Blind Ultrasound Image Enhancement via Self-Supervised Physics-Guided Degradation Modeling
arXiv:2601.21856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound (US) interpretation is hampered by multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur from the point-spread function (PSF), and scanner- and operator-dependent artifacts. Supervised enhancement methods assume access to clean targets or known degradations; conditions rarely met in practice. We present a blind, self-supervised enhancement framework that jointly deconvolves and denoises B-mode images using a Swin Convolutional U-Net trained with a emph{physics-guided} degradation model. From each training frame, we extract rotated/cropped patches and synthesize inputs by […]