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High-quality 3D fetal brain MRI reconstruction from motion-corrupted 2D slices is crucial for clinical diagnosis. Reliable slice-to-volume registration (SVR)-based motion correction and super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) methods are…

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We introduce a novel frame-interpolation-based method for slice imputation to improve segmentation accuracy for anisotropic 3D medical images, in which the number of slices and their corresponding segmentation labels can be increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Zhaotao Wu , Jia Wei , Jiabing Wang , Rui Li

Purpose: Long scan time in phase encoding for forming complete K-space matrices is a critical drawback of MRI, making patients uncomfortable and wasting important time for diagnosing emergent diseases. This paper aims to reducing the scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yiming Liu , Yanwei Pang , Ruiqi Jin , Zhenchang Wang

This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in 3D medical image processing: how to deal with imaging thickness. For anisotropic medical volumes, there is a significant performance gap between thin-slice (mostly 1mm) and thick-slice (mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jiancheng Yang , Yi He , Xiaoyang Huang , Jingwei Xu , Xiaodan Ye , Guangyu Tao , Bingbing Ni

We present a new nonlinear dimensionality reduction method, MAPLE, that enhances UMAP by improving manifold modeling. MAPLE employs a self-supervised learning approach to more efficiently encode low-dimensional manifold geometry. Central to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyang Huang , Takanori Fujiwara , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Wandrille Duchemin , Andreas Kerren

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) of the developing brain can provide valuable insights into the white matter development. However, slice thickness in fetal dMRI is typically high (i.e., 3-5 mm) to freeze the in-plane motion, which reduces the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Hamza Kebiri , Gabriel Girard , Yasser Aleman-Gomez , Thomas Yu , Andras Jakab , Erick Jorge Canales-Rodriguez , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

eXplainMR is a Mixed Reality tutoring system designed for basic cardiac surface ultrasound training. Trainees wear a head-mounted display (HMD) and hold a controller, mimicking a real ultrasound probe, while treating a desk surface as the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jingying Wang , Jingjing Zhang , Juana Nicoll Capizzano , Matthew Sigakis , Xu Wang , Vitaliy Popov

High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for many clinical and research applications. However, achieving it remains costly and constrained by technical trade-offs and experimental limitations. Super-resolution (SR)…

High-resolution (HR) 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide detailed anatomical structural information, enabling precise segmentation of regions of interest for various medical image analysis tasks. Due to the high demands of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Zhiyun Song , Yinjie Zhao , Xiaomin Li , Manman Fei , Xiangyu Zhao , Mengjun Liu , Cunjian Chen , Chung-Hsing Yeh , Qian Wang , Guoyan Zheng , Songtao Ai , Lichi Zhang

Current methods for searching brain MR images rely on text-based approaches, highlighting a significant need for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Directly applying 3D brain MR images to machine learning models offers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Shuhei Tomoshige , Hayato Muraki , Kenichi Oishi , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Purpose: The goal of this work is to extend the capabilities of RAKI, a k-space interpolating neural network, to reconstruct high-quality images from in-plane accelerated simultaneous multislice imaging acquisitions. This method is referred…

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Automated cardiac interpretation in resource-constrained settings (RCS) is often hindered by poor-quality echocardiographic imaging, limiting the effectiveness of downstream diagnostic models. While super-resolution (SR) techniques have…

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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

MRI and CT are essential clinical cross-sectional imaging techniques for diagnosing complex conditions. However, large 3D datasets with annotations for deep learning are scarce. While methods like DINOv2 are encouraging for 2D image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Gustav Müller-Franzes , Firas Khader , Robert Siepmann , Tianyu Han , Jakob Nikolas Kather , Sven Nebelung , Daniel Truhn

Functional MRI (fMRI) is commonly used for interpreting neural activities across the brain. Numerous accelerated fMRI techniques aim to provide improved spatiotemporal resolutions. Among these, simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Omer Burak Demirel , Burhaneddin Yaman , Logan Dowdle , Steen Moeller , Luca Vizioli , Essa Yacoub , John Strupp , Cheryl A. Olman , Kâmil Uğurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Multi-echo magnetic resonance (MR) images are acquired by changing the echo times (for T2 weighted) or relaxation times (for T1 weighted) of scans. The resulting (multi-echo) images are usually used for quantitative MR imaging. Acquiring MR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Vanika Singhal , Angshul Majumdar

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging modality. However, due to the limitations in hardware, scan time, and throughput, it is often clinically challenging to obtain high-quality MR images. The super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

Lately, deep learning has been extensively investigated for accelerating dynamic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, with encouraging progresses achieved. However, without fully sampled reference data for training, current approaches may have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Juan Zou , Cheng Li , Sen Jia , Ruoyou Wu , Tingrui Pei , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Current deep learning-based models typically analyze medical images in either 2D or 3D albeit disregarding volumetric information or suffering sub-optimal performance due to the anisotropic resolution of MR data. Furthermore, providing an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Alex Ling Yu Hung , Haoxin Zheng , Kai Zhao , Kaifeng Pang , Demetri Terzopoulos , Kyunghyun Sung

The availability of large scale data with high quality ground truth labels is a challenge when developing supervised machine learning solutions for healthcare domain. Although, the amount of digital data in clinical workflows is increasing,…

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