AS-Net: Fast Photoacoustic Reconstruction with Multi-feature Fusion from Sparse Data
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology(上海微系统与信息技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality capable of acquiring high-contrast images of optical absorption at depths much greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. However, practical instrumentation and geometry limit the number of available acoustic sensors surrounding the imaging target, which results in the sparsity of sensor data. Conventional PA image reconstruction methods give severe artifacts when they are applied directly to the sparse PA data. In this paper, we firstly propose to employ a novel signal processing method to make sparse PA raw data more suitable for the neural network, concurrently speeding up image reconstruction. Then we propose Attention Steered Network (AS-Net) for PA reconstruction with multi-feature fusion. AS-Net is validated on different datasets, including simulated photoacoustic data from fundus vasculature phantoms and experimental data from in vivo fish and mice. Notably, the method is also able to eliminate some artifacts present in the ground truth for in vivo data. Results demonstrated that our method provides superior reconstructions at a faster speed.
Dc-EEMF: Pushing depth-of-field limit of photoacoustic microscopy via decision-level constrained learning
Center for Biomedical-photonics and Molecular Imaging(生物医学光子学与分子成像中心);Xi’an Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing and Regulation of trans-Scale Life Information(西安智能感知与跨尺度生命信息调节重点实验室);School of Life Science and Technology(生命科学与技术学院);School of Computer Science and Engineering(计算机科学与工程学院);Faculty of Health Sciences(健康科学学院);Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing)(致癌研究与转化医学实验室(教育部/北京))
George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);The MITRE Corporation(MITRE公司)
Simulation tools for photoacoustic wave propagation have played a key role in advancing photoacoustic imaging by providing quantitative and qualitative insights into parameters affecting image quality. Classical methods for numerically solving the photoacoustic wave equation relies on a fine discretization of space and can become computationally expensive for large computational grids. In this work, we apply Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) networks as a fast data-driven deep learning method for solving the 2D photoacoustic wave equation in a homogeneous medium. Comparisons between the FNO networ…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院)
Photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT) reconstructs the initial pressure distribution from raw PA signals. The standard reconstruction of medical image could cause the artifacts due to interferences or ill-posed setup. Recently, deep learning has been used to reconstruct the PA image with ill-posed conditions. Most works remove the artifacts from image domain, and compensate the limited-view from dataset. In this paper, we propose a jointed feature fusion framework (JEFF-Net) based on deep learning to reconstruct the PA image using limited-view data. The cross-domain features from limit…
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Machine learning has been developed dramatically and witnessed a lot of applications in various fields over the past few years. This boom originated in 2009, when a new model emerged, that is, the deep artificial neural network, which began to surpass other established mature models on some important benchmarks. Later, it was widely used in academia and industry. Ranging from image analysis to natural language processing, it fully exerted its magic and now become the state-of-the-art machine learning models. Deep neural networks have great potential in medical imaging technology, medical data …
University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学密西根学院);Peking University(北京大学)
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has been a promising biomedical imaging technology in recent years. However, the point-by-point scanning mechanism results in low-speed imaging, which limits the application of PAM. Reducing sampling density can naturally shorten image acquisition time, which is at the cost of image quality. In this work, we propose a method using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to improve the quality of sparse PAM images, thereby speeding up image acquisition while keeping good image quality. The CNN model utilizes both squeeze-and-excitation blocks and residual blocks to a…
George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);The MITRE Corporation(MITRE公司)
In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the acoustic pressure waves produced by optical excitation are measured by an array of detectors and used to reconstruct an image. Sparse spatial sampling and limited-view detection are two common challenges faced in PAT. Reconstructing from incomplete data using standard methods results in severe streaking artifacts and blurring. We propose a modified convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture termed Dense Dilation UNet (DD-UNet) for correcting artifacts in 3D PAT. The DD-Net leverages the benefits of dense connectivity and dilated convolutions to impro…
Super-temporal-resolution Photoacoustic Imaging with Dynamic Reconstruction through Implicit Neural Representation in Sparse-view
School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University(信息科学与技术学院,上海科技大学);School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University(生物医学工程学院,上海科技大学);School of Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(生物医学工程学院与医学机器人研究所,上海交通大学);School of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China(生物医学工程学院,生命科学与医学系,中国科学技术大学);School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China(工程科学学院,中国科学技术大学);Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China(苏州先进研究所,中国科学技术大学)
