arXiv AI

Coherence-Guided Pyramid Self-Contrastive Disentanglement for Ultrasound Imaging via Single-Shot Test-Time Training

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

IQ-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture with a Hermitian Vision Transformer for Sound Speed and Attenuation Estimation from Ultrasound IQ Data

arXiv:2607. 22351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The speed of sound in tissue is a prerequisite for well-focused imaging and has diagnostic value, but recovering it from raw pulse-echo channel data is fundamentally a nonlinear inverse problem.

By Masashi Sode, Gianmarco Pinton
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Shadow Reduction in Ultrasound Imaging Using Differentiable Simulation and Radiance Field Decomposition

RFlash is a physics‑informed post‑processing technique that removes acoustic shadows in ultrasound by decomposing beamformed images into attenuation and scatter‑intensity maps using a differentiable radiance‑field model. It re‑renders images to eliminate depth‑dependent signal loss, effectively simulating a virtual transducer advance. Across thousands of fetal brain, abdominal, and liver scans, RFlash outperforms traditional attenuation correction, reduces prediction error by 40% in fetal brain imaging, and provides shadow‑confidence maps that enhance bone‑shadow segmentation.

By Valentin Bacher (Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Pak Hei Yeung (Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Quantitative Healthcare Analysis), Bernhard Kainz (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\"at Erlangen-N\"urnberg, Germany, Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Madeleine K. Wyburd (Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Nicola K. Dinsdale (Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Michael Gray (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Ana I. L. Namburete (Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
arXiv AI
Jul 23

PRIME-SVR: Physics-infoRmed Implicit Multi-Echo Slice-to-Volume Reconstruction for Fetal T2 mapping

arXiv:2607. 20136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) is the standard method for obtaining high-resolution (HR) 3D fetal brain volumes from motion-corrupted 2D MRI slice stacks acquired in multiple orientations.

By Busra Bulut, Maik Dannecker, Thomas Sanchez, Sara Neves Silva, Steven Jia, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Leo Pomar, Joanna Sichitiu, Yvan Gomez, Meriam Koob, Vincent Dunet, Maria Deprez, Guillaume Auzias, Francois Rousseau, Jana Hutter, Daniel Rueckert, Meritxell Bach Cuadra
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Matrix-Free Photoacoustic Image Reconstruction via Sensor-Token Self-Attention

arXiv:2607. 25576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) combines the optical absorption contrast of biological tissue with the spatial resolution of ultrasound, yet recovering the initial pressure distribution from sparse-view sensor measurements remains an ill-posed inverse problem.

By Mary John, Shibili Said, Imad Barhumi, Sherzod Turaev, Mohamed Yahia
arXiv AI
Aug 25

SAS: Segment Anything Small for Ultrasound -- A Non-Generative Data Augmentation Technique for Robust Deep Learning in Ultrasound Imaging

The paper introduces Segment Anything Small (SAS), a data‑augmentation method that improves deep‑learning segmentation of small anatomical structures in ultrasound images. SAS uses two transformations: resizing and embedding organ thumbnails into a black background to vary organ scale, and adding noise to regions of interest to mimic tissue texture variability. Experiments on one internal and five external datasets show Dice score gains up to 0.35, with an average improvement of 0.16, and demonstrate that SAS enhances model robustness and generalizability without adding hallucinations or artifacts.

By Danielle L. Ferreira, Ahana Gangopadhyay, Hsi-Ming Chang, Ravi Soni, Gopal Avinash
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

DTI-Guided Volumetric Spherical Harmonics Regression for Single-to-Multi-Shell dMRI Synthesis

arXiv:2609.14312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-shell diffusion MRI (dMRI) unlocks more expressive microstructural modeling than single-shell scans, yet its longer acquisition time hinders depl...

By Binghua Li, Christina Andica, Tong Liang, Ziqing Chang, Chao Li, Wataru Uchida, Kaito Takabayashi, Qibin Zhao, Toshihisa Tanaka, Zhe Sun, Shigeki Aoki