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Context: Characterization of instrumental effects in astronomical imaging is important in order to extract accurate physical information from the observations. The measured image in a real optical instrument is usually represented by the…

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Bias field, which is caused by imperfect MR devices or imaged objects, introduces intensity inhomogeneity into MR images and degrades the performance of MR image analysis methods. Many retrospective algorithms were developed to facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Dong Liang , Xingyu Qiu , Kuanquan Wang , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Yashu Liu

Purpose: Prenatal ultrasound is a key tool in evaluating fetal structural development and detecting abnormalities, contributing to reduced perinatal complications and improved neonatal survival. Accurate identification of standard fetal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shengjun Zhu , Siyu Liu , Runqing Xiong , Liping Zheng , Duo Ma , Rongshang Chen , Jiaxin Cai

Beamforming is an essential step in the ultrasound image formation pipeline and has recently attracted growing interest. An important goal of beamforming is to increase the image spatial resolution, or in other words to narrow down the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Due to limited size and imperfect of the optical components in a spectrometer, aberration has inevitably been brought into two-dimensional multi-fiber spectrum image in LAMOST, which leads to obvious spacial variation of the point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jiali Xu , Qian Yin , Ping Guo , Xin Zheng

Functional ultrasound (fUS) indirectly measures brain activity by recording changes in cerebral blood volume and flow in response to neural activation. Conventional approaches model such functional neuroimaging data as the convolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Aybuke Erol , Chagajeg Soloukey , Bastian Generowicz , Nikki Van Dorp , Sebastiaan Koekkoek , Pieter Kruizinga , Borbala Hunyadi

We present a semi-blind, spatially-variant deconvolution technique aimed at optical microscopy that combines a local estimation step of the point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution using a spatially variant, regularized Richardson-Lucy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

If unaligned multimodal medical images can be simultaneously aligned and fused using a single-stage approach within a unified processing framework, it will not only achieve mutual promotion of dual tasks but also help reduce the complexity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Huafeng Li , Dayong Su , Qing Cai , Yafei Zhang

This article focuses on estimating relative transfer functions (RTFs) for beamforming applications. Traditional methods often assume that spectra are uncorrelated, an assumption that is often violated in practical scenarios due to factors…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Giovanni Bologni , Richard C. Hendriks , Richard Heusdens

An efficient despeckling method using a quantum-inspired adaptive threshold function is presented for reducing noise of ultrasound images. In the first step, the ultrasound image is decorrelated by an spectrum equalization procedure due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) enables imaging of vascular structures in the micrometer range by accumulating contrast agent particle locations over time. Precise and efficient target localization accuracy remains an active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

In this letter, we study the beamforming design for channel estimation of multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS)-aided multi-user communications that supports simultaneous signal reflection, refraction, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Zaihao Pan , Wen Wang , Gaofeng Nie , Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni

We study the problem of deconvolution for light-sheet microscopy, where the data is corrupted by spatially varying blur and a combination of Poisson and Gaussian noise. The spatial variation of the point spread function (PSF) of a…

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS), which selects informative features from multi-view unlabeled data, has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. Although great efforts have been devoted to MUFS, several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Minghui Lu , Yanyong Huang , Minbo Ma , Jinyuan Chang , Dongjie Wang , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Noninvasive MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) treatments are promising alternatives to the surgical removal of malignant tumors. A significant challenge is assessing the viability of treated tissue during and immediately after MRgFUS…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Blake E. Zimmerman , Sara Johnson , Henrik Odéen , Jill Shea , Markus D. Foote , Nicole Winkler , Sarang C. Joshi , Allison Payne

Ultrasound (US) interpretation is hampered by multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur from the point-spread function (PSF), and scanner- and operator-dependent artifacts. Supervised enhancement methods assume access to clean targets or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Shujaat Khan , Syed Muhammad Atif , Jaeyoung Huh , Syed Saad Azhar

Recently, Multi-Contrast MR Reconstruction (MCMR) has emerged as a hot research topic that leverages high-quality auxiliary modalities to reconstruct undersampled target modalities of interest. However, existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jialin Li , Yiwei Ren , Kai Pan , Dong Wei , Pujin Cheng , Xian Wu , Xiaoying Tang

Deconvolution is the most commonly used image processing method to remove the blur caused by the point-spread-function (PSF) in optical imaging systems. While this method has been successful in deblurring, it suffers from several…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Huangxuan Zhao , Ziwen Ke , Ningbo Chen , Ke Li , Lidai Wang , Xiaojing Gong , Wei Zheng , Liang Song , Zhicheng Liu , Dong Liang , Chengbo Liu

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…