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Ultrasound microvascular imaging (UMI) is often hindered by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially in contrast-free or deep tissue scenarios, which impairs subsequent vascular quantification and reliable disease diagnosis. To address…

Skull-induced aberrations remain a major drawback of transcranial ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), degrading sensitivity and spatial accuracy through microbubble mislocalization, false detections, and imaging artifacts, such as…

Identifying, measuring and reporting lesions accurately and comprehensively from patient CT scans are important yet time-consuming procedures for physicians. Computer-aided lesion/significant-findings detection techniques are at the core of…

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Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging plays an important role in advanced imaging applications due to its material decomposition capability. Image-domain decomposition operates directly on CT images using linear matrix inversion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Zhipeng Li , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yong Long , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Ultra-high-definition (UHD) image restoration often faces computational bottlenecks and information loss due to its extremely high resolution. Existing studies based on Variational Autoencoders (VAE) improve efficiency by transferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yidi Liu , Dong Li , Yuxin Ma , Jie Huang , Wenlong Zhang , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-jun Zha

Urban Physical Disorder (UPD), such as old or abandoned buildings, broken sidewalks, litter, and graffiti, has a negative impact on residents' quality of life. They can also increase crime rates, cause social disorder, and pose a public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Chuanbo Hu , Shan Jia , Fan Zhang , Changjiang Xiao , Mindi Ruan , Jacob Thrasher , Xin Li

Background: Three-dimensional, whole heart, balanced steady state free precession (WH-bSSFP) sequences provide delineation of intra-cardiac and vascular anatomy. However, they have long acquisition times. Here, we propose significant speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jennifer A. Steeden , Michael Quail , Alexander Gotschy , Andreas Hauptmann , Simon Arridge , Rodney Jones , Vivek Muthurangu

Tensor decomposition has proven to be a strong tool in various 3D image processing tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. In this context, we recently proposed a canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) based algorithm for single image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 J. Hatvani , A. Basarab , J. Michetti , M. Gyöngy , D. Kouamé

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to identify image- and pixel-level anomalies using only normal training data, with wide applications such as industrial inspection and medical analysis, where anomalies are scarce due to privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhe Zhang , Mingxiu Cai , Gaochang Wu , Jing Zhang , Lingqiao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has attracted much attention in radiation dose reduction, metal artifacts removal, tissue quantification and material discrimination. The x-ray energy spectrum is divided into several bins, each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Weiwen Wu , Dianlin Hu , Chuang Niu , Lieza Vanden Broeke , Anthony P. H. Butler , Peng Cao , James Atlas , Alexander Chernoglazov , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Ge Wang

Urinary bladder cancer surveillance requires tracking tumor sites across repeated interventions, yet the deformable and hollow bladder lacks stable landmarks for orientation. While blood vessels visible during endoscopy offer a…

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In this work we reduce undersampling artefacts in two-dimensional ($2D$) golden-angle radial cine cardiac MRI by applying a modified version of the U-net. We train the network on $2D$ spatio-temporal slices which are previously extracted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Andreas Kofler , Marc Dewey , Tobias Schaeffter , Christian Wald , Christoph Kolbitsch

Contrast and quality of ultrasound images are adversely affected by the excessive presence of speckle. However, being an inherent imaging property, speckle helps in tissue characterization and tracking. Thus, despeckling of the ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Deepak Mishra , Santanu Chaudhury , Mukul Sarkar , Arvinder Singh Soin

With the popularization of high-end mobile devices, Ultra-high-definition (UHD) images have become ubiquitous in our lives. The restoration of UHD images is a highly challenging problem due to the exaggerated pixel count, which often leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Chen Wu , Ling Wang , Long Peng , Dianjie Lu , Zhuoran Zheng

Angiogenesis, the formation of new vessels, is one of the key mechanisms in tumor development and an appealing target for therapy. Non-invasive, high-resolution, high sensitivity, quantitative 3D imaging techniques are required to correctly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-06 Charlie Demené , Thomas Payen , Alexandre Dizeux , Guillaume Barrois , Jean-Luc Gennisson , Lori Bridal , Mickael Tanter

Recent development of Under-Display Camera (UDC) systems provides a true bezel-less and notch-free viewing experience on smartphones (and TV, laptops, tablets), while allowing images to be captured from the selfie camera embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Ruicheng Feng , Chongyi Li , Huaijin Chen , Shuai Li , Chen Change Loy , Jinwei Gu

To apply deep CNNs to mobile terminals and portable devices, many scholars have recently worked on the compressing and accelerating deep convolutional neural networks. Based on this, we propose a novel uniform channel pruning (UCP) method…

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Radar based assisted living has received great amount of research interest in recent years. By employing the micro-Doppler features of indoor human motions, accurate recognition and classification of different types of movements become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Qiang An , Shuoguang Wang , Wenji Zhang , Hao Lv , Jianqi Wang , Shiyong Li , Ahmad Hoorfar

PURPOSE: Real-time assessment of ventricular volumes requires high acceleration factors. Residual convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown potential for removing artifacts caused by data undersampling. In this study we investigated…

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