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Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

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We proposed a deconvolution optical-resolution photoacoustic microscope for high -resolution imaging of brain. The focal spot of the photoacoustic microscopy is measured to obtain the lateral PSF (point spread function) of the system.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Xianlin Song , Lingfang Song , Anqing Chen , Jianshuang Wei

We describe a new multi-scale deconvolution algorithm that can also be used in multi-frequency mode. The algorithm only affects the minor clean loop. In single-frequency mode, the minor loop of our improved multi-scale algorithm is over an…

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Ultrasound imaging often suffers from image degradation stemming from phase aberration, which represents a significant contributing factor to the overall image degradation in ultrasound imaging. Frequency-space prediction filtering or FXPF…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

The reconstruction fidelity of computational optical imaging is fundamentally constrained by the model-reality gap, i.e., the inevitable discrepancy between idealized forward models and the physical imaging process. Conventional paradigms…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sui-peng Wang , Si-yi Xie , Chang-tao Cai , Zhun Wei , Rui Chen

Multi-energy computed tomography (CT) with photon counting detectors (PCDs) enables spectral imaging as PCDs can assign the incoming photons to specific energy channels. However, PCDs with many spectral channels drastically increase the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Satu I. Inkinen , Mikael A. K. Brix , Miika T. Nieminen , Simon Arridge , Andreas Hauptmann

We revisit the source image estimation problem from blind source separation (BSS). We generalize the traditional minimum distortion principle to maximum likelihood estimation with a model for the residual spectrograms. Because residual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Robin Scheibler

In this paper, we apply the Feature Space Decomposition (FSD) method developed in [LS24, GLS25, LSSW26, ALSS26] to obtain, under fairly general conditions, matching upper and lower bounds for the population excess risk of spectral methods…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Guillaume Lecué , Zhifan Li , Zong Shang

Defocus blur is a persistent problem in microscope imaging that poses harm to pathology interpretation and medical intervention in cell microscopy and microscope surgery. To address this problem, a unified framework including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yuelin Zhang , Pengyu Zheng , Wanquan Yan , Chengyu Fang , Shing Shin Cheng

Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) is widely applied in machine learning and pattern recognition. However, most of the existing methods only consider a single sparsity, which makes it difficult to select valuable and discriminative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Xianchao Xiu , Anning Yang , Chenyi Huang , Xinrong Li , Wanquan Liu

We develop a method for sparse image reconstruction from polychromatic computed tomography (CT) measurements under the blind scenario where the material of the inspected object and the incident-energy spectrum are unknown. We obtain a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-17 Renliang Gu , Aleksandar Dogandžić

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

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In portable, 3-D, or ultra-fast ultrasound (US) imaging systems, there is an increasing demand to reconstruct high quality images from limited number of data. However, the existing solutions require either hardware changes or…

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Multi frame super-resolution(MFSR) achieves higher performance than single image super-resolution (SISR), because MFSR leverages abundant information from multiple frames. Recent MFSR approaches adapt the deformable convolution network…

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In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

A new physically based method to estimate hemispheric-directional reflectance factor (HDRF) from lightweight multispectral cameras that have a downwelling irradiance sensor is presented. It combines radiometry with photogrammetric computer…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-05-10 Klaus Schneider-Zapp , Manuel Cubero-Castan , Dai Shi , Christoph Strecha

Lensless illumination single-pixel imaging with a multicore fiber (MCF) is a computational imaging technique that enables potential endoscopic observations of biological samples at cellular scale. In this work, we show that this technique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Olivier Leblanc , Mathias Hofer , Siddharth Sivankutty , Hervé Rigneault , Laurent Jacques

There are two main streams in up-to-date image denoising algorithms: non-local self similarity (NSS) prior based methods and convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods. The NSS based methods are favorable on images with regular and…

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While model-based reconstruction methods have been successfully applied to flat-panel cone-beam CT (FP-CBCT) systems, typical implementations ignore both spatial correlations in the projection data as well as system blurs due to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Steven Tilley , Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen , J. Webster Stayman