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Ultrasound (US) interpretation is hampered by multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur from the point-spread function (PSF), and scanner- and operator-dependent artifacts. Supervised enhancement methods assume access to clean targets or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Shujaat Khan , Syed Muhammad Atif , Jaeyoung Huh , Syed Saad Azhar

Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) is a rapidly emerging bioimaging modality that seeks to reconstruct an estimate of the absorbed optical energy density within an object. Conventional PACT image reconstruction methods assume a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Chao Huang , Kun Wang , Robert W. Schoonover , Lihong V. Wang , Mark A. Anastasio

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) enables fast and low-dose CT imaging, an essential feature for patient-save medical imaging and rapid non-destructive testing. In sparse-view CT, only a few projection views are acquired, causing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Nadja Gruber , Johannes Schwab , Elke Gizewski , Markus Haltmeier

A 2D Compact ultrasound computerized tomography (UCT) system is developed. Fully automatic post processing tools involving signal and image processing are developed as well. Square of the amplitude values are used in transmission mode with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Ankur Kumar , Prasunika Khare , Mayank Goswami

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely-used imaging technology that assists clinical decision-making with high-quality human body representations. To reduce the radiation dose posed by CT, sparse-view and limited-angle CT are developed with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Ce Wang , Kun Shang , Haimiao Zhang , Shang Zhao , Dong Liang , S. Kevin Zhou

In recent years, many research achievements are made in the medical image fusion field. Fusion is basically extraction of best of inputs and conveying it to the output. Medical Image fusion means that several of various modality image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Deepika , G. Karpaga Kannan

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used medical imaging technique to scan internal structures of a body, typically involving collimation and mechanical rotation. Compton scatter tomography (CST) presents an interesting alternative to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Ishak Ayad , Cécilia Tarpau , Javier Cebeiro , Maï K. Nguyen

Polyp segmentation plays a pivotal role in colorectal cancer diagnosis. Recently, the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has introduced unprecedented potential for polyp segmentation, leveraging its powerful pre-training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Huiqian Li , Dingwen Zhang , Jieru Yao , Longfei Han , Zhongyu Li , Junwei Han

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging imaging modality that aims at measuring the high-contrast optical properties of tissues by means of high-resolution ultrasonic measurements. The interaction between these two types of waves is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Giovanni S. Alberti , Paolo Campodonico , Matteo Santacesaria

Compressed sensing is triggering a major evolution in signal acquisition. It consists in sampling a sparse signal at low rate and later using computational power for its exact reconstruction, so that only the necessary information is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-07 Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , François Sausset , Yifan Sun , Lenka Zdeborová

Sparse views X-ray computed tomography has emerged as a contemporary technique to mitigate radiation dose. Because of the reduced number of projection views, traditional reconstruction methods can lead to severe artifacts. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Guang Yang , Daoqiang Zhang

Ultrasound brain imaging remains challenging due to the large difference in sound speed between the skull and brain tissues and the difficulty of coupling large probes to the skull. This work aims to achieve quantitative transcranial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shengyu Chen , Shihang Feng , Yi Luo , Xiaowei Jia , Youzuo Lin

Spike cameras, as an innovative neuromorphic camera that captures scenes with the 0-1 bit stream at 40 kHz, are increasingly employed for the 3D reconstruction task via Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Kang Chen , Jiyuan Zhang , Zecheng Hao , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Purpose: Automated ultrasound image analysis is challenging due to anatomical complexity and limited annotated data. To tackle this, we take a data-centric approach, assembling the largest public ultrasound segmentation dataset and training…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Adrien Meyer , Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

Breast ultrasound (US) is an effective imaging modality for breast cancer detec-tion and diagnosis. The structural characteristics of breast lesion play an im-portant role in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD). In this paper, a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Erlei Zhang , Zi Yang , Stephen Seiler , Mingli Chen , Weiguo Lu , Xuejun Gu

Ultrasound imaging faces a trade-off between image quality and hardware complexity caused by dense transducers. Sparse arrays are one popular solution to mitigate this challenge. This work proposes an end-to-end optimization framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sergio Urrea , Adrian Basarab , Hervé Liebgott , Henry Arguello

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has recently enabled the mapping of the cerebral vasculature in vivo with a resolution ten times smaller than the wavelength used, down to ten microns. However, with frame rates up to 20.000 frames…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Erwan Hardy , Jonathan Poree , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloe Bourquin , Frederic Lesage , Jean Provost

An appealing requirement from the well-known diffraction tomography (DT) exists for success reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data. Inspired by the well-known compressive sensing (CS), the accurate super-resolution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Lianlin Li , Wenji Zhang , Fang Li

Single-photon emission computed tomography for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI SPECT) is a widely used diagnostic tool for coronary artery disease. However, the procedure requires considerable scanning time, leading to patient discomfort…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Zezhang Yang , Zitong Yu , Nuri Choi , Janice Tania , Wenxuan Xue , Barry A. Siegel , Abhinav K. Jha