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While passive acoustic mapping (PAM) has been advanced for monitoring acoustic cavitation activity in focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy, achieving both real-time and high-quality imaging capabilities is still challenging. The angular…

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Medical images acquired from standardized protocols show consistent macroscopic or microscopic anatomical structures, and these structures consist of composable/decomposable organs and tissues, but existing self-supervised learning (SSL)…

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Ultrasound elastography is an emerging noninvasive imaging technique wherein pathological alterations can be visualized by revealing the mechanical properties of the tissue. Estimating tissue displacement in all directions is required to…

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Photoacoustic microscopy is becoming an important tool for the biomedical research. It has been widely used in biological researches, such as structural imaging of vasculature, brain structural and functional imaging, and tumor detection.…

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Emerging technologies based on tailorable interactions between photons and phonons promise new capabilities ranging from high-fidelity microwave signal processing to non-reciprocal optics and quantum state control. While such light-sound…

Accurate estimation of the relative concentrations of chromophores in a spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) image can reveal immense structural, functional, and molecular information about physiological processes. However, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sarkis Ter Martirosyan , Xinyue Huang , David Qin , Anthony Yu , Stanislav Emelianov

Shear-wave elastography (SWE) permits local estimation of tissue elasticity, an important imaging marker in biomedicine. This recently-developed, advanced technique assesses the speed of a laterally-travelling shear wave after an acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 R. R. Wildeboer , R. J. G. van Sloun , C. K. Mannaerts , P. H. Moraes , G. Salomon , M. C. Chammas , H. Wijkstra , M. Mischi

Synthetic data generation plays a crucial role in medical research by mitigating privacy concerns and enabling large-scale patient data analysis. This study presents a beta-Variational Autoencoder Graph Convolutional Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Francesco Fabbri , Martino Andrea Scarpolini , Angelo Iollo , Francesco Viola , Francesco Tudisco

Direct RAW-based object detection offers great promise by utilizing RAW data (unprocessed sensor data), but faces inherent challenges due to its wide dynamic range and linear response, which tends to suppress crucial object details. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhuohua Ye , Liming Zhang , Hongru Han

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) utilizes an aircraft-carried antenna to emit electromagnetic pulses and detect the returning echoes. As the aircraft travels across a designated area, it synthesizes a large virtual aperture to improve image…

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (qPAT) is an imaging technique aimed at estimating chromophore concentrations inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic propagation. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Hwan Goh , Timo Lahivaara , Tanja Tarvainen , Aki Pulkkinen , Owen Dillon , Ruanui Nicholson , Jari Kaipio

Speed-of-sound and attenuation of ultrasound waves vary in the tissues. There exist methods in the literature that allow for spatially reconstructing the distribution of group speed-of-sound (SoS) and frequency-dependent ultrasound…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Bhaskara Rao Chintada , Richard Rau , Orcun Goksel

In this paper we compare the sensitivity of two imaging configurations both based on Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI). The first one is direct imaging, which uses conventional optical focalisation on target and the second one is made…

Most ultrasound imaging techniques necessitate the fundamental step of converting temporal signals received from transducer elements into a spatial echogenecity map. This beamforming (BF) step requires the knowledge of speed-of-sound (SoS)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Can Deniz Bezek , Orcun Goksel

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to rapidly learn novel class concepts from limited examples to segment specific targets in unseen images, and has been widely applied in areas such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qianyu Guo , Jingrong Wu , Jieji Ren , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

Functional Spectral Imaging (FSI) models image formation as the recovery of tissue surrogates such as density and stiffness from spectral perturbations of a self-adjoint elliptic operator. Rather than relying on reflectivity or relaxation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Cesar Mello Fernando Medina da Cunha

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

Photoacoustic microscopy holds the potential to measure biomarkers' structural and functional status without labels, which significantly aids in comprehending pathophysiological conditions in biomedical research. However, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Wangting Zhou , Jiangshan He , Tong Cai , Lin Wang , Zhen Yuan , Xunbin Wei , Xueli Chen

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

Acoustic-resolution optoacoustic microscopy (AR-OAM) retrieves anatomical and functional contrast from living tissues at depths not reachable with optical microscopy. The imaging performance of AR-OAM has been advanced with image…