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Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion model-based approaches recently achieved re-markable success in MRI reconstruction, but integration into clinical routine remains challenging due to its time-consuming convergence. This phenomenon is partic-ularly notable when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Yu Guan , Qinrong Cai , Wei Li , Qiuyun Fan , Dong Liang , Qiegen Liu

Purpose: To improve the quality of images obtained via dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) that include motion artifacts and blurring using a deep learning approach. Methods: A multi-channel convolutional neural network (MARC) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Daiki Tamada , Marie-Luise Kromrey , Hiroshi Onishi , Utaroh Motosugi

In this paper, we develop an efficient retrospective deep learning method called stacked U-Nets with self-assisted priors to address the problem of rigid motion artifacts in MRI. The proposed work exploits the usage of additional knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Mohammed A. Al-masni , Seul Lee , Jaeuk Yi , Sewook Kim , Sung-Min Gho , Young Hun Choi , Dong-Hyun Kim

Unsupervised anomaly detection has gained significant attention in the field of medical imaging due to its capability of relieving the costly pixel-level annotation. To achieve this, modern approaches usually utilize generative models to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Rui Xu , Yunke Wang , Bo Du

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) is an important imaging technology used to evaluate the microstructure of brain tissue, which is of great significance for the discovery and treatment of various neurological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Taohui Xiao , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Jing Yang , Cheng Li , Enqing Dong , Shanshan Wang

Motion artifacts often spoil the radiological interpretation of MR images, and in the most severe cases the scan needs be repeated, with additional costs for the provider. We discuss the application of a novel 3D retrospective rigid motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Gabrio Rizzuti , Tim Schakel , Niek R. F. Huttinga , Jan Willem Dankbaar , Tristan van Leeuwen , Alessandro Sbrizzi

Diffusion models have shown remarkable flexibility for solving inverse problems without task-specific retraining. However, existing approaches such as Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD) apply only a single gradient update per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aditya Chakravarty

Head motion is inevitable in the acquisition of diffusion-weighted images, especially for certain motion-prone subjects and for data gathering of advanced diffusion models with prolonged scan times. Deficient accuracy of motion correction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Ting Gong , Qiqi Tong , Hongjian He , Zhiwei Li , Jianhui Zhong

An attention guided scheme for metal artifact correction in MRI using deep neural network is proposed in this paper. The inputs of the networks are two distorted images obtained with dual-polarity readout gradients. With MR image generation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Jee Won Kim , Kinam Kwon , Byungjai Kim , HyunWook Park

Performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction from under-sampled k-space data can accelerate the procedure to acquire MRI scans and reduce patients' discomfort. The reconstruction problem is usually formulated as a denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Tianqi Xiang , Wenjun Yue , Yiqun Lin , Jiewen Yang , Zhenkun Wang , Xiaomeng Li

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is widely used to characterize cardiac morphology and function. To accelerate CMR imaging, various methods have been proposed to recover high-quality spatiotemporal CMR images from highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Xuanyu Tian , Lixuan Chen , Qing Wu , Xiao Wang , Jie Feng , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Image restoration aims to enhance low quality images, producing high quality images that exhibit natural visual characteristics and fine semantic attributes. Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful technique for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiangtong Tan , Feng Zhao

We introduce MRF-DiPh, a novel physics informed denoising diffusion approach for multiparametric tissue mapping from highly accelerated, transient-state quantitative MRI acquisitions like Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF). Our method…

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Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

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…

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