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Scatterplots provide a visual representation of bivariate data (or 2D embeddings of multivariate data) that allows for effective analyses of data dependencies, clusters, trends, and outliers. Unfortunately, classical scatterplots suffer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hennes Rave , Vladimir Molchanov , Lars Linsen

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Characterizing uncertainty is a common issue in nuclear measurement and has important implications for reliable physical discovery. Traditional methods are either insufficient to cope with the heterogeneous nature of uncertainty or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-03-01 Pengcheng Ai , Zhi Deng , Yi Wang , Chendi Shen

Surface normal estimation from a single image is an important task in 3D scene understanding. In this paper, we address two limitations shared by the existing methods: the inability to estimate the aleatoric uncertainty and lack of detail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Gwangbin Bae , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Cipolla

Multiple optical scattering occurs when light propagates in a non-uniform medium. During the multiple scattering, images were distorted and the spatial information they carried became scrambled. However, the image information is not lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Xinyu Gao , Yi Li , Yanqing Qiu , Bangning Mao , Miaogen Chen , Yanlong Meng , Chunliu Zhao , Juan Kang , Yong Guo , Changyu Shen

Estimating the elasticity of soft tissue can provide useful information for various diagnostic applications. Ultrasound shear wave elastography offers a non-invasive approach. However, its generalizability and standardization across…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Sarah Grube , Sören Grünhagen , Sarah Latus , Michael Meyling , Alexander Schlaefer

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that diffusion models can effectively learn the image distribution and generate new samples. Remarkably, these models can achieve this even with a small number of training samples despite a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Peng Wang , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Siyi Chen , Yi Ma , Qing Qu

We propose a supervised machine learning approach for boosting existing signal and image recovery methods and demonstrate its efficacy on example of image reconstruction in computed tomography. Our technique is based on a local nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that consists of determining a measure of deformation (i.e.strain) of soft tissue in response to an applied mechanical force. The strain is generally determined by estimating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Rémi Delaunay , Yipeng Hu , Tom Vercauteren

Ultrasound imaging is caught between the quest for the highest image quality, and the necessity for clinical usability. Our contribution is two-fold: First, we propose a novel fully convolutional neural network for ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Walter Simson , Rüdiger Göbl , Magdalini Paschali , Markus Krönke , Klemens Scheidhauer , Wolfgang Weber , Nassir Navab

A multitude of imaging and vision tasks have seen recently a major transformation by deep learning methods and in particular by the application of convolutional neural networks. These methods achieve impressive results, even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Simon Arridge , Andreas Hauptmann

Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Stergios Christodoulidis , Marios Anthimopoulos , Lukas Ebner , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Low-dimensional embedding, manifold learning, clustering, classification, and anomaly detection are among the most important problems in machine learning. The existing methods usually consider the case when each instance has a fixed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Barnabas Poczos , Liang Xiong , Jeff Schneider

Thomson scattering (TS) diagnostics provide reliable, minimally perturbative measurements of fundamental plasma parameters, such as electron density ($n_e$) and electron temperature ($T_e$). Deep neural networks can provide accurate…

Today the gold standard for in vivo imaging through scattering tissue is the point-scanning two-photon microscope (PSTPM). Especially in neuroscience, PSTPM is widely used for deep-tissue imaging in the brain. However, due to sequential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Zhun Wei , Josiah R. Boivin , Yi Xue , Xudong Chen , Peter T. C. So , Elly Nedivi , Dushan N. Wadduwage

In this paper we describe a probabilistic method for estimating the position of an object along with its covariance matrix using neural networks. Our method is designed to be robust to outliers, have bounded gradients with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 David Mohlin , Gerald Bianchi , Josephine Sullivan

Visual microscopic study of diseased tissue by pathologists has been the cornerstone for cancer diagnosis and prognostication for more than a century. Recently, deep learning methods have made significant advances in the analysis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Puria Azadi Moghadam , Sanne Van Dalen , Karina C. Martin , Jochen Lennerz , Stephen Yip , Hossein Farahani , Ali Bashashati

We propose a novel deep-learning framework for super-resolution ultrasound images and videos in terms of spatial resolution and line reconstruction. We up-sample the acquired low-resolution image through a vision-based interpolation method;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Simone Cammarasana , Paolo Nicolardi , Giuseppe Patanè

Modern deep learning systems successfully solve many perception tasks such as object pose estimation when the input image is of high quality. However, in challenging imaging conditions such as on low-resolution images or when the image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Sergey Prokudin , Peter Gehler , Sebastian Nowozin

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging has a trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. By considering the in-vivo characteristics of human organs, it is necessary to provide clinicians with appropriate hardware specifications for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Hah Min Lew , Jae Seong Kim , Moon Hwan Lee , Jaegeun Park , Sangyeon Youn , Hee Man Kim , Jihun Kim , Jae Youn Hwang