arXiv Computer Vision

UltraDiff: Differentiable Ray Tracing in Ultrasound for Shape Optimization

UltraDiff is a modular framework that extends differentiable rendering to medical ultrasound by modeling image formation as a path‑space integral gated by travel time. It derives a Monte Carlo estimator for both the forward ultrasound model and its gradients, enabling gradient‑based optimization of scene parameters. The authors demonstrate the method on inverse geometry estimation, recovering vertebral surfaces from simulated and real B‑mode sweeps without requiring pre‑segmented images, achieving competitive geometric accuracy.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

UltraPIPS: Improving model perception in B-mode ultrasound with foundation models

UltraPIPS introduces domain‑specific foundation models for measuring perceptual similarity in B‑mode ultrasound images. The study shows that ultrasound‑trained LPIPS backbones better correlate with downstream tasks such as classification, segmentation, and reconstruction than natural‑image or general medical models. Optimizing LPIPS loss with an ultrasound backbone yields a strong balance between reconstruction quality and realism, and the authors provide an open‑source library for these metrics.

By Tal Grutman, Tali Ilovitsh
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

UBone3D: Physics-Rectified Conditional Flow Matching for Anatomical 3D Shape Completion from Ultrasound

UBone3D is a new framework that completes 3D anatomical shapes from partial ultrasound point clouds using physics-rectified conditional flow matching. It models ultrasound artifacts with a simulated physics proxy and applies test-time physics rectification to guide the completion. The method combines a CT-trained generative shape prior and a physics consistency network, achieving higher reconstruction accuracy and anatomical fidelity than existing baselines.

By Weiying Chen, Yuchong Gao, Siyuan Li, Marek Reformat, Rui Zheng, Edmond Lou
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 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
arXiv AI
Jun 24

Render-FM: Feedforward Model for Real-time Photorealistic Volumetric Rendering

arXiv:2505. 17338v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photorealistic volumetric rendering of CT scans greatly benefits clinical workflows, yet neural approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) require prohibitive per-scan optimization (hours for NeRF, about 30 minutes for 3DGS), making them impractical in clinical settings.

By Zhongpai Gao, Benjamin Planche, Meng Zheng, Anwesa Choudhuri, Van Nguyen Nguyen, Terrence Chen, Ziyan Wu