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Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

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Sound speed heterogeneities can create aberrations in B-mode ultrasound images by inducing tissue-dependent delays and diffractive effects that conventional beamforming does not incorporate. By using the Fourier split-step method to…

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The Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) has received considerable attention in the recent years in the field of biomedical imaging and disease detection. However, imaging through highly diffusive medium is a challenge and stability is always…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Tapan Das , P. K. Dutta

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to model the measured DW-MRI signal is via fiber orientation…

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Ultrasound b-mode imaging is a qualitative approach and diagnostic quality strongly depends on operators' training and experience. Quantitative approaches can provide information about tissue properties; therefore, can be used for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Farnaz Khun Jush , Markus Biele , Peter M. Dueppenbecker , Andreas Maier

Ultrasound (US) imaging is better suited for intraoperative settings because it is real-time and more portable than other imaging techniques, such as mammography. However, US images are characterized by lower spatial resolution noise-like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Sahar Almahfouz Nasser , Ashutosh Sharma , Anmol Saraf , Amruta Mahendra Parulekar , Purvi Haria , Amit Sethi

Phase aberration is an inherent side effect of ultrasound imaging due to the speed of sound inhomogeneity nature of human tissues, resulting in focusing error and reduced image contrast. This work introduces a phase aberration correction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Wei-Hsiang Shen , Yu-An Lin , Pai-Chi Li , Meng-Lin Li

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…

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Shear-wave elastography (SWE) permits local estimation of tissue elasticity, an important imaging marker in biomedicine. This recently-developed, advanced technique assesses the speed of a laterally-travelling shear wave after an acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 R. R. Wildeboer , R. J. G. van Sloun , C. K. Mannaerts , P. H. Moraes , G. Salomon , M. C. Chammas , H. Wijkstra , M. Mischi

In this study, we develop vector flow imaging techniques for multi-layered models with a high wavespeed contrast using photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging. We use refraction-corrected delay-and-sum image reconstruction (RC-DAS), which…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Caitlin Smith , Guillaume Renaud , Kasper van Wijk , Jami Shepherd

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Michelle Su , Cemre Ariyurek , Serge Vasylechko , Onur Afacan , Sila Kurugol

Diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) is a well-known set of methods to measure the temporal dynamics of dynamic samples. In DWS, dynamic samples scatter the incident coherent light, and the information of the temporal dynamics is encoded in…

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Ultrasound imaging of the cortex of long bones may enable the measurement of the cortical thickness and the ultrasound wave speed in cortical bone tissue. However, with bone loss, the cortical porosity and the size of the pores increase,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Amadou S. Dia , Quentin Grimal , Guillaume Renaud

Super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking sparse microbubbles has been shown to reveal microvascular structure and flow beyond the wave diffraction limit. Most SRUS studies use standard delay and sum (DAS)…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality capable of providing both high contrast and high resolution of optical and UltraSound (US) imaging. When a short duration laser pulse illuminates the tissue as a target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-19 Moein Mozaffarzadeh , Ali Mahloojifar , Mahdi Orooji

In this paper, we propose a method for denoising diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of the brain using a convolutional neural network trained on realistic, synthetic MR data. We compare our results to averaging of repeated scans, a widespread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Kamil Gorczewski , Kamil Cepuch , Agata Zawadzka

The progression of cancer is associated with different genetic and epigenetic events which result in nano to microscale structural alterations in cells/tissue. However, these structural alterations in the early stage of the disease remain…

Ultrasound imaging is a real-time diagnostic modality that reconstructs acoustic signals into visual representations of internal body structures. A key component in this process is beamforming, with the Delay and Sum (DAS) algorithm being a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chiara Razzetta , Sara Garbarino , Michele Piana , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

Ultrasound super-localization microscopy techniques presented in the last few years enable non-invasive imaging of vascular structures at the capillary level by tracking the flow of ultrasound contrast agents (gas microbubbles). However,…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-10 Avinoam Bar-Zion , Charles Tremblay-Darveau , Oren Solomon , Dan Adam , Yonina C. Eldar