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Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

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Phase aberration is one of the primary sources of image quality degradation in ultrasound, which is induced by spatial variations in sound speed across the heterogeneous medium. This effect disrupts transmitted waves and prevents coherent…

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Super-resolution remains a promising technique to enhance the quality of low-resolution images. This study introduces CATformer (Contrastive Adversarial Transformer), a novel neural network integrating diffusion-inspired feature refinement…

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Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Teodora Szasz , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

X-ray phase contrast imaging offers a way to visualize the internal structures of an object without the need to deposit any radiation, and thereby alleviate the main concern in x-ray diagnostic imaging procedures today. Grating-based…

In this paper, we develop a novel phase retrieval approach to reconstruct x-ray differential phase shift induced by an object. A primary advantage of our approach is a higher-order accuracy over that with the conventional linear…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

The dispersion scan (d-scan) technique has emerged as a simple-to-implement characterization method for ultrashort laser pulses. D-scan traces are intuitive to interpret and retrieval algorithms that are both fast and robust have been…

2D cine phase contrast (CPC) MRI provides quantitative information on blood velocity and flow within the human vasculature. However, data acquisition is time-consuming, motivating the reconstruction of the velocity field from undersampled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Pablo Arratia , Martin J. Graves , Mary McLean , Carolin Pirkl , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Timo Schirmer , Florian Wiesinger , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is a form of video image analysis that combines the sensitivity of scattering and the direct visualization benefits of microscopy. DDM is broadly useful in determining dynamical properties including the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-12 Mengyang Gu , Yimin Luo , Yue He , Matthew E. Helgeson , Megan T. Valentine

Ultrasound imaging is widely used for real-time, noninvasive diagnosis, but speckle and related artifacts reduce image quality and can hinder interpretation. We present a diffusion-based ultrasound despeckling method built on the Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shuoqi Chen , Yujia Wu , Geoffrey P. Luke

Ultrasonic imaging algorithms used in many clinical and industrial applications consist of three steps: A data pre-processing, an image formation and an image post-processing step. For efficiency, image formation often relies on an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Kees Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Recent ultrasound imaging modalities based on ultrasound computed tomography indicate a huge potential to detect pathologies is tissue due to altered biomechanical properties. Especially the imaging of speed-of-sound (SoS) distribution in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Richard Rau , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Tracing the motion of electrons has enormous relevance to understanding ubiquitous phenomena in ultrafast science, such as the dynamical evolution of the electron density during complex chemical and biological processes. Scattering of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Gopal Dixit , Jan Malte Slowik , Robin Santra

Phase retrieval approaches based on DL provide a framework to obtain phase information from an intensity hologram or diffraction pattern in a robust manner and in real time. However, current DL architectures applied to the phase problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Yuhe Zhang , Mike Andreas Noack , Patrik Vagovic , Kamel Fezzaa , Francisco Garcia-Moreno , Tobias Ritschel , Pablo Villanueva-Perez

The reflecting features (reflected spectrum and phase) on the surface of pure-material plate depend on refractive index, extinction coefficient, incident angle, polarization direction and so on. The features, however, do not depend on a cut…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-18 Chikara Sakurai

Three-dimensional digital subtraction angiography (3D-DSA) is a widely adopted technique for clinical evaluation of contrast-enhanced vasculatures. The distribution of a contrast agent such as iodine is often estimated via temporal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Xiaoxuan Zhang , Xiao Jiang , Matthew Tivnan , J. Webster Stayman , Grace Gang

Recently the deep learning has shown its advantage in representation learning and clustering for time series data. Despite the considerable progress, the existing deep time series clustering approaches mostly seek to train the deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ying Zhong , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang

Aberrations and multiple scattering in biological tissues critically distort light beams into highly complex speckle patterns. In this regard, digital optical phase conjugation (DOPC) is a promising technique enabling in-depth focusing.…