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Purpose. Brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) are essential for the diagnosis of neurological diseases. Recently, deep learning methods for unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) have been proposed for the analysis of brain MRI. These…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Marcel Bengs , Finn Behrendt , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI) is widely used for early cerebral infarct detection caused by ischemic stroke. Manual segmentation is done by a radiologist as a common clinical process, nonetheless, challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Noranart Vesdapunt , Nongluk Covavisaruch

MR images of fetuses allow clinicians to detect brain abnormalities in an early stage of development. The cornerstone of volumetric and morphologic analysis in fetal MRI is segmentation of the fetal brain into different tissue classes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 N. Khalili , N. Lessmann , E. Turk , N. Claessens , R. de Heus , T. Kolk , M. A. Viergever , M. J. N. L. Benders , I. Isgum

In the last decade diffusion MRI has become a powerful tool to non-invasively study white-matter integrity in the brain. Recently many research groups have focused their attention on multi-shell spherical acquisitions with the aim of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-02 A. Daducci , J. D. McEwen , D. Van De Ville , J. -Ph. Thiran , Y. Wiaux

Accurate segmentation of brain tissues such as gray matter and white matter from magnetic resonance imaging is essential for studying brain anatomy, diagnosing neurological disorders, and monitoring disease progression. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chang Sun , Rui Shi , Tsukasa Koike , Tetsuro Sekine , Akio Morita , Tetsuya Sakai

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

Objectives: Present a novel deep learning-based skull stripping algorithm for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that works directly in the information rich k-space. Materials and Methods: Using two datasets from different institutions with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-10 Moritz Rempe , Florian Mentzel , Kelsey L. Pomykala , Johannes Haubold , Felix Nensa , Kevin Kröninger , Jan Egger , Jens Kleesiek

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

Purpose: To develop a 3D distortion-free reduced-FOV diffusion-prepared GRE sequence and demonstrate its in-vivo application for diffusion imaging of the spinal cord in healthy volunteers. Methods: A 3D multi-shot reduced-FOV…

This paper presents an annotated dataset of brain MRI images designed to advance the field of brain symmetry study. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained interest in analyzing brain symmetry in neonatal infants, and challenges remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Arnaud Gucciardi , Safouane El Ghazouali , Francesca Venturini , Vida Groznik , Umberto Michelucci

Medical image segmentation being a substantial component of image processing plays a significant role to analyze gross anatomy, to locate an infirmity and to plan the surgical procedures. Segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Mustansar Fiaz , Kamran Ali , Abdul Rehman , M. Junaid Gul , Soon Ki Jung

Background: Brain tumor segmentation has a significant impact on the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. Accurate brain tumor segmentation remains challenging due to their irregular shapes, vague boundaries, and high variability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhanyuan Jia , Ni Yao , Danyang Sun , Chuang Han , Yanting Li , Jiaofen Nan , Fubao Zhu , Chen Zhao , Weihua Zhou

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) plays a crucial role in the noninvasive investigation of tissue microstructural properties and structural connectivity in the \textit{in vivo} human brain. However, to effectively capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Jing Yang , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Wenxin Fan , Juan Zou , Ruoyou Wu , Shanshan Wang

Accurate tissue segmentation of thick-slice fetal brain magnetic resonance (MR) scans is crucial for both reconstruction of isotropic brain MR volumes and the quantification of fetal brain development. However, this task is challenging due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Shijie Huang , Xukun Zhang , Zhiming Cui , He Zhang , Geng Chen , Dinggang Shen

Segmentation of cerebral blood vessels from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an open problem that could be solved with deep learning (DL). However, annotated data for training is often scarce. Due to the absence of open-source tools, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Georgia Kenyon , Stephan Lau , Michael A. Chappell , Mark Jenkinson

Accurate brain tumor diagnosis relies on the assessment of multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) sequences. However, in clinical practice, the acquisition of certain sequences may be affected by factors like motion artifacts or contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Moinak Bhattacharya , Saumya Gupta , Annie Singh , Chao Chen , Gagandeep Singh , Prateek Prasanna

Accurate segmentation of infant brain MRI is essential for quantifying developmental changes in structure and complexity. However, ongoing myelination and reduced tissue contrast make automated segmentation particularly challenging. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Nathalie Alexander , Arnaud Gucciardi , Umberto Michelucci

BACKGROUND: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is based on the Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent contrast and has been exploited for the indirect study of the neuronal activity within both the brain and the spinal cord. However,…

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides the possibility of estimating the location and course of eloquent structures in the human brain. Knowledge about this is of high importance for preoperative planning of neurosurgical interventions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-03-11 Miriam H. A. Bauer , Jan Egger , Daniela Kuhnt , Sebastiano Barbieri , Jan Klein , Horst K. Hahn , Bernd Freisleben , Christopher Nimsky

Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) is a method that can provide quantitative information about perfusion in the human body, in vivo, and without contrast agent. Unfortunately, the IVIM perfusion parameter maps are known to be relatively…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Harri Merisaari , Christian Federau