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Thanks to its capability of acquiring full-view frames at multiple kilohertz, ultrafast ultrasound imaging unlocked the analysis of rapidly changing physical phenomena in the human body, with pioneering applications such as ultrasensitive…

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This paper presents a generative model for super-resolution in routine clinical magnetic resonance images (MRI), of arbitrary orientation and contrast. The model recasts the recovery of high resolution images as an inverse problem, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

Non-invasive detection of microvascular alterations in deep tissues in vivo provides critical information for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of a broad-spectrum of pathologies. Recently, the emergence of super-resolution ultrasound…

Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) techniques based on Super Resolution Convolutional Neural Networks (SRCNN) are applied to micro-computed tomography ({\mu}CT) images of sandstone and carbonate rocks. Digital rock imaging is limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Ying Da Wang , Ryan Armstrong , Peyman Mostaghimi

Acoustic-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy (AR-PAM) is promising for subcutaneous vascular imaging, but its spatial resolution is constrained by the Point Spread Function (PSF). Traditional deconvolution methods like Richardson-Lucy and…

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Based on image encoding in a serial-temporal format, optical time-stretch imaging entails a stringent requirement of state-of-the- art fast data acquisition unit in order to preserve high image resolution at an ultrahigh frame rate ---…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-29 Antony C. S. Chan , Ho-Cheung Ng , Sharat C. V. Bogaraju , Hayden K. H. So , Edmund Y. Lam , Kevin K. Tsia

Fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers exquisite images of the developing brain but is not suitable for second-trimester anomaly screening, for which ultrasound (US) is employed. Although expert sonographers are adept at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Jianbo Jiao , Ana I. L. Namburete , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced Image Super-Resolution (SR), yet most CNN-based methods rely solely on pixel-based transformations, often leading to artifacts and blurring, particularly under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Bingwen Hu , Heng Liu , Zhedong Zheng , Ping Liu

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…

The recent neural surface reconstruction by volume rendering approaches have made much progress by achieving impressive surface reconstruction quality, but are still limited to dense and highly accurate posed views. To overcome such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Shi-Sheng Huang , Zi-Xin Zou , Yi-Chi Zhang , Hua Huang

In many imaging applications where segmented features (e.g. blood vessels) are further used for other numerical simulations (e.g. finite element analysis), the obtained surfaces do not have fine resolutions suitable for the task. Increasing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Yiyao Zhang , Ke Chen , Shang-Hua Yang

Three-dimensional ultrasound enables real-time volumetric visualization of anatomical structures. Unlike traditional 2D ultrasound, 3D imaging reduces reliance on precise probe orientation, potentially making ultrasound more accessible to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Oisín Nolan , Oudom Somphone , Jean-Luc Robert , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Hyperspectral imaging can help better understand the characteristics of different materials, compared with traditional image systems. However, only high-resolution multispectral (HrMS) and low-resolution hyperspectral (LrHS) images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Qi Xie , Minghao Zhou , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Zongben Xu

Ultrasound (US) is widely used for clinical imaging applications thanks to its real-time and non-invasive nature. However, its lesion detectability is often limited in many applications due to the phase aberration artefact caused by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Fetal brain MRI relies on rapid multi-view 2D slice acquisitions to reduce motion artifacts caused by fetal movement. However, these stacks are typically low resolution, may suffer from motion corruption, and do not adequately capture 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Ema Masterl , Tina Vipotnik Vesnaver , Žiga Špiclin

Accurate speed-of-sound (SoS) estimation is crucial for ultrasound image formation, yet conventional systems often rely on an assumed value for imaging. We propose to leverage conventional image analysis techniques and metrics as a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Roman Denkin , Orcun Goksel

Freehand three-dimensional ultrasound (3D-US) has gained considerable interest in research, but even today suffers from its high inter-operator variability in clinical practice. The high variability mainly arises from tracking inaccuracies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Rüdiger Göbl , Diana Mateus , Christoph Hennersperger , Maximilian Baust , Nassir Navab

A well-known diagnostic imaging modality, termed ultrasound tomography, was quickly developed for the detection of very small tumors whose sizes are smaller than the wavelength of the incident pressure wave without ionizing radiation,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Tran Quang-Huy , Tran Duc-Tan , Huynh Huu Tue , Nguyen Linh-Trung

Flow-based generative super-resolution (SR) models learn to produce a diverse set of feasible SR solutions, called the SR space. Diversity of SR solutions increases with the temperature ($\tau$) of latent variables, which introduces random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Imaging beyond the diffraction limit barrier has attracted wide attention due to the ability to resolve image features that were previously hidden. Of the various super-resolution microscopy techniques available, a particularly simple…