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Segmentation of medical images is a fundamental task with numerous applications. While MRI, CT, and PET modalities have significantly benefited from deep learning segmentation techniques, more recent modalities, like functional ultrasound…

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Ultrasound imaging is challenging to interpret due to non-uniform intensities, low contrast, and inherent artifacts, necessitating extensive training for non-specialists. Advanced representation with clear tissue structure separation could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Oleksandra Tmenova , Yordanka Velikova , Mahdi Saleh , Nassir Navab

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is an emerging technique that employs the localization of echogenic microbubbles (MBs) to finely sample and image the microcirculation beyond the diffraction limit of ultrasound imaging. Conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Conventional deep learning models deal with images one-by-one, requiring costly and time-consuming expert labeling in the field of medical imaging, and domain-specific restriction limits model generalizability. Visual in-context learning…

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging through microbubble (MB) localisation and tracking, also known as ultrasound localisation microscopy, allows non-invasive sub-diffraction resolution imaging of microvasculature in animals and humans. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Su Yan , Clotilde Vié , Marcelo Lerendegui , Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Jipeng Yan , Martina Tashkova , James Burn , Bingxue Wang , Gary Frost , Kevin G. Murphy , Meng-Xing Tang

Purpose: The objective of this work is to introduce an advanced framework designed to enhance ultrasound images, especially those captured by portable hand-held devices, which often produce lower quality images due to hardware constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Shreeram Athreya , Ashwath Radhachandran , Vedrana Ivezić , Vivek Sant , Corey W. Arnold , William Speier

Transcranial ultrasound imaging is usually limited by skull-induced attenuation and high-order aberrations. By using contrast agents such as microbubbles in combination with ultrafast imaging, not only can the signal-to-noise ratio be…

Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zhe Xu , Yixin Wang , Donghuan Lu , Lequan Yu , Jiangpeng Yan , Jie Luo , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Ultrasound (US) imaging is clinically invaluable due to its noninvasive and safe nature. However, interpreting US images is challenging, requires significant expertise, and time, and is often prone to errors. Deep learning offers assistive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Edward Ellis , Andrew Bulpitt , Nasim Parsa , Michael F Byrne , Sharib Ali

Super-Resolution Ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking microbubbles, also known as Ultrasound Localisation Microscopy (ULM), has demonstrated significant potential for reconstructing microvasculature and flows with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Jipeng Yan , Qingyuan Tan , Shusei Kawara , Jingwen Zhu , Bingxue Wang , Matthieu Toulemonde , Honghai Liu , Ying Tan , Meng-Xing Tang

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) can map microvessels at a resolution of a few micrometers (\mu m). Transcranial ULM remains challenging in presence of aberrations caused by the skull, which lead to localization errors. Herein, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Brice Rauby , Antoine Malescot , Éric Martineau , Vincent Perrot , Ravi L. Rungta , Jean Provost

Measuring cross-sectional areas in ultrasound images is a standard tool to evaluate disease progress or treatment response. Often addressed today with supervised deep-learning segmentation approaches, existing solutions highly depend upon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Leonhard Zirus , Yordanka Velikova , Nassir Navab , Diana Mateus

Super-resolution ultrasound (SR-US) is a powerful imaging technique for capturing microvasculature and blood flow at high spatial resolution. However, accurate microbubble (MB) localization remains a key challenge, as errors in localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Semi-supervised learning utilizes insights from unlabeled data to improve model generalization, thereby reducing reliance on large labeled datasets. Most existing studies focus on limited samples and fail to capture the overall data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xiuzhen Guo , Lianyuan Yu , Ji Shi , Na Lei , Hongxiao Wang

Ultrasound images are widespread in medical diagnosis for muscle-skeletal, cardiac, and obstetrical diseases, due to the efficiency and non-invasiveness of the acquisition methodology. However, ultrasound acquisition introduces noise in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Simone Cammarasana , Paolo Nicolardi , Giuseppe Patanè

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…

Cross-channel unlabeled sensing addresses the problem of recovering a multi-channel signal from measurements that were shuffled across channels. This work expands the cross-channel unlabeled sensing framework to signals that lie in a union…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Taulant Koka , Manolis C. Tsakiris , Benjamín Béjar Haro , Michael Muma

We present an uncertainty learning framework for dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Estimating pixel-wise uncertainties for the depth input of dense SLAM methods allows re-weighing the tracking and mapping losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Erik Sandström , Kevin Ta , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

Accurate segmentation of ultrasound (US) images of the cervical muscles is crucial for precision healthcare. The demand for automatic computer-assisted methods is high. However, the scarcity of labeled data hinders the development of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Fangyijie Wang , Kathleen M. Curran , Guénolé Silvestre

Existing approaches for the problem of ultrasound image segmentation, whether supervised or semi-supervised, are typically specialized for specific anatomical structures or tasks, limiting their practical utility in clinical settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yaxiong Chen , Qicong Wang , Chunlei Li , Jingliang Hu , Yilei Shi , Shengwu Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Lichao Mou