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Accurate targeting is critical for the effectiveness of transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) neuromodulation. While CT provides accurate skull acoustic properties, its ionizing radiation and poor soft tissue contrast limit clinical…

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In ultrasound nondestructive testing, a widespread approach is to take synthetic aperture measurements from the surface of a specimen to detect and locate defects within it. Based on these measurements, imaging is usually performed using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Jan Kirchhof , Sebastian Semper , Christoph W. Wagner , Eduardo Pérez , Florian Römer , Giovanni Del Galdo

Multi-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisitions from a single scan have tremendous potential to streamline exams and reduce imaging time. However, maintaining clinically feasible scan time necessitates significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Ke Wang , Enhao Gong , Yuxin Zhang , Suchadrima Banerjee , Greg Zaharchuk , John Pauly

Ultrasound and radar signals are highly beneficial for medical imaging as they are non-invasive and non-ionizing. Traditional imaging techniques have limitations in terms of contrast and physical interpretation. Quantitative medical imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Tom Sharon , Yonina C. Eldar

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enables indirect detection of brain activity changes via the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal. Conventional analysis methods mainly rely on the real-valued magnitude of these signals.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-31 Zhengxin Wang , Daniel B. Rowe , Xinyi Li , D. Andrew Brown

Low-field (LF) MRI scanners have the power to revolutionize medical imaging by providing a portable and cheaper alternative to high-field MRI scanners. However, such scanners are usually significantly noisier and lower quality than their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Aryan Kalluvila , Neha Koonjoo , Danyal Bhutto , Marcio Rockenbach , Matthew S. Rosen

Let a measurement consist of a linear combination of damped complex exponential modes, plus noise. The problem is to estimate the parameters of these modes, as in line spectrum estimation, vibration analysis, speech processing, system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Pooria Pakrooh , Louis L. Scharf , Ali Pezeshki

Phased array ultrasound is a widely used technique in non-destructive testing. Using piezoelectric elements as both sources and receivers provides a significant gain in information and enables more accurate defect detection. When all…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tim Bürchner , Simon Schmid , Lukas Bergbreiter , Ernst Rank , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Christian U. Grosse

Most of the existing wavelet image processing techniques are carried out in the form of single-scale reconstruction and multiple iterations. However, processing high-quality fMRI data presents problems such as mixed noise and excessive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Lingxi Xiao , Jinxin Hu , Yutian Yang , Yinqiu Feng , Zichao Li , Zexi Chen

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides affordable access to diagnostic imaging but suffers from prolonged acquisition and limited image quality. Accelerated imaging can be achieved with k-space undersampling, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Tweneboah Anyimadu , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

It is well known that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (7T) and higher magnets can provide much better signal sensitivity compared with lower field strengths. However, variety of commercially available ultra-high-field MRI coils…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Akbar Alipour , Alan C Seifert , Bradley Delman , Gregor Adriany , Priti Balchandani

Medical imaging quality control (QC) is essential for accurate diagnosis, yet traditional QC methods remain labor-intensive and subjective. To address this challenge, in this study, we establish a standardized dataset and evaluation…

In this work we present two new families of multirate time step adaptivity controllers, that are designed to work with embedded multirate infinitesimal (MRI) time integration methods for adapting time steps when solving problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Daniel R. Reynolds , Sylvia Amihere , Dashon Mitchell , Vu Thai Luan

Compressed sensing (CS) theory assures us that we can accurately reconstruct magnetic resonance images using fewer k-space measurements than the Nyquist sampling rate requires. In traditional CS-MRI inversion methods, the fact that the…

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Emerging sonography techniques often imply increasing in the number of transducer elements involved in the imaging process. Consequently, larger amounts of data must be acquired and processed by the beamformer. The significant growth in the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Noam Wagner , Yonina C. Eldar , Arie Feuer , Zvi Friedman

Millimeter (mm) wave massive MIMO has the potential for delivering orders of magnitude increases in mobile data rates, with compact antenna arrays providing narrow steerable beams for unprecedented levels of spatial reuse. A fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Maryam Eslami Rasekh , Upamanyu Madhow

This paper develops intrinsic wavelet denoising methods for surfaces of Hermitian positive definite matrices, with in mind the application to nonparametric estimation of the time-varying spectral matrix of a multivariate locally stationary…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-22 Joris Chau , Rainer von Sachs

In radial fast spin-echo MRI, a set of overlapping spokes with an inconsistent T2 weighting is acquired, which results in an averaged image contrast when employing conventional image reconstruction techniques. This work demonstrates that…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Kai Tobias Block , Martin Uecker , Jens Frahm

Purpose: Long scan time in phase encoding for forming complete K-space matrices is a critical drawback of MRI, making patients uncomfortable and wasting important time for diagnosing emergent diseases. This paper aims to reducing the scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Yiming Liu , Yanwei Pang , Ruiqi Jin , Zhenchang Wang

Mixed-precision quantization methods have been proposed to reduce model size while minimizing accuracy degradation. However, existing studies require retraining and do not consider the computational overhead and intermediate representations…

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