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Hyperspectral images enable precise identification of ground objects by capturing their spectral signatures with fine spectral resolution.While high spatial resolution further enhances this capability, increasing spatial resolution through…
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of displacement estimation. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising performance in optical flow estimation and have been adopted for…
X-ray phase-contrast imaging has become indispensable for visualizing samples with low absorption contrast. In this regard, speckle-based techniques have shown significant advantages in spatial resolution, phase sensitivity, and…
Traumatic brain injury studies on the living human brain are experimentally infeasible. We present a simulation approach that models ultrasound propagation in the human brain while it is moving due to the complex shear shock wave…
The first step toward doing high-precision astrometry is the measurement of individual stars in individual images, a step that is fraught with dangers when the images are undersampled. The key to avoiding systematic positional error in…
We present a variational Bayesian method of joint image reconstruction and point spread function (PSF) estimation when the PSF of the imaging device is only partially known. To solve this semi-blind deconvolution problem, prior…
We present a detailed analysis of the point spread function (PSF) of JWST NIRCam imaging in eight filters: F070W, F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F444W, and F480M, using publicly available data. Spatial variations in the PSF FWHM…
This paper presents a deep-learning model for deformable registration of ultrasound images at online rates, which we call U-RAFT. As its name suggests, U-RAFT is based on RAFT, a convolutional neural network for estimating optical flow.…
Ultrasound, alone or in concert with circulating microbubble contrast agents, has emerged as a promising modality for therapy and imaging of brain diseases. While this has become possible due to advancements in aberration correction…
In powder diffraction data analysis, phase identification is the process of determining the crystalline phases in a sample using its characteristic Bragg peaks. For multiphasic spectra, we must also determine the relative weight fraction of…
We propose a novel framework for the systematic design of lensless imaging systems based on the hyperuniform random field solutions of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations from pattern formation theory. Specifically, we introduce a new…
The problem of image blurring is one of the most studied topics in the field of image processing. Image blurring is caused by various factors such as hand or camera shake. To restore the blurred image, it is necessary to know information…
Strong turbulence conditions create amplitude aberrations through the effects of near-field diffraction. When integrated over long optical path lengths, amplitude aberrations (seen as scintillation) can nullify local areas in the recorded…
Recently introduced angular-memory-effect based techniques enable non-invasive imaging of objects hidden behind thin scattering layers. However, both the speckle-correlation and the bispectrum analysis are based on the statistical average…
Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode (CUTE) allows determining the spatial distribution of speed-of-sound (SoS) inside tissue using handheld pulse-echo ultrasound (US). This technique is based on measuring the changing phase of…
Objective: Long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) positron emission tomography (PET) systems allow higher sensitivity, with an increased number of detected lines of response induced by a larger angle of acceptance. However, this extended angle…
This paper presents a numerical study on a fast marching method based back projection reconstruction algorithm for photoacoustic tomography in heterogeneous media. Transcranial imaging is used here as a case study. To correct for the phase…
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) can map microvessels at a resolution of a few micrometers (\mu m). Transcranial ULM remains challenging in presence of aberrations caused by the skull, which lead to localization errors. Herein, we…
Oversmoothing remains a persistent problem when applying deep learning to off-axis quantitative phase imaging (QPI). End-to-end U-Nets favour low-frequency content and under-represent fine, diagnostic detail. We trace this issue to spectral…
The remarkable success in face forgery techniques has received considerable attention in computer vision due to security concerns. We observe that up-sampling is a necessary step of most face forgery techniques, and cumulative up-sampling…