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Accurate and contrast-free Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) prediction from Cine MRI sequences remains a critical challenge. Existing methods typically necessitate supervised learning based on human-refined masks in the ventricular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyang Su , Shaohao Rui , Jinyi Xiang , Lianming Wu , Xiaosong Wang

High-resolution three-dimensional (3D) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable medical imaging technique, but its widespread application in clinical practice is hampered by long acquisition times. Here we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Jackie Ma , Maximilian März , Stephanie Funk , Jeanette Schulz-Menger , Gitta Kutyniok , Tobias Schaeffter , Christoph Kolbitsch

Multi-sequence cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) provides essential pathology information (scar and edema) to diagnose myocardial infarction. However, automatic pathology segmentation can be challenging due to the difficulty of effectively…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Kai-Ni Wang , Xin Yang , Juzheng Miao , Lei Li , Jing Yao , Ping Zhou , Wufeng Xue , Guang-Quan Zhou , Xiahai Zhuang , Dong Ni

Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allows for understanding of the heart's function and condition in a non-invasive manner. Undersampling of the $k$-space is employed to reduce the scan duration, thus increasing patient comfort and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Yuyang Xue , Yuning Du , Gianluca Carloni , Eva Pachetti , Connor Jordan , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Accurate segmentation of medical images is an important step towards analyzing and tracking disease related morphological alterations in the anatomy. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jana Kemnitz , Christian F. Baumgartner , Wolfgang Wirth , Felix Eckstein , Sebastian K. Eder , Ender Konukoglu

Subtle periodic signals, such as blood volume pulse and respiration, can be extracted from RGB video, enabling noncontact health monitoring at low cost. Advancements in remote pulse estimation -- or remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) -- are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jeremy Speth , Nathan Vance , Patrick Flynn , Adam Czajka

While making a tremendous impact in various fields, deep neural networks usually require large amounts of labeled data for training which are expensive to collect in many applications, especially in the medical domain. Unlabeled data, on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yingda Xia , Fengze Liu , Dong Yang , Jinzheng Cai , Lequan Yu , Zhuotun Zhu , Daguang Xu , Alan Yuille , Holger Roth

Deep learning-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have led to promising results in medical images segmentation and can alleviate doctors' expensive annotations by leveraging unlabeled data. However, most of the existing SSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiangde Luo , Jieneng Chen , Tao Song , Yinan Chen , Guotai Wang , Shaoting Zhang

Accurate myocardium segmentation across all phases in one cardiac cycle in cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scans is crucial for comprehensively cardiac function analysis. Despite advancements in deep learning (DL) for automatic cine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Zhennong Chen , Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li

Robustness against data inconsistencies, imaging artifacts and acquisition speed are crucial factors limiting the possible range of applications for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Therefore, we report a novel calibrationless parallel…

Recent developed deep unsupervised methods allow us to jointly learn representation and cluster unlabelled data. These deep clustering methods mainly focus on the correlation among samples, e.g., selecting high precision pairs to gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jianlong Wu , Keyu Long , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Cheng Li , Zhouchen Lin , Hongbin Zha

Over the course of the past two decades, a substantial body of research has substantiated the viability of utilising cardiac signals as a biometric modality. This paper presents a novel approach for patient identification in healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Caterina Fuster-Barceló , Carmen Cámara , Pedro Peris-López

The pandemic resulted in vast repositories of unstructured data, including radiology reports, due to increased medical examinations. Previous research on automated diagnosis of COVID-19 primarily focuses on X-ray images, despite their lower…

Time-resolved MR angiography (tMRA) has been widely used for dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) due to its highly accelerated acquisition. In tMRA, the periphery of the k-space data are sparsely sampled so that neighbouring frames can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Eunju Cha , Hyungjin Chung , Eung Yeop Kim , Jong Chul Ye

The effectiveness of a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) scan depends on the ability of the operator to correctly tune the acquisition parameters to the subject being scanned and on the potential occurrence of imaging artefacts such…

Echocardiography is a widely used modality for cardiac assessment due to its non-invasive and cost-effective nature, but the sparse and heterogeneous spatiotemporal views of the heart pose distinct challenges. Existing masked autoencoder…

Temporal patterns of cardiac motion provide important information for cardiac disease diagnosis. This pattern could be obtained by three-directional CINE multi-slice left ventricular myocardial velocity mapping (3Dir MVM), which is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Xiaodan Xing , Yinzhe Wu , David Firmin , Peter Gatehouse , Guang Yang

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is a fundamental tool for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions, yet anomaly detection in ECG signals remains challenging due to their inherent complexity and variability. We propose Multi-scale Masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ya Zhou , Yujie Yang , Jianhuang Gan , Xiangjie Li , Jing Yuan , Wei Zhao

Teeth segmentation is an important topic in dental restorations that is essential for crown generation, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In the dental field, the variability of input data is high and there are no publicly available 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Ammar Alsheghri , Farnoosh Ghadiri , Ying Zhang , Olivier Lessard , Julia Keren , Farida Cheriet , Francois Guibault

Robust cardiac image segmentation is still an open challenge due to the inability of the existing methods to achieve satisfactory performance on unseen data of different domains. Since the acquisition and annotation of medical data are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Xiao Liu , Spyridon Thermos , Agisilaos Chartsias , Alison O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris