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Ultrasound imaging, despite its widespread use in medicine, often suffers from various sources of noise and artifacts that impact the signal-to-noise ratio and overall image quality. Enhancing ultrasound images requires a delicate balance…
This is the first article in a series of two dealing with a matrix approach for aberration quantification and correction in ultrasound imaging. Advanced synthetic beamforming relies on a double focusing operation at transmission and…
Speed-of-sound has been shown as a potential biomarker for breast cancer imaging, successfully differentiating malignant tumors from benign ones. Speed-of-sound images can be reconstructed from time-of-flight measurements from ultrasound…
Filtering based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) provides substantial separation of clutter, flow and noise in high frame rate ultrasound flow imaging. The use of SVD as a clutter filter has greatly improved techniques such as vector…
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has recently emerged as a new paradigm for processing different types of images. SVD is an attractive algebraic transform for image processing applications. The paper proposes an experimental survey for…
Diagnostic imaging plays a critical role in healthcare, serving as a fundamental asset for timely diagnosis, disease staging and management as well as for treatment choice, planning, guidance, and follow-up. Among the diagnostic imaging…
Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness. However, the DAS beamforming follows a geometrical method of…
This work introduces AD-SVFD, a deep learning model for the deformable registration of vascular shapes to a pre-defined reference and for the generation of synthetic anatomies. AD-SVFD operates by representing each geometry as a weighted…
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…
We address the reduction to compact band forms, via unitary similarity transformations, for the solution of symmetric eigenvalue problems and the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD). Concretely, in the first case we…
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…
Ultrasound B-Mode images are created from data obtained from each element in the transducer array in a process called beamforming. The beamforming goal is to enhance signals from specified spatial locations, while reducing signal from all…
Ultrasound imaging systems rely on accurate point spread function (PSF) estimation to support advanced image quality enhancement techniques such as deconvolution and speckle reduction. Phase aberration, caused by sound speed inhomogeneity…
In this paper, we propose an analog beamsteering approach for enabling flexible hybrid beamforming design that can achieve performance close to singular value decomposition (SVD) based digital beamforming with single user case. As a…
Phase aberration is one of the primary sources of image quality degradation in ultrasound, which is induced by spatial variations in sound speed across the heterogeneous medium. This effect disrupts transmitted waves and prevents coherent…
In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…
The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…
Spectral embedding based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a widely used "preprocessing" step in many learning tasks, typically leading to dimensionality reduction by projecting onto a number of dominant singular vectors and…
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…
Effective clutter filtering is crucial in suppressing tissue clutter and extracting blood flow signal in Doppler ultrasound. Recent advances in eigen-based clutter filtering techniques have enabled ultrasound imaging of microvasculature…