. Despite the widespread use of image augmentations across computer vision applications, their potential remains…

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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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High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for many clinical and research applications. However, achieving it remains costly and constrained by technical trade-offs and experimental limitations. Super-resolution (SR)…

The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) processing chain starts with a critical acquisition stage that provides raw data for reconstruction of images for medical diagnosis. This flow usually includes a near-lossless data compression stage that…

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The increasing use of medical imaging in healthcare settings presents a significant challenge due to the increasing workload for radiologists, yet it also offers opportunity for enhancing healthcare outcomes if effectively leveraged. 3D…

3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is often a trade-off between fast but low-resolution image acquisition and highly detailed but slow image acquisition. Fast imaging is required for targets that move to avoid motion artefacts. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Steven McDonagh , Benjamin Hou , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ozan Oktay , Amir Alansary , Mary Rutherford , Jo V. Hajnal , Bernhard Kainz

To achieve visual consistency in composite images, recent image harmonization methods typically summarize the appearance pattern of global background and apply it to the global foreground without location discrepancy. However, for a real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ziyue Zhu , Zhao Zhang , Zheng Lin , Ruiqi Wu , Zhi Chai , Chun-Le Guo

In this work, we propose a new paradigm of iterative model-based reconstruction algorithms for providing real-time solution for zooming-in and refining a region of interest in medical and clinical tomographic images. This algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Junqi Tang , Guixian Xu , Jinglai Li

High dynamic range (HDR) capture and display have seen significant growth in popularity driven by the advancements in technology and increasing consumer demand for superior image quality. As a result, HDR image compression is crucial to…

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Deep learning algorithms utilizing magnetic resonance (MR) images have demonstrated cutting-edge proficiency in autonomously segmenting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. Despite their achievements, these algorithms may struggle to extend…

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The spatial resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is fundamentally limited by the width of Lorentzian point spread functions (PSF) associated with the exponential decay rate of transverse magnetization (1/T2*). Here we show a…

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…

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This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

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High-resolution (HR) 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide detailed anatomical structural information, enabling precise segmentation of regions of interest for various medical image analysis tasks. Due to the high demands of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Zhiyun Song , Yinjie Zhao , Xiaomin Li , Manman Fei , Xiangyu Zhao , Mengjun Liu , Cunjian Chen , Chung-Hsing Yeh , Qian Wang , Guoyan Zheng , Songtao Ai , Lichi Zhang

Direct automatic segmentation of objects from 3D medical imaging, such as magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, is challenging as it often involves accurately identifying a number of individual objects with complex geometries within a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Wei Dai , Boyeong Woo , Siyu Liu , Matthew Marques , Craig B. Engstrom , Peter B. Greer , Stuart Crozier , Jason A. Dowling , Shekhar S. Chandra

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful imaging modality that can provide versatile information but it has a bottleneck problem "slow imaging speed". Reducing the scanned measurements can accelerate MR imaging with the aid of powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Shanshan Wang , Taohui Xiao , Qiegen Liu , Hairong Zheng

Image harmonization aims to generate a more realistic appearance of foreground and background for a composite image. Existing methods perform the same harmonization process for the whole foreground. However, the implanted foreground always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jinlong Peng , Zekun Luo , Liang Liu , Boshen Zhang , Tao Wang , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Weiyao Lin

In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), inhomogeneity in the main magnetic field used for imaging, referred to as off-resonance, can lead to image artifacts ranging from mild to severe depending on the application. Off-resonance artifacts,…

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