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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…

Ultrafast ultrasound (US) revolutionized biomedical imaging with its capability of acquiring full-view frames at over 1 kHz, unlocking breakthrough modalities such as shear-wave elastography and functional US neuroimaging. Yet, it suffers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Dimitris Perdios , Manuel Vonlanthen , Florian Martinez , Marcel Arditi , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Subsea images measured by the side scan sonars (SSSs) are necessary visual data in the process of deep-sea exploration by using the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). They could vividly reflect the topography of the seabed, but usually…

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Guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) remains a powerful strategy for identifying early-stage defects and safeguarding vital aerospace structures. Yet, its practical use is often hindered by the enormous, high-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Yiming Fan , Dimitris G Giovanis , Fotis Kopsaftopoulos

This paper develops and analyzes an optimal-order semi-discrete scheme and its fully discrete finite element approximation for nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A non-standard time-stepping scheme is…

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Ultrasound imaging serves as an effective and non-invasive diagnostic tool commonly employed in clinical examinations. However, the presence of speckle noise in ultrasound images invariably degrades image quality, impeding the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Zhenyu Bu , Kai-Ni Wang , Fuxing Zhao , Shengxiao Li , Guang-Quan Zhou

An analytical model is developed for the prediction of noise radiated by an aerofoil with leading edge serration in a subsonic turbulent stream. The model makes use of the Fourier Expansion and Schwarzschild techniques in order to solve a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Benshuai Lyu , Mahdi Azarpeyvand

Reconstruction-based methods are a dominant paradigm in time series anomaly detection (TSAD), however, their near-universal reliance on Mean Squared Error (MSE) loss results in statistically flawed reconstruction residuals. This fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenlong Shang , Shihao Tian , Xutong Wan , Peng Chang

Reconstruction fidelity of sparse signals contaminated by sparse noise is considered. Statistical mechanics inspired tools are used to show that the l1-norm based convex optimization algorithm exhibits a phase transition between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Mikko Vehkapera , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Saikat Chatterjee

X-ray standing-wave photoemission experiments involving multilayered samples are emerging as unique probes of the buried interfaces that are ubiquitous in current device and materials research. Such data require for their analysis a…

Due to its non-invasive and non-radiating nature, along with its low cost, ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in medical applications. Typical B-mode US images have limited resolution and contrast and weak physical interpretation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Avner Shultzman , Yonina C. Eldar

Fluid pressure and fluid velocity carry important information for cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Recent work has demonstrated that estimation of these parameters is theoretically possible using ultrasound poroelastography.…

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Weak supervision (WS) is a rich set of techniques that produce pseudolabels by aggregating easily obtained but potentially noisy label estimates from a variety of sources. WS is theoretically well understood for binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Harit Vishwakarma , Nicholas Roberts , Frederic Sala

In the field of medical image analysis, deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. However, the reliability of these models is heavily dependent on the quality of training…

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We address the problem of signal denoising via transform-domain shrinkage based on a novel $\textit{risk}$ criterion called the minimum probability of error (MPE), which measures the probability that the estimated parameter lies outside an…

Applications · Statistics 2020-02-19 Jishnu Sadasivan , Subhadip Mukherjee , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

This work focuses on the numerical approximation of the Shallow Water Equations (SWE) using a Lagrange-Projection type approach. We propose to extend to this context recent implicit-explicit schemes developed in the framework of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Christophe Chalons , Pierre Kestener , Samuel Kokh , Maxime Stauffert

Mechanical properties of tissue provide valuable information for identifying lesions. One approach to obtain quantitative estimates of elastic properties is shear wave elastography with optical coherence elastography (OCE). However, given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Maximilian Neidhardt , Marcel Bengs , Sarah Latus , Matthias Schlüter , Thore Saathoff , Alexander Schlaefer

Medical image denoising is considered among the most challenging vision tasks. Despite the real-world implications, existing denoising methods have notable drawbacks as they often generate visual artifacts when applied to heterogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 S M A Sharif , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Woong-Kee Loh

The framework of ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) has recently re-emerged as a powerful, safe and operator-independent way to image the breast. State of the art image reconstruction methods are performed with iterative techniques based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Luca A. Forte