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Ultrasound (US) is widely used for clinical imaging applications thanks to its real-time and non-invasive nature. However, its lesion detectability is often limited in many applications due to the phase aberration artefact caused by…

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Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

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Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) has developed over the last few decades into a valuable crystallographic characterisation method for a wide range of sample types. Despite these advances, issues such as the complexity of sample…

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Spectral Doppler ultrasound imaging allows visualizing blood flow by estimating its velocity distribution over time. Duplex ultrasound is a modality in which an ultrasound system is used for displaying simultaneously both B-mode images and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Regev Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

We propose SparseContrast, a new framework that merges dynamic sparse attention with contrastive learning for medical imaging, with a focus on chest X-ray disease detection in low-data settings. Traditional contrastive learning methods rely…

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In pulse-echo ultrasound, aberration often degrades image quality when beamforming does not account for wavefront distortions. To address this issue, local sound speed estimators have been developed in the past decade for distributed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Louise Zhuang , Samuel Beuret , Ben Frey , Saachi Munot , Walter Simson , Dongwoon Hyun , Jeremy J. Dahl

Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Lovedeep Gondara

In radio astronomy, the science output of a telescope is often limited by computational resources. This is especially true for transient and technosignature surveys that need to search high-resolution data across a large parameter space.…

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Adaptive beamforming can lead to substantial improvement in resolution and contrast of ultrasound images over standard delay and sum beamforming. Here we introduce the adaptive time-channel (ATC) beamformer, a data-driven approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Avner Shultzman , Oded Drori , Yonina C. Eldar

Most previous 3D object detection methods that leverage the multi-modality of LiDAR and cameras utilize the Bird's Eye View (BEV) space for intermediate feature representation. However, this space uses a low x, y-resolution and sacrifices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hyeongseok Son , Jia He , Seung-In Park , Ying Min , Yunhao Zhang , ByungIn Yoo

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging datasets suffer from low Signal-to-Noise Ratio, especially at high b-values. Acquiring data at high b-values contains relevant information and is now of great interest for microstructural and…

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Hyperspectral optoacoustic microscopy (OAM) enables obtaining images with label-free biomolecular contrast, offering excellent perspectives as a diagnostic tool to assess freshly excised and unprocessed tissues. However, time-consuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Constantin Berger , Myeongseop Kim , Lukas Scheel-Platz , Vasilis Ntziachristos , Dominik Jüstel , Miguel A. Pleitez

High frame rate 3-D ultrasound imaging technology combined with super-resolution processing method can visualize 3-D microvascular structures by overcoming the diffraction limited resolution in every spatial direction. However, 3-D…

Analog beamforming is the predominant approach for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication given its favorable characteristics for limited-resource devices. In this work, we aim at reducing the spectral efficiency gap between analog and…

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and beamforming are well-established techniques for enabling massive connectivity in future wireless networks. However, many optimal beamforming solutions rely on highly complex iterative algorithms and…

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Small-size acoustic arrays exploit spatial diversity to achieve capabilities beyond those of single-element devices, with applications ranging from teleconferencing to immersive multimedia. A key requirement for broadband array processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Federico Miotello , Davide Albertini , Alberto Bernardini

Digital image plays a vital role in the early detection of cancers, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, lungs cancer, cervical cancer. Ultrasound imaging method is also suitable for early detection of the abnormality of fetus. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Vidhi Rawat , Alok Jain , Vibhakar Shrimali

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted a rapidly growing interest in a variety of different processing tasks in the medical ultrasound community. However, the performance of CNNs is highly reliant on both the amount and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

An alternative approach to ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) for medical imaging is proposed, with the intent to (i) shorten acquisition time for devices with a large number of emitters, (ii) eliminate the calibration step, and (iii)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ines Elisa Ulrich , Christian Boehm , Andrea Zunino , Cyrill Bösch , Andreas Fichtner