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The human body is mysterious, consisting of innumerable fine and complex structures and a vast amount of information. The field of modern pathology has been systematized around the findings and observations obtained from light microscopy.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Satoshi Kume

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important interferometric diagnostic technique which provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissues. However, the imaging quality of high-speed OCT is limited…

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Speed-of-sound (SoS) is a novel imaging biomarker for assessing biomechanical characteristics of soft tissues. SoS imaging in pulse-echo mode using conventional ultrasound systems with hand-held transducers has the potential to enable new…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Dieter Schweizer , Richard Rau , Can Deniz Bezek , Rahel A. Kubik-Huch , Orcun Goksel

Pansharpening, a pivotal task in remote sensing for fusing high-resolution panchromatic and multispectral imagery, has garnered significant research interest. Recent advancements employing diffusion models based on stochastic differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Cao , Yu Zhong , Liang-Jian Deng

Modern optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices provide volumetric images with micrometer-scale spatial resolution and a temporal resolution beyond video rate. In this work, we analyze an OCT-based prototypical tracking system which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Matthias Schlüter , Lukas Glandorf , Johanna Sprenger , Martin Gromniak , Maximilian Neidhardt , Thore Saathoff , Alexander Schlaefer

The compression of real-world scanned 3D human dynamic meshes is an emerging research area, driven by applications such as telepresence, virtual reality, and 3D digital streaming. Unlike synthesized dynamic meshes with fixed topology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Huong Hoang , Truong Nguyen , Pamela Cosman

Accurate and temporally consistent segmentation of the left ventricle from echocardiography videos is essential for estimating the ejection fraction and assessing cardiac function. However, modeling spatiotemporal dynamics remains difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Rui Wang , Huisi Wu , Jing Qin

Objective: Strain elastography and shear wave elastography are two commonly used methods to quantify cervical elasticity; however, they have limitations. Strain elastography is effective in showing tissue elasticity distribution in a single…

Automatic tumor segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) image is quite challenging due to the complicated anatomic structure of breast and poor image quality. Most tumor segmentation approaches achieve good performance on BUS images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Fei Xu , Min Xian , Yingtao Zhang , Kuan Huang , H. D. Cheng , Boyu Zhang , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning , Ying Wang

High quality structural volumetric imaging is a challenging goal to achieve with modern ultrasound transducers. Matrix probes have limited fields of view and element counts, whereas row-column arrays (RCAs) provide insufficient focusing. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Darren Dahunsi , Randy Palamar , Tyler Henry , Mohammad Rahim Sobhani , Negar Majidi , Joy Wang , Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi , Roger Zemp

Ptychography is a popular imaging technique that combines diffractive imaging with scanning microscopy. The technique consists of a coherent beam that is scanned across an object in a series of overlapping positions, leading to reliable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Samy Wu Fung , Zichao Di

Changes in the density and organization of fibrous biological tissues often accompany the progression of serious diseases ranging from fibrosis to neurodegenerative diseases, heart disease and cancer. However, challenges in cost,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-31 Paula Kirya , Aida Mestre-Farrera , Jing Yang , Lisa V. Poulikakos

Purpose: To demonstrate an ultrashort echo time magnetic resonance fingerprinting (UTE-MRF) method that can simultaneously quantify tissue relaxometries for muscle and bone in musculoskeletal systems and tissue components in brain and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Qing Li , Xiaozhi Cao , Huihui Ye , Congyu Liao , Hongjian He , Jianhui Zhong

Soft matter consists of meso-scale (nm~{\mu}m) structures that are formed by weak interactions and reorganized under thermal fluctuations. The resulting complex relaxation phenomena may be probed with microrheology, by observing the…

Model-based computational elasticity imaging of tissues can be posed as solving an inverse problem over finite elements spanning the displacement image. As most existing quasi-static elastography methods count on deterministic formulations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

The analysis of electrical impulse phenomena in cardiac muscle tissue is important for the diagnosis of heart rhythm disorders and other cardiac pathophysiology. Cardiac mapping techniques acquire local temporal measurements and combine…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Jan Lebert , Namita Ravi , Flavio Fenton , Jan Christoph

Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) noninvasively maps brain biomechanics and is highly sensitive to alterations associated with aging and neurodegenerative disease. Most implementations use a single frequency or a narrow frequency band,…

Acoustic metamaterials offer exceptional control over wave propagation, but their potential remains unfulfilled due to fabrication constraints. Conventional processes yield mostly rigid, planar structures, whereas soft-matter alternatives…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-03 Thomas Daunizeau , David Gueorguiev , Vincent Hayward , Allison Okamura , Sinan Haliyo

Multiple light scattering in tissue limits the penetration of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Here, we present in-vivo OCT imaging of a live mouse using wavefront shaping to enhance the penetration depth. A digital micro-mirror…