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Super-resolution of 3D Magnetic Resonance Images by Random Shifting and Convolutional Neural Networks
Enhancing resolution is a permanent goal in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, in order to keep improving diagnostic capability and registration methods. Super-resolution (SR) techniques are applied at the postprocessing stage, and their use and development have progressively increased during the last years. In particular, example-based methods have been mostly proposed in recent state-of-the-art works. In this paper, a combination of a deep-learning SR system and a random shifting technique to improve the quality of MR images is proposed, implemented and tested. The model was compared to four competitors: cubic spline interpolation, non-local means upsampling, low-rank total variation and a three-dimensional convolutional neural network trained with patches of HR brain images (SRCNN3D). The newly proposed method showed better results in Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Structural Similarity index, and Bhattacharyya coefficient. Computation times were at the
same level as those of these up-to-date methods. When applied to downsampled MR structural T1 images, the new method also yielded better qualitative results, both in the restored images and in the images of residuals.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Super-Resolution in Phase Space
This work considers the problem of super-resolution. The goal is to resolve a
Dirac distribution from knowledge of its discrete, low-pass, Fourier
measurements. Classically, such problems have been dealt with parameter
estimation methods. Recently, it has been shown that convex-optimization based
formulations facilitate a continuous time solution to the super-resolution
problem. Here we treat super-resolution from low-pass measurements in Phase
Space. The Phase Space transformation parametrically generalizes a number of
well known unitary mappings such as the Fractional Fourier, Fresnel, Laplace
and Fourier transforms. Consequently, our work provides a general super-
resolution strategy which is backward compatible with the usual Fourier domain
result. We consider low-pass measurements of Dirac distributions in Phase Space
and show that the super-resolution problem can be cast as Total Variation
minimization. Remarkably, even though are setting is quite general, the bounds
on the minimum separation distance of Dirac distributions is comparable to
existing methods.Comment: 10 Pages, short paper in part accepted to ICASSP 201
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