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Alzheimer's disease (AD) confirmation often relies on positron emission tomography (PET) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, which are costly and invasive. Consequently, structural MRI biomarkers such as cortical thickness (CT) are…

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Anomaly detection for Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) can be solved with unsupervised methods by learning the distribution of healthy images and identifying anomalies as outliers. In presence of an additional dataset of unlabelled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Alexandra-Ioana Albu , Alina Enescu , Luigi Malagò

Deep generative models have emerged as a transformative tool in medical imaging, offering substantial potential for synthetic data generation. However, recent empirical studies highlight a critical vulnerability: these models can memorize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Antonio Scardace , Lemuel Puglisi , Francesco Guarnera , Sebastiano Battiato , Daniele Ravì

The Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) is generally considered to be a milestone in the recent history of Image Quality Assessment (IQA). Alas, SSIM's accepted development from the product of three heuristic factors continues to obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Kieran Gerard Larkin

Heterogeneity of brain diseases is a challenge for precision diagnosis/prognosis. We describe and validate Smile-GAN (SeMI-supervised cLustEring-Generative Adversarial Network), a novel semi-supervised deep-clustering method, which dissects…

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) combined with deep learning has achieved remarkable progress in the prediction and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing studies have used CNN and transformer to build a well-performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zheng Yang , Yanteng Zhang , Xupeng Kou , Yang Liu , Chao Ren

The study of physiology demonstrates that the form (shape)of anatomical structures dictates their functions, and analyzing the form of anatomies plays a crucial role in clinical research. Statistical shape modeling (SSM) is a widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Krithika Iyer , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Disentangling anatomical and contrast information from medical images has gained attention recently, demonstrating benefits for various image analysis tasks. Current methods learn disentangled representations using either paired multi-modal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Lianrui Zuo , Yihao Liu , Yuan Xue , Shuo Han , Murat Bilgel , Susan M. Resnick , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is commonly used in the clinical setting to non-invasively monitor the body. There exists a large variability in MR imaging due to differences in scanner hardware, software, and protocol design. Ideally, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Savannah P. Hays , Samuel W. Remedios , Lianrui Zuo , Ellen M. Mowry , Scott D. Newsome , Peter A. Calabresi , Aaron Carass , Blake E. Dewey , Jerry L. Prince

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) can identify subtle brain changes due to its high contrast for soft tissues and high spatial resolution. It has been widely used in diagnosing neurological brain diseases, such as Alzheimer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Lianghao Han , Haoming Chen , Darren Dancey , Daoqiang Zhang

The traditional methods of image assessment, such as mean squared error (MSE), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), are all based on the absolute error of images. Pearson's inner-product correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jianji Wang , Nanning Zheng , Badong Chen , Jose C. Principe

Foundation segmentation models such as SAM and SAM-2 perform well on natural images but struggle with brain MRIs where structures like the caudate and thalamus lack sharp boundaries and have low contrast. Rather than fine tune these models…

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Multimodal MRI provides complementary and clinically relevant information to probe tissue condition and to characterize various diseases. However, it is often difficult to acquire sufficiently many modalities from the same subject due to…

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Prediction of the cognitive evolution of a person susceptible to develop a neurodegenerative disorder is crucial to provide an appropriate treatment as soon as possible. In this paper we propose a 3D siamese network designed to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Cecilia Ostertag , Marie Beurton-Aimar , Thierry Urruty

The ability to recover MRI signal from noise is key to achieve fast acquisition, accurate quantification, and high image quality. Past work has shown convolutional neural networks can be used with abundant and paired low and high-SNR images…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the non-invasive modality of choice for body tissue composition analysis due to its excellent soft tissue contrast and lack of ionizing radiation. However, quantification of body composition requires an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Ismail Irmakci , Sarfaraz Hussein , Aydogan Savran , Rita R. Kalyani , David Reiter , Chee W. Chia , Kenneth W. Fishbein , Richard G. Spencer , Luigi Ferrucci , Ulas Bagci

This paper presents a comprehensive study focused on disentangling hippocampal shape variations from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) datasets within the context of neurological disorders. Leveraging a Mesh Variational Autoencoder (VAE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jakaria Rabbi , Johannes Kiechle , Christian Beaulieu , Nilanjan Ray , Dana Cobzas

Purpose: This study presents a variable resolution (VR) sampling and deep learning reconstruction approach for multi-spectral MRI near metal implants, aiming to reduce scan times while maintaining image quality. Background: The rising use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Azadeh Sharafi , Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Mehran Baboli , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Demographic attributes such as age, sex, and race can be predicted from medical images, raising concerns about bias in clinical AI systems. In brain MRI, this signal may arise from anatomical variation, acquisition-dependent contrast…

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Automated quality assessment of structural brain MRI is an important prerequisite for reliable neuroimaging analysis, but yet remains challenging due to motion artifacts and poor generalization across acquisition sites. Existing approaches…

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