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Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) refers to a promising medical imaging modality that systematically leverages the advantages of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to surpass the diffraction barrier and delineate the microvascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Md Ashikuzzaman , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrasound localization microscopy has enabled super-resolution vascular imaging through precise localization of individual ultrasound contrast agents (microbubbles) across numerous imaging frames. However, analysis of high-density regions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-14 Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Oren Solomon , Matthew Bruce , Zin Z. Khaing , Hessel Wijkstra , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi

Recently, super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has received much attention. However, ULM relies on low concentrations of microbubbles in the blood vessels, ultimately resulting in long…

Contrast-Enhanced Ultra-Sound (CEUS) has become a viable method for non-invasive, dynamic visualization in medical diagnostics, yet Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has enabled a revolutionary breakthrough by offering ten times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Christopher Hahne , Raphael Sznitman

Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables microvascular imaging at spatial resolutions beyond the acoustic diffraction limit, offering significant clinical potentials. However, ULM performance relies heavily on microbubble (MB)…

Non-invasive detection of microvascular alterations in deep tissues in vivo provides critical information for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of a broad-spectrum of pathologies. Recently, the emergence of super-resolution ultrasound…

Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have…

Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), which has shown promising results in microvascular imaging, overcomes the typical trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. Combining ultrasound contrast agents and high frame…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 A. N. Madhavanunni , Niya Mariam Benoy , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Himanshu Shekhar

Three-dimensional ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables comprehensive visualization of the vasculature, thereby improving diagnostic reliability. Nevertheless, its clinical translation remains challenging, as the exponential…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) offers a cost-effective modality for microvascular imaging by using intravascular contrast agents (microbubbles). However, ULM has a fundamental trade-off between acquisition time and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Ufuk Soylu , Yoram Bresler

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has proven effective in resolving microvascular structures and local mean velocities at sub-diffraction-limited scales, offering high-resolution imaging capabilities. Dynamic ULM (DULM) enables the…

Convection of liquid metals drives large natural processes and is important in technical processes. Model experiments are conducted for research purposes where simulations are expensive and the clarification of open questions requires novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-18 David Weik , Zehua Dou , Dirk Räbiger , Tobias Vogt , Sven Eckert , Jürgen Czarske , Lars Büttner

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has recently enabled the mapping of the cerebral vasculature in vivo with a resolution ten times smaller than the wavelength used, down to ten microns. However, with frame rates up to 20.000 frames…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Erwan Hardy , Jonathan Poree , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloe Bourquin , Frederic Lesage , Jean Provost

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) enables imaging of vascular structures in the micrometer range by accumulating contrast agent particle locations over time. Precise and efficient target localization accuracy remains an active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is a non-invasive technique that allows for the imaging of micro-vessels in vivo, at depth and with a resolution on the order of ten microns. ULM is based on the sub-resolution localization of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Brice Rauby , Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruili Li , Jiayi Ding , Ruiyu Li , Yilun Jin , Shiwen Ge , Yuwen Zeng , Xiaoyong Zhang , Eichi Takaya , Jan Vrba , Noriyasu Homma

Ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging has seen widespread uptake in research and clinical diagnostic imaging. This includes applications such as vector flow imaging, functional ultrasound and super-resolution Ultrasound Localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Marcelo Lerendegui , Kai Riemer , Bingxue Wang , Christopher Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) relies on the injection of microbubbles (MBs) to obtain highly resolved density maps of blood circulation in vivo, with a resolution that can reach 10 {\mu}m ~ {\lambda}/10 in the rodent brain.…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy can resolve the microvascular bed down to a few micrometers. To achieve such performance microbubble contrast agents must perfuse the entire microvascular network. Microbubbles are then located…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Léo Milecki , Jonathan Porée , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloé Bourquin , Rafat Damseh , Patrick Delafontaine-Martel , Frédéric Lesage , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Arthur Chavignon , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman
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