no code implementations • 20 Mar 2023 • Hannah Eichhorn, Kerstin Hammernik, Veronika Spieker, Samira M. Epp, Daniel Rueckert, Christine Preibisch, Julia A. Schnabel
T2*-weighted gradient echo MR imaging is strongly impacted by subject head motion due to motion-related changes in B0 inhomogeneities.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2023 • Daniel M. Lang, Eli Schwartz, Cosmin I. Bercea, Raja Giryes, Julia A. Schnabel
This new model, coined masked autoencoder for medical imaging (MAEMI) is trained on two non-contrast enhanced MRI sequences, aiming at lesion detection without the need for intravenous injection of contrast media and temporal image acquisition.
1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2023 • Sophia J. Wagner, Daniel Reisenbüchler, Nicholas P. West, Jan Moritz Niehues, Gregory Patrick Veldhuizen, Philip Quirke, Heike I. Grabsch, Piet A. van den Brandt, Gordon G. A. Hutchins, Susan D. Richman, Tanwei Yuan, Rupert Langer, Josien Christina Anna Jenniskens, Kelly Offermans, Wolfram Mueller, Richard Gray, Stephen B. Gruber, Joel K. Greenson, Gad Rennert, Joseph D. Bonner, Daniel Schmolze, Jacqueline A. James, Maurice B. Loughrey, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Hermann Brenner, Michael Hoffmeister, Daniel Truhn, Julia A. Schnabel, Melanie Boxberg, Tingying Peng, Jakob Nikolas Kather
Methods: In this study, we developed a new fully transformer-based pipeline for end-to-end biomarker prediction from pathology slides.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2022 • Emily Chan, Ciaran O'Hanlon, Carlota Asegurado Marquez, Marwenie Petalcorin, Jorge Mariscal-Harana, Haotian Gu, Raymond J. Kim, Robert M. Judd, Phil Chowienczyk, Julia A. Schnabel, Reza Razavi, Andrew P. King, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol-Antón
Flow analysis carried out using phase contrast cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (PC-CMR) enables the quantification of important parameters that are used in the assessment of cardiovascular function.
1 code implementation • 17 Aug 2022 • Sam Ellis, Octavio E. Martinez Manzanera, Vasileios Baltatzis, Ibrahim Nawaz, Arjun Nair, Loïc le Folgoc, Sujal Desai, Ben Glocker, Julia A. Schnabel
This makes high-quality GANs useful for unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging.
1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2022 • Veronika A. Zimmer, Alberto Gomez, Emily Skelton, Robert Wright, Gavin Wheeler, Shujie Deng, Nooshin Ghavami, Karen Lloyd, Jacqueline Matthew, Bernhard Kainz, Daniel Rueckert, Joseph V. Hajnal, Julia A. Schnabel
Automatic segmentation of the placenta in fetal ultrasound (US) is challenging due to the (i) high diversity of placenta appearance, (ii) the restricted quality in US resulting in highly variable reference annotations, and (iii) the limited field-of-view of US prohibiting whole placenta assessment at late gestation.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2022 • Cosmin I. Bercea, Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel
We have found that state-of-the-art (SOTA) AEs are either unable to constrain the latent manifold and allow reconstruction of abnormal patterns, or they are failing to accurately restore the inputs from their latent distribution, resulting in blurred or misaligned reconstructions.
