arXiv:2606. 25009v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ultrasound is a non-invasive, real-time, and cost-effective imaging technique widely used in clinical diagnosis.
arXiv:2605. 12567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The inherent electronic and speckle noise complicates clinical interpretation of ultrasound images.
arXiv:2605.12567v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The inherent electronic noise, side lobes, and speckle noise complicate clinical interpretation of ultrasound images. Conventional denoising...
Risk‑Routed Implicit Boundary Refinement (RIBR) is a compact framework designed to improve boundary delineation in medical ultrasound images. It refines convolutional segmentation by applying spatially weighted implicit residuals, where a coordinate‑conditioned implicit branch predicts logit corrections and a learned gate modulates their influence based on predictive uncertainty and local appearance. Geometry‑ and speckle‑aware regularization provides contour supervision, and RIBR outperforms ten baselines across nine datasets, achieving a macro‑average Dice of 76.67% and the lowest Hausdorff distance on all datasets.
The paper introduces Consecutive Posterior Fusion Denoising Diffusion Null‑Space Models (CPF‑DDNM), an inference‑time method that fuses successive measurement‑aware estimates to better recover unobservable image structures in severely ill‑posed imaging inverse problems. CPF‑DDNM builds on DDNM’s range/null‑space decomposition, preserving measurement‑determined components while refining prior‑driven null‑space estimates. Experiments on sparse‑view CT, low‑dose CT, and medical image super‑resolution demonstrate consistent improvements over DDNM and competitive performance against other diffusion‑based inverse solvers.
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation dose and acquisition time but remains severely ill-posed because incomplete projections poorly constrain null-space information. Existing learnin...
The paper introduces CM-RED, a fast MRI reconstruction method that combines a pretrained consistency model with the regularization by denoising framework. By integrating controlled noise injection into accelerated proximal gradient updates, CM-RED achieves high‑quality reconstructions on fastMRI knee and brain datasets with only four network function evaluations. It consistently outperforms existing diffusion‑ and consistency‑based approaches in quantitative metrics, visual fidelity, and robustness to hyperparameter changes.
arXiv:2609.13688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation dose and acquisition time but remains severely ill-posed because incomplete projections poorly...
The paper investigates how unknown log‑compression applied by clinical ultrasound devices degrades the estimation of the Rayleigh scale parameter σ, which governs diffuse speckle in B‑mode images. Using Fisher information analysis, it shows that finite‑offset log compression inflates the minimum achievable variance for unbiased σ estimation by a compression‑independent factor of about φ–MinInflation, and that even with multiple image windows the variance reduction is limited, requiring many windows to approach the ideal variance. The authors validate their theoretical predictions with synthetic experiments and demonstrate RF‑scale recovery on real RF‑envelope data from the OASBUD dataset, thereby highlighting the constraints of using routine B‑mode images for quantitative ultrasound analysis.
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.
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.
The paper introduces a high‑resolution Rectified Flow Matching model trained on 256×256 chest CT images to serve as a generative prior for CT reconstruction. A two‑stage training strategy—initial strong anatomically informed augmentation followed by fine‑tuning—helps mitigate overfitting and improve structural fidelity. When evaluated on various CT inverse problems, Flow Matching‑based reconstruction methods outperform diffusion‑based algorithms in PSNR, SSIM, and perceptual quality while requiring fewer sampling steps.