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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 (US) is one of the most commonly used imaging modalities in both diagnosis and surgical interventions due to its low-cost, safety, and non-invasive characteristic. US image segmentation is currently a unique challenge because of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Bahareh Behboodi , Mina Amiri , Rupert Brooks , Hassan Rivaz

X-ray computed tomographic infrastructures are medical imaging modalities that rely on the acquisition of rays crossing examined objects while measuring their intensity decrease. Physical measurements are post-processed by mathematical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Attila Juhos

Speed-of-sound is a biomechanical property for quantitative tissue differentiation, with great potential as a new ultrasound-based image modality. A conventional ultrasound array transducer can be used together with an acoustic mirror, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Valery Vishnevskiy , Sergio J Sanabria , Orcun Goksel

Ring-array ultrasound computed tomography has recently achieved sufficient maturity for clinical applications like breast imaging. Image reconstruction is achieved with state of art iterative algorithms (full waveform inversion in the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Luca A. Forte

High resolution ultrasound image reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements is of great interest in ultrasound imaging, since it could enhance both the frame rate and image resolution. Compressive deconvolution, combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

A tomographic technique called full-waveform inversion has recently shown promise as a fast, affordable, and safe modality to image the brain using ultrasound. However, its high computational cost and memory footprint currently limit its…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Letizia Protopapa , Carlos Cueto

Breast lesion localization using tactile imaging is a new and developing direction in medical science. To achieve the goal, proper image reconstruction and image registration can be a valuable asset. In this paper, a new approach of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shuvendu Rana , Rory Hampson , Gordon Dobie

Multi-scale 3D characterization is widely used by materials scientists to further their understanding of the relationships between microscopic structure and macroscopic function. Scientific computed tomography (CT) instruments are one of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 S. V. Venkatakrishnan , K. Aditya Mohan , Amir Koushyar Ziabari , Charles A. Bouman

Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

A major challenge in X-ray computed tomography (CT) is reducing radiation dose while maintaining high quality of reconstructed images. To reduce the radiation dose, one can reduce the number of projection views (sparse-view CT); however, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Xuehang Zheng , Il Yong Chun , Zhipeng Li , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering compressively sensed ultrasound images. We build on prior work, and consider a number of existing approaches that we consider to be the state-of-the-art. The methods we consider take…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Richard Porter , Vladislav Tadic , Alin Achim

Ultrasound is the second most used modality in medical imaging. It is cost effective, hazardless, portable and implemented routinely in numerous clinical procedures. Nonetheless, image quality is characterized by granulated appearance, poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Lilach Barkat , Moti Freiman , Haim Azhari

A major challenge in computed tomography (CT) is to reduce X-ray dose to a low or even ultra-low level while maintaining the high quality of reconstructed images. We propose a new method for CT reconstruction that combines penalized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-11 Xuehang Zheng , Zening Lu , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Classical methods for X-ray computed tomography are based on the assumption that the X-ray source intensity is known, but in practice, the intensity is measured and hence uncertain. Under normal operating conditions, when the exposure time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Hari Om Aggrawal , Martin Skovgaard Andersen , Sean Rose , Emil Y. Sidky

Computed Tomography (CT) is widely used in healthcare for detailed imaging. However, Low-dose CT, despite reducing radiation exposure, often results in images with compromised quality due to increased noise. Traditional methods, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Su Yan

Robotic ultrasound (US) systems have shown great potential to make US examinations easier and more accurate. Recently, various machine learning techniques have been proposed to realize automatic US image interpretation for robotic US…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Keyu Li , Xinyu Mao , Chengwei Ye , Ang Li , Yangxin Xu , Max Q. -H. Meng

The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent diagnosis, particularly in the emerging field of computer-assisted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Zhongliang Jiang , Yue Zhou , Dongliang Cao , Nassir Navab

Low-Dose computer tomography (LDCT) is an ideal alternative to reduce radiation risk in clinical applications. Although supervised-deep-learning-based reconstruction methods have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Feng Wang , Renfang Wang , Hong Qiu

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in machine learning-based models and techniques for low-dose X-ray CT (LDCT) imaging tasks. The methods can typically be categorized into supervised learning methods and unsupervised or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Zhipeng Li , Siqi Ye , Yong Long , Saiprasad Ravishankar