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Objective:To develop a no-reference image quality assessment method using automated distortion recognition to boost MRI-guided radiotherapy precision.Methods:We analyzed 106,000 MR images from 10 patients with liver metastasis,captured with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Zilin Wang , Shengqi Chen , Jianrong Dai , Shirui Qin , Ying Cao , Ruiao Zhao , Guohua Wu , Yuan Tang , Jiayun Chen

Purpose: To develop a rapid, high-resolution and distortion-free technique for simultaneous water-fat separation, $R_{2}^{*}$ and $B_{0}$ mapping of the fetal brain at 3T. Methods: A 2D multi-echo radial FLASH sequence with blip gradients…

High spatial and temporal resolution across the whole brain is essential to accurately resolve neural activities in fMRI. Therefore, accelerated imaging techniques target improved coverage with high spatio-temporal resolution. Simultaneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Omer Burak Demirel , Burhaneddin Yaman , Logan Dowdle , Steen Moeller , Luca Vizioli , Essa Yacoub , John Strupp , Cheryl A. Olman , Kâmil Uğurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Objective. Standard Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction pipelines discard phase information captured during acquisition, despite evidence that it encodes tissue properties relevant to tumor diagnosis. Current machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Marco Schlimbach , Moritz Rempe , Jessica Mnischek , Lukas T. Rotkopf , Jens Weingarten , Jens Kleesiek , Kevin Kröninger

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) requires a trade-off between resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, and scan time, making high-resolution (HR) acquisition challenging. Therefore, super-resolution for MR image is a feasible solution. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Weifeng Wei , Heng Chen , Pengxiang Su

Purpose: Many useful image quality metrics for evaluating linear image reconstruction techniques do not apply to or are difficult to interpret for non-linear image reconstruction. The vast majority of metrics employed for evaluating…

We introduce a new learning strategy for image enhancement by recurrently training the same simple superresolution (SR) network multiple times. After initially training an SR network by using pairs of a corrupted low resolution (LR) image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Saem Park , Nojun Kwak

In recent years, convolutional neural networks have demonstrated promising performance in a variety of medical image segmentation tasks. However, when a trained segmentation model is deployed into the real clinical world, the model may not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shuo Wang , Giacomo Tarroni , Chen Qin , Yuanhan Mo , Chengliang Dai , Chen Chen , Ben Glocker , Yike Guo , Daniel Rueckert , Wenjia Bai

Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Kaisar Kushibar , Sergi Valverde , Sandra Gonzalez-Villa , Jose Bernal , Mariano Cabezas , Arnau Oliver , Xavier Llado

Super-resolution (SR), a classical inverse problem in computer vision, is inherently ill-posed, inducing a distribution of plausible solutions for every input. However, the desired result is not simply the expectation of this distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fengjia Zhang , Samrudhdhi B. Rangrej , Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Afsaneh Fazly , Alex Levinshtein

3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is often a trade-off between fast but low-resolution image acquisition and highly detailed but slow image acquisition. Fast imaging is required for targets that move to avoid motion artefacts. This is in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Steven McDonagh , Benjamin Hou , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ozan Oktay , Amir Alansary , Mary Rutherford , Jo V. Hajnal , Bernhard Kainz

Image quality control (IQC) can be used in automated magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis to exclude erroneous results caused by poorly acquired or artifact-laden images. Existing IQC methods for MR imaging generally require human effort…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Lianrui Zuo , Yuan Xue , Blake E. Dewey , Yihao Liu , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Naomi Silverstein , Efrat Leibowitz , Ron Beloosesky , Haim Azhari

The goals of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) include high spatial and temporal resolutions with a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To simultaneously improve spatial and temporal resolutions and maintain the high SNR advantage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Shouchang Guo

We present a tool for resolution recovery in multimodal clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Such images exhibit great variability, both biological and instrumental. This variability makes automated processing with neuroimaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

Surface analysis of the cortex is ubiquitous in human neuroimaging with MRI, e.g., for cortical registration, parcellation, or thickness estimation. The convoluted cortical geometry requires isotropic scans (e.g., 1mm MPRAGEs) and good…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Karthik Gopinath , Douglas N. Greve , Sudeshna Das , Steve Arnold , Colin Magdamo , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Frequency Selective Reconstruction (FSR) is a state-of-the-art algorithm for solving diverse image reconstruction tasks, where a subset of pixel values in the image is missing. However, it entails a high computational complexity due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Andy Regensky , Simon Grosche , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Retrospective analysis of brain MRI scans acquired in the clinic has the potential to enable neuroimaging studies with sample sizes much larger than those found in research datasets. However, analysing such clinical images "in the wild" is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Benjamin Billot , Magdamo Colin , Sean E. Arnold , Sudeshna Das , Juan. E. Iglesias

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) enables fast quantitative imaging, yet reconstructing high-resolution 3D data remains computationally demanding. Non-Cartesian reconstructions require repeated non-uniform FFTs, and the commonly used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Yonatan Urman , Mark Nishimura , Daniel Abraham , Xiaozhi Cao , Kawin Setsompop

The image Super-Resolution (SR) technique has greatly improved the visual quality of images by enhancing their resolutions. It also calls for an efficient SR Image Quality Assessment (SR-IQA) to evaluate those algorithms or their generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-10 Keke Zhang , Tiesong Zhao , Weiling Chen , Yuzhen Niu , Jinsong Hu