Real-time Self-supervised Ultrasound Image Enhancement Using Test-Time Adaptation for Sophisticated Rotator Cuff Tear Diagnosis

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Medical ultrasound imaging is a key diagnostic tool across various fields, with computer-aided diagnosis systems benefiting from advances in deep learning. However, its lower resolution and artifacts pose challenges, particularly for non-specialists. The simultaneous acquisition of degraded and high-quality images is infeasible, limiting supervised learning approaches. Additionally, self-supervised and zero-shot methods require extensive processing time, conflicting with the real-time demands of ultrasound imaging. Therefore, to address the aforementioned issues, we propose real-time ultrasound image enhancement via a self-supervised learning technique and a test-time adaptation for sophisticated rotational cuff tear diagnosis. The proposed approach learns from other domain image datasets and performs self-supervised learning on an ultrasound image during inference for enhancement. Our approach not only demonstrated superior ultrasound image enhancement performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods but also achieved an 18% improvement in the RCT segmentation performance.

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IEEE Signal Processing Letters
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연합학습 및 표현 학습을 사용한 medical 도메인에서의 딥 러닝 기법, 도메인 적응 및 테스트 타임 학습과 같은 딥 러닝 기반 컴퓨터 비전 응용, 이미지 처리 및 이미지-텍스트 캡셔닝을 포함한 의료 응용의 딥 러닝 기반 진단 등을 포함합니다.