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Metal implants in MRI cause severe artifacts that degrade image quality and hinder clinical diagnosis. Traditional approaches address metal artifact reduction (MAR) and accelerated MRI acquisition as separate problems. We propose MASC, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengyi Lu , Ming Lu , Chongyu Qu , Junchao Zhu , Junlin Guo , Marilyn Lionts , Yanfan Zhu , Yuechen Yang , Tianyuan Yao , Jayasai Rajagopal , Bennett Allan Landman , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

Parallel imaging techniques reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan time but image quality degrades as the acceleration factor increases. In clinical practice, conservative acceleration factors are chosen because no mechanism exists to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ilias I. Giannakopoulos , Lokesh B Gautham Muthukumar , Yvonne W. Lui , Riccardo Lattanzi

The acquisition of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is inherently slow. Inspired by recent advances in deep learning, we propose a framework for reconstructing MR images from undersampled data using a deep cascade of convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Jo Schlemper , Jose Caballero , Joseph V. Hajnal , Anthony Price , Daniel Rueckert

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the noninvasive imaging modalities that can produce high-quality images. However, the scan procedure is relatively slow, which causes patient discomfort and motion artifacts in images. Accelerating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Samira Vafay Eslahi , Jian Tao , Jim Ji

A central limitation of multiple-acquisition magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the degradation in scan efficiency as the number of distinct datasets grows. Sparse recovery techniques can alleviate this limitation via randomly undersampled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 L Kerem Senel , Toygan Kilic , Alper Gungor , Emre Kopanoglu , H Emre Guven , Emine U Saritas , Aykut Koc , Tolga Cukur

Segmenting anatomical structures in medical images has been successfully addressed with deep learning methods for a range of applications. However, this success is heavily dependent on the quality of the image that is being segmented. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Ilkay Oksuz , James R. Clough , Bram Ruijsink , Esther Puyol Anton , Aurelien Bustin , Gastao Cruz , Claudia Prieto , Andrew P. King , Julia A. Schnabel

Shortening acquisition time and reducing motion artifacts are the most critical challenges in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Deep learning-based image restoration has emerged as a promising solution capable of generating high-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hao Li , Jianan Liu , Marianne Schell , Tao Huang , Arne Lauer , Katharina Schregel , Jessica Jesser , Dominik F Vollherbst , Martin Bendszus , Sabine Heiland , Tim Hilgenfeld

In-scanner motion degrades the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thereby reducing its utility in the detection of clinically relevant abnormalities. We introduce a deep learning-based MRI artifact reduction model (DMAR) to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yijun Zhao , Jacek Ossowski , Xuming Wang , Shangjin Li , Orrin Devinsky , Samantha P. Martin , Heath R. Pardoe

In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is considered today the golden-standard modality for soft tissues. The long acquisition times, however, make it more prone to motion artifacts as well as contribute to the relatively high costs of this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Tomer Weiss , Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Oleg Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky , Alex Bronstein

Accelerated MRI reconstructs images of clinical anatomies from sparsely sampled signal data to reduce patient scan times. While recent works have leveraged deep learning to accomplish this task, such approaches have often only been explored…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Michael S. Yao , Michael S. Hansen

Accelerated MRI protocols routinely involve a predefined sampling pattern that undersamples the k-space. Finding an optimal pattern can enhance the reconstruction quality, however this optimization is a challenging task. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Cagan Alkan , Morteza Mardani , Congyu Liao , Zhitao Li , Shreyas S. Vasanawala , John M. Pauly

Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ideally requires a high spatial and high temporal resolution, but hardware limitations prevent acquisitions from simultaneously achieving both. Existing image reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Alexander J. Mertens , Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinical diagnosis. However, its long acquisition time remains a critical issue. Parallel imaging (PI) is a common approach to reduce acquisition time by periodically skipping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hao Li , Yusheng Zhou , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lyu , Weidong Cai , Wei Chen

Image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data plays an important role in accelerating the acquisition of MR data, and a lot of deep learning-based methods have been exploited recently. Despite the achieved inspiring results, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Chen Hu , Cheng Li , Haifeng Wang , Qiegen Liu , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Undersampling the k-space during MR acquisitions saves time, however results in an ill-posed inversion problem, leading to an infinite set of images as possible solutions. Traditionally, this is tackled as a reconstruction problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Kerem C. Tezcan , Neerav Karani , Christian F. Baumgartner , Ender Konukoglu

To accelerate MRI, the field of compressed sensing is traditionally concerned with optimizing the image quality after a partial undersampling of the measurable $\textit{k}$-space. In our work, we propose to change the focus from the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Artem Razumov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov

Purpose: A fast data-driven optimization approach, named bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS), is proposed for learning efficacious sampling patterns (SPs) with the purpose of reducing scan time in large-dimensional parallel MRI.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Marcelo V. W. Zibetti , Gabor T. Herman , Ravinder R. Regatte

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is mainly limited by long scanning time and vulnerable to human tissue motion artifacts, in 3D clinical scenarios. Thus, k-space undersampling is used to accelerate the acquisition of MRI while leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Shengke Xue , Ruiliang Bai , Xinyu Jin

We address the problem of reconstructing high quality images from undersampled MRI data. This is a challenging task due to the highly ill-posed nature of the problem. In particular, in dynamic MRI scans, the interaction between the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Noémie Debroux , Guy Williams , Martin J. Graves , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb