arxivcs.LGphysics.med-ph2026-07-24
IQ-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture with a Hermitian Vision Transformer for Sound Speed and Attenuation Estimation from Ultrasound IQ Data
Masashi Sode, Gianmarco Pinton
The speed of sound in tissue is a prerequisite for well-focused imaging and has diagnostic value, but recovering it from raw pulse-echo channel data is fundamentally a nonlinear inverse problem. Learned solvers are fast yet label hungry. Simulated sound-speed labels are expensive…