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A realistic computer-simulation of a breast computed tomography (CT) system and subject is constructed. The model is used to investigate the optimal number of views for the scan given a fixed total X-ray fluence. The reconstruction…

Reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is important to mitigate radiation-induced risks. One option is to employ a well-trained model to compensate for incomplete information and map sparse-view measurements to the CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Xiaoyue Li , Kai Shang , Gaoang Wang , Mark D. Butala

Computed tomography (CT) involves a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. To reduce the radiation dose, we can either lower the X-ray photon count or down-sample projection views. However, either of the ways often compromises image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Wenjun Xia , Yongyi Shi , Chuang Niu , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Fast imaging methods are needed to promote widespread clinical adoption of Ultrasound Tomography (UST), and more widely available UST hardware could support the experimental validation of new measurement configurations. In this work, an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Morgan Roberts , Eleanor Martin , Michael D. Brown , Ben T. Cox , Bradley E. Treeby

Ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) readings are prone to mixed noise from physical activities, including baseline wander (BW), muscle artifact (MA), and electrode motion artifact (EM). Developing a method to remove such complex noise and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Pengxin Li , Yimin Zhou , Jie Min , Yirong Wang , Wei Liang , Qingling Xia , Wang Li

Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (PCCT) is a novel imaging modality that simultaneously acquires volumetric data at multiple X-ray energy levels, generating separate volumes that capture energy-dependent attenuation properties.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Mohit Sharma , Emma Nilsson , Martin Falk , Talha Bin Masood , Lee Jollans , Anders Persson , Tino Ebbers , Ingrid Hotz

Computed tomography (CT) is indispensable for clinical diagnosis and image-guided interventions but exposes patients to ionizing radiation, motivating the development of safer imaging alternatives. Ultrasound (US) is non-ionizing and widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Sapna Sachan , Amulya Kumar Mahto

Ultrasound images are commonly formed by sequential acquisition of beam-steered scan-lines. Minimizing the number of required scan-lines can significantly enhance frame rate, field of view, energy efficiency, and data transfer speeds.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Simon W. Penninga , Hans van Gorp , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

The success of embolisation, a minimally invasive treatment of liver cancer, could be evaluated in the operational room with cone-beam CT by acquiring a dynamic perfusion scan. The reconstruction algorithm must address the issues of low…

Intraoperative ultrasound facilitates localisation of tumour boundaries during minimally invasive procedures. Autonomous ultrasound scanning systems have been recently proposed to improve scanning accuracy and reduce surgeons' cognitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Lin Zhang , Menglong Ye , Stamatia Giannarou , Philip Pratt , Guang-Zhong Yang

Sonography techniques use multiple transducer elements for tissue visualization. Signals detected at each element are sampled prior to digital beamforming. The required sampling rates are up to 4 times the Nyquist rate of the signal and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-21 T. Chernyakova , Y. C. Eldar , R. Amit

With the integration of communication and computing, it is expected that part of the computing is transferred to the transmitter side. In this paper we address the general problem of Frequency Modulation (FM) for function approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Marc Martinez-Gost , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Lagunas

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (qPAT) is an imaging technique aimed at estimating chromophore concentrations inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic propagation. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Hwan Goh , Timo Lahivaara , Tanja Tarvainen , Aki Pulkkinen , Owen Dillon , Ruanui Nicholson , Jari Kaipio

Contrast enhanced ultrasound is a radiation-free imaging modality which uses encapsulated gas microbubbles for improved visualization of the vascular bed deep within the tissue. It has recently been used to enable imaging with unprecedented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Oren Solomon , Regev Cohen , Yi Zhang , Yi Yang , He Qiong , Jianwen Luo , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina C. Eldar

Measuring airways in chest computed tomography (CT) images is important for characterizing diseases such as cystic fibrosis, yet very time-consuming to perform manually. Machine learning algorithms offer an alternative, but need large sets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Veronika Cheplygina , Adria Perez-Rovira , Wieying Kuo , Harm A. W. M. Tiddens , Marleen de Bruijne

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-17 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) offers improved temporal resolution and reduced radiation dose for cardiac imaging, but suffers from severe artifacts due to truncated projections. To address the ill-posedness of LACT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yu Shi , Shuyi Fan , Changsheng Fang , Shuo Han , Haodong Li , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Dayang Wang , Hengyong Yu

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Currently, diagnostic medicine uses a multitude of tools ranging from ionising radiation to histology analysis. With advances in piezoelectric crystal technology, high-frequency ultrasound imaging has developed to achieve comparatively high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Akhil Kallepalli , James Halls , David B. James , Mark A. Richardson

We propose a novel pipeline for the generation of synthetic ultrasound images via Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) guided by cardiac semantic label maps. We show that these synthetic images can serve as a viable substitute…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 David Stojanovski , Uxio Hermida , Pablo Lamata , Arian Beqiri , Alberto Gomez