One primary technical challenge in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is the necessary compromise between spatial resolution and imaging speed. In this study, we propose a novel application of deep learning principles to reconstruct undersampled PAM images and transcend the trade-off between spatial resolution and imaging speed. We compared various convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, and selected a fully dense U-net (FD U-net) model that produced the best results. To mimic various undersampling conditions in practice, we artificially downsampled fully-sampled PAM images of mouse brai…
George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);The MITRE Corporation(MITRE公司)
Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging imaging modality that is based upon the photoacoustic effect. In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the induced acoustic pressure waves are measured by an array of detectors and used to reconstruct an image of the initial pressure distribution. A common challenge faced in PAT is that the measured acoustic waves can only be sparsely sampled. Reconstructing sparsely sampled data using standard methods results in severe artifacts that obscure information within the image. We propose a modified convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture termed Fully Dense UNe…
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging non-invasive imaging modality combining the advantages of deep ultrasound penetration and high optical contrast. Image reconstruction is an essential topic in PAI, which is unfortunately an ill-posed problem due to the complex and unknown optical/acoustic parameters in tissue. Conventional algorithms used in PAI (e.g., delay-and-sum) provide a fast solution while many artifacts remain, especially for linear array probe with limited-view issue. Convolutional neural network (CNN) has shown state-of-the-art results in computer vision, and more and more w…
University College London(伦敦大学学院);Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica(荷兰数学与计算机科学中心);KTH - Royal Institute of Technology(瑞典皇家理工学院);Elekta(医科达公司)
Recent advances in deep learning for tomographic reconstructions have shown great potential to create accurate and high quality images with a considerable speed-up. In this work we present a deep neural network that is specifically designed to provide high resolution 3D images from restricted photoacoustic measurements. The network is designed to represent an iterative scheme and incorporates gradient information of the data fit to compensate for limited view artefacts. Due to the high complexity of the photoacoustic forward operator, we separate training and computation of the gradient inform…
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)(德国癌症研究中心);Heidelberg University(海德堡大学);Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health(亥姆霍兹健康信息与数据科学学院);Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学英国癌症研究中心剑桥研究所)
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has the potential to recover morphological and functional tissue properties with high spatial resolution. However, previous attempts to solve the optical inverse problem with supervised machine learning were hampered by the absence of labeled reference data. While this bottleneck has been tackled by simulating training data, the domain gap between real and simulated images remains an unsolved challenge. We propose a novel approach to PAT image synthesis that involves subdividing the challenge of generating plausible simulations into two disjoint problems: (1) Pro…
In photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with flat sensor, we routinely encounter two types of limited data. The first is due to using a finite sensor and is especially perceptible if the region of interest is large relative to the sensor or located farther away from the sensor. In this paper, we focus on the second type caused by a varying sensitivity of the sensor to the incoming wavefront direction which can be modelled as binary i.e. by a cone of sensitivity. Such visibility conditions result, in the Fourier domain, in a restriction of both the image and the data to a bow-tie, akin to the one cor…
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target with ultrasound transducer array for PA signal detection. Limited-view issue could cause a low-quality image in PACT due to the limitation of geometric condition. The model-based method is used to resolve this problem, which contains different regularization. To adapt fast and high-quality reconstruction of limited-view PA data, in this paper, a model-based…
The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and highly efficient reconstruction algorithm based on deep learning. In our approach image reconstruction is performed with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), whose weights are adjusted prior to the actual image reconstruction based on a set of training data. The proposed reconstruction approach can be interpreted as a network that uses the PAT filtere…
George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);The MITRE Corporation(MITRE公司)
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a nonionizing imaging modality capable of acquiring high contrast and resolution images of optical absorption at depths greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. Practical considerations with instrumentation and geometry limit the number of available acoustic sensors and their view of the imaging target, which result in significant image reconstruction artifacts degrading image quality. Iterative reconstruction methods can be used to reduce artifacts but are computationally expensive. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning approach termed pi…
ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology(中国科学院上海微系统与信息技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Photoacoustic (PA) computed tomography (PACT) shows great potentials in various preclinical and clinical applications. A great number of measurements are the premise that obtains a high-quality image, which implies a low imaging rate or a high system cost. The artifacts or sidelobes could pollute the image if we decrease the number of measured channels or limit the detected view. In this paper, a novel compressed sensing method for PACT using an untrained neural network is proposed, which decreases half number of the measured channels and recoveries enough details. This method uses a neural ne…
Self-similarity-based super-resolution of photoacoustic angiography from hand-drawn doodles
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute(清华-伯克利深圳学院);Xidian University(西安电子科技大学);South China Normal University(华南师范大学);College of Biophotonics(生物光子学学院);Institute of Laser Life Science(激光生命科学研究所)
University of Oulu(奥卢大学);University College London(伦敦大学学院)
Biomedical photoacoustic tomography, which can provide high resolution 3D soft tissue images based on the optical absorption, has advanced to the stage at which translation from the laboratory to clinical settings is becoming possible. The need for rapid image formation and the practical restrictions on data acquisition that arise from the constraints of a clinical workflow are presenting new image reconstruction challenges. There are many classical approaches to image reconstruction, but ameliorating the effects of incomplete or imperfect data through the incorporation of accurate priors is c…
Jiangnan University(江南大学);University of Surrey(萨里大学)
Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied to many image processing tasks. In this paper, we apply the image decomposition network to the image fusion task. We input infrared image and visible light image and decompose them into three high-frequency feature images and a low-frequency feature image respectively. The two sets of feature images are fused using a specific fusion strategy to obtain fusion…
Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence(人工智能 inception 研究所)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used neuroimaging technique that can provide images of different contrasts (i.e., modalities). Fusing this multi-modal data has proven particularly effective for boosting model performance in many tasks. However, due to poor data quality and frequent patient dropout, collecting all modalities for every patient remains a challenge. Medical image synthesis has been proposed as an effective solution to this, where any missing modalities are synthesized from the existing ones. In this paper, we propose a novel Hybrid-fusion Network (Hi-Net) for multi-mo…
GAN-HA: A generative adversarial network with a novel heterogeneous dual-discriminator network and a new attention-based fusion strategy for infrared and visible image fusion
College of New Materials and New Energies, Shenzhen Technology University(深圳技术大学新材料与新能源学院)
RIKEN AIP(理化学研究所革新智能综合研究中心);German Aerospace Center(德国航空航天中心);Univ. Grenoble Alpes(格勒诺布尔-阿尔卑斯大学);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);Grenoble INP(格勒诺布尔理工学院);GIPSA-lab(格勒诺布尔图像语音信号自动控制实验室);The University of Tokyo(东京大学)
The fusion of input and guidance images that have a tradeoff in their information (e.g., hyperspectral and RGB image fusion or pansharpening) can be interpreted as one general problem. However, previous studies applied a task-specific handcrafted prior and did not address the problems with a unified approach. To address this limitation, in this study, we propose a guided deep decoder network as a general prior. The proposed network is composed of an encoder-decoder network that exploits multi-scale features of a guidance image and a deep decoder network that generates an output image. The two …
Image fusion is a significant problem in many fields including digital photography, computational imaging and remote sensing, to name but a few. Recently, deep learning has emerged as an important tool for image fusion. This paper presents three deep convolutional sparse coding (CSC) networks for three kinds of image fusion tasks (i.e., infrared and visible image fusion, multi-exposure image fusion, and multi-modal image fusion). The CSC model and the iterative shrinkage and thresholding algorithm are generalized into dictionary convolution units. As a result, all hyper-parameters are learned …
Existing image fusion methods pay few research attention to image fusion efficiency and network architecture. However, the efficiency and accuracy of image fusion has an important impact in practical applications. To solve this problem, we propose an \textit{efficient autonomous evolution image fusion method, dubed by AE-Netv2}. Different from other image fusion methods based on deep learning, AE-Netv2 is inspired by human brain cognitive mechanism. Firstly, we discuss the influence of different network architecture on image fusion quality and fusion efficiency, which provides a reference for …
Visualisation, Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universit\" a t Dresden, N\" o thnitzer Stra e 46, 01187 Dresden, Germany
Image fusion helps in merging two or more images to construct a more informative single fused image. Recently, unsupervised learning based convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been utilized for different types of image fusion tasks such as medical image fusion, infrared-visible image fusion for autonomous driving as well as multi-focus and multi-exposure image fusion for satellite imagery. However, it is challenging to analyze the reliability of these CNNs for the image fusion tasks since no groundtruth is available. This led to the use of a wide variety of model architectures and optimiza…
We present a novel technique to automatically colorize grayscale images that combine the U-Net model and Fusion Layer features. This approach allows the model to learn the colorization of images from pre-trained U-Net. Moreover, the Fusion layer is applied to merge local information results dependent on small image patches with global priors of an entire image on each class, forming visually more compelling colorization results. Finally, we validate our approach with a user study evaluation and compare it against state-of-the-art, resulting in improvements.
