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Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling (ImPASS) is a computational method for combining displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The general steps include measuring the relative displacements, up-sampling, aligning…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 James N. Caron

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton

Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Urvashi Rau , Tim J. Cornwell

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

The core role of medical images in disease diagnosis makes their quality directly affect the accuracy of clinical judgment. However, due to factors such as low-dose scanning, equipment limitations and imaging artifacts, medical images are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Tao Tang , Chengxu Yang

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Faouzi Benzarti , Hamid Amiri

We propose a novel approach to denoising diffusion magnetic resonance images (dMRI) using convolutional neural networks, that exploits the benefits of data acquired at multiple b-values to offset the need for many redundant observations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Filip Szczepankiewicz

Linear-array based photoacoustic images are reconstructed using the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming method. Although the DAS beamformer is well suited for PA image formation, reconstructed images are often afflicted by noises,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sufayan Mulani , Souradip Paul , Mayanglambam Suheshkumar Singh

Super-resolution microscopes (such as STED) illuminate samples with a tiny spot, and achieve very high resolution. But structures smaller than the spot cannot be resolved in this way. Therefore, we propose a technique to solve this problem.…

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Biomedical imaging is unequivocally dependent on the ability to reconstruct interpretable and high-quality images from acquired sensor data. This reconstruction process is pivotal across many applications, spanning from magnetic resonance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Ben Luijten , Regev Cohen , Frederik J. de Bruijn , Harold A. W. Schmeitz , Massimo Mischi , Yonina C. Eldar , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Ultrasound (US) imaging is based on the time-reversal principle, in which individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Alex M. Bronstein , Oleg V. Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Woong-Kee Loh

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution image. Recent research on super-resolution has achieved great progress due to the development of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Purpose: Different Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities of the same anatomical structure are required to present different pathological information from the physical level for diagnostic needs. However, it is often difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Yuchen Fei , Bo Zhan , Mei Hong , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Yan Wang

Multiplicative noise (also known as speckle noise) models are central to the study of coherent imaging systems, such as synthetic aperture radar and sonar, and ultrasound and laser imaging. These models introduce two additional layers of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Julien Ajdenbaum , Emilie Chouzenoux , Claire Lefort , Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Power Doppler ultrasound is in widespread clinical use for non-invasive vascular imaging but the most common current method - Delay and Sum (DAS) beamforming - suffers from limited resolution and high side-lobes. Here we propose the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Matthieu Toulemonde , Cameron A. B. Smith , Kai Riemer , Priya Palanisamy , Jaideep Singh Rait , Laura Taylor , Peter D. Weinberg , Karina Cox , Meng-Xing Tang

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye