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Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DMRI) is the only non-invasive imaging technique which is able to detect the principal directions of water diffusion as well as neurites density in the human brain. Exploiting the ability of Spherical…

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\hspace{2mm} Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the brain offers unique capabilities including noninvasive probing of tissue microstructure and structural connectivity. It is widely used for clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield

Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI) is widely used for early cerebral infarct detection caused by ischemic stroke. Manual segmentation is done by a radiologist as a common clinical process, nonetheless, challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Noranart Vesdapunt , Nongluk Covavisaruch

Portable, ultra-low-field (ULF) magnetic resonance imaging has the potential to expand access to neuroimaging but currently suffers from coarse spatial and angular resolutions and low signal-to-noise ratios. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mark D. Olchanyi , Annabel Sorby-Adams , John Kirsch , Brian L. Edlow , Ava Farnan , Renfei Liu , Matthew S. Rosen , Emery N. Brown , W. Taylor Kimberly , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Deep learning has shown great potential in accelerating diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Nevertheless, existing methods tend to suffer from Rician noise and detail loss in reconstructing the DTI-derived parametric maps especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Wenxin Fan , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Xinrui Ma , Jing Yang , Juan Zou , Ruoyou Wu , Qiegen Liu , Shanshan Wang

The goal of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is to infer the structural connectivity of an individual subject's brain in vivo. To statistically study the variability and differences between normal and abnormal brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-06 Haocheng Dai , Martin Bauer , P. Thomas Fletcher , Sarang Joshi

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

Purpose: Free water elimination diffusion tensor imaging (FWE-DTI) has been widely used to distinguish increases of free water (FW) partial volume effects from tissue's diffusion in healthy ageing and degenerative diseases. Since the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Marc Golub , Rafael Neto Henriques , Rita G. Nunes

The connectivity and structural integrity of the white matter of the brain is nowadays known to be implicated into a wide range of brain-related disorders. However, it was not before the advent of diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Q. Zhou , O. Michailovich , Y. Rathi

Tracking microsctructural changes in the developing brain relies on accurate inter-subject image registration. However, most methods rely on either structural or diffusion data to learn the spatial correspondences between two or more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Irina Grigorescu , Alena Uus , Daan Christiaens , Lucilio Cordero-Grande , Jana Hutter , A. David Edwards , Joseph V. Hajnal , Marc Modat , Maria Deprez

Biophysical modeling is the mediator of evaluating the cellular structure of biological tissues using diffusion-weighted MRI. It is however the bottleneck of microstructural MRI. Beyond the complexity of diffusion, the current development…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Bibek Dhital , Marco Reisert , Elias Kellner , Valerij G. Kiselev

We propose an image-conditioned diffusion model to estimate high angular resolution diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) from a low angular resolution acquisition. Our model, which we call QID$^2$, takes as input a set of low angular resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Zijian Chen , Jueqi Wang , Archana Venkataraman

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only imaging modality for non-invasive movement detection of in vivo water molecules, with significant clinical and research applications. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) MRI acquired by…

Diffusion MRI is a non-invasive, in-vivo biomedical imaging method for mapping tissue microstructure. Applications include structural connectivity imaging of the human brain and detecting microstructural neural changes. However, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Amir Sadikov , Xinlei Pan , Hannah Choi , Lanya T. Cai , Pratik Mukherjee

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections at macro scale. Over the last two decades, the study of brain connectivity using…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-26 Fan Zhang , Alessandro Daducci , Yong He , Simona Schiavi , Caio Seguin , Robert Smith , Chun-Hung Yeh , Tengda Zhao , Lauren J. O'Donnell

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Ischemic stroke, caused by cerebral vessel occlusion, presents substantial challenges in medical imaging due to the variability and subtlety of stroke lesions. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Ashiqur Rahman , Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury , Md Sharjis Ibne Wadud , Rusab Sarmun , Adam Mushtak , Sohaib Bassam Zoghoul , Israa Al-Hashimi

Many developmental processes, such as plasticity and aging, or pathological processes such as neurological diseases are characterized by modulations of specific cellular types and their microstructures. Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Marco Palombo , Noam Shemesh , Itamar Ronen , Julien Valette

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which pathological changes begin many years before the onset of clinical symptoms, making early detection essential for timely intervention. T1-weighted (T1w) Magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jason Qiu

Objective: Most deep neural network-based diffusion tensor imaging methods require the diffusion gradients' number and directions in the data to be reconstructed to match those in the training data. This work aims to develop and evaluate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zejun Wu , Jiechao Wang , Zunquan Chen , Qinqin Yang , Zhen Xing , Dairong Cao , Jianfeng Bao , Taishan Kang , Jianzhong Lin , Shuhui Cai , Zhong Chen , Congbo Cai