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Hemant D. Tagare

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MammoFlow: Multiview Mammogram Synthesis with Anatomically Consistent Flow Matching

Multiview mammography relies on paired craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views to provide complementary projections of a 3D breast volume, enabling precise anomaly localization. However, acquiring high-quality, balanced datasets remains challenging for deep learning applications. We propose a novel method to synthesize multiview mammograms by leveraging the inherent geometric relationship between CC and MLO views. To enforce an implicit 3D consistency prior during generation, we develop an alignment module that searches a 2D affine transformation subspace to establish optimal anatomical correspondence. Leveraging this alignment, we introduce a pixel-space self-consistency loss based on the Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) between the 1D anteroposterior (AP) axis tissue distributions of the generated images. Integrated into a pretrained flow matching model, MammoFlow forces synthesized pairs to share physically plausible tissue distributions from the chest wall to the nipple. To our knowledge, this is the first work to guide multiview mammogram generation using implicit geometric tissue correspondence. Our method demonstrates superior image quality, passes expert radiologist evaluation, and generates physically consistent pairs that improve downstream classification AUC by 5%. Code is available at https://github.com/XYPB/MammoFlow

cs.CV

Low-Rank-Modulated Functa: Exploring the Latent Space of Implicit Neural Representations for Interpretable Ultrasound Video Analysis

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful framework for continuous image representation learning. In Functa-based approaches, each image is encoded as a latent modulation vector that conditions a shared INR, enabling strong reconstruction performance. However, the structure and interpretability of the corresponding latent spaces remain largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate the latent space of Functa-based models for ultrasound videos and propose Low-Rank-Modulated Functa (LRM-Functa), a novel architecture that enforces a low-rank adaptation of modulation vectors in the time-resolved latent space. When applied to cardiac ultrasound, the resulting latent space exhibits clearly structured periodic trajectories, facilitating visualization and interpretability of temporal patterns. The latent space can be traversed to sample novel frames, revealing smooth transitions along the cardiac cycle, and enabling direct readout of end-diastolic (ED) and end-systolic (ES) frames without additional model training. We show that LRM-Functa outperforms prior methods in unsupervised ED and ES frame detection, while compressing each video frame to as low as rank k=2 without sacrificing competitive downstream performance on ejection fraction prediction. Evaluations on out-of-distribution frame selection in a cardiac point-of-care dataset, as well as on lung ultrasound for B-line classification, demonstrate the generalizability of our approach. Overall, LRM-Functa provides a compact, interpretable, and generalizable framework for ultrasound video analysis. The code is available at https://github.com/JuliaWolleb/LRM_Functa.

cs.CV

VidFuncta: Towards Generalizable Neural Representations for Ultrasound Videos

Ultrasound is widely used in clinical care, yet standard deep learning methods often struggle with full video analysis due to non-standardized acquisition and operator bias. We offer a new perspective on ultrasound video analysis through implicit neural representations (INRs). We build on Functa, an INR framework in which each image is represented by a modulation vector that conditions a shared neural network. However, its extension to the temporal domain of medical videos remains unexplored. To address this gap, we propose VidFuncta, a novel framework that leverages Functa to encode variable-length ultrasound videos into compact, time-resolved representations. VidFuncta disentangles each video into a static video-specific vector and a sequence of time-dependent modulation vectors, capturing both temporal dynamics and dataset-level redundancies. Our method outperforms 2D and 3D baselines on video reconstruction and enables downstream tasks to directly operate on the learned 1D modulation vectors. We validate VidFuncta on three public ultrasound video datasets -- cardiac, lung, and breast -- and evaluate its downstream performance on ejection fraction prediction, B-line detection, and breast lesion classification. These results highlight the potential of VidFuncta as a generalizable and efficient representation framework for ultrasound videos. Our code is publicly available under https://github.com/JuliaWolleb/VidFuncta_public.

eess.IV

Self-normalized Classification of Parkinson's Disease DaTscan Images

Classifying SPECT images requires a preprocessing step which normalizes the images using a normalization region. The choice of the normalization region is not standard, and using different normalization regions introduces normalization region-dependent variability. This paper mathematically analyzes the effect of the normalization region to show that normalized-classification is exactly equivalent to a subspace separation of the half rays of the images under multiplicative equivalence. Using this geometry, a new self-normalized classification strategy is proposed. This strategy eliminates the normalizing region altogether. The theory is used to classify DaTscan images of 365 Parkinson's disease (PD) subjects and 208 healthy control (HC) subjects from the Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI). The theory is also used to understand PD progression from baseline to year 4.

eess.IV

Broadband multimode fiber spectrometer

A general-purpose all-fiber spectrometer is demonstrated to overcome the trade-off between spectral resolution and bandwidth. By integrating a wavelength division multiplexer with five multimode optical fibers, we have achieved 100 nm bandwidth with 0.03 nm resolution at wavelength 1500 nm. An efficient algorithm is developed to reconstruct the spectrum from the speckle pattern produced by interference of guided modes in the multimode fibers. Such algorithm enables a rapid, accurate reconstruction of both sparse and dense spectra in the presence of noise.

physics.ins-det