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The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of displacement estimation. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising performance in optical flow estimation and have been adopted for…

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We present an ultra-fast, precise, parameter-free method, which we term Deep-STORM, for obtaining super-resolution images from stochastically-blinking emitters, such as fluorescent molecules used for localization microscopy. Deep-STORM uses…

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User location is a piece of critical information for network management and control. However, location uncertainty is unavoidable in certain settings leading to localization errors. In this paper, we consider the user location uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Yujie Yao , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Understanding the morphological structure of medical images and precisely segmenting the region of interest or abnormality is an important task that can assist in diagnosis. However, the unique properties of medical imaging make clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sungmin Kang , Jaeha Song , Jihie Kim

Beamforming (BF) is essential for enhancing system capacity in fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks, yet exhaustive beam training in ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems incurs substantial overhead. To…

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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

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…

Single-molecule localization fluorescence microscopy constructs super-resolution images by sequential imaging and computational localization of sparsely activated fluorophores. Accurate and efficient fluorophore localization algorithms are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Artur Speiser , Lucas-Raphael Müller , Ulf Matti , Christopher J. Obara , Wesley R. Legant , Jonas Ries , Jakob H. Macke , Srinivas C. Turaga

Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms where derived from physical principles. These algorithms rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ben Luijten , Nishith Chennakeshava , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

For beamforming ultrasound (US) signals, typically a spatially constant speed-of-sound (SoS) is assumed to calculate delays. As SoS in tissue may vary relatively largely, this approximation may cause wavefront aberrations, thus degrading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Richard Rau , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

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…

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Localization is paramount for autonomous robots. While camera and LiDAR-based approaches have been extensively investigated, they are affected by adverse illumination and weather conditions. Therefore, radar sensors have recently gained…

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Channel estimation and beamforming play critical roles in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, these two modules have been treated as two stand-alone components, which makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Identifying biomarkers in medical images is vital for a wide range of biotech applications. However, recent Transformer and CNN based methods often struggle with variations in morphology and staining, which limits their feature extraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Saad Wazir , Daeyoung Kim

The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Alex M. Bronstein , Oleg V. Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky

In the sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks, hybrid beamforming would be a real-time optimization problem that is becoming progressively more challenging. Although numerical computation-based iterative methods such as the minimal mean…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Rafid Umayer Murshed , Zulqarnain Bin Ashraf , Abu Horaira Hridhon , Kumudu Munasinghe , Abbas Jamalipour , MD. Farhad Hossain

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

Radio-Frequency (RF) imaging concerns the digital recreation of the surfaces of scene objects based on the scattered field at distributed receivers. To solve this difficult inverse scattering problems, data-driven methods are often employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Gabriele Gradoni , George C. Alexandropoulos

Optical focusing at depths in tissue is the Holy Grail of biomedical optics that may bring revolutionary advancement to the field. Wavefront shaping is a widely accepted approach to solve this problem, but most implementations thus far have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Yunqi Luo , Suxia Yan , Huanhao Li , Puxiang Lai , Yuanjin Zheng