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Purpose: Laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) enhances the safety of liver surgery by visualizing intrahepatic vessels in real-time. Still, vessel identification remains difficult due to probe constraints, complex vascular structure, and tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Karl-Philippe Beaudet , Yordanka Velikova , Sidaty El Hadramy , Nassir Navab , Philippe Cattin , Juan Verde , Stéphane Cotin

An accurate detection and tracking of devices such as guiding catheters in live X-ray image acquisitions is an essential prerequisite for endovascular cardiac interventions. This information is leveraged for procedural guidance, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Saahil Islam , Venkatesh N. Murthy , Dominik Neumann , Badhan Kumar Das , Puneet Sharma , Andreas Maier , Dorin Comaniciu , Florin C. Ghesu

Accelerating compute intensive non-real-time beam-forming algorithms in ultrasound imaging using deep learning architectures has been gaining momentum in the recent past. Nonetheless, the complexity of the state-of-the-art deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Abdul Rahoof , Vivek Chaturvedi , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Muhammad Shafique

Ultrasound (US) imaging is a critical tool in medical diagnostics, offering real-time visualization of physiological processes. One of its major advantages is its ability to capture temporal dynamics, which is essential for assessing motion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yves Stebler , Thomas M. Sutter , Ece Ozkan , Julia E. Vogt

Transient brain-wide neuroimaging on a microscopic scale is pivotal for brain research, yet current modalities face challenges in meeting such spatiotemporal requirements. Functional ultrasound (fUS) enables transient neurovascular imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yang Cai , Shaoyuan Yan , Long Xu , Yanfeng Zhu , Bo Li , Kailiang Xu

Medical image understanding requires meticulous examination of fine visual details, with particular regions requiring additional attention. While radiologists build such expertise over years of experience, it is challenging for AI models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ying Jin , Zhuoran Zhou , Haoquan Fang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a tool to speed up triage in ultrasound scans and provide clinicians with fast access to relevant information. The proposed video-summarization technique is a step in this direction that…

Vascular remodelling is inherent to the pathogenesis of many diseases including cancer, neurodegeneration, fibrosis, hypertension, and diabetes. In this paper, a new susceptibility-contrast based MRI approach is established to analyse…

Medical ultrasound provides images which are the spatial map of the tissue echogenicity. Unfortunately, an ultrasound image is a low-quality version of the expected Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) mainly due to the non-ideal Point Spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sobhan Goudarzi , Hassan Rivaz

Medical image segmentation is one of the important tasks of computer-aided diagnosis in medical image analysis. Since most medical images have the characteristics of blurred boundaries and uneven intensity distribution, through existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sixing Yin , Yameng Han , Shufang Li

Parallel imaging is a commonly used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquisition. Mathematically, parallel MRI reconstruction can be formulated as an inverse problem relating the sparsely sampled k-space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Jie Feng , Huajun She , Chunlei Liu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Although existing semi-supervised image segmentation methods have achieved good performance, they cannot effectively utilize multiple sources of voxel-level uncertainty for targeted learning. Therefore, we propose two main improvements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuanpeng He , Lijian Li , Tianxiang Zhan , Chi-Man Pun , Wenpin Jiao , Zhi Jin

General deep learning-based methods for infrared and visible image fusion rely on the unsupervised mechanism for vital information retention by utilizing elaborately designed loss functions. However, the unsupervised mechanism depends on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fan Zhao , Wenda Zhao , Huchuan Lu

Anatomical segmentation of organs in ultrasound images is essential to many clinical applications, particularly for diagnosis and monitoring. Existing deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled data for training in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Nassir Navab

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Deep learning has been demonstrated effective in many neuroimaging applications. However, in many scenarios, the number of imaging sequences capturing information related to small vessel disease lesions is…

The exponential growth of medical imaging has created significant challenges in data storage, transmission, and management for healthcare systems. In this vein, efficient compression becomes increasingly important. Unlike natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Guofeng Tong , Sixuan Liu , Yang Lv , Hanyu Pei , Feng-Lei Fan

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks for 3D medical-image segmentation, the architectures currently used are still not robust enough to the protocols of different scanners, and the variety of image properties they produce.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shrajan Bhandary , Zahra Babaiee , Dejan Kostyszyn , Tobias Fechter , Constantinos Zamboglou , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Radu Grosu

The application of compressed sensing (CS)-enabled data reconstruction for accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains a challenging problem. This is due to the fact that the information lost in k-space from the acceleration mask…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Guoyao Shen , Boran Hao , Mengyu Li , Chad W. Farris , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising emerging imaging modality that enables spatially resolved imaging of optical tissue properties up to several centimeters deep in tissue, creating the potential for numerous exciting clinical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Janek Gröhl , Melanie Schellenberg , Kris Dreher , Lena Maier-Hein

Accurately segmenting different organs from medical images is a critical prerequisite for computer-assisted diagnosis and intervention planning. This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for segmenting various organs from CT and…