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We present a novel algorithm for high resolution coherent imaging of sound sources in random scattering media using time resolved measurements of the acoustic pressure at an array of receivers. The sound waves travel a long distance between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

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

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Qiqing Liu , Guoquan Wei , Zekun Zhou , Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Intracellular delivery of biomolecules remains a critical challenge in both basic cell biology and translational therapeutics. We introduce Programmable Acoustic Standing-wave Transfection (PAST), a microfluidic tool that leverages…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Subhas Nandy , Monica Manohar , Ashis K Sen

Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Photo-acoustic tomography is a coupled-physics (hybrid) medical imaging modality that aims to reconstruct optical parameters in biological tissues from ultrasound measurements. As propagating light gets partially absorbed, the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Guillaume Bal , Adrian Kirkeby

High resolution ultrasound image reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements is of great interest in ultrasound imaging, since it could enhance both the frame rate and image resolution. Compressive deconvolution, combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Diffusion models have enabled remarkably high-quality medical image generation, yet it is challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated images. To this end, we propose a diffusion model-based method that supports…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Nicholas Konz , Yuwen Chen , Haoyu Dong , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Universal filtered multi-carrier (UFMC), which groups and filters subcarriers before transmission, is a potential multi-carrier modulation technique investigated for the emerging Machine-Type Communications (MTC). Considering the relaxed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-26 Yicheng Xu , Hongyun Chu , Xiaodong Wang

Collimated beam ultrasound systems are a novel technology for imaging inside multi-layered structures such as geothermal wells. Such systems include a transmitter and multiple receivers to capture reflected signals. Common algorithms for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Abdulrahman Alanazi , Singanallur Venkatakrishnan , Hector Santos-Villalobos , Gregery Buzzard , Charles Bouman

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

Beamforming is an essential step in the ultrasound image formation pipeline and has recently attracted growing interest. An important goal of beamforming is to increase the image spatial resolution, or in other words to narrow down the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Breast cancer screening, primarily conducted through mammography, is often supplemented with ultrasound for women with dense breast tissue. However, existing deep learning models analyze each modality independently, missing opportunities to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Frank Yeung , Eliana Goldberg , Laura Heacock , Farah Shamout , Krzysztof J. Geras

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Viktor Stefanovski

Temporal fluctuations in the phase of waves transmitted through a dynamic, strongly scattering, mesoscopic sample are investigated using ultrasonic waves, and compared with theoretical predictions based on circular Gaussian statistics. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. L. Cowan , D. Anache-Ménier , W. K. Hildebrand , J. H. Page , B. A. van Tiggelen

Automated segmentation of BUS images is important for precise lesion delineation and tumor characterization, but is challenged by inherent artifacts and dataset inconsistencies. In this work, we evaluate the use of a modified Residual…

Interferometric scattering microscopy is a powerful technique that enables various applications, such as mass photometry and particle tracking. Here we present a numerical toolbox to simulate images obtained in interferometric scattering,…

Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode (CUTE) allows determining the spatial distribution of speed-of-sound (SoS) inside tissue using handheld pulse-echo ultrasound (US). This technique is based on measuring the changing phase of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Patrick Stähli , Maju Kuriakose , Martin Frenz , Michael Jaeger

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are problematic in clinical medicine because of their low contrast and high artifact content compared with conventional CT images. Although there are some studies to improve image quality, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Naruki Murahashi , Mitsuhiro Nakamura , Megumi Nakao