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Super-resolution microscopes (such as STED) illuminate samples with a tiny spot, and achieve very high resolution. But structures smaller than the spot cannot be resolved in this way. Therefore, we propose a technique to solve this problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Image blur and image noise are imaging artifacts intrinsically arising in image acquisition. In this paper, we consider multi-frame blind deconvolution (MFBD), where image blur is described by the convolution of an unobservable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Leonid Kostrykin , Stefan Harmeling

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

Super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking sparse microbubbles has been shown to reveal microvascular structure and flow beyond the wave diffraction limit. Most SRUS studies use standard delay and sum (DAS)…

Multispectral computed tomography (CT) enables advanced material characterization by acquiring energy-resolved projection data. However, since the incoming X-ray flux is be distributed across multiple narrow energy bins, the photon count…

Recent developments in fluorescence microscopy allow capturing high-resolution 3D images over time for living model organisms. To be able to image even large specimens, techniques like multi-view light-sheet imaging record different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Canyu Yang , Dennis Eschweiler , Johannes Stegmaier

Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

We propose a deconvolution algorithm for images blurred and degraded by a Poisson noise. The algorithm uses a fast proximal backward-forward splitting iteration. This iteration minimizes an energy which combines a \textit{non-linear} data…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

Spatially-varying intensity noise is a common source of distortion in medical images. Bias field noise is one example of such a distortion that is often present in the magnetic resonance (MR) images or other modalities such as retina…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Reza Abbasi-Asl , Aboozar Ghaffari , Emad Fatemizadeh

Objective: The transmit encoding model for synthetic aperture imaging is a robust and flexible framework for understanding the effects of acoustic transmission on ultrasound image reconstruction. Our objective is to use machine learning…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jacob Spainhour , Korben Smart , Stephen Becker , Nick Bottenus

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zeyun Deng , Joseph Campbell

Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) is widely used to estimate the white matter fiber orientation distribution (FOD) from diffusion MRI data. Its angular resolution depends on the maximum spherical harmonic order ($l_{max}$): low…

Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound (UHFUS) enables the visualization of highly deformable small and medium vessels in the hand. Intricate vessel-based measurements, such as intimal wall thickness and vessel wall compliance, require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Lingbo Jin , Vijay Gorantla , John Galeotti

Denoising is a fundamental challenge in scientific imaging. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) provide the current state of the art in denoising natural images, where they produce impressive results. However, their potential has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sreyas Mohan , Ramon Manzorro , Joshua L. Vincent , Binh Tang , Dev Yashpal Sheth , Eero P. Simoncelli , David S. Matteson , Peter A. Crozier , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for muscle-skeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical diseases, due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, ultrasound acquisition introduces noise in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Simone Cammarasana , Paolo Nicolardi , Giuseppe Patanè

Despite super-resolution fluorescence blinking microscopes break the diffraction limit, the intense phototoxic illumination and long-term image sequences thus far still pose to major challenges in visualizing live-organisms. Here, we…

Acoustic-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (AR-PAM) is a promising tool for microvascular imaging. In the focal region, resolution of AR-PAM is determined by the ultrasound transducer and ultimately limited by acoustic diffraction. In the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Fei Feng , Siqi Liang , Sung-Liang Chen

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised video denoising deep learning approach that can help to mitigate data scarcity issues and shows robustness against different noise patterns, enhancing its broad applicability. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mary Damilola Aiyetigbo , Dineshchandar Ravichandran , Reda Chalhoub , Peter Kalivas , Nianyi Li

Tensor decomposition is a powerful tool for data analysis and has been extensively employed in the field of hyperspectral-multispectral image fusion (HMF). Existing tensor decomposition-based fusion methods typically rely on disruptive data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Linsong Shan , Zecan Yang , Laurence T. Yang , Changlong Li , Honglu Zhao , Xin Nie

To better retain the deep features of an image and solve the sparsity problem of the end-to-end segmentation model, we propose a new deep convolutional network model for medical image pixel segmentation, called MC-Net. The core of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Hongfeng You , Shengwei Tian , Long Yu , Xiang Ma , Yan Xing , Ning Xin