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Generation of super-resolution (SR) ultrasound (US) images, created from the successive local-ization of individual microbubbles in the circulation, has enabled the visualization of microvascular structure and flow at a level of detail that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Scott Schoen , Zhigen Zhao , Ashley Alva , Chengwu Huang , Shigao Chen , Costas Arvanitis

Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successfully applied to many remote sensing problems. However, deep learning techniques for multi-image super-resolution from multitemporal unregistered imagery have received little…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for muscle-skeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical diseases, due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, ultrasound acquisition introduces noise in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Simone Cammarasana , Paolo Nicolardi , Giuseppe Patanè

Recently, single-image super-resolution has made great progress owing to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The vast majority of CNN-based models use a pre-defined upsampling operator, such as bicubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Xin Yang , Haiyang Mei , Jiqing Zhang , Ke Xu , Baocai Yin , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei

High resolution transcranial ultrasound imaging in humans has been a persistent challenge for ultrasound due to the imaging degradation effects from aberration and reverberation. These mechanisms depend strongly on skull morphology and they…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Danai E. Soulioti , David Espíndola , Paul A. Dayton , Gianmarco Pinton

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging relies on the sub-wavelength localization of microbubble contrast agents. By tracking individual microbubbles, the velocity and flow within microvessels can be estimated. However, a 2D super-resolution…

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…

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Background: Three-dimensional, whole heart, balanced steady state free precession (WH-bSSFP) sequences provide delineation of intra-cardiac and vascular anatomy. However, they have long acquisition times. Here, we propose significant speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jennifer A. Steeden , Michael Quail , Alexander Gotschy , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Rodney Jones , Vivek Muthurangu

Health professionals extensively use Two- Dimensional (2D) Ultrasound (US) videos and images to visualize and measure internal organs for various purposes including evaluation of muscle architectural changes. US images can be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Alzayat Saleh , Issam H. Laradji , Corey Lammie , David Vazquez , Carol A Flavell , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have…

Perfusion by the microcirculation is key to the development, maintenance and pathology of tissue. Its measurement with high spatiotemporal resolution is consequently valuable but remains a challenge in deep tissue. Ultrasound Localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Kai Riemer , Matthieu Toulemonde , Jipeng Yan , Marcelo Lerendegui , Eleanor Stride , Peter D. Weinberg , Christopher Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

We report on image processing techniques and experimental procedures to determine the lattice-site positions of single atoms in an optical lattice with high reliability, even for limited acquisition time or optical resolution. Determining…

Deep learning methods can be found in many medical imaging applications. Recently, those methods were applied directly to the RF ultrasound multi-channel data to enhance the quality of the reconstructed images. In this paper, we apply a…

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High resolution diffusion MRI (dMRI) data is often constrained by limited scanning time in clinical settings, thus restricting the use of downstream analysis techniques that would otherwise be available. In this work we develop a 3D…

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With the rapid development of deep learning, a variety of change detection methods based on deep learning have emerged in recent years. However, these methods usually require a large number of training samples to train the network model, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Weidong Yan , Pei Yan , Li Cao

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is pivotal in revealing intricate micro- and nanoscale features across various research fields. However, obtaining high-resolution SEM images presents challenges, including prolonged scanning durations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Tom Reclik , Setareh Medghalchi , Philipp Schumacher , Maximilian Wollenweber , Talal Al-Samman , Sandra Korte-Kerzel , Ulrich Kerzel

In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been investigated to improve the resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum (DAS) beamformers. Unfortunately, the performance of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

Surveillance scenarios are prone to several problems since they usually involve low-resolution footage, and there is no control of how far the subjects may be from the camera in the first place. This situation is suitable for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Angelo G. Menezes

Deep learning (DL) has shown promise for faster, high quality accelerated MRI reconstruction. However, supervised DL methods depend on extensive amounts of fully-sampled (labeled) data and are sensitive to out-of-distribution (OOD) shifts,…

Traditional beamforming of medical ultrasound images relies on sampling rates significantly higher than the actual Nyquist rate of the received signals. This results in large amounts of data to store and process, imposing hardware and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alon Mamistvalov , Ariel Amar , Naama Kessler , Yonina C. Eldar