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3D ultrasound delivers high-resolution, real-time images of soft tissues, which is essential for pain research. However, manually distinguishing various tissues for quantitative analysis is labor-intensive. To streamline this process, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Zixue Zeng , Xiaoyan Zhao , Matthew Cartier , Xin Meng , Jiantao Pu

While accuracy is an evident criterion for ultrasound image segmentation, output consistency across different tests is equally crucial for tracking changes in regions of interest in applications such as monitoring the patients' response to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

Due to the advent of modern embedded systems and mobile devices with constrained resources, there is a great demand for incredibly efficient deep neural networks for machine learning purposes. There is also a growing concern of privacy and…

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Automatic breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound helps to diagnose breast cancer, which is one of the dreadful diseases that affect women globally. Segmenting breast regions accurately from ultrasound image is a challenging task due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Cheng Xue , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Xiaomeng Li , Hai Zhang , Pheng Ann Heng

Deep learning techniques have revolutionized the field of machine learning and were recently successfully applied to various classification problems in noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG). However, these methods were so far only rarely…

Segmentation of ultra-high resolution images is increasingly demanded, yet poses significant challenges for algorithm efficiency, in particular considering the (GPU) memory limits. Current approaches either downsample an ultra-high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Wuyang Chen , Ziyu Jiang , Zhangyang Wang , Kexin Cui , Xiaoning Qian

Deformable image registration (alignment) is highly sought after in numerous clinical applications, such as computer aided diagnosis and disease progression analysis. Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)-based image registration methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Ruizhe Li , Grazziela Figueredo , Dorothee Auer , Christian Wagner , Xin Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been frequently used to extract subject-invariant features from electroencephalogram (EEG) for classification tasks. This approach holds the underlying assumption that electrodes are equidistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Andac Demir , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Ye Wang , Masaki Haruna , Deniz Erdogmus

In this paper, we propose a graph neural network, DisGNet, for learning the graph distance matrix to address the forward kinematics problem of the Gough-Stewart platform. DisGNet employs the k-FWL algorithm for message-passing, providing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Huizhi Zhu , Wenxia Xu , Jian Huang , Jiaxin Li

Recently, super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has received much attention. However, ULM relies on low concentrations of microbubbles in the blood vessels, ultimately resulting in long…

Guided ultrasonic wave localization uses spatially distributed multistatic sensor arrays and generalized beamforming strategies to detect and locate damage across a structure. The propagation channel is often very complex. Methods can…

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Single-channel speech enhancement algorithms are often used in resource-constrained embedded devices, where low latency and low complexity designs gain more importance. In recent years, researchers have proposed a wide variety of novel…

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Image denoising is of vital importance in many imaging or computer vision related areas. With the convolutional neural networks showing strong capability in computer vision tasks, the performance of image denoising has also been brought up…

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Deep neural networks have been widely used in image denoising during the past few years. Even though they achieve great success on this problem, they are computationally inefficient which makes them inappropriate to be implemented in mobile…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Lu Xu , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Feng Zhang , Xing Wei , Jimmy Ren

Automatic emotion recognition based on multichannel Electroencephalography (EEG) holds great potential in advancing human-computer interaction. However, several significant challenges persist in existing research on algorithmic emotion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongxiang Gao , Xiangyao Wang , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Zhipeng Cai , Lulu Zhao , Jianqing Li , Chengyu Liu

The interest in deep learning methods for solving traditional signal processing tasks has been steadily growing in the last years. Time delay estimation (TDE) in adverse scenarios is a challenging problem, where classical approaches based…

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Ultrasound-based elasticity imaging is a non-invasive technique for estimating tissue stiffness fields from displacement fields obtained by comparing ultrasound signals before and after compression. While recent deep learning approaches…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Heekyu Kim , Hugon LEe , Minwoo Park , Seunghwa Ryu

Displacement estimation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging is relevant for several potential applications, e.g. for optical coherence elastography (OCE) for corneal biomechanical characterization. Larger displacements may be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Hossein Khodadadi , Orcun Goksel , Sabine Kling

Ultrasound image segmentation faces unique challenges including speckle noise, low contrast, and ambiguous boundaries, while clinical deployment demands computationally efficient models. We propose USEANet, an ultrasound-specific edge-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jingyi Gao , Di Wu , Baha lhnaini

In material science, image segmentation is of great significance for quantitative analysis of microstructures. Here, we propose a novel Weighted Propagation Convolution Neural Network based on U-Net (WPU-Net) to detect boundary in…

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