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Ultrasound localization microscopy has enabled super-resolution vascular imaging through precise localization of individual ultrasound contrast agents (microbubbles) across numerous imaging frames. However, analysis of high-density regions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-14 Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Oren Solomon , Matthew Bruce , Zin Z. Khaing , Hessel Wijkstra , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy can resolve the microvascular bed down to a few micrometers. To achieve such performance microbubble contrast agents must perfuse the entire microvascular network. Microbubbles are then located…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Léo Milecki , Jonathan Porée , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloé Bourquin , Rafat Damseh , Patrick Delafontaine-Martel , Frédéric Lesage , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Arthur Chavignon , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Resolving arterial flows is essential for understanding cardiovascular pathologies, improving diagnosis, and monitoring patient condition. Ultrasound contrast imaging uses microbubbles to enhance the scattering of the blood pool, allowing…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is a non-invasive technique that allows for the imaging of micro-vessels in vivo, at depth and with a resolution on the order of ten microns. ULM is based on the sub-resolution localization of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Brice Rauby , Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is an emerging technique that employs the localization of echogenic microbubbles (MBs) to finely sample and image the microcirculation beyond the diffraction limit of ultrasound imaging. Conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) enables imaging of vascular structures in the micrometer range by accumulating contrast agent particle locations over time. Precise and efficient target localization accuracy remains an active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has recently enabled the mapping of the cerebral vasculature in vivo with a resolution ten times smaller than the wavelength used, down to ten microns. However, with frame rates up to 20.000 frames…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Erwan Hardy , Jonathan Poree , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloe Bourquin , Frederic Lesage , Jean Provost

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Brice Rauby , Antoine Malescot , Éric Martineau , Vincent Perrot , Ravi L. Rungta , Jean Provost

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging through microbubble (MB) localisation and tracking, also known as ultrasound localisation microscopy, allows non-invasive sub-diffraction resolution imaging of microvasculature in animals and humans. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Su Yan , Clotilde Vié , Marcelo Lerendegui , Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Jipeng Yan , Martina Tashkova , James Burn , Bingxue Wang , Gary Frost , Kevin G. Murphy , Meng-Xing Tang

Super-resolution ultrasound (SR-US) is a powerful imaging technique for capturing microvasculature and blood flow at high spatial resolution. However, accurate microbubble (MB) localization remains a key challenge, as errors in localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

The purpose of this study is to enable in-vivo three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) of posterior ocular microvasculature using a 256-channel system and a 1024-element matrix array, and to overcome limitations of…

In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging (SRUS) is an active area of research as it brings up to a ten-fold improvement in the resolution of microvascular structures. The limitations to the clinical adoption of SRUS include long acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Arthur David Redfern , Katherine G. Brown

Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) refers to a promising medical imaging modality that systematically leverages the advantages of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to surpass the diffraction barrier and delineate the microvascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Md Ashikuzzaman , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), which has shown promising results in microvascular imaging, overcomes the typical trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. Combining ultrasound contrast agents and high frame…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 A. N. Madhavanunni , Niya Mariam Benoy , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Himanshu Shekhar

Super-resolution ultrasound via microbubble (MB) localisation and tracking, also known as ultrasound localisation microscopy (ULM), can resolve microvasculature beyond the acoustic diffraction limit. However, significant challenges remain…

Non-invasive detection of microvascular alterations in deep tissues in vivo provides critical information for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of a broad-spectrum of pathologies. Recently, the emergence of super-resolution ultrasound…

Contrast-Enhanced Ultra-Sound (CEUS) has become a viable method for non-invasive, dynamic visualization in medical diagnostics, yet Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has enabled a revolutionary breakthrough by offering ten times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Christopher Hahne , Raphael Sznitman

To overcome the half a wavelength resolution limitations of ultrasound imaging, microbubbles (MBs) have been utilized widely in the field. Conventional MB localization methods are limited whether by exhaustive parameter tuning or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz
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