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In ultrasound tomography, the speed of sound inside an object is estimated based on acoustic measurements carried out by sensors surrounding the object. An accurate forward model is a prominent factor for high-quality image reconstruction,…
Pretraining with large-scale 3D volumes has a potential for improving the segmentation performance on a target medical image dataset where the training images and annotations are limited. Due to the high cost of acquiring pixel-level…
Heating generated by high-intensity focused ultrasound waves is central to many emerging medical applications, including non-invasive cancer therapy and targeted drug delivery. In this study, we aim to gain a fundamental understanding of…
This is the second article in a series of two which report on a matrix approach for ultrasound imaging in heterogeneous media. This article describes the quantification and correction of aberration, i.e. the distortion of an image caused by…
Harmonic generation plays a crucial role in contrast-enhanced ultrasound, both for imaging and therapeutic applications. However, accurately capturing these nonlinear effects is computationally very demanding when using traditional…
In this paper, we propose a new nonuniform mesh method to simulate acoustic scattering problems in two dimensional periodic structures with non-periodic incident fields numerically. As existing methods are difficult to extend to higher…
High-frequency focused ultrasound is widely used in biomedical applications such as high-resolution imaging, neuromodulation, particle manipulation, and so on. However, dynamic tuning of the focal plane in conventional systems often relies…
The Numerical Assembly Technique is extended to investigate arbitrary planar frame structures with the focus on the computation of natural frequencies. This allows us to obtain highly accurate results without resorting to spatial…
Acoustic wave propagation through a homogeneous material embedded in an unbounded medium can be formulated as a boundary integral equation and accurately solved with the boundary element method. The computational efficiency deteriorates at…
A robust finite volume method for viscoelastic flow analysis on general unstructured meshes is developed. It is built upon a general-purpose stabilization framework for high Weissenberg number flows. The numerical framework provides full…
This work extends, to moving geometries, the immersed boundary method based on volume penalization and selective frequency damping approach [J. Kou, E. Ferrer, A combined volume penalization/selective frequency damping approach for immersed…
Accurate segmentation of tumors and adjacent normal tissues in medical images is essential for surgical planning and tumor staging. Although foundation models generally perform well in segmentation tasks, they often struggle to focus on…
This paper presents a high-accuracy higher-order multiscale method for solving multi-continuum problems in in highly heterogeneous media. First, microscopic unit cell functions are defined, leading to the derivation of macroscopic…
We propose a domain decomposition method for the efficient simulation of nonlocal problems. Our approach is based on a multi-domain formulation of a nonlocal diffusion problem where the subdomains share "nonlocal" interfaces of the size of…
Inverse design coupled with adjoint optimization is a powerful method to design on-chip nanophotonic devices with multi-wavelength and multi-mode optical functionalities. Although only two simulations are required in each iteration of this…
Ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) is a non-invasive and cost-effective tool for studying speech articulation, motor control, and related disorders. However, real-time tongue contour segmentation remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise…
Can graded meshes yield more accurate numerical solution than uniform meshes? A time-dependent nonlocal diffusion problem with a weakly singular kernel is considered using collocation method. For its steady-state counterpart, under the…
The numerical investigation of acoustic damping materials, such as foams, constitutes a valuable enhancement to experimental testing. Typically, such materials are modeled in a homogenized way in order to reduce the computational effort and…
The recent popularity of foundation models and the pre-train-and-adapt paradigm, where a large-scale model is transferred to downstream tasks, is gaining attention for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, current transfer…
Immersed boundary methods have attracted substantial interest in the last decades due to their potential for computations involving complex geometries. Often these cannot be efficiently discretized using boundary-fitted finite elements.…