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Image reconstruction from radio-frequency data is pivotal in ultrafast plane wave ultrasound imaging. Unlike the conventional delay-and-sum (DAS) technique, which relies on somewhat imprecise assumptions, deep learning-based methods perform…
Several applications of medical ultrasound can benefit from a larger field of view (FOV). This study is aimed at increasing the FOV of linear array probes by increasing the element width. Coupled elements were used to imitate a larger…
The frequency-domain approach (FDA) to transient analysis of the boundary element method, although is appealing for engineering applications, is computationally expensive. This paper proposes a novel adaptive frequency sampling (AFS)…
Change detection visual question answering (CDVQA) requires answering text queries by reasoning about semantic changes in bi-temporal remote sensing images. A straightforward approach is to boost CDVQA performance with generic…
In optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomography, several parameters related to tissue and detector features are needed for image formation, but they may not be known a priori. An autofocus (AF) algorithm is generally used to estimate these…
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) has been applied to many biomedical applications over the past decades. However, the received PA signal usually suffers from poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional solution of employing higher-power…
This paper describes the integration of weighted delay-and-sum beamforming with speech source localization using image processing and robot head visual servoing for source tracking. We take into consideration the fact that the directivity…
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a relatively new technology for recording stress wave propagation, with promising applications in both engineering and geophysics. DAS's ability to simultaneously collect high spatial resolution data…
We propose the Multi-Head Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM), a novel probabilistic attention framework that can be used for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT), and the Density Adaptive Transformer (DAT), designed to enhance…
We propose an ultrasound speckle filtering method for not only preserving various edge features but also filtering tissue-dependent complex speckle noises in ultrasound images. The key idea is to detect these various edges using a phase…
Recently, neural network (NN)-based image compression studies have actively been made and has shown impressive performance in comparison to traditional methods. However, most of the works have focused on non-scalable image compression…
Invariance to microphone array configuration is a rare attribute in neural beamformers. Filter-and-sum (FS) methods in this class define the target signal with respect to a reference channel. However, this not only complicates formulation…
The development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and genotype imputation methods enabled researchers to measure both common and rare variants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Statistical methods have been proposed to…
Photoacoustic (PA) image reconstruction involves acoustic inversion that necessitates the specification of the speed of sound (SoS) within the medium of propagation. Due to the lack of information on the spatial distribution of the SoS…
In linear-array transducer based photoacoustic (PA) imaging, B-scan PA images are formed using the raw channel PA signals. Delay-and-Sum (DAS) is the most prevalent algorithm due to its simple implementation, but it leads to low quality…
Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in sensor arrays faces limitations under demanding conditions, including low signal-to-noise ratio, single-snapshot scenarios, coherent sources, and unknown source counts. Conventional beamforming…
We present a compressive beamforming method for coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) ultrasound imaging based on a far-field decomposition of the received radiofrequency (RF) data into virtual plane waves. This decomposition recasts the…
This paper studies analog beamforming in active sensing applications, such as millimeter-wave radar or ultrasound imaging. Analog beamforming architectures employ a single RF-IF chain connected to all array elements via inexpensive phase…
The problem of phase-noise compensation for correlated phase noise in coded multichannel optical transmission is investigated. To that end, a simple multichannel phase-noise model is considered and the maximum a posteriori detector for this…
Medical ultrasound provides images which are the spatial map of the tissue echogenicity. Unfortunately, an ultrasound image is a low-quality version of the expected Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) mainly due to the non-ideal Point Spread…