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Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is commonly used in the clinical setting to non-invasively monitor the body. There exists a large variability in MR imaging due to differences in scanner hardware, software, and protocol design. Ideally, a…
Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for wireless image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing work adopts an autoencoder framework to optimize conventional…
Quality assessment of diffusion MRI (dMRI) data is essential prior to any analysis, so that appropriate pre-processing can be used to improve data quality and ensure that the presence of MRI artifacts do not affect the results of subsequent…
Multi-echo Gradient Echo (mGRE) sequences provide valuable quantitative parametric maps, such as Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and transverse relaxation rate (R2*), sensitive to tissue iron and myelin. However, structural…
Clinical deployment of automated brain MRI analysis faces a fundamental challenge: clinical data is heterogeneous and noisy, and high-quality labels are prohibitively costly to obtain. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can address this by…
Knowledge of the noise distribution in diffusion MRI is the centerpiece to quantify uncertainties arising from the acquisition process. Accurate estimation beyond textbook distributions often requires information about the acquisition…
Image denoising plays a critical role in biomedical and microscopy imaging, especially when acquiring wide-field fluorescence-stained images. This task faces challenges in multiple fronts, including limitations in image acquisition…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a remarkably powerful diagnostic technique: it generates wide-ranging information for the non-invasive study of tissue anatomy and physiology. Complementary data is normally obtained in separate…
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is used to characterize brain tissue microstructure employing tissue-specific biophysical models. A current limitation, however, is that most of the proposed models are based on the…
Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference…
Ultrasound is a widely accessible and cost-effective medical imaging tool commonly used for prenatal evaluation of the fetal brain. However, it has limitations, particularly in the third trimester, where the complexity of the fetal brain…
Abnormal iron accumulation in the brain subcortical nuclei has been reported to be correlated to various neurodegenerative diseases, which can be measured through the magnetic susceptibility from the quantitative susceptibility mapping…
A key challenge in maximizing the benefits of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in clinical settings is to accelerate acquisition times without significantly degrading image quality. This objective requires a balance between under-sampling…
Magnetic resonance (MR) images from multiple sources often show differences in image contrast related to acquisition settings or the used scanner type. For long-term studies, longitudinal comparability is essential but can be impaired by…
Brain tumor classification from magnetic resonance imaging, which is also known as MRI, plays a sensitive role in computer-assisted diagnosis systems. In recent years, deep learning models have achieved high classification accuracy.…
Surface-based cortical analysis is valuable for a variety of neuroimaging tasks, such as spatial normalization, parcellation, and gray matter (GM) thickness estimation. However, most tools for estimating cortical surfaces work exclusively…
Quantitative analysis of fetal lung Diffusion-Weighted MRI (DWI) data shows potential in providing quantitative imaging biomarkers that indirectly reflect fetal lung maturation. However, fetal motion during the acquisition hampered…
White balance (WB) correction in scenes with multiple illuminants remains a persistent challenge in computer vision. Recent methods explored fusion-based approaches, where a neural network linearly blends multiple sRGB versions of an input…
We present a method to discover differences between populations with respect to the spatial coherence of their oriented white matter microstructure in arbitrarily shaped white matter regions. This method is applied to diffusion MRI scans of…