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Transcranial ultrasound imaging is usually limited by skull-induced attenuation and high-order aberrations. By using contrast agents such as microbubbles in combination with ultrafast imaging, not only can the signal-to-noise ratio be…

The spatial resolution of images of living samples obtained by fluorescence microscopes is physically limited due to the diffraction of visible light, which makes the study of entities of size less than the diffraction barrier (around 200…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Vasiliki Stergiopoulou , Subhadip Mukherjee , Luca Calatroni , Laure Blanc-Féraud

High resolution ultrasound image reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements is of great interest in ultrasound imaging, since it could enhance both the frame rate and image resolution. Compressive deconvolution, combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Inspired by the facts that retinal cells actually segregate the visual scene into different attributes (e.g., spatial details, temporal motion) for respective neuronal processing, we propose to first decompose the input video into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ming Lu , Tong Chen , Dandan Ding , Fengqing Zhu , Zhan Ma

We propose a novel approach to denoising diffusion magnetic resonance images (dMRI) using convolutional neural networks, that exploits the benefits of data acquired at multiple b-values to offset the need for many redundant observations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Jakub Jurek , Andrzej Materka , Kamil Ludwisiak , Agata Majos , Filip Szczepankiewicz

In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Arthur Chavignon , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Aims : We describe MS-MFS, a multi-scale multi-frequency deconvolution algorithm for wide-band synthesis-imaging, and present imaging results that illustrate the capabilities of the algorithm and the conditions under which it is feasible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Urvashi Rau , Tim J. Cornwell

In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Julien Ajdenbaum , Emilie Chouzenoux , Claire Lefort , Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Hana Sebia , Thomas Guyet , Mickaël Pereira , Marco Valdebenito , Hugues Berry , Benjamin Vidal

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging relies on the sub-wavelength localization of microbubble contrast agents. By tracking individual microbubbles, the velocity and flow within microvessels can be estimated. However, a 2D super-resolution…

We describe a new multi-scale deconvolution algorithm that can also be used in multi-frequency mode. The algorithm only affects the minor clean loop. In single-frequency mode, the minor loop of our improved multi-scale algorithm is over an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. R. Offringa , O. Smirnov

Microscopy is one of the most essential imaging techniques in life sciences. High-quality images are required in order to solve (potentially life-saving) biomedical research problems. Many microscopy techniques do not achieve sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jan Aelterman , Jonas De Vylder , Hiep Luong , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) play a crucial role in remote sensing but are often degraded by complex noise patterns. Ensuring the physical property of the denoised HSIs is vital for robust HSI denoising, giving the rise of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jin Ye , Jingran Wang , Fengchao Xiong , Jingzhou Chen , Yuntao Qian

Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) provides a unique concept for simultaneous and fast acquisition of multiple quantitative MR parameters. Despite acquisition efficiency, adoption of MRF into the clinics is hindered by its dictionary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Fabian Balsiger , Alain Jungo , Olivier Scheidegger , Pierre G. Carlier , Mauricio Reyes , Benjamin Marty

An image restoration approach based on a Bayesian maximum entropy method (MEM) has been applied to a radiological image deconvolution problem, that of reduction of geometric blurring in magnification mammography. The aim of the work is to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A Jannetta , J C Jackson , C J Kotre , I P Birch , K J Robson , R Padgett

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) offers a cost-effective modality for microvascular imaging by using intravascular contrast agents (microbubbles). However, ULM has a fundamental trade-off between acquisition time and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Ufuk Soylu , Yoram Bresler

We study the problem of deconvolution for light-sheet microscopy, where the data is corrupted by spatially varying blur and a combination of Poisson and Gaussian noise. The spatial variation of the point spread function (PSF) of a…

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Soumee Guha , Scott T. Acton