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most citedEstimation of blood oxygenation with learned spectral decoloring for quantitative photoacoustic imaging (LSD-qPAI)

74 citations · 263 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

eess.IV2026

Deep Image Prior for photoacoustic tomography can mitigate limited-view artifacts

Hanna Pulkkinen, Jenni Poimala, Leonid Kunyansky +2

We study the deep image prior (DIP) framework applied to photoacoustic tomography (PAT) as an unsupervised reconstruction approach to mitigate limited-view artifacts and noise comm…

eess.IV2025

Towards robust quantitative photoacoustic tomography via learned iterative methods

Anssi Manninen, Janek Gröhl, Felix Lucka +1

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a medical imaging modality that can provide high-resolution tissue images based on the optical absorption. Classical reconstruction methods for qu…

eess.IV2025

PhotIQA: A photoacoustic image data set with image quality ratings

Anna Breger, Janek Gröhl, Clemens Karner +7

Image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial in the evaluation stage of novel algorithms operating on images, including traditional and machine learning based methods. Due to the lack…

eess.IV2024★ 6 cited

A study on the adequacy of common IQA measures for medical images

Anna Breger, Clemens Karner, Ian Selby +11

Image quality assessment (IQA) is standard practice in the development stage of novel machine learning algorithms that operate on images. The most commonly used IQA measures have b…

eess.IV2024★ 27 cited

A study of why we need to reassess full reference image quality assessment with medical images

Anna Breger, Ander Biguri, Malena Sabaté Landman +11

Image quality assessment (IQA) is indispensable in clinical practice to ensure high standards, as well as in the development stage of machine learning algorithms that operate on me…

physics.med-ph2024

Distribution-informed and wavelength-flexible data-driven photoacoustic oximetry

Janek Gröhl, Kylie Yeung, Kevin Gu +5

Significance: Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) promises to measure spatially-resolved blood oxygen saturation, but suffers from a lack of accurate and robust spectral unmixing methods t…

eess.IV2023

Moving beyond simulation: data-driven quantitative photoacoustic imaging using tissue-mimicking phantoms

Janek Gröhl, Thomas R. Else, Lina Hacker +3

Accurate measurement of optical absorption coefficients from photoacoustic imaging (PAI) data would enable direct mapping of molecular concentrations, providing vital clinical insi…

eess.IV2023★ 6 cited

Unsupervised Domain Transfer with Conditional Invertible Neural Networks

Kris K. Dreher, Leonardo Ayala, Melanie Schellenberg +11

Synthetic medical image generation has evolved as a key technique for neural network training and validation. A core challenge, however, remains in the domain gap between simulatio…

eess.IV2021★ 36 cited

Semantic segmentation of multispectral photoacoustic images using deep learning

Melanie Schellenberg, Kris Dreher, Niklas Holzwarth +7

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has the potential to revolutionize functional medical imaging in healthcare due to the valuable information on tissue physiology contained in multispectr…

eess.IV2021★ 25 cited

Photoacoustic image synthesis with generative adversarial networks

Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl, Kris K. Dreher +5

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has the potential to recover morphological and functional tissue properties with high spatial resolution. However, previous attempts to solve the opt…

physics.med-ph2020

Invertible Neural Networks for Uncertainty Quantification in Photoacoustic Imaging

Jan-Hinrich Nölke, Tim Adler, Janek Gröhl +5

Multispectral photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging imaging modality which enables the recovery of functional tissue parameters such as blood oxygenation. However, the underly…

physics.med-ph2020

Tattoo tomography: Freehand 3D photoacoustic image reconstruction with an optical pattern

Niklas Holzwarth, Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl +6

Purpose: Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a novel imaging technique that can spatially resolve both morphological and functional tissue properties, such as the vessel topology and…

cs.CV2020

Heidelberg Colorectal Data Set for Surgical Data Science in the Sensor Operating Room

Lena Maier-Hein, Martin Wagner, Tobias Ross +30

Image-based tracking of medical instruments is an integral part of surgical data science applications. Previous research has addressed the tasks of detecting, segmenting and tracki…

physics.med-ph2019★ 30 cited

Uncertainty-aware performance assessment of optical imaging modalities with invertible neural networks

Tim J. Adler, Lynton Ardizzone, Anant Vemuri +8

Purpose: Optical imaging is evolving as a key technique for advanced sensing in the operating room. Recent research has shown that machine learning algorithms can be used to addres…

physics.med-ph2019★ 74 cited

Estimation of blood oxygenation with learned spectral decoloring for quantitative photoacoustic imaging (LSD-qPAI)

Janek Gröhl, Thomas Kirchner, Tim Adler +1

One of the main applications of photoacoustic (PA) imaging is the recovery of functional tissue properties, such as blood oxygenation (sO2). This is typically achieved by linear sp…

physics.med-ph2019

An open-source software platform for translational photoacoustic research and its application to motion-corrected blood oxygenation estimation

Thomas Kirchner, Janek Gröhl, Franz Sattler +4

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging systems based on clinical linear ultrasound arrays have become increasingly popular in translational PA research. Such systems can be more easily integra…

physics.med-ph2019

Photoacoustics can image spreading depolarization deep in gyrencephalic brain

Thomas Kirchner, Janek Gröhl, Mildred Herrera +4

Spreading depolarization (SD) is a self-propagating wave of near-complete neuronal depolarization that is abundant in a wide range of neurological conditions, including stroke. SD…

physics.med-ph2017★ 59 cited

Context encoding enables machine learning-based quantitative photoacoustics

Thomas Kirchner, Janek Gröhl, Lena Maier-Hein

Real-time monitoring of functional tissue parameters, such as local blood oxygenation, based on optical imaging could provide groundbreaking advances in the diagnosis and intervent…