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Diffusion models have recently gained popularity for accelerated MRI reconstruction due to their high sample quality. They can effectively serve as rich data priors while incorporating the forward model flexibly at inference time, and they…

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Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) is the only in vivo method to non-invasively examine the microstructure of the human heart. Current research in DT-CMR aims to improve the understanding of how the cardiac microstructure…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Michelle Su , Cemre Ariyurek , Serge Vasylechko , Onur Afacan , Sila Kurugol

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides crucial insights into the microstructure of the human brain, but it can be time-consuming to acquire compared to more readily available T1-weighted (T1w) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To address…

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Three-dimensional (3D) multi-slab imaging is a promising approach for high-resolution in vivo diffusion MRI (dMRI) due to its compatibility with short TR (1-2 s), providing optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) efficiency. A major challenge,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ziyu Li , Karla L. Miller , Wenchuan Wu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires long acquisition times, raising costs, reducing accessibility, and making scans more susceptible to motion artifacts. Diffusion probabilistic models that learn data-driven priors can potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Rohan Sanda , Asad Aali , Andrew Johnston , Eduardo Reis , Gordon Wetzstein , Sara Fridovich-Keil

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers unparalleled soft-tissue contrast but is fundamentally limited by long acquisition times. While deep learning-based accelerated MRI can dramatically shorten scan times, the reconstruction from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Paul Fischer , Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Thomas Küstner , Christian Baumgartner

Objective:This study introduces a residual error-shifting mechanism that drastically reduces sampling steps while preserving critical anatomical details, thus accelerating MRI reconstruction. Approach:We propose a novel diffusion-based SR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Zach Eidex , Qiang Li , Erik H. Middlebrooks , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

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Contrast-enhanced (CE) T1-weighted MRI is central to neuro-oncologic diagnosis but requires gadolinium-based agents, which add cost and scan time, raise environmental concerns, and may pose risks to patients. In this work, we propose a…

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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…

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MR imaging is a valuable diagnostic tool allowing to non-invasively visualize patient anatomy and pathology with high soft-tissue contrast. However, MRI acquisition is typically time-consuming, leading to patient discomfort and increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Matthias Hein , Christian F. Baumgartner

A joint image reconstruction and segmentation approach based on disentangled representation learning was trained to enable cardiac cine MR imaging in real-time and under free-breathing. An exploratory feasibility study tested the proposed…

Sound speed heterogeneities can create aberrations in B-mode ultrasound images by inducing tissue-dependent delays and diffractive effects that conventional beamforming does not incorporate. By using the Fourier split-step method to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rehman Ali , Trevor M. Mitcham , Marvin M. Doyley , Nebojsa Duric , Jeremy J. Dahl

The main purpose of this study is to show that a highly accelerated Cartesian MRF scheme using a multi-shot EPI readout (i.e. multi-shot EPI-MRF) can produce good quality multi-parametric maps such as T1, T2 and proton density (PD) in a…

Accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains challenging, particularly under realistic acquisition noise. While diffusion models have recently shown promise for reconstructing undersampled MRI data, many approaches lack an explicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Nikola Janjušević , Amirhossein Khalilian-Gourtani , Yao Wang , Li Feng

Purpose: We developed a dynamic B0 shimming approach using a 46-channel AC/DC shim array to correct phase errors caused by eddy currents from diffusion-encoding gradients in diffusion-prepared MRI, enabling high b-value imaging without the…

Multi-slice magnetic resonance images of the fetal brain are usually contaminated by severe and arbitrary fetal and maternal motion. Hence, stable and robust motion correction is necessary to reconstruct high-resolution 3D fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Wen Shi , Haoan Xu , Cong Sun , Jiwei Sun , Yamin Li , Xinyi Xu , Tianshu Zheng , Yi Zhang , Guangbin Wang , Dan Wu

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various generation tasks. By modeling the reverse process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution, generating a…

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