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Pyramid Self-Contrastive Learning for Single-shot Test-time Ultrasound Image Denoising

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arXiv:2605. 12567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The inherent electronic and speckle noise complicates clinical interpretation of ultrasound images.

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