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One of the key steps in ultrasound image formation is digital beamforming of signals sampled by several transducer elements placed upon an array. High-resolution digital beamforming introduces the demand for sampling rates significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-21 Amir Burshtein , Michael Birk , Tanya Chernyakova , Alon Eilam , Arcady Kempinskiand , Yonina C. Eldar

Ultrasound imaging makes use of backscattering of waves during their interaction with scatterers present in biological tissues. Simulation of synthetic ultrasound images is a challenging problem on account of inability to accurately model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Francis Tom , Debdoot Sheet

Ultrasound Coherent Plane-Wave Compounding (CPWC) enhances image contrast by combining echoes from multiple steered transmissions. While increasing the number of steering angles generally improves image quality, it significantly reduces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Morteza Rezanejad , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrahigh field (UHF) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides a higher signal-to-noise ratio and, thereby, higher spatial resolution. However, UHF MRI introduces challenges such as transmit radiofrequency (RF) field (B1+) inhomogeneities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zhengyi Lu , Hao Liang , Xiao Wang , Xinqiang Yan , Yuankai Huo

Ultrasound b-mode imaging is a qualitative approach and diagnostic quality strongly depends on operators' training and experience. Quantitative approaches can provide information about tissue properties; therefore, can be used for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Farnaz Khun Jush , Markus Biele , Peter M. Dueppenbecker , Andreas Maier

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

This paper presents a deep-learning model for deformable registration of ultrasound images at online rates, which we call U-RAFT. As its name suggests, U-RAFT is based on RAFT, a convolutional neural network for estimating optical flow.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 FNU Abhimanyu , Andrew L. Orekhov , Ananya Bal , John Galeotti , Howie Choset

Accurate detection and segmentation of anatomical structures from ultrasound images are crucial for clinical diagnosis and biometric measurements. Although ultrasound imaging has been widely used with superiorities such as low cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Hao Chen , Yefeng Zheng , Jin-Hyeong Park , Pheng-Ann Heng , S. Kevin Zhou

Recent advances in deep learning for tomographic reconstructions have shown great potential to create accurate and high quality images with a considerable speed-up. In this work we present a deep neural network that is specifically designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Andreas Hauptmann , Felix Lucka , Marta Betcke , Nam Huynh , Jonas Adler , Ben Cox , Paul Beard , Sebastien Ourselin , Simon Arridge

Multimode fibers (MMFs) can transmit multiple guided modes simultaneously, making them a promising platform for high-resolution biomedical imaging, endoscopy and high-bandwidth optical communication. However, their complex modal behavior,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-28 Dvir Marsh , Lior Fridman , Stav Lotan , Amit Kam , Shie Mannor , Guy Bartal

Deep Learning (DL) based methods for magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction have been shown to produce superior performance in recent years. However, these methods either only leverage under-sampled data or require a paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Pengfei Guo , Vishal M. Patel

Objective: Ultrasound elastography is gaining traction as an accessible and useful diagnostic tool for such things as cancer detection and differentiation and thyroid disease diagnostics. Unfortunately, state of the art shear wave imaging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Micha Feigin , Daniel Freedman , Brian W. Anthony

It is known that changes in the mechanical properties of tissues are associated with the onset and progression of certain diseases. Ultrasound elastography is a technique to characterize tissue stiffness using ultrasound imaging either by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-22 Hongliang Li , Manish Bhatt , Zhen Qu , Shiming Zhang , Martin C. Hartel , Ali Khademhosseini , Guy Cloutier

With the increasing use of surgical robots in clinical practice, enhancing their ability to process multimodal medical images has become a key research challenge. Although traditional medical image fusion methods have made progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Qinhua Xie , Hao Tang

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of ultrafast ultrasound imaging. This newly emerging modality for biomedical imaging uses plane waves instead of focused waves in order to achieve very high frame rates. We derive the point spread…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Giovanni S. Alberti , Habib Ammari , Francisco Romero , Timothée Wintz

Photoacoustic tomography seeks to reconstruct an acoustic initial pressure distribution from the measurement of the ultrasound waveforms. Conventional methods assume a-prior knowledge of the sound speed distribution, which practically is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Hongming Shan , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang , Yang Yang

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

The reconstruction of a high resolution image given a low resolution observation is an ill-posed inverse problem in imaging. Deep learning methods rely on training data to learn an end-to-end mapping from a low-resolution input to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Iman Marivani , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Bruno Cornelis , Nikos Deligiannis

The advent of enhanced technologies in radio interferometry and the perspective of the SKA telescope bring new challenges in image reconstruction. One of these challenges is the spatio-spectral reconstruction of large (Terabytes) data cubes…

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