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This paper introduces a hybrid computational framework for the multi-frequency inverse source problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. By integrating a classical Fourier method with a deep convolutional neural network, we address the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Hao Chen , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yuliang Wang

We study the sampling of spatial fields using sensors that are location-unaware but deployed according to a known statistical distribution. It has been shown that uniformly distributed location-unaware sensors cannot infer bandlimited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Ankur Mallick , Animesh Kumar

In the realm of medical imaging, inverse problems aim to infer high-quality images from incomplete, noisy measurements, with the objective of minimizing expenses and risks to patients in clinical settings. The Diffusion Models have recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Hossein Askari , Fred Roosta , Hongfu Sun

Stochastic optimisation algorithms are the de facto standard for machine learning with large amounts of data. Handling only a subset of available data in each optimisation step dramatically reduces the per-iteration computational costs,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Zeljko Kereta , Jingwei Liang , Junqi Tang

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

Ultrasound imaging is widely used for real-time, noninvasive diagnosis, but speckle and related artifacts reduce image quality and can hinder interpretation. We present a diffusion-based ultrasound despeckling method built on the Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shuoqi Chen , Yujia Wu , Geoffrey P. Luke

Ultrasound imaging is an incontestable vital tool for diagnosis, it provides in non-invasive manner the internal structure of the body to detect eventually diseases or abnormalities tissues. Unfortunately, the presence of speckle noise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Faouzi Benzarti , Hamid Amiri

We present an algorithm for resampling a function from its values on a non-Cartesian grid onto a Cartesian grid. This problem arises in many applications such as MRI, CT, radio astronomy and geophysics. Our algorithm, termed SParse Uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Amir Kiperwas , Daniel Rosenfeld , Yonina C. Eldar

Ultrasound modulated bioluminescence tomography (UMBLT) is an imaging method which can be formulated as a hybrid inverse source problem. In the regime where light propagation is modeled by a radiative transfer equation, previous approaches…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Francis Chung , Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

In this paper we consider the problem of acoustic inversion in the context of the optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction problem. By leveraging the ability of the recently proposed diffusion models for image generative tasks among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 M. G. González , M. Vera , A. Dreszman , L. J. Rey Vega

Image deblurring is an ill-posed problem with multiple plausible solutions for a given input image. However, most existing methods produce a deterministic estimate of the clean image and are trained to minimize pixel-level distortion. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jay Whang , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Chitwan Saharia , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Peyman Milanfar

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate a robust and clinically validated method for correcting sound speed aberrations in medical ultrasound. We propose a correction method that calculates focusing delays directly from the observed…

Nonuniform Fourier data are routinely collected in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, synthetic aperture radar, and synthetic imaging in radio astronomy. To acquire a fast reconstruction that does not require an online inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Anne Gelb , Guohui Song

Purpose: Optical imaging is evolving as a key technique for advanced sensing in the operating room. Recent research has shown that machine learning algorithms can be used to address the inverse problem of converting pixel-wise multispectral…

The iterative refinement method (IRM) has been very successfully applied in many different fields for examples the modern quantum chemical calculation and CT image reconstruction. It is proved that the refinement method can create an exact…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Kang Yang , Kevin Yang , Xintie Yang , Shuang-Ren Zhao

Ultrafast intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) uses unfocused transmissions to capture cardiac motion at frame rates exceeding 1 kHz. While this enables real-time visualization of rapid dynamics, image quality is often degraded by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rémi Delaunay , Christoph Hennersperger , Stefan Wörz

The inverse-scattering problem of an inhomogeneous material has been of interest for many years, and was generally addressed with various optimization techniques. In this paper, we suggest an optimization-free method for solving the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Ohad Silbiger , Yakir Hadad

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett