arXiv:2608.29820v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ultrasound B-mode imaging commonly suffers from speckle noise and artifacts, requiring a delicate balance between contrast, resolution, and preservatio...
By Juneyong Lee, Jaeyoung Choi
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.
By Yuexi Gu, Mengqi Wu, Yongheng Sun, Virginie Papadopoulou, Mingxia Liu, Maureen Kohi
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
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:2608. 14796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prostate cancer claims a life every 80 seconds.
By Ayusha Abbas, Saram Abbas, Kabita Adhikari
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...