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Computational models of biophysical tissue properties have been widely used in diffusion MRI (dMRI) research to elucidate the link between microstructural properties and MR signal formation. For brain tissue, the research community has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Santiago Coelho , Jose M. Pozo , Sune N. Jespersen , Alejandro F. Frangi

Super-resolution is widely used in medical imaging to enhance low-quality data, reducing scan time and improving abnormality detection. Conventional super-resolution approaches typically rely on paired datasets of downsampled and original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoyi Wen , Fei Jiang

Microaneurysms (MAs), the earliest pathognomonic signs of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), present as sub-60 $\mu m$ lesions in fundus images with highly variable photometric and morphological characteristics, rendering manual screening not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yifei Sun , Yuzhi He , Junhao Jia , Jinhong Wang , Ruiquan Ge , Changmiao Wang , Hongxia Xu

End-to-end deep learning improves breast cancer classification on diffusion-weighted MR images (DWI) using a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture. A limitation of CNN as opposed to previous model-based approaches is the…

Knowledge of the noise distribution in magnitude diffusion MRI images is the centerpiece to quantify uncertainties arising from the acquisition process. The use of parallel imaging methods, the number of receiver coils and imaging filters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Samuel St-Jean , Alberto De Luca , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zeyun Deng , Joseph Campbell

Diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) provides a non invasive virtual reconstruction of the brain's white matter structures through tractography. Analyzing dMRI measures along the trajectory of white matter bundles can provide a more specific…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-21 Samuel St-Jean , Maxime Chamberland , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Multi-echo Gradient Echo (mGRE) sequences provide valuable quantitative parametric maps, such as Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and transverse relaxation rate (R2*), sensitive to tissue iron and myelin. However, structural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Sizhe Fang , Deqiang Qiu

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) provides critical insights into the microstructural and connectional organization of the human brain. However, the availability of high-field, open-access datasets that include raw k-space data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Shanshan Wang , Shoujun Yu , Jian Cheng , Sen Jia , Changjun Tie , Jiayu Zhu , Haohao Peng , Yijing Dong , Jianzhong He , Fan Zhang , Yaowen Xing , Xiuqin Jia , Qi Yang , Qiyuan Tian , Hua Guo , Guobin Li , Hairong Zheng

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) derived scalar maps are effective for assessing neurodegenerative diseases and microstructural properties of white matter in large number of brain conditions. However, DW-MRI inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Gabriel Girard , Manon Edde , Félix Dumais , Yoan David , Matthieu Dumont , Guillaume Theaud , Jean-Christophe Houde , Arnaud Boré , Maxime Descoteaux , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Diffusion-based inverse problem solvers (DIS) have recently shown outstanding performance in compressed-sensing parallel MRI reconstruction by combining diffusion priors with physical measurement models. However, they typically rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Tingjun Liu , Chicago Y. Park , Yuyang Hu , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We present a microstructure imaging technique for estimating compartment-specific T2 and T2* simultaneously in the human brain. Microstructure imaging with diffusion MRI (dMRI) has enabled the modelling of intra-neurite and extra-neurite…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Ting Gong , Merlin J. Fair , Kawin Setsompop , Hui Zhang

The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

This paper presents a novel Diffusion-Wavelet (DiWa) approach for Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR). It leverages the strengths of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT). By enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Brian Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Federico Raue , Sebastian Palacio , Andreas Dengel

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

In vivo cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) is a promising Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique for evaluating the micro-structure of myocardial tissue in the living heart, providing insights into cardiac function and enabling the…

Biophysical modeling is the mediator of evaluating the cellular structure of biological tissues using diffusion-weighted MRI. It is however the bottleneck of microstructural MRI. Beyond the complexity of diffusion, the current development…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Bibek Dhital , Marco Reisert , Elias Kellner , Valerij G. Kiselev

Purpose: In the present work we describe the correction of diffusion-weighted MRI for site and scanner biases using a novel method based on invariant representation. Theory and Methods: Pooled imaging data from multiple sources are subject…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Chantal M. W. Tax , Paul M. Thompson

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging modality, but unfortunately suffers from long scan times which, aside from increasing operational costs, can lead to image artifacts due to patient motion. Motion during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Ajil Jalal , Jonathan I. Tamir

Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus