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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) plays a vital role in both clinical diagnostics and neuroscience research. However, its inherently low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially under high diffusion weighting, significantly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Jine Xie , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Purpose: Noise in diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is often spatially correlated due to different acquisition and reconstruction strategies, which is not fully accounted for in current denoising strategies. Thus, we propose a novel model-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Vinicius P. Campos , Diego Szczupak , Tales Santini , Afonso C. Silva , Alessandro Foi , Marcelo A. C. Vieira , Corey A. Baron

The denoising of magnetic resonance (MR) images is a task of great importance for improving the acquired image quality. Many methods have been proposed in the literature to retrieve noise free images with good performances. Howerever, the…

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Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

\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…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

In this paper, we propose a method for denoising diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the brain using a convolutional neural network trained on realistic, synthetic MR data. We compare our results to averaging of repeated scans, a widespread…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common and life-saving medical imaging technique. However, acquiring high signal-to-noise ratio MRI scans requires long scan times, resulting in increased costs and patient discomfort, and decreased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Tiange Xiang , Mahmut Yurt , Ali B Syed , Kawin Setsompop , Akshay Chaudhari

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging datasets suffer from low Signal-to-Noise Ratio, especially at high b-values. Acquiring data at high b-values contains relevant information and is now of great interest for microstructural and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Samuel St-Jean , Pierrick Coupé , Maxime Descoteaux

The noise in diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) decreases the accuracy and precision of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) derived microstructural parameters and leads to prolonged acquisition time for achieving improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Qiyuan Tian , Ziyu Li , Qiuyun Fan , Jonathan R. Polimeni , Berkin Bilgic , David H. Salat , Susie Y. Huang

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is essential for studying brain microstructure, but high-resolution imaging remains challenging due to the inherent trade-offs between acquisition time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional methods often…

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Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is an imaging technique with exquisite sensitivity to the microstructural properties of heterogeneous media. The conventionally adopted acquisition schemes involving single pulsed field gradients…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Deneb Boito , Cem Yolcu , Evren Özarslan

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality…

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a neuroimaging technique with pivotal importance due to its scientific and clinical applications. As with any widely used imaging modality, there is a need to ensure the quality of the same,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 David Calhas , Rui Henriques

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a non-invasive way of imaging white matter tracts in the human brain. DW-MRIs are usually acquired using echo-planar imaging (EPI) with high gradient fields, which could introduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Zhangxing Bian , Muhan Shao , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

This paper proposes a novel method for automatic MRI denoising that exploits last advances in deep learning feature regression and self-similarity properties of the MR images. The proposed method is a two-stage approach. In the first stage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Jose V. Manjon , Pierrick Coupe

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is instrumental in clinical diagnosis, offering diverse contrasts that provide comprehensive diagnostic information. However, acquiring multiple MRI contrasts is often constrained by high costs, long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Kh Tohidul Islam , Bohan Zhuang , Guang Yang , Jianfei Cai , Meng Law , Zhaolin Chen

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) is a non-invasive imaging technique for studying metabolism and has become a crucial tool for understanding neurological diseases, cancers and diabetes. High spatial resolution MRSI is needed…

Denoising diffusion models (DDM) have gained recent traction in medical image translation given improved training stability over adversarial models. DDMs learn a multi-step denoising transformation to progressively map random Gaussian-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fuat Arslan , Bilal Kabas , Onat Dalmaz , Muzaffer Ozbey , Tolga Çukur

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI), is essential for studying neurodegenerative diseases. However, missing modalities pose a major barrier to their clinical use. Although GAN- and…

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