English
Related papers

Related papers: Fighting MRI Anisotropy: Learning Multiple Cardiac…

200 papers

Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the standard imaging technique for visualizing blood flow and guiding endovascular treatments. The quality of DSA is often negatively impacted by body motion during acquisition,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Ruisheng Su , Matthijs van der Sluijs , Sandra Cornelissen , Wim van Zwam , Aad van der Lugt , Wiro Niessen , Danny Ruijters , Theo van Walsum , Adrian Dalca

Cardiac parametric mapping is useful for evaluating cardiac fibrosis and edema. Parametric mapping relies on single-shot heartbeat-by-heartbeat imaging, which is susceptible to intra-shot motion during the imaging window. However, reducing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Calder D. Sheagren , Brenden T. Kadota , Jaykumar H. Patel , Mark Chiew , Graham A. Wright

Presented are two techniques that are designed to help streamline the discretization of complex vascular geometries within the numerical modeling process. The first method integrates multiple software tools into a single pipeline which can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-05 Kevin Garner , Fotis Drakopoulos , Chander Sadasivan , Nikos Chrisochoides

Cardiovascular disease arises from interactions between inherited risk, molecular programmes, and tissue-scale remodelling that are observed clinically through imaging. Health systems now routinely generate large volumes of cardiac MRI, CT…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-14 Minh H. N. Le , Tuan Vinh , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Tao Li , Bao Quang Gia Le , Han H. Huynh , Monika Raj , Carl Yang , Min Xu , Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le

We consider the problem of automatically prescribing oblique planes (short axis, 4 chamber and 2 chamber views) in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). A concern with technologist-driven acquisitions of these planes is the quality and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Ramasubramanian Sundararajan , Hima Patel , Dattesh Shanbhag , Vivek Vaidya

Myocardial pathology segmentation (MyoPS) is critical for the risk stratification and treatment planning of myocardial infarction (MI). Multi-sequence cardiac magnetic resonance (MS-CMR) images can provide valuable information. For…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Wangbin Ding , Lei Li , Junyi Qiu , Sihan Wang , Liqin Huang , Yinyin Chen , Shan Yang , Xiahai Zhuang

Methods that are resilient to artifacts in the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) while performing ventricle segmentation, are crucial for ensuring quality in structural and functional analysis of those tissues. While there has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Carles Garcia-Cabrera , Eric Arazo , Kathleen M. Curran , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

The segmentation and classification of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging are critical for diagnosing heart conditions, yet current approaches face challenges in accuracy and generalizability. In this study, we aim to further advance the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Vitalii Slobodzian , Pavlo Radiuk , Oleksander Barmak , Iurii Krak

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions require extensive scan times, limiting patient throughput and increasing susceptibility to motion artifacts. Accelerated parallel MRI techniques reduce acquisition time by undersampling k-space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mingi Kang

The perfect alignment of 3D echocardiographic images captured from various angles has improved image quality and broadened the field of view. This study proposes an accelerated sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm for 3D-3D rigid…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Thanuja Uruththirakodeeswaran , Harald Becher , Michelle Noga , Lawrence H. Le , Pierre Boulanger , Jonathan Windram , Kumaradevan Punithakumar

Diffusion Tensor Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DT-CMR) is the only in vivo method to non-invasively examine the microstructure of the human heart. Current research in DT-CMR aims to improve the understanding of how the cardiac microstructure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yinzhe Wu , Jiahao Huang , Fanwen Wang , Pedro Ferreira , Andrew Scott , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin , Guang Yang

Cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used for diagnosis of cardiac diseases thanks to its ability to present cardiovascular features in excellent contrast. As compared to computed tomography (CT), MRI, however, requires a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Yibin Xie , Debiao Li , Ge Wang

A large portion of volumetric medical data, especially magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, is anisotropic, as the through-plane resolution is typically much lower than the in-plane resolution. Both 3D and purely 2D deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Alex Ling Yu Hung , Haoxin Zheng , Kai Zhao , Xiaoxi Du , Kaifeng Pang , Qi Miao , Steven S. Raman , Demetri Terzopoulos , Kyunghyun Sung

With respect to spatial overlap, CNN-based segmentation of short axis cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images has achieved a level of performance consistent with inter observer variation. However, conventional training procedures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Nick Byrne , James R. Clough , Giovanni Montana , Andrew P. King

Feature tracking Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has recently emerged as an area of interest for quantification of regional cardiac function from balanced, steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Davis M. Vigneault , Weidi Xie , David A. Bluemke , J. Alison Noble

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a clinically gold-standard technique for diagnosing cardiac diseases, thanks to its ability to provide diverse information with multiple modalities and anatomical views. Accelerated…

Modern diagnostic workflows are increasingly multimodal, integrating diverse data sources such as medical images, structured records, and physiological time series. Among these, electrocardiograms (ECGs) and chest X-rays (CXRs) are two of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Vineet Punyamoorty , Aditya Malusare , Vaneet Aggarwal

Medical image segmentation is one of the important tasks of computer-aided diagnosis in medical image analysis. Since most medical images have the characteristics of blurred boundaries and uneven intensity distribution, through existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sixing Yin , Yameng Han , Shufang 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…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) stands as a powerful modality in clinical diagnosis. However, it is known that MRI faces challenges such as long acquisition time and vulnerability to motion-induced artifacts. Despite the success of many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Lixuan Chen , Xuanyu Tian , Jiangjie Wu , Ruimin Feng , Guoyan Lao , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei