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Despite its exceptional soft tissue contrast, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) faces the challenge of long scanning times compared to other modalities like X-ray radiography. Shortening scanning times is crucial in clinical settings, as it…

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Score based learning (SBL) is a promising approach for learning Bayesian networks in the discrete domain. However, when employing SBL in the continuous domain, one is either forced to move the problem to the discrete domain or use metrics…

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Feature tracking Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has recently emerged as an area of interest for quantification of regional cardiac function from balanced, steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Davis M. Vigneault , Weidi Xie , David A. Bluemke , J. Alison Noble

Heart is one of the vital organs of human body. A minor dysfunction of heart even for a short time interval can be fatal, therefore, efficient monitoring of its physiological state is essential for the patients with cardiovascular diseases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Shakeel Muhammad Ibrahim , Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim , Muhammad Usman , Imran Naseem , Muhammad Moinuddin

This paper concerns pseudo labelling in segmentation. Our contribution is fourfold. Firstly, we present a new formulation of pseudo-labelling as an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for clear statistical interpretation. Secondly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Mou-Cheng Xu , Yukun Zhou , Chen Jin , Marius de Groot , Daniel C. Alexander , Neil P. Oxtoby , Yipeng Hu , Joseph Jacob

Current artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for short-axis cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) segmentation achieve human performance for slices situated in the middle of the heart. However, an often-overlooked fact is that segmentation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Jorge Mariscal-Harana , Naomi Kifle , Reza Razavi , Andrew P. King , Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol-Antón

We propose SparseContrast, a new framework that merges dynamic sparse attention with contrastive learning for medical imaging, with a focus on chest X-ray disease detection in low-data settings. Traditional contrastive learning methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paarth Prasad , Ruchika Malhotra

Visualizing disease-induced scarring and fibrosis in the heart on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with contrast enhancement (LGE) is paramount in characterizing disease progression and quantifying pathophysiological substrates of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Haley G. Abramson , Dan M. Popescu , Rebecca Yu , Changxin Lai , Julie K. Shade , Katherine C. Wu , Mauro Maggioni , Natalia A. Trayanova

Medical image analysis, especially segmenting a specific organ, has an important role in developing clinical decision support systems. In cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, segmenting the left and right ventricles helps physicians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Mina Nasr-Esfahani , Majid Mohrekesh , Mojtaba Akbari , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Accelerating the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem, and many works have been proposed to reconstruct images from undersampled k-space data. However, if the main purpose is to extract certain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Chen Qin , Wenjia Bai , Jo Schlemper , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Daniel Rueckert

Training deep learning models on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) can be a challenge due to the small amount of expert generated labels and inherent complexity of data source. Self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) has recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Makiya Nakashima , Inyeop Jang , Ramesh Basnet , Mitchel Benovoy , W. H. Wilson Tang , Christopher Nguyen , Deborah Kwon , Tae Hyun Hwang , David Chen

Cardiac segmentation from late gadolinium enhancement MRI is an important task in clinics to identify and evaluate the infarction of myocardium. The automatic segmentation is however still challenging, due to the heterogeneous intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Qian Yue , Xinzhe Luo , Qing Ye , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) and ischaemic stroke lesions (ISL) are imaging features associated with cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) that are visible on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The development and validation…

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The state-of-the-art cardiovascular disease diagnosis techniques use machine-learning algorithms based on feature extraction and classification. In this work, in contrast to a conventional single Electrocardiogram (ECG) lead, two leads are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Cheng Guo , Sajid Ahmed , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In the recent years, convolutional neural networks have transformed the field of medical image analysis due to their capacity to learn discriminative image features for a variety of classification and regression tasks. However, successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Wenjia Bai , Chen Chen , Giacomo Tarroni , Jinming Duan , Florian Guitton , Steffen E. Petersen , Yike Guo , Paul M. Matthews , Daniel Rueckert

Arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI is a noninvasive technique for measuring quantitative cerebral blood flow (CBF), but the measurement is subject to a low signal-to-noise-ratio(SNR). Various post-processing methods have been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Danfeng Xie , Li Bai , Ze Wang

Population imaging studies rely upon good quality medical imagery before downstream image quantification. This study provides an automated approach to assess image quality from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging at scale. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Shahabedin Nabavi , Hossein Simchi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ahmad Ali Abin

Statistical modeling of fMRI data is challenging as the data are both spatially and temporally correlated. Spatially, measurements are taken at thousands of contiguous regions, called voxels, and temporally measurements are taken at…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-05 Ming Teng , Farouk S. Nathoo , Timothy D. Johnson

Medical image segmentation is crucial in the field of medical imaging, aiding in disease diagnosis and surgical planning. Most established segmentation methods rely on supervised deep learning, in which clean and precise labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jiahua Dong , Yue Zhang , Qiuli Wang , Ruofeng Tong , Shihong Ying , Shaolin Gong , Xuanpu Zhang , Lanfen Lin , Yen-Wei Chen , S. Kevin Zhou

Accurate segmentation of the Left Ventricle (LV) holds substantial importance due to its implications in disease detection, regional analysis, and the development of complex models for cardiac surgical planning. CMR is a golden standard for…

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