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Purpose: To investigate feasibility of accelerating prostate diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) by reducing the number of acquired averages and denoising the resulting image using a proposed guided denoising convolutional neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Elena A. Kaye , Emily A. Aherne , Cihan Duzgol , Ida Häggström , Erich Kobler , Yousef Mazaheri , Maggie M Fung , Zhigang Zhang , Ricardo Otazo , Herbert A. Vargas , Oguz Akin

Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches based on supervised learning paradigms require large amounts of annotated data that are rarely available in the medical domain. Unsupervised Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an alternative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Alvaro Fernandez-Quilez , Linas Vidziunas , Ørjan Kløvfjell Thoresen , Ketil Oppedal , Svein Reidar Kjosavik , Trygve Eftestøl

The segmentation of prostate whole gland and transition zone in Diffusion Weighted MRI (DWI) are the first step in designing computer-aided detection algorithms for prostate cancer. However, variations in MRI acquisition parameters and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Saman Motamed , Isha Gujrathi , Dominik Deniffel , Anton Oentoro , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

Magnetic resonance imaging technique known as DWI (diffusion-weighted imaging) allows measurement of water diffusivity on a pixel basis for evaluating pathology throughout the body and is now routinely incorporated into many body MRI…

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Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique sensitised to the diffusivity of water molecules, offering the capability to inspect tissue microstructures and is the only in-vivo method to…

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This paper proposes an Incremental Learning (IL) approach to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of deep learning models in analyzing T2-weighted (T2w) MRI medical images prostate cancer detection using the PI-CAI dataset. We used multiple…

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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) holds significant importance in clinical diagnosis and neuroscience research. However, conventional model-based fitting methods often suffer from sensitivity to noise, leading to decreased accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jialong Li , Zhicheng Zhang , Yunwei Chen , Qiqi Lu , Ye Wu , Xiaoming Liu , QianJin Feng , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

Data augmentation refers to a group of techniques whose goal is to battle limited amount of available data to improve model generalization and push sample distribution toward the true distribution. While different augmentation strategies…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-03 Ruqian Hao , Khashayar Namdar , Lin Liu , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is the only noninvasive method for quantifying microstructure and reconstructing white-matter pathways in the living human brain. Fluctuations from multiple sources create significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Shreyas Fadnavis , Joshua Batson , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Multi-echo Gradient Echo (mGRE) sequences provide valuable quantitative parametric maps, such as Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and transverse relaxation rate (R2*), sensitive to tissue iron and myelin. However, structural…

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Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful non-invasive tool which is widely used in clinical routine. Mostly, apparent diffusion coefficient maps are acquired, which cannot be directly related to cellular structure. More recently it…

Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in North America. As an integrated part of computer-aided detection (CAD) tools, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Sunghwan Yoo , Isha Gujrathi , Masoom A. Haider , Farzad Khalvati

We propose an image-conditioned diffusion model to estimate high angular resolution diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) from a low angular resolution acquisition. Our model, which we call QID$^2$, takes as input a set of low angular resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Zijian Chen , Jueqi Wang , Archana Venkataraman

Multi-parametric prostate MRI combines T2-weighted (T2W), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and high b-value diffusion-weighted (HBV) sequences for non-invasive detection of clinically significant prostate cancer. In practice, the…

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In this paper we propose a reinforcement learning based weakly supervised system for localisation. We train a controller function to localise regions of interest within an image by introducing a novel reward definition that utilises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Martynas Pocius , Wen Yan , Dean C. Barratt , Mark Emberton , Matthew J. Clarkson , Yipeng Hu , Shaheer U. Saeed

We propose a novel automatic method for accurate segmentation of the prostate in T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Our method is based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Because of the large variability in the shape, size,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Davood Karimi , Golnoosh Samei , Yanan Shao , Septimiu Salcudean

Estimating $T_2$ relaxation time distributions from multi-echo $T_2$-weighted MRI ($T_2W$) data can provide valuable biomarkers for assessing inflammation, demyelination, edema, and cartilage composition in various pathologies, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Hadas Ben-Atya , Moti Freiman

Current deep learning approaches for diffusion MRI modeling circumvent the need for densely-sampled diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) by directly predicting microstructural indices from sparsely-sampled DWIs. However, they implicitly make…

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Prostate cancer diagnosis through MR imaging have currently relied on radiologists' interpretation, whilst modern AI-based methods have been developed to detect clinically significant cancers independent of radiologists. In this study, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Xiangcen Wu , Yipei Wang , Qianye Yang , Natasha Thorley , Shonit Punwani , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Ester Bonmati , Yipeng Hu

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) enables the acquisition of multiple image contrasts, such as T1-weighted (T1w) and T2-weighted (T2w) scans, each offering distinct diagnostic insights. However, acquiring all desired modalities increases…

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