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The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of displacement estimation. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising performance in optical flow estimation and have been adopted for…
Speed-of-sound (SoS) is an emerging ultrasound contrast modality, where pulse-echo techniques using conventional transducers offer multiple benefits. For estimating tissue SoS distributions, spatial domain reconstruction from relative…
Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation…
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery for estimating ground movement, based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is gaining increasing importance in remote sensing. However, noise corrupts microwave reflections…
Speed-of-sound (SoS) is a novel imaging biomarker for assessing biomechanical characteristics of soft tissues. SoS imaging in pulse-echo mode using conventional ultrasound systems with hand-held transducers has the potential to enable new…
Most ultrasound imaging techniques necessitate the fundamental step of converting temporal signals received from transducer elements into a spatial echogenecity map. This beamforming (BF) step requires the knowledge of speed-of-sound (SoS)…
Ultrasound is an adjunct tool to mammography that can quickly and safely aid physicians with diagnosing breast abnormalities. Clinical ultrasound often assumes a constant sound speed to form B-mode images for diagnosis. However, the various…
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Sonography techniques use multiple transducer elements for tissue visualization. Signals detected at each element are sampled prior to digital beamforming. The sampling rates required to perform high resolution digital beamforming are…
Accurate estimation of the speed-of-sound (SoS) is important for ultrasound (US) image reconstruction techniques and tissue characterization. Various approaches have been proposed to calculate SoS, ranging from tomography-inspired…
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) can map microvessels at a resolution of a few micrometers (\mu m). Transcranial ULM remains challenging in presence of aberrations caused by the skull, which lead to localization errors. Herein, we…
Deep neural networks have emerged as effective tools for computational imaging including quantitative phase microscopy of transparent samples. To reconstruct phase from intensity, current approaches rely on supervised learning with training…
Established image recovery methods in fast ultrasound imaging, e.g. delay-and-sum, trade the image quality for the high frame rate. Cutting-edge inverse scattering methods based on compressed sensing (CS) disrupt this tradeoff via a priori…
To phased microphone array for sound source localization, algorithm with both high computational efficiency and high precision is a persistent pursuit. In this paper convolutional neural network (CNN) a kind of deep learning is…
Recently, the generalization behavior of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is gradually transparent through explanation techniques with the frequency components decomposition. However, the importance of the phase spectrum of the image for…
Convolutional neural networks lack shift equivariance due to the presence of downsampling layers. In image classification, adaptive polyphase downsampling (APS-D) was recently proposed to make CNNs perfectly shift invariant. However, in…
Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) measures a scene from multiple views in order to increase the resolution of reconstructed imagery. Image reconstruction methods for SAS coherently combine measurements to focus acoustic energy onto the scene.…
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This paper presents a frequency-velocity convolutional neural network (CNN) for rapid, non-invasive 2D shear wave velocity (Vs) imaging of near-surface geo-materials. Operating in the frequency-velocity domain allows for significant…