A novel method for feature fusion in convolutional neural networks is proposed in this paper. Different feature fusion techniques are suggested to facilitate the flow of information and improve the training of deep neural networks. Some of these techniques as well as the proposed network can be considered a type of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) Network, where a layer can receive inputs from other layers and have outputs to other layers. In the proposed general framework of Lattice Fusion Network (LFNet), feature maps of each convolutional layer are passed to other layers based on a lattice grap…
School of Mathematics, Sichuan University(四川大学数学学院)
Deep learning based methods have achieved the state-of-the-art performance in image denoising. In this paper, a deep learning based denoising method is proposed and a module called fusion block is introduced in the convolutional neural network. For this so-called Noise Fusion Convolutional Neural Network (NFCNN), there are two branches in its multi-stage architecture. One branch aims to predict the latent clean image, while the other one predicts the residual image. A fusion block is contained between every two stages by taking the predicted clean image and the predicted residual image as a pa…
University of Toronto(多伦多大学);The Hospital for Sick Children(病童医院)
Medical images play an important role in clinical applications. Multimodal medical images could provide rich information about patients for physicians to diagnose. The image fusion technique is able to synthesize complementary information from multimodal images into a single image. This technique will prevent radiologists switch back and forth between different images and save lots of time in the diagnostic process. In this paper, we introduce a novel Dilated Residual Attention Network for the medical image fusion task. Our network is capable to extract multi-scale deep semantic features. Furt…
In order to solve the robustness and generality problems of the image fusion task,inspired by the human brain cognitive mechanism, we propose a robust and general image fusion method with autonomous evolution ability, and is therefore denoted with AE-Net. Through the collaborative optimization of multiple image fusion methods to simulate the cognitive process of human brain, unsupervised learning image fusion task can be transformed into semi-supervised image fusion task or supervised image fusion task, thus promoting the evolutionary ability of network model weight. Firstly, the relationship …
Jiangnan University(江南大学);University of Surrey(萨里大学)
In the image fusion field, the design of deep learning-based fusion methods is far from routine. It is invariably fusion-task specific and requires a careful consideration. The most difficult part of the design is to choose an appropriate strategy to generate the fused image for a specific task in hand. Thus, devising learnable fusion strategy is a very challenging problem in the community of image fusion. To address this problem, a novel end-to-end fusion network architecture (RFN-Nest) is developed for infrared and visible image fusion. We propose a residual fusion network (RFN) which is bas…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology(南京理工大学)
This paper proposes a Rotation-equivariant Attention Feature Fusion Pyramid Networks for Aerial Object Detection named ReAFFPN. ReAFFPN aims at improving the effect of rotation-equivariant features fusion between adjacent layers which suffers from the semantic and scale discontinuity. Due to the particularity of rotational equivariant convolution, general methods are unable to achieve their original effect while ensuring rotation equivariance of the network. To solve this problem, we design a new Rotation-equivariant Channel Attention which has the ability to both generate channel attention an…
Deep Unfolding Multi-modal Image Fusion Network via Attribution Analysis
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学数学与统计学院);ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学数学与统计学院)
Aiming at the limitation that deep long and short-term memory network(DLSTM) algorithm cannot perform parallel computing and cannot obtain global information, in this paper, feature extraction and feature processing are firstly carried out according to the characteristics of eye movement data and tracking data, then by introducing a convolutional neural network (CNN) into a deep long and short-term memory network, developed a new network structure and designed a fusion strategy, an eye tracking data fusion algorithm based on long and short-term memory network is proposed. The experimental resu…
The University of Warwick(华威大学);University of Bath(巴斯大学);Charles Sturt University(查尔斯史都华大学)
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been applied to age-related research as the core framework. Although faces are composed of numerous facial attributes, most works with CNNs still consider a face as a typical object and do not pay enough attention to facial regions that carry age-specific feature for this particular task. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture called Fusion Network (FusionNet) to tackle the age estimation problem. Apart from the whole face image, the FusionNet successively takes several age-specific facial patches as part of the input to emphasize the age-sp…