no code implementations • 2 May 2022 • Inês P. Machado, Esther Puyol-Antón, Kerstin Hammernik, Gastão Cruz, Devran Ugurlu, Ihsane Olakorede, Ilkay Oksuz, Bram Ruijsink, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Alistair A. Young, Claudia Prieto, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
Cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is considered the gold standard for cardiac function evaluation.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Devran Ugurlu, Esther Puyol-Anton, Bram Ruijsink, Alistair Young, Ines Machado, Kerstin Hammernik, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
Our dataset contains short axis images from 4 different MR scanners and 3 different pathology groups.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2021 • Ines Machado, Esther Puyol-Anton, Kerstin Hammernik, Gastao Cruz, Devran Ugurlu, Bram Ruijsink, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Alistair Young, Claudia Prieto, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
The framework consists of a deep learning model for the reconstruction of 2D+t cardiac cine MRI images from undersampled data, an image quality-control step to detect good quality reconstructions, followed by a deep learning model for bi-ventricular segmentation, a quality-control step to detect good quality segmentations and automated calculation of cardiac functional parameters.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2021 • Vasileios Baltatzis, Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Loic Le Folgoc, Octavio E. Martinez Manzanera, Sam Ellis, Arjun Nair, Sujal Desai, Ben Glocker, Julia A. Schnabel
Using publicly available data to determine the performance of methodological contributions is important as it facilitates reproducibility and allows scrutiny of the published results.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2021 • Vasileios Baltatzis, Loic Le Folgoc, Sam Ellis, Octavio E. Martinez Manzanera, Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Arjun Nair, Sujal Desai, Ben Glocker, Julia A. Schnabel
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used for image classification in a variety of fields, including medical imaging.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2021 • Lei LI, Veronika A. Zimmer, Julia A. Schnabel, Xiahai Zhuang
Late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) is commonly used to visualize and quantify left atrial (LA) scars.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2021 • Lei LI, Veronika A. Zimmer, Julia A. Schnabel, Xiahai Zhuang
Left atrial (LA) segmentation from late gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE MRI) is a crucial step needed for planning the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2020 • Lei Li, Veronika A. Zimmer, Wangbin Ding, Fuping Wu, Liqin Huang, Julia A. Schnabel, Xiahai Zhuang
As the target domain could be unknown, we randomly generate a modality vector for the target modality in the style transfer stage, to simulate the domain shift for unknown domains.
1 code implementation • 11 Aug 2020 • Lei Li, Veronika A. Zimmer, Julia A. Schnabel, Xiahai Zhuang
In this work, we develop a new framework, namely AtrialJSQnet, where LA segmentation, scar projection onto the LA surface, and scar quantification are performed simultaneously in an end-to-end style.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2020 • Simona Treivase, Alberto Gomez, Jacqueline Matthew, Emily Skelton, Julia A. Schnabel, Nicolas Toussaint
Ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most commonly used non-invasive imaging techniques.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Lei Li, Xin Weng, Julia A. Schnabel, Xiahai Zhuang
Compared to conventional binary label based loss, the proposed SE loss can reduce noisy patches in the resulting segmentation, which is commonly seen for deep learning-based methods.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2019 • Ilkay Oksuz, James R. Clough, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol Anton, Aurelien Bustin, Gastao Cruz, Claudia Prieto, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
In this paper, we discuss the implications of image motion artefacts on cardiac MR segmentation and compare a variety of approaches for jointly correcting for artefacts and segmenting the cardiac cavity.
1 code implementation • 4 Oct 2019 • James R. Clough, Nicholas Byrne, Ilkay Oksuz, Veronika A. Zimmer, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
We show that the incorporation of the prior knowledge of the topology of this anatomy improves the resulting segmentations in terms of both the topological accuracy and the Dice coefficient.
1 code implementation • 24 Sep 2019 • Jo Schlemper, Ilkay Oksuz, James R. Clough, Jinming Duan, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel, Joseph V. Hajnal, Daniel Rueckert
AUTOMAP is a promising generalized reconstruction approach, however, it is not scalable and hence the practicality is limited.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2019 • Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel
With the availability of large amounts of imaging data and machine learning (in particular deep learning) techniques, data-driven approaches have become more widespread for use in different tasks in reconstruction, analysis and interpretation.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2019 • James R. Clough, Ilkay Oksuz, Esther Puyol-Anton, Bram Ruijsink, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
Deep learning methods for classifying medical images have demonstrated impressive accuracy in a wide range of tasks but often these models are hard to interpret, limiting their applicability in clinical practice.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2019 • lkay Oksuz, James Clough, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol-Anton, Aurelien Bustin, Gastao Cruz, Claudia Prieto, Daniel Rueckert, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
In this paper, we propose a method to automatically detect and correct motion-related artefacts in CMR acquisitions during reconstruction from k-space data.
