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Portable, low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners are increasingly being deployed in clinical settings. However, key barriers to their widespread use include low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), generally low image quality, and long…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in clinical settings. However, the inherent long scan time of MRI restricts its widespread applicability. Deep learning-based image super-resolution (SR) methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Hao Li , Quanwei Liu , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Yanni Dong , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lv

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI offers portable and low-cost imaging but suffers from poor image quality. To address this, we present our submission to the 2025 ULF Enhancement Challenge (ULF-EnC), where the goal is to synthesise high-field-like…

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This paper presents a deep learning method for faster magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by reducing k-space data with sub-Nyquist sampling strategies and provides a rationale for why the proposed approach works well. Uniform subsampling is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Chang Min Hyun , Hwa Pyung Kim , Sung Min Lee , Sungchul Lee , Jin Keun Seo

Recent innovations in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) hardware and software have reignited interest in low-field ($<1\,\mathrm{T}$) and ultra-low-field MRI ($<0.1\,\mathrm{T}$). These technologies offer advantages such as lower power…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Andreas Kofler , Dongyue Si , David Schote , Rene M Botnar , Christoph Kolbitsch , Claudia Prieto

Over almost five decades of development and improvement, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become a rich and powerful, non-invasive technique in medical imaging, yet not reaching its physical limits. Technical and physiological…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become an important technique in the clinic for the visualization, detection, and diagnosis of various diseases. However, one bottleneck limitation of MRI is the relatively slow data acquisition process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Xue Liu , Juan Zou , Xiawu Zheng , Cheng Li , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been investigated to improve the resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum (DAS) beamformers. Unfortunately, the performance of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

While functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) offers valuable insights into cognitive processes, its inherent spatial limitations pose challenges for detailed analysis of the fine-grained functional architecture of the brain. More…

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We present an unsupervised single image bidirectional Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) synthesizer that synthesizes an Ultra-Low Field (ULF) like image from a High-Field (HF) magnitude image and vice-versa. Unlike existing MRI synthesis…

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This paper introduces a novel framework for image quality transfer based on conditional flow matching (CFM). Unlike conventional generative models that rely on iterative sampling or adversarial objectives, CFM learns a continuous flow…

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We evaluate a new approach for achieving diffusion MRI data with high spatial resolution, large volume coverage, and fast acquisition speed. A recent method called gSlider-SMS enables whole-brain sub-millimeter diffusion MRI with high…

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Deformable image registration is a fundamental task in medical imaging. Due to the large computational complexity of deformable registration of volumetric images, conventional iterative methods usually face the tradeoff between the…

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4D-flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an emerging imaging technique where spatiotemporal 3D blood velocity can be captured with full volumetric coverage in a single non-invasive examination. This enables qualitative and quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Edward Ferdian , Avan Suinesiaputra , David Dubowitz , Debbie Zhao , Alan Wang , Brett Cowan , Alistair Young

Bias field artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans introduce spatially smooth intensity inhomogeneities that degrade image quality and hinder downstream analysis. To address this challenge, we propose a novel variational…

Despite the promising results of multi-view reconstruction, the recent neural rendering-based methods, such as implicit surface rendering (IDR) and volume rendering (NeuS), not only incur a heavy computational burden on training but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yisu Zhang , Jianke Zhu , Lixiang Lin

Typical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan may take 20 to 60 minutes. Reducing MRI scan time is beneficial for both patient experience and cost considerations. Accelerated MRI scan may be achieved by acquiring less amount of k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Pak Lun Kevin Ding , Zhiqiang Li , Yuxiang Zhou , Baoxin Li

Deep homography estimation has broad applications in computer vision and robotics. Remarkable progresses have been achieved while the existing methods typically treat it as a direct regression or iterative refinement problem and often…

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Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

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