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In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a…

Ultrasound and radar signals are highly beneficial for medical imaging as they are non-invasive and non-ionizing. Traditional imaging techniques have limitations in terms of contrast and physical interpretation. Quantitative medical imaging…

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Prior work on the Image Quality Transfer on Diffusion MRI (dMRI) has shown significant improvement over traditional interpolation methods. However, the difficulty in obtaining ultra-high resolution Diffusion MRI scans poses a problem in…

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method that provides quantitative inference about subsurface properties with a wavelength-scale resolution. Its frequency-domain formulation is computationally efficient when processing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Mahdi Sonbolestan , Stephane Operto

In deep tissue photoacoustic imaging the spatial resolution is inherently limited by the acoustic wavelength. We present an approach for surpassing the acoustic diffraction limit by exploiting temporal fluctuations in the sample absorption…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-31 Thomas Chaigne , Bastien Arnal , Sergey Vilov , Emmanuel Bossy , Ori Katz

Non-destructive testing and medical diagnostic techniques using ultrasound has become indispensable in evaluating the state of materials or imaging the internal human body, respectively. To conduct spatially resolved high-quality…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Wei Wang , Jie Hu , Jingjing Liu , Yang Tan , Jing Yang , Bin Liang , Johan Christensen , Jianchun Cheng

Full waveform inversion (FWI) updates the subsurface model from an initial model by comparing observed and synthetic seismograms. Due to high nonlinearity, FWI is easy to be trapped into local minima. Extended domain FWI, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Pengliang Yang , Wei Zhou

Ultrasound-switchable fluorescence (USF) imaging was recently developed to overcome the limitation of the poor spatial resolution of the conventional fluorescence imaging in centimeter-deep tissue. However, in vivo USF imaging has not been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Tingfeng Yao , Shuai Yu , Yang Liu , Baohong Yuan

Infrared (IR) imaging has become a viable tool for visualizing various chemical bonds in a specimen. The performance, however, is limited in terms of spatial resolution and imaging speed. Here, instead of measuring the loss of the IR beam,…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-20 Yeran Bai , Delong Zhang , Lu Lan , Yimin Huang , Kerry Maize , Ali Shakouri , Ji-Xin Cheng

The presence of inhomogeneous media between optical sensors and objects leads to distorted imaging outputs, significantly complicating downstream image-processing tasks. A key challenge in image restoration is the lack of high-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chu Chen , Han Zhang , Lok Ming Lui

We extend our previously proposed image reconstruction method, which allows confocal microscopes to capture periodically moving objects at frequencies beyond their frame rates, to three-dimensional and two-dimensional wide-field imaging.…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Kanta Adachi , Soyoka Hemmi , Nobutomo Nakamura

Automatic learning algorithms for improving the image quality of diagnostic B-mode ultrasound (US) images have been gaining popularity in the recent past. In this work, a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained using time of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Roshan P Mathews , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

Ultrasound offers a safe, cost-effective, and widely accessible technology for fetal brain imaging, making it especially suitable for routine clinical use. However, it suffers from view-dependent artifacts, operator variability, and a…

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One of the primary sources of suboptimal image quality in ultrasound imaging is phase aberration. It is caused by spatial changes in sound speed over a heterogeneous medium, which disturbs the transmitted waves and prevents coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Sobhan Goudarzi , An Tang , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

Intracortical US imaging extends B-mode imaging into bone using a dedicated image reconstruction algorithm that corrects for refraction at the bone-soft tissue interfaces. It has shown promising results in a few healthy, predominantly young…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Amadou S. Dia , Guillaume Renaud , Christine Chappard , Quentin Grimal

High-contrast imaging provided by a coronagraph is critical for the direction imaging of the Earth-like planet orbiting its bright parent star. A major limitation for such direct imaging is the speckle noise that is induced from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 JiangPei Dou , DeQing Ren , YongTian Zhu , Xi Zhang

Inspired by the success of generative image models, recent work on learned image compression increasingly focuses on better probabilistic models of the natural image distribution, leading to excellent image quality. This, however, comes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jona Ballé , Luca Versari , Emilien Dupont , Hyunjik Kim , Matthias Bauer

The determination of crystallographic texture through elastic wave propagation offers a cost-effective, nondestructive means of obtaining through-thickness information with minimal sample preparation. Existing ultrasonic approaches rely on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego A. Cowes , Juan I. Mieza , Martín P. Gómez

Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Azadeh Sharafi , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Light-field microscopy represents a promising solution for microscopic volumetric imaging, thanks to its capability to encode information on multiple planes in a single acquisition. This is achieved through its peculiar simultaneous capture…