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Two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (2DTS) is a low-frequency analogue of two-dimensional optical spectroscopy that is rapidly maturing as a probe of a wide variety of condensed matter systems. However, a persistent problem of 2DTS is…

Sparse Tensor Cores offer exceptional performance gains for AI workloads by exploiting structured 2:4 sparsity. However, their potential remains untapped for core scientific workloads such as stencil computations, which exhibit irregular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Li , Kun Li , Haozhi Han , Liang Yuan , Junshi Chen , Yunquan Zhang , Yifeng Chen , Hong An , Ting Cao , Mao Yang

Quantitative cancer image analysis relies on the accurate delineation of tumours, a very specialised and time-consuming task. For this reason, methods for automated segmentation of tumours in medical imaging have been extensively developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Saúl Alonso-Monsalve , Leigh H. Whitehead , Adam Aurisano , Lorena Escudero Sanchez

The boom of non-uniform sampling and compressed sensing techniques dramatically alleviates the lengthy data acquisition problem of magnetic resonance imaging. Sparse reconstruction, thanks to its fast computation and promising performance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Xinlin Zhang , Hengfa Lu , Di Guo , Lijun Bao , Feng Huang , Qin Xu , Xiaobo Qu

Federated learning enables collaborative training of deep learning models across institutions without sharing sensitive patient data. However, its performance is often limited by small datasets and non-independent, identically distributed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Hongyi Pan , Ziliang Hong , Gorkem Durak , Ziyue Xu , Ulas Bagci

Ultrasound Computed Tomography (USCT) constitutes a nonlinear inverse problem with inherent ill-posedness that can benefit from regularization through diffusion generative priors. However, traditional approaches for solving Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xiang Cao , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xinliang Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Ultrasound is an adjunct tool to mammography that can quickly and safely aid physicians with diagnosing breast abnormalities. Clinical ultrasound often assumes a constant sound speed to form B-mode images for diagnosis. However, the various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Walter A. Simson , Magdalini Paschali , Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Nassir Navab , Jeremy J. Dahl

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that couples optical tomography with ultrasound imaging to achieve high resolution imaging of optical properties of scattering media. Image reconstruction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Tian Ding , Kui Ren , Sarah Vallelian

Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a novel 29-MHz ultrasound technique that provides 3-4 times higher resolution than traditional ultrasound, potentially enabling low-cost, accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer. Accurate prostate segmentation…

Stereo Imaging technology integration into medical diagnostics and surgeries brings a great revolution in the field of medical sciences. Now, surgeons and physicians have better insight into the anatomy of patients' organs. Like other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Mansoor Hayat , Supavadee Armvith , Titipat Achakulvisut

This paper presents an adaptive and intelligent sparse model for digital image sampling and recovery. In the proposed sampler, we adaptively determine the number of required samples for retrieving image based on space-frequency-gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Ali Taimori , Farokh Marvasti

Limitations on bandwidth and power consumption impose strict bounds on data rates of diagnostic imaging systems. Consequently, the design of suitable (i.e. task- and data-aware) compression and reconstruction techniques has attracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Iris A. M. Huijben , Bastiaan S. Veeling , Kees Janse , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

We propose the application of multiresolution transforms, such as wavelets (WT) and curvelets (CT), to the reconstruction of images of extended objects that have been acquired with adaptive optics (AO) systems. Such multichannel approaches…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Roberto Baena Gallé , Jorge Núñez , Szymon Gladysz

Objective. Limited access to breast cancer diagnosis globally leads to delayed treatment. Ultrasound, an effective yet underutilized method, requires specialized training for sonographers, which hinders its widespread use. Approach. Volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Donya Khaledyan , Thomas J. Marini , Avice OConnell , Steven Meng , Jonah Kan , Galen Brennan , Yu Zhao , Timothy M. Baran , Kevin J. Parker

SPECT (Single-photon Emission Computerized Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) are essential medical imaging tools, for which the sampling angle number, scan time should be chosen carefully to compromise between image quality…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiaolin Zhou , Minkai Yun , Xuexiang Cao , Shuangquan Liu , Lu Wang , Xianchao Huang , Long Wei

We propose a model-based image reconstruction method for photoacoustic tomography(PAT) involving a novel form of regularization and demonstrate its ability to recover good quality images from significantly reduced size datasets. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Nadaparambil Aravindakshan Rejesh , Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Manojit Pramanik , Muthuvel Arigovindan

As Part I of a paper series showcasing a new imaging framework, we consider the recently proposed unconstrained Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (uSARA) optimisation algorithm for wide-field, high-resolution, high-dynamic range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Amanda G. Wilber , Arwa Dabbech , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

For single source helical Computed Tomography (CT), both Filtered-Back Projection (FBP) and statistical iterative reconstruction have been investigated. However for dual source CT with flying focal spot (DS-FFS CT), statistical iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Xiao Wang , Robert D. MacDougall , Peng Chen , Charles A. Bouman , Simon K. Warfield

Low-dose Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) is an evolving imaging modality that is used in proton therapy planning which addresses the range uncertainty problem. The goal of pCT is generating a 3D map of Relative Stopping Power (RSP)…

Computed tomography (CT) reconstructs volumetric images using X-ray projection data acquired from multiple angles around an object. For low-dose or sparse-view CT scans, the classic image reconstruction algorithms often produce severe noise…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Wenxiang Cong , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang