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This paper is a contribution to the "BraTS 2023 Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting Challenge". The task of this challenge is to transform tumor tissue into healthy tissue in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. This…

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Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative models in medical imaging. However, it remains a major challenge to combine these data-driven models with domain knowledge to guide brain imaging problems. In neuroimaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ana Lawry Aguila , Dina Zemlyanker , You Cheng , Sudeshna Das , Daniel C. Alexander , Oula Puonti , Annabel Sorby-Adams , W. Taylor Kimberly , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

In MRI, deep neural networks have been proposed to reconstruct diffusion model parameters. However, the inputs of the networks were designed for a specific diffusion gradient scheme (i.e., diffusion gradient directions and numbers) and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Juhung Park , Woojin Jung , Eun-Jung Choi , Se-Hong Oh , Dongmyung Shin , Hongjun An , Jongho Lee

Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) microstructure estimation from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is of great significance for the discovery and treatment of various neurological diseases. Current deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Taohui Xiao , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Enqing Dong , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Accurate detection and segmentation of anatomical structures from ultrasound images are crucial for clinical diagnosis and biometric measurements. Although ultrasound imaging has been widely used with superiorities such as low cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Hao Chen , Yefeng Zheng , Jin-Hyeong Park , Pheng-Ann Heng , S. Kevin Zhou

The purpose of this study is to present and compare three denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) that generate 3D $T_1$-weighted MRI human brain images. Three DDPMs were trained using 80,675 image volumes from 42,406 subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Samuel W. Remedios , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

Cortical thickness measurements from magnetic resonance imaging, an important biomarker in many neurodegenerative and neurological disorders, are derived by many tools from an initial voxel-wise tissue segmentation. White matter (WM)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Vinzenz Uhr , Ivan Diaz , Christian Rummel , Richard McKinley

Microstructure reconstruction serves as a crucial foundation for establishing Process-Structure-Property (PSP) relationship in material design. Confronting the limitations of variational autoencoder and generative adversarial network within…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xianrui Lyu , Xiaodan Ren

In modern medical diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important technique that provides detailed insights into anatomical structures. In this paper, we present a comprehensive methodology focusing on streamlining the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Siddharth Jha , Zichen Gui , Benjamin Delbos , Richard Moreau , Arnaud Leleve , Irene Cheng

Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) enables us to probe the microstructural arrangement of cardiomyocytes within the myocardium in vivo and non-invasively, which no other imaging modality allows. This innovative technology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Michael Tanzer , Pedro Ferreira , Andrew Scott , Zohya Khalique , Maria Dwornik , Dudley Pennell , Guang Yang , Daniel Rueckert , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin

By circumventing the resolution limitations of optics, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and ptychography are making their way into scientific fields ranging from X-ray imaging to astronomy. Yet, the need for time consuming iterative phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Oliver Hoidn , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Apurva Mehta

Data-dependent metrics are powerful tools for learning the underlying structure of high-dimensional data. This article develops and analyzes a data-dependent metric known as diffusion state distance (DSD), which compares points using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Lenore Cowen , Kapil Devkota , Xiaozhe Hu , James M. Murphy , Kaiyi Wu

Accurate MR signal simulation, including microvascular structures and water diffusion, is crucial for MRI techniques like fMRI BOLD modeling and MR vascular Fingerprinting (MRF), which use susceptibility effects on MR signals for tissue…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used for diagnosis and image-guided therapeutics. Due to hardware, physical and physiological limitations, acquisition of high-resolution MRI data takes long scan time at high system cost, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Qing Lyu , Chenyu You , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

Background: Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) integrates optical and acoustic imaging, offering enhanced penetration depth for detecting optical-absorbing components in tissues. Nonetheless, challenges arise in scanning large areas with high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Irem Loc , Mehmet Burcin Unlu

Generating realistic images to accurately predict changes in the structure of brain MRI is a crucial tool for clinicians. Such applications help assess patients' outcomes and analyze how diseases progress at the individual level. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Mattia Litrico , Francesco Guarnera , Valerio Giuffirda , Daniele Ravì , Sebastiano Battiato

Deep learning-based 3D imaging, in particular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is challenging because of limited availability of 3D training data. Therefore, 2D diffusion models trained on 2D slices are starting to be leveraged for 3D MRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Anselm Krainovic , Stefan Ruschke , Reinhard Heckel

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is essential for noninvasive generation of high-quality images of human tissues. Accurate segmentation of MRI data is critical for medical applications like brain anatomy analysis and disease detection.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Laura Antonelli , Valentina De Simone , Marco Viola

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is essential for reliable clinical diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in image generation and segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Sara Yavari , Rahul Nitin Pandya , Jacob Furst

In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use diffusion-based dynamics to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nikolaos N. Vlassis , WaiChing Sun