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ArticleProceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging2025

SYNSTITCH: A SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING NETWORK FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGE STITCHING USING SYNTHETIC TRAINING PAIRS AND INDIRECT SUPERVISION.

Xing Yao, Runxuan Yu, Dewei Hu, Hao Yang, Ange Lou, Jiacheng Wang, Daiwei Lu, Gabriel Arenas, Baris Oguz, Alison Pouch and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. From Geometry to Intensity: A Coarse-to-Fine Pipeline for Unsupervised 3D Ultrasound Stitching.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2026
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13 authors.

Xing YaoVanderbilt University.
Runxuan YuVanderbilt University.
Dewei HuMayo Clinic.
Hao YangVanderbilt University.
Ange LouVanderbilt University.
Jiacheng WangVanderbilt University.
Daiwei LuVanderbilt University.
Gabriel ArenasUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Baris OguzUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Alison PouchUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Nadav SchwartzUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Brett C ByramVanderbilt University.
Ipek OguzVanderbilt University.

Funding

A placenta-based strategy for improved clinical prediction of fetal growth trajectory using automated image analysis of placental morphology and vascularityR01HD109739 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Ipek Oguz, Nadav Schwartz · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
Training Program for Innovative Engineering Research in Surgery and InterventionT32EB021937 · NIBIB · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Dario J Englot, Michael Ian Miga · 2016 to 2026
$2.3M
Ultrasound clutter and noise improvements applied to echocardiographic left atrial appendage visualizationR01HL156034 · NHLBI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BYRAM, BRETT C, EAGLE, SUSAN · 2021 to 2024
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL156034NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB021937NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD109739
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound (US) image stitching can expand the field-of-view (FOV) by combining multiple US images from varied probe positions. However, registering US images with only partially overlapping anatomical contents is a challenging task. In this work, we introduce SynStitch, a self-supervised framework designed for 2DUS stitching. SynStitch consists of a synthetic stitching pair generation module (SSPGM) and an image stitching module (ISM). SSPGM utilizes a patch-conditioned ControlNet to generate realistic 2DUS stitching pairs with known affine matrix from a single input image. ISM then utilizes this synthetic paired data to learn 2DUS stitching in a supervised manner. Our framework was evaluated against multiple leading methods on a kidney ultrasound dataset, demonstrating superior 2DUS stitching performance through both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The code will be made public upon acceptance of the paper.

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diffusion modelstitchingUltrasound

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PMID40539076
PMCPMC12175646

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