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Despite the success of convolutional neural networks for 3D medical-image segmentation, the architectures currently used are still not robust enough to the protocols of different scanners, and the variety of image properties they produce.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Shrajan Bhandary , Zahra Babaiee , Dejan Kostyszyn , Tobias Fechter , Constantinos Zamboglou , Anca-Ligia Grosu , Radu Grosu

Accurate and robust tracking and reconstruction of the surgical scene is a critical enabling technology toward autonomous robotic surgery. Existing algorithms for 3D perception in surgery mainly rely on geometric information, while we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Shan Lin , Albert J. Miao , Jingpei Lu , Shunkai Yu , Zih-Yun Chiu , Florian Richter , Michael C. Yip

Dynamic control of compact chip-scale contactless manipulation of particles for bioscience applications remains a challenging endeavor, which is restrained by the balance between trapping efficiency and scalable apparatus. Metasurfaces…

Endoscopic imaging is essential for real-time visualization of internal organs, yet conventional systems remain bulky, complex, and expensive due to their reliance on large, multi-element optical components. This limits their accessibility…

Metalenses, owing to their ultra-thin planar structures, present a promising solution for reducing endoscopic invasiveness. However, achieving high-quality imaging with minimal invasiveness (short focal length of metalens) remains a…

Metasurface lenses, namely metalenses, are ultrathin planar nanostructures that are capable of manipulating the properties of incoming light and imparting lens-like wavefront to the output. Although they have shown promising potentials for…

Acoustic focusing plays a pivotal role in a wide variety of applications ranging from medical science to nondestructive testing. Previous works have shown that acoustic metagratings can overcome the inherent efficiency limitations of…

Endoscopy is the most widely used medical technique for cancer and polyp detection inside hollow organs. However, images acquired by an endoscope are frequently affected by illumination artefacts due to the enlightenment source orientation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Axel Garcia-Vega , Ricardo Espinosa , Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz , Thomas Bazin , Luis Eduardo Falcon-Morales , Dominique Lamarque , Christian Daul

Metasurfaces offer compact flat lenses (metalenses) for miniaturized imaging systems; however, the utmost miniaturization requires not only metalenses but also a substantial reduction of free space. A Spaceplate is a flat-optics element…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 Imon Kalyan , Raghvendra P. Chaudhary , Nir Shitrit

We present a fully differentiable framework for seamlessly integrating wave optical components with geometrical lenses, offering an approach to enhance the performance of large-scale end-to-end optical systems. In this study, we focus on…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Ziwei Zhu , Zhaocheng Liu , Changxi Zheng

Deep learning using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been shown to significantly out-performed many conventional vision algorithms. Despite efforts to increase the CNN efficiency both algorithmically and with specialized hardware,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Carlos Mauricio Villegas Burgos , Tianqi Yang , Nick Vamivakas , Yuhao Zhu

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have achieved remarkable successes in learning expressive yet compact signal representations. However, they are not naturally amenable to predictive tasks such as segmentation, where they must learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kushal Vyas , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a medical procedure that utilizes a flexible tube equipped with a camera and other instruments to examine the digestive tract. This minimally invasive technique allows for diagnosing and managing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pham Vu Hung , Nguyen Duy Manh , Nguyen Thi Oanh , Nguyen Thi Thuy , Dinh Viet Sang

In this paper we propose USegScene, a framework for semantically guided unsupervised learning of depth, optical flow and ego-motion estimation for stereo camera images using convolutional neural networks. Our framework leverages semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Johan Vertens , Wolfram Burgard

We designed an on-chip transformative optic system of a metalens-photonic crystal resonator metasystem on a foundry compatible silicon photonic platform. By adjusting the on-chip metalens' focusing length and mode dimension, the insertion…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-10 Yahui Xiao , Zi Wang , Feifan Wang , Hwaseob Lee , Thomas Kananen , Tingyi Gu

Melanoma detection is vital for early diagnosis and effective treatment. While deep learning models on dermoscopic images have shown promise, they require specialized equipment, limiting their use in broader clinical settings. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Volodymyr Sydorskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oleksii Yakubenko

Accurate segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, the labor-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation limits the scalability of supervised learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiaqi Yang , Nitish Mehta , Xiaoling Hu , Chao Chen , Chia-Ling Tsai

Intra-operative measurements of tissue shape and multi/ hyperspectral information have the potential to provide surgical guidance and decision making support. We report an optical probe based system to combine sparse hyperspectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Jianyu Lin , Neil T. Clancy , Yang Hu , Ji Qi , Taran Tatla , Danail Stoyanov , Lena Maier-Hein , Daniel S. Elson

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful artificial intelligence tool to interpret medical images for a growing variety of applications. However, the paucity of medical imaging data with high-quality annotations that is necessary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Faisal Mahmood , Richard Chen , Sandra Sudarsky , Daphne Yu , Nicholas J. Durr

Wide-angle optical functionality is crucial for implementation of advanced imaging and image projection devices. Conventionally, wide-angle operation is attained by complicated assembly of multiple optical elements. Recent advances in…