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Speed-of-sound (SoS) is an emerging ultrasound contrast modality, where pulse-echo techniques using conventional transducers offer multiple benefits. For estimating tissue SoS distributions, spatial domain reconstruction from relative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Can Deniz Bezek , Maxim Haas , Richard Rau , Orcun Goksel

Recently, super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has received much attention. However, ULM relies on low concentrations of microbubbles in the blood vessels, ultimately resulting in long…

We introduce a novel framework for upsampled Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling using pixel-level Bayesian inference. Accurate PSF characterization is critical for precision measurements in many fields including: weak lensing, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Connor Stone , Ronan Legin , Alexandre Adam , Nikolay Malkin , Gabriel Missael Barco , Laurence Perreaul-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

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

One of the major limitations of adaptive optics (AO) corrected image post-processing is the lack of knowledge on the system point spread function (PSF). The PSF is not always available as a direct imaging on isolated point like objects such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Romain Fétick , Laurent Mugnier , Thierry Fusco , Benoit Neichel

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

Ultrasound imaging often suffers from image degradation stemming from phase aberration, which represents a significant contributing factor to the overall image degradation in ultrasound imaging. Frequency-space prediction filtering or FXPF…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

Capsule endoscopy has enabled minimally invasive gastrointestinal imaging, but its clinical utility is limited by the inherently low resolution of captured images due to hardware, power, and transmission constraints. This limitation hampers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Haozhe Jia

The aim of multispectral image fusion is to combine object or scene features of images with different spectral characteristics to increase the perceptual quality. In this paper, we present a novel learning-based solution to image fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ferhat Can Ataman , Gözde Bozdaği Akar

Reconstruction of multidimensional signals from the samples of their partial derivatives is known to be a standard problem in inverse theory. Such and similar problems routinely arise in numerous areas of applied sciences, including optical…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Mohammad Rostami , Oleg Michailovich , Zhou Wang

Ultrasound imaging of the cortex of long bones may enable the measurement of the cortical thickness and the ultrasound wave speed in cortical bone tissue. However, with bone loss, the cortical porosity and the size of the pores increase,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Amadou S. Dia , Quentin Grimal , Guillaume Renaud

Marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) is employed both in large-scale geophysical applications as well as within exploration of hydrocarbons and gas hydrates. Due to the diffusive character of the EM field only very low…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Feng-Ping Li , Vemund Stenbekk Thorkildsen , Leiv-J Gelius , Jian-Hua Yue

Motion blur, caused by relative movement between camera and scene during exposure, significantly degrades image quality and impairs downstream computer vision tasks such as object detection, tracking, and recognition in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shamika Likhite , Santiago López-Tapia , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a widely used imaging modality, but requires long scanning times to acquire high resolution datasets. By leveraging the unique geometry present within this domain, we present a novel approach to dMRI angular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Matthew Lyon , Paul Armitage , Mauricio A Álvarez

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

Super-resolution techniques overcome the diffraction-limit and get very high resolutions. A category of these techniques, e.g., STED achieves this by creating an illumination spot smaller than the Airy Disk. As a result, points are…

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

Bolton and Schlegel presented a promising deconvolution method to extract 1D spectra from a 2D optical fiber spectral CCD image. The method could eliminate the PSF difference between fibers, extract spectra to the photo noise level, as well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guangwei Li , Haotong Zhang , Zhongrui Bai

Sonography techniques use multiple transducer elements for tissue visualization. Signals detected at each element are sampled prior to digital beamforming. The sampling rates required to perform high resolution digital beamforming are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Tanya Chernyakova , Yonina C. Eldar

Ground-based astronomical observations will continue to produce resolution-limited images due to atmospheric seeing. Deconvolution reverses such effects and thus can benefit extracted science in multifaceted ways. We apply the Scaled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yash Gondhalekar , Richard M. Feder , Matthew J. Graham , Ajit K. Kembhavi , Margarita Safonova , Snehanshu Saha , Ashish A. Mahabal

Ground-based solar observations enable unprecedented spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution of the lower solar atmosphere, yet Earths turbulent atmosphere imposes significant limitations, requiring advanced post-facto image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christoph Schirninger , Robert Jarolim , Astrid M. Veronig , Matthias Rempel , Friedrich Wöger