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Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques to improve the generalization performance of deep neural networks. Yet, despite often facing limited data availability in medical image analysis, it is frequently underutilized. This…

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We propose a new microscopy simulation system that can depict atomistic models in a micrograph visual style, similar to results of physical electron microscopy imaging. This system is scalable, able to represent simulation of electron…

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The visualization of volumetric medical data is crucial for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and improving surgical planning and education. Cinematic rendering techniques significantly enrich this process by providing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Chengkun Li , Yuqi Tong , Kai Chen , Zhenya Yang , Ruiyang Li , Shi Qiu , Jason Ying-Kuen Chan , Pheng-Ann Heng , Qi Dou

Ultrasonography offers an inexpensive, widely-accessible and compact medical imaging solution. However, compared to other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI, ultrasound images notoriously suffer from strong speckle noise, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Vincent van de Schaft , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

This paper provides a mathematical analysis of ultrafast ultrasound imaging. This newly emerging modality for biomedical imaging uses plane waves instead of focused waves in order to achieve very high frame rates. We derive the point spread…

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Ultrasound imaging is generally employed for real-time investigation of internal anatomy of the human body for disease identification. Delineation of the anatomical boundary of organs and pathological lesions is quite challenging due to the…

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Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) is a common vascular disease with blood clots inside deep veins, which may block blood flow or even cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. A typical exam for DVT using ultrasound (US) imaging is by…

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In recent years, laser ultrasonic visualization testing (LUVT) has attracted much attention because of its ability to efficiently perform non-contact ultrasonic non-destructive testing.Despite many success reports of deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Miya Nakajima , Takahiro Saitoh , Tsuyoshi Kato

Understanding medical ultrasound imaging remains a long-standing challenge due to significant visual variability caused by differences in imaging and acquisition parameters. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have been used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xuesong Li , Dianye Huang , Yameng Zhang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Walter A. Simson , Magdalini Paschali , Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Nassir Navab , Jeremy J. Dahl

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) exhibit remarkable generalization, yet their direct application to medical ultrasound is severely hindered by a profound modality gap. The unique acoustic physics of ultrasound, characterized by…

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Ultrasound imaging is widely applied in clinical practice, yet ultrasound videos often suffer from low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and limited resolutions, posing challenges for diagnosis and analysis. Variations in equipment and…

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Recent advancements in neutron and X-ray sources, instrumentation and data collection modes have significantly increased the experimental data size (which could easily contain 10$^{8}$ -- 10$^{10}$ data points), so that conventional…

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Removing noise in computer tomography (CT) data for real-time 3D visualization is vital to improving the quality of the final display. However, the CT noise cannot be removed by straight averaging because the noise has a broadband spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 N. Tan Jerome , Z. Ateyev , S. Schmelzle , S. Chilingaryan , A. Kopmann

Ultrasound imaging has become the preferred imaging modality for early cancer screening due to its advantages of non-ionizing radiation, low cost, and real-time imaging capabilities. However, conventional ultrasound diagnosis heavily relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chaoyin She , Ruifang Lu , Lida Chen , Wei Wang , Qinghua Huang

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

Accurate segmentation of ultrasound images is essential for reliable medical diagnoses but is challenged by poor image quality and scarce labeled data. Prior approaches have relied on manually designed, complex network architectures to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Renqi Chen , Xinzhe Zheng , Haoyang Su , Kehan Wu

Ultrasound is the second most used modality in medical imaging. It is cost effective, hazardless, portable and implemented routinely in numerous clinical procedures. Nonetheless, image quality is characterized by granulated appearance, poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Lilach Barkat , Moti Freiman , Haim Azhari

Our goal is to collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset with low label noise from videos in the wild using computer vision techniques. The resulting dataset can be used for training and evaluating audio recognition models. We make three…

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