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Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton

In the case of ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems, the point spread function (PSF) is only poorly known or completely unknown. Moreover, an accurate modeling of the PSF is in general not available. Therefore in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 M. Prato , A. La Camera , S. Bonettini , S. Rebegoldi , M. Bertero , P. Boccacci

Because of the internal malfunction of satellite sensors and poor atmospheric conditions such as thick cloud, the acquired remote sensing data often suffer from missing information, i.e., the data usability is greatly reduced. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Chao Zeng , Xinghua Li , Yancong Wei

The ability to form images through hair-thin optical fibres promises to open up new applications from biomedical imaging to industrial inspection. Unfortunately, deployment has been limited because small changes in mechanical deformation…

Ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging has seen widespread uptake in research and clinical diagnostic imaging. This includes applications such as vector flow imaging, functional ultrasound and super-resolution Ultrasound Localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Marcelo Lerendegui , Kai Riemer , Bingxue Wang , Christopher Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

High resolution ultrasound image reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements is of great interest in ultrasound imaging, since it could enhance both the frame rate and image resolution. Compressive deconvolution, combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Considering the use of Fully Connected (FC) layer limits the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this paper develops a method to improve the coupling between the convolution layer and the FC layer by reducing the noise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Yang Liu , Qiang Qu , Chao Gao

We present an analytic convoluted-gap function, eq. 11 in the manuscript, for fitting dispersion gaps measured on triple-axis spectrometers (TAS). At the gap, the instrumental resolution skews the signal, producing a high-energy tail that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-25 Emma Y. Lenander , Silas B. Schack , Kim Lefmann , Henrik M. Rønnow

Most of the standard image and video codecs are block-based and depending upon the compression ratio the compressed images/videos suffer from different distortions. At low ratios, blurriness is observed and as compression increases blocking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Maryam Viqar , Athar A. Moinuddin , Ekram Khan , M. Ghanbari

One popular approach for blind deconvolution is to formulate a maximum a posteriori (MAP) problem with sparsity priors on the gradients of the latent image, and then alternatingly estimate the blur kernel and the latent image. While several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Sunghyun Cho , Seungyong Lee

Mixed pixels are presented in hyperspectral images due to low spatial resolution of hyperspectral sensors. Spectral unmixing decomposes mixed pixels spectra into endmembers spectra and abundance fractions. In this paper using of robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-06 Roozbeh Rajabi , Hassan Ghassemian

We propose a 3D neural network with specific loss functions for quantitative computed tomography (QCT) noise reduction to compute micro-structural parameters such as tissue mineral density (TMD) and bone volume ratio (BV/TV) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Felix Thomsen , José M. Fuertes García , Manuel Lucena , Juan Pisula , Rodrigo de Luis García , Jan Broggrefe , Claudio Delrieux

Image super-resolution reconstruction achieves better results than traditional methods with the help of the powerful nonlinear representation ability of convolution neural network. However, some existing algorithms also have some problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Yuxi Cai , Huicheng Lai

Compressed sensing is a powerful tool in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It enables accurate recovery of images from highly undersampled measurements by exploiting the sparsity of the images or image patches in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-04 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

Unsupervised learning based multi-scale exposure fusion (ULMEF) is efficient for fusing differently exposed low dynamic range (LDR) images into a higher quality LDR image for a high dynamic range (HDR) scene. Unlike supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chaobing Zheng , Shiqian Wu , Zhenggguo Li

Joint deconvolution and segmentation of ultrasound images is a challenging problem in medical imaging. By adopting a hierarchical Bayesian model, we propose an accelerated Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme where the tissue reflectivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Corbineau Marie-Caroline , Kouamé Denis , Chouzenoux Emilie , Tourneret Jean-Yves , Pesquet Jean-Christophe

The process of fusing a high spatial resolution (HR) panchromatic (PAN) image and a low spatial resolution (LR) multispectral (MS) image to obtain an HRMS image is known as pansharpening. With the development of convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Yinghui Xing , Yan Zhang , Houjun He , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Transcranial ultrasound imaging is usually limited by skull-induced attenuation and high-order aberrations. By using contrast agents such as microbubbles in combination with ultrafast imaging, not only can the signal-to-noise ratio be…

Deep learning generally suffers from enormous computational resources and time-consuming training processes. Broad Learning System (BLS) and its convolutional variants have been proposed to mitigate these issues and have achieved superb…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chunyu Lei , C. L. Philip Chen , Jifeng Guo , Tong Zhang

Optic deconvolution in light microscopy (LM) refers to recovering the object details from images, revealing the ground truth of samples. Traditional explicit methods in LM rely on the point spread function (PSF) during image acquisition.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Rui Li , Mikhail Kudryashev , Artur Yakimovich