English
Related papers

Related papers: The Contrast Order: An Order-Based Image Quality C…

200 papers

In this article, we consider the problem of outlier-robust state estimation where the measurement noise can be correlated. Outliers in data arise due to many reasons like sensor malfunctioning, environmental behaviors, communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal

Depth estimation using a single-photon LiDAR is often solved by a matched filter. It is, however, error-prone in the presence of background noise. A commonly used technique to reject background noise is the rank-ordered mean (ROM) filter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 William C. Yau , Weijian Zhang , Hashan Kavinga Weerasooriya , Stanley H. Chan

Speed-of-sound (SoS) is a biomechanical characteristic of tissue, and its imaging can provide a promising biomarker for diagnosis. Reconstructing SoS images from ultrasound acquisitions can be cast as a limited-angle computed-tomography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Sonia Laguna , Lin Zhang , Can Deniz Bezek , Monika Farkas , Dieter Schweizer , Rahel A. Kubik-Huch , Orcun Goksel

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

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for musculoskeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical imaging due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, the acquired images are degraded by acoustic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Sobhan Goudarzi , Adrian Basarab , Hassan Rivaz

We introduce Noise Recycling, a method that enhances decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise without joint decoding. The method can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Alejandro Cohen , Amit Solomon , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

This paper introduces two key contributions aimed at improving the speed and quality of images generated through inverse diffusion processes. The first contribution involves reparameterizing the diffusion process in terms of the angle on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenkai Zhang , Krista A. Ehinger , Tom Drummond

The purpose of this study is to enable in-vivo three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) of posterior ocular microvasculature using a 256-channel system and a 1024-element matrix array, and to overcome limitations of…

This paper investigates the possibility of improving radio interferometric images using an algorithm inspired by an optical method known as "lucky imaging", which would give more weight to the best-calibrated visibilities used to make a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Etienne Bonnassieux , Cyril Tasse , Oleg Smirnov , Philippe Zarka

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) that leverage the adversarial training framework for image restoration and enhancement have significantly improved the processed images' sharpness. Surprisingly, although these DCNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Seyed Mehdi Ayyoubzadeh , Ali Royat

Spectral and grating-based differential phase-contrast X-ray imaging are two emerging technologies that offer additional information compared with conventional attenuation-based X-ray imaging. In the case of spectral imaging,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Korbinian Mechlem , Thorsten Sellerer , Manuel Viermetz , Julia Herzen , Franz Pfeiffer

In this study we investigate the fast image filtering algorithm based on Intro sort algorithm and fast noise reduction of infrared images. Main feature of the proposed approach is that no prior knowledge of noise required. It is developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Kapil Kumar Gupta , Rizwan Beg , Jitendra Kumar Niranjan

In optical coherence tomography (OCT), axial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are typically viewed as uncoupled parameters. We show that this is only true for mirror-like surfaces, and that in diffuse scattering samples such as…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Danielle J. Harper , Benjamin J. Vakoc

Ultrasound imaging, despite its widespread use in medicine, often suffers from various sources of noise and artifacts that impact the signal-to-noise ratio and overall image quality. Enhancing ultrasound images requires a delicate balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Consensus-based optimization (CBO) is a versatile multi-particle metaheuristic optimization method suitable for performing nonconvex and nonsmooth global optimizations in high dimensions. It has proven effective in various applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Massimo Fornasier , Peter Richtárik , Konstantin Riedl , Lukang Sun

In the first part of this paper, quantitative aspects of propagation-based phase-contrast imaging (PBI) were investigated using theoretical and numerical approaches, as well as experimental two-dimensional PBI images collected with plane…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , K. M. Pavlov , A. Maksimenko , H. M. Quiney

Resolving arterial flows is essential for understanding cardiovascular pathologies, improving diagnosis, and monitoring patient condition. Ultrasound contrast imaging uses microbubbles to enhance the scattering of the blood pool, allowing…

With the development of deep learning, medical image classification has been significantly improved. However, deep learning requires massive data with labels. While labeling the samples by human experts is expensive and time-consuming,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Jiarun Liu , Ruirui Li , Chuan Sun

The noise in absorption imaging of cold atoms significantly impacts measurement accuracy across a range of applications with ultracold atoms. It is crucial to adopt an approach that offers effective denoising capabilities without…

The estimation and compensation of quasi-static aberrations is mandatory to reach the ultimate performance of high-contrast imaging systems. COFFEE is a focal plane wave-front sensing method that consists in the extension of phase diversity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Paul , L. M. Mugnier , J. -F. Sauvage , K. Dohlen