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Background: Three-dimensional, whole heart, balanced steady state free precession (WH-bSSFP) sequences provide delineation of intra-cardiac and vascular anatomy. However, they have long acquisition times. Here, we propose significant speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jennifer A. Steeden , Michael Quail , Alexander Gotschy , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Rodney Jones , Vivek Muthurangu

Ultrasound Tomography has seen a revival of interest in the past decade, especially for breast imaging, due to improvements in both ultrasound and computing hardware. In particular, three-dimensional ultrasound tomography, a fully…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ashkan Javaherian , Felix Lucka , Ben Cox

This paper focuses on increasing the resolution of depth maps obtained from 3D cameras using structured light technology. Two deep learning models FDSR and DKN are modified to work with high-resolution data, and data pre-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Martin Melicherčík , Lukáš Gajdošech , Viktor Kocur , Martin Madaras

Research in ultrasound imaging is limited in reproducibility by two factors: First, many existing ultrasound pipelines are protected by intellectual property, rendering exchange of code difficult. Second, most pipelines are implemented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Rüdiger Göbl , Nassir Navab , Christoph Hennersperger

In clinical practice, 2D magnetic resonance (MR) sequences are widely adopted. While individual 2D slices can be stacked to form a 3D volume, the relatively large slice spacing can pose challenges for both image visualization and subsequent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Xin Wang , Zhiyun Song , Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Lichi Zhang , Dinggang Shen , Qian Wang

Computed tomography has propelled scientific advances in fields from biology to materials science. This technology allows for the elucidation of 3-dimensional internal structure by the attenuation of x-rays through an object at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Rey Mendoza , Minh Nguyen , Judith Weng Zhu , Vincent Dumont , Talita Perciano , Juliane Mueller , Vidya Ganapati

In this paper, we present the optimal use of coded signals in diverging wave transmission for fast ultrasonic imaging. The performance of coded imaging with diverging waves, quantified by SNR, CNR, speckle power and target signal strength,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yasin Kumru , Hayrettin Köymen

Arrays of ultrasonic sensors are capable of 3D imaging in air and an affordable supplement to other sensing modalities, such as radar, lidar, and camera, i.e. in heterogeneous sensing systems. However, manufacturing tolerances of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Raphael Müller , Gianni Allevato , Matthias Rutsch , Christoph Haugwitz , Tianyi Liu , Mario Kupnik , Marius Pesavento

Supervised deep learning approaches can artificially increase the resolution of microscopy images by learning a mapping between two image resolutions or modalities. However, such methods often require a large set of hard-to-get…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Marzieh Gheisari , Auguste Genovesio

Ultrasonic imaging algorithms used in many clinical and industrial applications consist of three steps: A data pre-processing, an image formation and an image post-processing step. For efficiency, image formation often relies on an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Kees Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

The application of ultrasound in healthcare has seen increased diversity and importance. Unlike other medical imaging modalities, ultrasound research and development has historically lagged, particularly in the case of applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Alistair Weld , Giovanni Faoro , Luke Dixon , Sophie Camp , Arianna Menciassi , Stamatia Giannarou

Ultrasonography is a vital component of modern clinical care, with handheld probes routinely used for diagnostic imaging and procedural guidance. However, handheld ultrasound imaging is limited by factors such as the partial-cross-sectional…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 David C. Garrett , Jinhua Xu , Yousuf Aborahama , Geng Ku , Konstantin Maslov , Lihong V. Wang

We present a novel method for reconstructing clothed humans from a sparse set of, e.g., 1 to 6 RGB images. Despite impressive results from recent works employing deep implicit representation, we revisit the volumetric approach and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Sicong Tang , Guangyuan Wang , Qing Ran , Lingzhi Li , Li Shen , Ping Tan

The role of brain hemodynamics in neurodegenerative diseases cannot be fully assessed using existing imaging technologies. Recently, 2D Dynamic Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (DULM) has allowed for the quantitative mapping of the…

Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that allows increasing the resolution of a given image. Having applications in many areas, from medical imaging to consumer electronics, several SR methods have been proposed. Currently, the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

Optical phase-space functions describe spatial and angular information simultaneously; examples include light fields in ray optics and Wigner functions in wave optics. Measurement of phase-space enables digital refocusing, aberration…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful technique in image generation, especially for image super-resolution tasks. While 2D diffusion models significantly enhance the resolution of individual images, existing diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Bohao Chen , Yanchao Zhang , Yanan Lv , Hua Han , Xi Chen

This study introduces the 3D Residual-in-Residual Dense Block GAN (3D RRDB-GAN) for 3D super-resolution for radiology imagery. A key aspect of 3D RRDB-GAN is the integration of a 2.5D perceptual loss function, which contributes to improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Juhyung Ha , Nian Wang , Surendra Maharjan , Xuhong Zhang

High-resolution lithographic techniques are often limited by low volumetric throughput, since there is no universal and scalable manufacturing process that can produce 3D metasurfaces. In this work, we demonstrate a high-speed holographic…