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Multi-sensor fusion-based road segmentation plays an important role in the intelligent driving system since it provides a drivable area. The existing mainstream fusion method is mainly to feature fusion in the image space domain which causes the perspective compression of the road and damages the performance of the distant road. Considering the bird's eye views(BEV) of the LiDAR remains the space structure in horizontal plane, this paper proposes a bidirectional fusion network(BiFNet) to fuse the image and BEV of the point cloud. The network consists of two modules: 1) Dense space transformati…
The deep-learning-based image restoration and fusion methods have achieved remarkable results. However, the existing restoration and fusion methods paid little research attention to the robustness problem caused by dynamic degradation. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic image restoration and fusion neural network, termed as DDRF-Net, which is capable of solving two problems, i.e., static restoration and fusion, dynamic degradation. In order to solve the static fusion problem of existing methods, dynamic convolution is introduced to learn dynamic restoration and fusion weights. In additi…
In recent years, various applications in computer vision have achieved substantial progress based on deep learning, which has been widely used for image fusion and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, suffering from limited ability in modeling the spatial correspondence of different source images, it still remains a great challenge for existing unsupervised image fusion models to extract appropriate feature and achieves adaptive and balanced fusion. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-attention-guided image fusion network, which is a unified and unsupervised framework for multi-…
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Beijing University of Chemical Technology(北京化工大学);University of Science and Technology Beijing(北京科技大学);North China University of Technology(北方工业大学)
This paper focuses on the construction of stronger local features and the effective fusion of image and LiDAR data. We adopt different modalities of LiDAR data to generate richer features and present an adaptive and azimuth-aware network to aggregate local features from image, bird's eye view maps and point cloud. Our network mainly consists of three subnetworks: ground plane estimation network, region proposal network and adaptive fusion network. The ground plane estimation network extracts features of point cloud and predicts the parameters of a plane which are used for generating abundant 3…
University of Maryland(马里兰大学);Samsung Electronics(三星电子)
We propose a deep neural network fusion architecture for fast and robust pedestrian detection. The proposed network fusion architecture allows for parallel processing of multiple networks for speed. A single shot deep convolutional network is trained as a object detector to generate all possible pedestrian candidates of different sizes and occlusions. This network outputs a large variety of pedestrian candidates to cover the majority of ground-truth pedestrians while also introducing a large number of false positives. Next, multiple deep neural networks are used in parallel for further refinem…
Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学)
Hyperspectral imaging can help better understand the characteristics of different materials, compared with traditional image systems. However, only high-resolution multispectral (HrMS) and low-resolution hyperspectral (LrHS) images can generally be captured at video rate in practice. In this paper, we propose a model-based deep learning approach for merging an HrMS and LrHS images to generate a high-resolution hyperspectral (HrHS) image. In specific, we construct a novel MS/HS fusion model which takes the observation models of low-resolution images and the low-rankness knowledge along the spec…
Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学人工智能与机器人研究所);the Second Academy of CASIC(中国航天科工集团第二研究院)
Point clouds and images could provide complementary information when representing 3D objects. Fusing the two kinds of data usually helps to improve the detection results. However, it is challenging to fuse the two data modalities, due to their different characteristics and the interference from the non-interest areas. To solve this problem, we propose a Multi-Branch Deep Fusion Network (MBDF-Net) for 3D object detection. The proposed detector has two stages. In the first stage, our multi-branch feature extraction network utilizes Adaptive Attention Fusion (AAF) modules to produce cross-modal f…
Jiangnan University(江南大学);University of Surrey(萨里大学)
The end-to-end image fusion framework has achieved promising performance, with dedicated convolutional networks aggregating the multi-modal local appearance. However, long-range dependencies are directly neglected in existing CNN fusion approaches, impeding balancing the entire image-level perception for complex scenario fusion. In this paper, therefore, we propose an infrared and visible image fusion algorithm based on a lightweight transformer module and adversarial learning. Inspired by the global interaction power, we use the transformer technique to learn the effective global fusion relat…