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Ultrasound plane wave imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is the high noise associated with them, hindering their wider…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

We present the first fully two-dimensional attenuation imaging technique developed for pulse-echo ultrasound systems. Unlike state-of-the-art techniques, which use line-by-line acquisitions, our method uses steered emissions to constrain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Naiara Korta Martiartu , Parisa Salemi Yolgunlu , Martin Frenz , Michael Jaeger

Accurate real-time simulation of lens optics remains challenging due to the computational expense of full ray tracing and the limitations of existing approximations. The commonly used pinhole model and thin-lens model ignore many optical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yang Chen , Xiaochun Tong , Afet Abzar , Leo Hanxu , Matthew Avolio , Toshiya Hachisuka

This is the first article in a series of two dealing with a matrix approach for aberration quantification and correction in ultrasound imaging. Advanced synthetic beamforming relies on a double focusing operation at transmission and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 William Lambert , Justine Robin , Laura A. Cobus , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Ultrasound imaging is widely used for real-time, noninvasive diagnosis, but speckle and related artifacts reduce image quality and can hinder interpretation. We present a diffusion-based ultrasound despeckling method built on the Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shuoqi Chen , Yujia Wu , Geoffrey P. Luke

With the increasing popularity of human-computer interaction applications, there is also growing interest in generating sufficiently large and diverse data sets for automatic radar-based recognition of hand poses and gestures. Radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Johanna Bräunig , Christian Schüßler , Vanessa Wirth , Marc Stamminger , Ingrid Ullmann , Martin Vossiek

Ultrasound imaging, as a noninvasive, real-time, and low-cost modality, plays a vital role in clinical diagnosis, catheterization intervention, and portable devices. With the development of transducer hardware and the continuous progress of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xuyang Chen , Mingtong Chen , Zhengbao Yang

Ultra-high-resolution image generation poses great challenges, such as increased semantic planning complexity and detail synthesis difficulties, alongside substantial training resource demands. We present UltraPixel, a novel architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingjing Ren , Wenbo Li , Haoyu Chen , Renjing Pei , Bin Shao , Yong Guo , Long Peng , Fenglong Song , Lei Zhu

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Hani Almansouri , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

Ultrasound image degradation in the human body is complex and occurs due to the distortion of the wave as it propagates to and from the target. Here, we establish a simulation based framework that deconstructs the sources of image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Danai Eleni Soulioti , Francisco Santibanez , Gianmarco Pinton

Stereo matching is a fundamental task for 3D scene reconstruction. Recently, deep learning based methods have proven effective on some benchmark datasets, such as KITTI and Scene Flow. UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are commonly utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhang Xiaoyi , Cao Xuefeng , Yu Anzhu , Yu Wenshuai , Li Zhenqi , Quan Yujun

Signals comprised of a stream of short pulses appear in many applications including bio-imaging and radar. The recent finite rate of innovation framework, has paved the way to low rate sampling of such pulses by noticing that only a small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Ronen Tur , Yonina C. Eldar , Zvi Friedman

Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

The data produced by the future space-based millihertz gravitational-wave detector LISA will require nontrivial pre-processing, which might affect the science results. It is crucial to demonstrate the feasibility of such processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Olaf Hartwig , Marc Lilley , Aurélien Hees , Christian Chapman-Bird , Graham Woan , Peter Wolf

This work aims at the precise and efficient computation of the x-ray projection of an image represented by a linear combination of general shifted basis functions that typically overlap. We achieve this with a suitable adaptation of ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Youssef Haouchat , Sepand Kashani , Philippe Thévenaz , Michael Unser

Most existing super-resolution methods do not perform well in real scenarios due to lack of realistic training data and information loss of the model input. To solve the first problem, we propose a new pipeline to generate realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun

Widespread RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensors and advanced 3D reconstruction technologies facilitate the capture of indoor spaces, improving the fields of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR). Nevertheless, current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Seok Joon Kim , Dinh Duc Cao , Federica Spinola , Se Jin Lee , Kyu Sung Cho

Beamforming is an essential step in the ultrasound image formation pipeline and has recently attracted growing interest. An important goal of beamforming is to increase the image spatial resolution, or in other words to narrow down the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

Ray tracing is a widely used deterministic method for radio propagation simulations, capable of producing physically accurate multipath components. The accuracy depends on the quality of the environment model and its electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Fullwave simulations are applied to an intercostal imaging scenario to determine the sources of fundamental and harmonic image degradation with respect to aberration and reverberation. These simulations are based on Part I of this two part…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Gianmarco Pinton