no code implementations • 17 May 2019 • Alberto Gomez, Cornelia Schmitz, Markus Henningsson, James Housden, Yohan Noh, Veronika A. Zimmer, James R. Clough, Ilkay Oksuz, Nicolas Toussaint, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
Motion imaging phantoms are expensive, bulky and difficult to transport and set-up.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2019 • Daniel Grzech, Loïc le Folgoc, Mattias P. Heinrich, Bishesh Khanal, Jakub Moll, Julia A. Schnabel, Ben Glocker, Bernhard Kainz
We present an implementation of a new approach to diffeomorphic non-rigid registration of medical images.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2019 • James R. Clough, Ilkay Oksuz, Nicholas Byrne, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
We present a novel method to explicitly incorporate topological prior knowledge into deep learning based segmentation, which is, to our knowledge, the first work to do so.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2018 • Ilkay Oksuz, Gastao Cruz, James Clough, Aurelien Bustin, Nicolo Fuin, Rene M. Botnar, Claudia Prieto, Andrew P. King, Julia A. Schnabel
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a new approach to quantitative magnetic resonance imaging that allows simultaneous measurement of multiple tissue properties in a single, time-efficient acquisition.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2018 • Ilkay Oksuz, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol-Anton, James Clough, Gastao Cruz, Aurelien Bustin, Claudia Prieto, Rene Botnar, Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
Due to the high number of good quality images compared to the relatively low number of images with motion artefacts, we propose a novel data augmentation scheme based on synthetic artefact creation in k-space.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2018 • Ilkay Oksuz, Bram Ruijsink, Esther Puyol-Anton, Aurelien Bustin, Gastao Cruz, Claudia Prieto, Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
As this is a highly imbalanced classification problem (due to the high number of good quality images compared to the low number of images with motion artefacts), we propose a novel k-space based training data augmentation approach in order to address this problem.
2 code implementations • 2 Aug 2018 • Nicolas Toussaint, Bishesh Khanal, Matthew Sinclair, Alberto Gomez, Emily Skelton, Jacqueline Matthew, Julia A. Schnabel
This paper addresses the task of detecting and localising fetal anatomical regions in 2D ultrasound images, where only image-level labels are present at training, i. e. without any localisation or segmentation information.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2018 • Esther Puyol-Anton, Bram Ruijsink, Helene Langet, Mathieu De Craene, Paolo Piro, Julia A. Schnabel, Andrew P. King
The availability of large scale databases containing imaging and non-imaging data, such as the UK Biobank, represents an opportunity to improve our understanding of healthy and diseased bodily function.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2018 • Alberto Gomez, Veronika A. Zimmer, Bishesh Khanal, Nicolas Toussaint, Julia A. Schnabel
From the adapted graph, we also propose the computation of a dual graph, which inherits the saliency measure from the adapted graph, and whose edges run along image features, hence producing an oversegmenting graph.
no code implementations • 26 May 2017 • Russell Bates, Benjamin Irving, Bostjan Markelc, Jakob Kaeppler, Ruth Muschel, Vicente Grau, Julia A. Schnabel
Vasculature is known to be of key biological significance, especially in the study of cancer.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2016 • Benjamin Irving, James M Franklin, Bartlomiej W. Papiez, Ewan M Anderson, Ricky A Sharma, Fergus V Gleeson, Sir Michael Brady, Julia A. Schnabel
Rectal tumour segmentation in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is a challenging task, and an automated and consistent method would be highly desirable to improve the modelling and prediction of patient outcomes from tissue contrast enhancement characteristics - particularly in routine clinical practice.