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Modern diffusion MRI sequences commonly acquire a large number of volumes with diffusion sensitization gradients of differing strengths or directions. Such sequences rely on echo-planar imaging (EPI) to achieve reasonable scan duration.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Antoine Legouhy , Ross Callaghan , Whitney Stee , Philippe Peigneux , Hojjat Azadbakht , Hui Zhang

Purpose: Diffusion MRI (dMRI) suffers from eddy currents induced by strong diffusion gradients, which introduce artefacts that can impair subsequent diffusion metric analysis. Existing retrospective correction techniques that correct for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jake J. Valsamis , Paul I. Dubovan , Corey A. Baron

Deep learning methods for accelerated MRI achieve state-of-the-art results but largely ignore additional speedups possible with noncartesian sampling trajectories. To address this gap, we created a generative diffusion model-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Trevor J. Chan , Chamith S. Rajapakse

We present an algorithm to estimate fast and accurate depth maps from light fields via a sparse set of depth edges and gradients. Our proposed approach is based around the idea that true depth edges are more sensitive than texture edges to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Numair Khan , Min H. Kim , James Tompkin

Diffusion MRI is commonly performed using echo-planar imaging (EPI) due to its rapid acquisition time. However, the resolution of diffusion-weighted images is often limited by magnetic field inhomogeneity-related artifacts and blurring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Jaejin Cho , Yohan Jun , Xiaoqing Wang , Caique Kobayashi , Berkin Bilgic

Autofocus (AF) methods are extensively used in biomicroscopy, for example to acquire timelapses, where the imaged objects tend to drift out of focus. AD algorithms determine an optimal distance by which to move the sample back into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Summary: Errors in gradient trajectories introduce significant artifacts and distortions in magnetic resonance images, particularly in non-Cartesian imaging sequences, where imperfect gradient waveforms can greatly reduce image quality.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Jonathan B. Martin , Hannah E. Alderson , John C. Gore , Mark D. Does , Kevin D. Harkins

Bias field, which is caused by imperfect MR devices or imaged objects, introduces intensity inhomogeneity into MR images and degrades the performance of MR image analysis methods. Many retrospective algorithms were developed to facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Dong Liang , Xingyu Qiu , Kuanquan Wang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Yashu Liu

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , Chao Ding , Mike Zheng Shou , Ajmal Saeed Mian

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

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yinzhe Wu , Jiahao Huang , Fanwen Wang , Mengze Gao , Congyu Liao , Guang Yang , Kawin Setsompop

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a valuable tool to map brain microstructure and connectivity by analyzing water molecule diffusion in tissue. However, acquiring dMRI data requires to capture multiple 3D brain volumes in a short time, often leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Sedigheh Dargahi , Sylvain Bouix , Christian Desrosiers

We present Acc3D to tackle the challenge of accelerating the diffusion process to generate 3D models from single images. To derive high-quality reconstructions through few-step inferences, we emphasize the critical issue of regularizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

Accelerated MRI reconstruction plays a vital role in reducing scan time while preserving image quality. While most existing methods rely on complex-valued image-space or k-space data, these formats are often inaccessible in clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Tao Song , Yicheng Wu , Minhao Hu , Xiangde Luo , Guoting Luo , Guotai Wang , Yi Guo , Feng Xu , Shaoting Zhang

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…

Combining neuroimaging datasets from multiple sites and scanners can help increase statistical power and thus provide greater insight into subtle neuroanatomical effects. However, site-specific effects pose a challenge by potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ayodeji Ijishakin , Ana Lawry Aguila , Elizabeth Levitis , Ahmed Abdulaal , Andre Altmann , James Cole

The quality of microscopy images often suffers from optical aberrations. These aberrations and their associated point spread functions have to be quantitatively estimated to restore aberrated images. The recent state-of-the-art method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Kira Vinogradova , Eugene W. Myers

Diffusion MRI is the modality of choice to study alterations of white matter. In past years, various works have used diffusion MRI for automatic classification of AD. However, classification performance obtained with different approaches is…

Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) is widely used for its rapid acquisition but suffers from severe geometric distortions due to B0 inhomogeneities, particularly along the phase encoding direction. Existing methods follow a two-step process:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Wenqi Huang , Nan Wang , Congyu Liao , Yimeng Lin , Mengze Gao , Daniel Rueckert , Kawin Setsompop
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