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Biomedical applications requiring tissue diagnosis, activation, and treatment could be substantially leveraged by optical methods, owing to their unique feature set. However, their widespread application is severely limited by the strong…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Maxim Cherkashin , Carsten Brenner , Georg Schmitz , Martin Hofmann

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical practice due to its cost-effectiveness, mobility, and safety. However, current AI research often treats disease prediction and tissue segmentation as two separate tasks and their model requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zhi Chen , Le Zhang

Speed-of-sound (SoS) is a biomechanical characteristic of tissue, and its imaging can provide a promising biomarker for diagnosis. Reconstructing SoS images from ultrasound acquisitions can be cast as a limited-angle computed-tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Sonia Laguna , Lin Zhang , Can Deniz Bezek , Monika Farkas , Dieter Schweizer , Rahel A. Kubik-Huch , Orcun Goksel

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is sensitive to the microstructural properties of brain tissue. However, estimating clinically and scientifically relevant microstructural properties from the measured signals remains a highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Leevi Kerkelä , Kiran Seunarine , Filip Szczepankiewicz , Chris A. Clark

Electromagnetic stimulation of the human brain is a key tool for the neurophysiological characterization and diagnosis of several neurological disorders. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is one procedure that is commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Essam A. Rashed , Jose Gomez-Tames , Akimasa Hirata

In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a…

Monte-Carlo (MC) Dropout provides a practical solution for estimating predictive distributions in deterministic neural networks. Traditional dropout, applied within the signal space, may fail to account for frequency-related noise common in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tal Zeevi , Lawrence H. Staib , John A. Onofrey

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI), by combining high optical contrast with ultrasonic resolution, offers a promising noninvasive approach for dynamic monitoring of cerebral vasculature. However, transcranial PAI still faces significant challenges…

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

Organ segmentation in CT volumes is an important pre-processing step in many computer assisted intervention and diagnosis methods. In recent years, convolutional neural networks have dominated the state of the art in this task. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul , Nassir Navab , Shadi Albarqouni

Purpose: An investigation of the challenge of annotating discrete segmentations of brain tumours in ultrasound, with a focus on the issue of aleatoric uncertainty along the tumour margin, particularly for diffuse tumours. A segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alistair Weld , Luke Dixon , Alfie Roddan , Giulio Anichini , Sophie Camp , Stamatia Giannarou

The brain's microvascular cerebral capillary network plays a vital role in maintaining neuronal health, yet capillary dynamics are still not well understood due to limitations in existing imaging techniques. Here, we present Single…

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound scanning is a demanding visuotactile task. It requires operators to simultaneously localise the ultrasound perspective and manually perform slight adjustments to the pose of the probe, making sure not to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Alistair Weld , Luke Dixon , Giulio Anichini , Michael Dyck , Alex Ranne , Sophie Camp , Stamatia Giannarou

Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) has the potential to usher in a new era for human neuroscience by allowing spatially precise and high-resolution non-invasive targeting of both deep and superficial brain regions. Currently,…

Non-invasive stimulation of small, variably shaped brain sub-regions is crucial for advancing our understanding of brain functions. Current ultrasound neuromodulation faces two significant trade-offs when targeting brain sub-regions:…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-09 Yueming Li , Guo Chen , Tiago R. Oliveira , Nick Todd , Yong-Zhi Zhang , Carolyn Marar , Nan Zheng , Lu Lan , Nathan McDannold , Ji-Xin Cheng , Chen Yang

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Accurate outcome and evolution prediction has the potential to revolutionize stroke care by individualizing clinical decision-making leading to better outcomes. However, despite a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Adam Marcus , Paul Bentley , Daniel Rueckert

The correction of transcranial focused ultrasound aberrations is a relevant topic for enhancing various non-invasive medical treatments. Nowadays, the most widely accepted method to improve focusing is the emission through multi-element…

Ultrasound simulations used for treatment planning in transcranial ultrasound stimulation(TUS) currently depend on converting computed tomography(CT) images to acoustic properties. Aiming to reduce subject exposure to ionising radiation,…