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Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT), as an emerging technology, can provide multiple quantitative parametric images of human tissue, such as sound speed and attenuation images, distinguishing it from conventional B-mode (reflection)…

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Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved impressive results for scene reconstruction and computer graphics, where their performance has primarily been assessed on reconstruction accuracy. As INRs make their way into other…

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We consider the problem of density estimation on Riemannian manifolds. Density estimation on manifolds has many applications in fluid-mechanics, optics and plasma physics and it appears often when dealing with angular variables (such as…

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This paper introduces a computationally efficient technique for estimating high-resolution Doppler blood flow from an ultrafast ultrasound image sequence. More precisely, it consists in a new fast alternating minimization algorithm that…

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Ultrasound imaging, despite its widespread use in medicine, often suffers from various sources of noise and artifacts that impact the signal-to-noise ratio and overall image quality. Enhancing ultrasound images requires a delicate balance…

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