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Ultrasound imaging is caught between the quest for the highest image quality, and the necessity for clinical usability. Our contribution is two-fold: First, we propose a novel fully convolutional neural network for ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Walter Simson , Rüdiger Göbl , Magdalini Paschali , Markus Krönke , Klemens Scheidhauer , Wolfgang Weber , Nassir Navab

Ultrasound images vary widely across scanners, operators, and anatomical targets, which often causes models trained in one setting to generalize poorly to new hospitals and clinical conditions. The Foundation Model Challenge for Ultrasound…

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Foundational models have emerged as powerful tools for addressing various tasks in clinical settings. However, their potential development to breast ultrasound analysis remains untapped. In this paper, we present BUSGen, the first…

Retinal foundation models aim to learn generalizable representations from diverse retinal images, facilitating label-efficient model adaptation across various ophthalmic tasks. Despite their success, current retinal foundation models are…

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Ultrasound (US) has the unique potential to offer access to medical imaging to anyone, everywhere. Devices have become ultra-portable and cost-effective, akin to the stethoscope. Nevertheless US image quality and diagnostic efficacy are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Ruud JG van Sloun

Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (US) can enhance real-time visualization in transoral robotic surgery. The surgeon creates a mental map with a pre-operative scan. Then, a surgical assistant performs freehand US scanning during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wanwen Chen , Adam Schmidt , Eitan Prisman , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Well-annotated medical datasets enable deep neural networks (DNNs) to gain strong power in extracting lesion-related features. Building such large and well-designed medical datasets is costly due to the need for high-level expertise. Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yixiong Chen , Chunhui Zhang , Chris H. Q. Ding , Li Liu

Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the…

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Ultrasound (US) imaging is indispensable in clinical practice. To diagnose certain diseases, sonographers must observe corresponding dynamic anatomic structures to gather comprehensive information. However, the limited availability of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Han Zhou , Dong Ni , Ao Chang , Xinrui Zhou , Rusi Chen , Yanlin Chen , Lian Liu , Jiamin Liang , Yuhao Huang , Tong Han , Zhe Liu , Deng-Ping Fan , Xin Yang

The integration of AI-assisted biomedical image analysis into clinical practice demands AI-generated findings that are not only accurate but also interpretable to clinicians. However, existing biomedical AI models generally lack the ability…

Foundation models (FMs) have shown great promise in medical imaging, but most FMs are trained on unimodal data within isolated domains, such as brain MRI alone. Human aging and disease arise through coordinated biological processes across…

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Ultrasound (US) image segmentation embraced its significant improvement in deep learning era. However, the lack of sharp boundaries in US images still remains an inherent challenge for segmentation. Previous methods often resort to global…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Haoming Li , Xin Yang , Jiamin Liang , Wenlong Shi , Chaoyu Chen , Haoran Dou , Rui Li , Rui Gao , Guangquan Zhou , Jinghui Fang , Xiaowen Liang , Ruobing Huang , Alejandro Frangi , Zhiyi Chen , Dong Ni

Accurate and efficient auscultation-based diagnostics are vital for early disease detection, especially in resource-limited settings where specialized clinical expertise is scarce. Traditional auscultation, which heavily depends on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Pingjie Wang , Liudan Zhao , Zihan Zhao , Miao He , Xin Sun , Ya Zhang , Kun Sun , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang

Ultrasound (US) video segmentation remains a challenging problem due to strong inter- and intra-dataset variability, motion artifacts, and limited annotated data. Although foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xing Yao , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni

Robot-guided catheter insertion has the potential to deliver urgent medical care in situations where medical personnel are unavailable. However, this technique requires accurate and reliable segmentation of anatomical landmarks in the body.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Cecilia Morales , Jason Yao , Tejas Rane , Robert Edman , Howie Choset , Artur Dubrawski

Ultrasound imaging is widely used in clinical diagnostics due to its real-time capability and radiation-free nature. However, existing vision-language pre-training models, such as CLIP, are primarily designed for other modalities, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiayun Jin , Haolong Chai , Xueying Huang , Xiaoqing Guo , Zengwei Zheng , Zhan Zhou , Junmei Wang , Xinyu Wang , Jie Liu , Binbin Zhou

The multi-billion dollar, worldwide medical ultrasound (US) market continues to grow annually. Its non-ionizing nature, real-time capabilities and relatively low cost, compared to other imaging modalities, have led to significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Oded Drori , Alon Mamistvalov , Oren Solomon , Yonina C. Eldar

The advent of foundation models has heralded a new era in medical artificial intelligence (AI), enabling the extraction of generalizable representations from large-scale unlabeled datasets. However, current ophthalmic AI paradigms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tienyu Chang , Zhen Chen , Renjie Liang , Jinyu Ding , Jie Xu , Sunu Mathew , Amir Reza Hajrasouliha , Andrew J. Saykin , Ruogu Fang , Yu Huang , Jiang Bian , Qingyu Chen

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mohammad Khateri , Morteza Ghahremani , Sergio Valencia , Camilo Jaimes , Alejandra Sierra , Jussi Tohka , P. Ellen Grant , Davood Karimi

Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

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