arXiv Machine Learning

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Echo-E$^3$Net: Efficient Endocardial Spatio-Temporal Network for Ejection Fraction Estimation

Echo-E$^3$Net is an anatomy‑guided spatio‑temporal neural network designed to estimate left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from ultrasound images. It uses a dual‑phase Endocardial Border Detector to locate end‑diastole and end‑systole landmarks and an Endocardial Feature Aggregator to fuse these landmarks with global deep‑feature descriptors for EF regression. The model achieves competitive accuracy on EchoNet‑Dynamic and EchoNet‑Pediatric datasets while using only 1.55 M parameters and 8.05 GFLOPs, enabling real‑time deployment on limited‑resource devices.

By Moein Heidari, Afshin Bozorgpour, AmirHossein Zarif-Fakharnia, Wenjin Chen, Dorit Merhof, David J. Foran, Jasmine Grewal, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
arXiv AI
Sep 10

US-JEPA: A Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Ultrasound

US-JEPA introduces a self‑supervised framework for ultrasound imaging that predicts masked latent representations instead of raw pixels, using a frozen, domain‑specific teacher to provide stable targets. This approach avoids the hyperparameter sensitivity and computational cost of traditional online teachers, enabling the student model to build upon the teacher’s semantic priors. The authors benchmark US‑JEPA against all publicly available ultrasound foundation models on UltraBench, showing competitive or superior performance across multiple organs and pathological conditions under linear probing.

By Ashwath Radhachandran, Vedrana Ivezi\'c, Shreeram Athreya, Corey W. Arnold, William Speier
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

FreqDINO++: A Frequency-Guided Multi-Task Routing Vision Foundation Model for Universal Ultrasound Analysis

FreqDINO++ is a frequency‑guided multi‑task routing vision foundation model designed for universal ultrasound analysis. It introduces a Multi‑task Routing Adapter for efficient task‑common and task‑specific integration, a Frequency‑aware Feature Enhancer to capture multi‑scale frequency characteristics, and a Task‑aligned Collaborative Decoder that promotes collaboration between dense and global prediction tasks. Experiments on large‑scale multi‑task and external single‑task ultrasound benchmarks show that FreqDINO++ outperforms strong baselines and recent foundation models across 27 diverse clinical task scenarios, with promising generalization to unseen data.

By Qing Xu, Yixuan Zhang, Yue Li, Xiangjian He, Qian Zhang, Mainul Haque, Rong Qu, Wenting Duan, Jieyun Bai, Zhen Chen
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
Jun 10

FADA: Accessible fetal ultrasound interpretation and annotation with a selectively distilled unified vision-language model

arXiv:2606. 11106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A global shortage of trained sonographers limits prenatal ultrasound screening in low- and middle-income countries, where over half of pregnant women receive no skilled sonography.

By Mahmood Alzubaidi, Uzair Shah, Raden Muaz, Ines Abbes, Nader Mohammed, Abdullatif Magram, Khalid Alyafei, Mowafa Househ, Marco Agus