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Ultrasound (US) imaging is clinically invaluable due to its noninvasive and safe nature. However, interpreting US images is challenging, requires significant expertise, and time, and is often prone to errors. Deep learning offers assistive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Edward Ellis , Andrew Bulpitt , Nasim Parsa , Michael F Byrne , Sharib Ali

Ultrasound imaging is a prevalent diagnostic tool known for its simplicity and non-invasiveness. However, its inherent characteristics often introduce substantial noise, posing considerable challenges for automated lesion or organ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ling Zhou , Runtian Yuan , Yi Liu , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Shang Gao

A command-following robot that serves people in everyday life must continually improve itself in deployment domains with minimal help from its end users, instead of engineers. Previous methods are either difficult to continuously improve…

This study explores the application of self-supervised learning (SSL) for improved target recognition in synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery. The unique challenges of underwater environments make traditional computer vision techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 BW Sheffield

3D ultrasound imaging shows great promise for scoliosis diagnosis thanks to its low-costing, radiation-free and real-time characteristics. The key to accessing scoliosis by ultrasound imaging is to accurately segment the bone area and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Zixun Huang , Li-Wen Wang , Frank H. F. Leung , Sunetra Banerjee , De Yang , Timothy Lee , Juan Lyu , Sai Ho Ling , Yong-Ping Zheng

Enhancing forward-looking sonar images is critical for accurate underwater target detection. Current deep learning methods mainly rely on supervised training with simulated data, but the difficulty in obtaining high-quality real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhisheng Zhang , Peng Zhang , Fengxiang Wang , Liangli Ma , Fuchun Sun

The image reconstruction process in medical imaging can be treated as solving an inverse problem. The inverse problem is usually solved using time-consuming iterative algorithms with sparsity or other constraints. Recently, deep neural…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Jingke Zhang , Qiong He , Congzhi Wang , Hongen Liao , Jianwen Luo

We introduce a speech-guided embodied agent framework for video-guided skull base surgery that dynamically executes perception and image-guidance tasks in response to surgeon queries. The proposed system integrates natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jecia Z. Y. Mao , Francis X. Creighton , Russell H. Taylor , Manish Sahu

In this paper we present a new data-driven method for robust skin detection from a single human portrait image. Unlike previous methods, we incorporate human body as a weak semantic guidance into this task, considering acquiring large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yi He , Jiayuan Shi , Chuan Wang , Haibin Huang , Jiaming Liu , Guanbin Li , Risheng Liu , Jue Wang

Advances in image registration and machine learning have recently enabled volumetric analysis of postmortem brain tissue from conventional photographs of coronal slabs, which are routinely collected in brain banks and neuropathology…

Visual degradation in underwater environments poses unique and significant challenges, which distinguishes underwater SLAM from popular vision-based SLAM on the ground. In this paper, we propose RUSSO, a robust underwater SLAM system which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shu Pan , Ziyang Hong , Zhangrui Hu , Xiandong Xu , Wenjie Lu , Liang Hu

Moving around in the world is naturally a multisensory experience, but today's embodied agents are deaf---restricted to solely their visual perception of the environment. We introduce audio-visual navigation for complex, acoustically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Changan Chen , Unnat Jain , Carl Schissler , Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari , Ziad Al-Halah , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu , Philip Robinson , Kristen Grauman

Image representations are commonly learned from class labels, which are a simplistic approximation of human image understanding. In this paper we demonstrate that transferable representations of images can be learned without manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Richard Droste , Yifan Cai , Harshita Sharma , Pierre Chatelain , Lior Drukker , Aris T. Papageorghiou , J. Alison Noble

Various imaging artifacts, low signal-to-noise ratio, and bone surfaces appearing several millimeters in thickness have hindered the success of ultrasound (US) guided computer assisted orthopedic surgery procedures. In this work, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Puyang Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

Underwater robot perception is crucial in scientific subsea exploration and commercial operations. The key challenges include non-uniform lighting and poor visibility in turbid environments. High-frequency forward-look sonar cameras address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Hitesh Kyatham , Shahriar Negahdaripour , Michael Xu , Xiaomin Lin , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonos

Vision-and-language navigation requires an agent to navigate through a real 3D environment following natural language instructions. Despite significant advances, few previous works are able to fully utilize the strong correspondence between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yicong Hong , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Qi Wu , Stephen Gould

Medical ultrasound has been widely used to examine vascular structure in modern clinical practice. However, traditional ultrasound examination often faces challenges related to inter- and intra-operator variation. The robotic ultrasound…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yuan Bi , Yang Su , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms where derived from physical principles. These algorithms rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ben Luijten , Nishith Chennakeshava , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Objective: To test automated in vivo estimation of active and passive skeletal muscle states using ultrasonic imaging. Background: Current technology (electromyography, dynamometry, shear wave imaging) provides no general, non-invasive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-04 Ryan J. Cunningham , Ian D. Loram