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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial tool for clinical diagnosis while facing the challenge of long scanning time. To reduce the acquisition time, fast MRI reconstruction aims to restore high-quality images from the undersampled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Yucong Meng , Zhiwei Yang , Minghong Duan , Yonghong Shi , Zhijian Song

Parallel imaging is a widely-used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, current methods still perform poorly in reconstructing artifact-free MRI images from highly undersampled k-space data. Recently, implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

In spite of its extensive adaptation in almost every medical diagnostic and examinatorial application, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is still a slow imaging modality which limits its use for dynamic imaging. In recent years, Parallel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 George Yiasemis , Chaoping Zhang , Clara I. Sánchez , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Multi-contrast MRI sequences allow for the acquisition of images with varying tissue contrast within a single scan. The resulting multi-contrast images can be used to extract quantitative information on tissue microstructure. To make such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Natascha Niessen , Carolin M. Pirkl , Ana Beatriz Solana , Hannah Eichhorn , Veronika Spieker , Wenqi Huang , Tim Sprenger , Marion I. Menzel , Julia A. Schnabel

Sparse reconstruction is an important aspect of MRI, helping to reduce acquisition time and improve spatial-temporal resolution. Popular methods are based mostly on compressed sensing (CS), which relies on the random sampling of k-space to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Marlon E. Bran Lorenzana , Shekhar S. Chandra , Feng Liu

Compressed sensing (CS) in Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) essentially involves the optimization of 1) the sampling pattern in k-space under MR hardware constraints and 2) image reconstruction from the undersampled k-space data. Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Chaithya G R , Zaccharie Ramzi , Philippe Ciuciu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to be a slow imaging modality and undersampling in k-space has been used to increase the imaging speed. However, image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data is an ill-posed inverse problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Jing Cheng , Haifeng Wang , Leslie Ying , Dong Liang

Learning-based synthetic multi-contrast MRI commonly involves deep models trained using high-quality images of source and target contrasts, regardless of whether source and target domain samples are paired or unpaired. This results in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Mahmut Yurt , Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Muzaffer Özbey , Berk Tınaz , Kader Karlı Oğuz , Tolga Çukur

Single-shot magnetic resonance (MR) imaging acquires the entire k-space data in a single shot and it has various applications in whole-body imaging. However, the long acquisition time for the entire k-space in single-shot fast spin echo…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Hemant Kumar Aggarwal , Sudhanya Chatterjee , Dattesh Shanbhag , Uday Patil , K. V. S. Hari

Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions from a single scan have tremendous potential to streamline exams and reduce imaging time. However, maintaining clinically feasible scan time necessitates significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Ke Wang , Enhao Gong , Yuxin Zhang , Suchadrima Banerjee , Greg Zaharchuk , John Pauly

Purpose: To develop a scan-specific model that estimates and corrects k-space errors made when reconstructing accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Methods: Scan-Specific Artifact Reduction in k-space (SPARK) trains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Yamin Arefeen , Onur Beker , Jaejin Cho , Heng Yu , Elfar Adalsteinsson , Berkin Bilgic

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

Population imaging studies rely upon good quality medical imagery before downstream image quantification. This study provides an automated approach to assess image quality from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging at scale. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Shahabedin Nabavi , Hossein Simchi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ahmad Ali Abin

In recent years, accelerated MRI reconstruction based on deep learning has led to significant improvements in image quality with impressive results for high acceleration factors. However, from a clinical perspective image quality is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jan Nikolas Morshuis , Christian Schlarmann , Thomas Küstner , Christian F. Baumgartner , Matthias Hein

Recent accelerated MRI reconstruction models have used Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to reconstruct relatively high-quality images from highly undersampled k-space data, enabling much faster MRI scanning. However, these techniques sometimes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Itzik Malkiel , Sangtae Ahn , Valentina Taviani , Anne Menini , Lior Wolf , Christopher J. Hardy

Accurate motion estimation at high acceleration factors enables rapid motion-compensated reconstruction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) without compromising the diagnostic image quality. In this work, we introduce an attention-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Aya Ghoul , Jiazhen Pan , Andreas Lingg , Jens Kübler , Patrick Krumm , Kerstin Hammernik , Daniel Rueckert , Sergios Gatidis , Thomas Küstner

Artifacts pose a significant challenge in medical imaging, impacting diagnostic accuracy and downstream analysis. While image-based approaches for detecting artifacts can be effective, they often rely on preprocessing methods that can lead…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Caner Özer , Patryk Rygiel , Bram de Wilde , İlkay Öksüz , Jelmer M. Wolterink

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), image acquisitions are often undersampled in the measurement domain to accelerate the scanning process, at the expense of image quality. However, image quality is a crucial factor that influences the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Mevan Ekanayake , Zhifeng Chen , Mehrtash Harandi , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging, despite its proven diagnostic utility, remains an inaccessible imaging modality for disease surveillance at the population level. A major factor rendering MR inaccessible is lengthy scan times. An MR scanner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Chen-Yu Yen , Raghav Singhal , Umang Sharma , Rajesh Ranganath , Sumit Chopra , Lerrel Pinto

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) motion artifacts can seriously affect clinical diagnostics, making it challenging to interpret images accurately. Existing methods for eliminating motion artifacts struggle to retain fine structural details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhongyu Mai , Zewei Zhan , Hanyu Guo , Yulang Huang , Weifeng Su