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Infrared imaging is indispensable for its ability to penetrate obscurants and visualize thermal signatures, yet its practical use is hindered by the intrinsic limitations of conventional detectors. Nonlinear upconversion, which converts…

Super-resolution (SR) for image enhancement has great importance in medical image applications. Broadly speaking, there are two types of SR, one requires multiple low resolution (LR) images from different views of the same object to be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Jin Zhu , Guang Yang , Pietro Lio

The structured illumination is adopted widely in the super-resolution microscopy imaging. Here, we studied the ghost imaging scheme with sinusoidal structured speckle illumination, whose spatial resolution can surpass the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-12 Liming Li

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

The claustrum is a thin gray matter structure in each brain hemisphere, characterized by exceptionally high connectivity with nearly all brain regions. Despite extensive animal studies on its anatomy and function and growing evidence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-16 Steven Seung-Suk Kang , Joseph Bodenheimer , Kayley Morris , Tracey Butler

Recent image diffusion transformers achieve high-fidelity generation, but struggle to generate images beyond these scales, suffering from content repetition and quality degradation. In this work, we present UltraImage, a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Min Zhao , Bokai Yan , Xue Yang , Hongzhou Zhu , Jintao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Ultrasound brain imaging remains challenging due to the large difference in sound speed between the skull and brain tissues and the difficulty of coupling large probes to the skull. This work aims to achieve quantitative transcranial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shengyu Chen , Shihang Feng , Yi Luo , Xiaowei Jia , Youzuo Lin

The transient signal available for hyperpolarized (HP) 13C imaging limits the image spatial resolution. This paper demonstrates a method of increasing spatial resolution by post-processing the HP 13C metabolic map using a corresponding…

Resolving arterial flows is essential for understanding cardiovascular pathologies, improving diagnosis, and monitoring patient condition. Ultrasound contrast imaging uses microbubbles to enhance the scattering of the blood pool, allowing…

Biomedical photoacoustic (PA) imaging is typically used to exploit absorption-based contrast in soft tissue at depths of several centimeters. When it is applied to measuring PA waves generated in the brain, the acoustic properties of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Thomas Kirchner , Claus Villringer , Jan Laufer

Deformable registration of magnetic resonance images between patients with brain tumors and healthy subjects has been an important tool to specify tumor geometry through location alignment and facilitate pathological analysis. Since tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Xiaofeng Liu , Fangxu Xing , Chao Yang , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Georges ElFakhri , Jonghye Woo

Motion during image acquisition can cause image degradation in all medical imaging modalities. This is particularly relevant in 2-D ultrasound imaging, since out-of-plane motion can only be compensated for movements smaller than elevational…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 S. Harput , K. Christensen-Jeffries , J. Brown , J. Zhu , G. Zhang , R. J. Eckersley , C. Dunsby , M-X. Tang

High-frequency focused ultrasound is widely used in biomedical applications such as high-resolution imaging, neuromodulation, particle manipulation, and so on. However, dynamic tuning of the focal plane in conventional systems often relies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shiyu Li , Yicheng Feng , Weiwei Cui , Zhixiong Gong

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

Face super-resolution is a technology that transforms a low-resolution face image into the corresponding high-resolution one. In this paper, we build a novel parsing map guided face super-resolution network which extracts the face prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chenyang Wang , Junjun Jiang , Zhiwei Zhong , Deming Zhai , Xianming Liu

Photoacoustic imaging combines the high contrast of optical imaging with the deep penetration depth of ultrasonic imaging, showing great potential in cerebrovascular disease detection. However, the ultrasonic wave suffers strong attenuation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Pengcheng Wan , Fan Zhang , Yuting Shen , Hulin Zhao , Xiran Cai , Xiaohua Feng , Fei Gao

A hallucination-free and computationally efficient algorithm for enhancing the resolution of brain MRI images is demonstrated.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Sifeng He , Bahram Jalali

For beamforming ultrasound (US) signals, typically a spatially constant speed-of-sound (SoS) is assumed to calculate delays. As SoS in tissue may vary relatively largely, this approximation may cause wavefront aberrations, thus degrading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Richard Rau , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

We introduce a metasurface-based system for the microwave hyperthermia treatment of brain tumors, where the metasurface is designed by the time-reversal technique for optimal focusing at the location of the tumor. Compared to previous…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Mohamad J. Hajiahmadi , Reza Faraji-Dana , Christophe Caloz