Program of the TRACK TECH

MON (22 JUN 2026)

Oral Session [11:00–12:00]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

11:00 - 11:20	Two-Point Model-Free Estimation of Shear Wave Attenuation for Ultrasound Elastography.
	Ramin Almasi, Piotr Kijanka @ AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, Krakow, Poland.

11:20 - 11:40	Ex Vivo Investigation of Shear Wave Dispersion Estimation Using the Superlet Transform.
	Wiktor Jachym (1), Matthew W. Urban (2) , Piotr Kijanka (1) @ 1. AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, Krakow, Poland, 2. Mayo Clinic, Department of Radiology, Rochester, MN, USA.

11:40 - 12:00	Vibration Shear Wave Viscoelastography of Anisotropic Tissues Using Angle-Adaptive Directional Filters - Ex Vivo and In Vivo Studies.
	Akash Chandra (1), Manu KS (1), Maxime Lafond (2), Karla P. Mercado (1) @ 1. Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India, 2. LabTAU (INSERM), Lyon, France.

Oral Session [13:00–14:40]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

13:00 - 13:20	Speed of Sound Quantification in Muscle Tissues Anisotropic Considerations.
	Maxime LERICHE, Angéline NEMETH, Jean Luc GENNISSON @ Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.

13:20 - 13:40	Pulse-Echo Speed-of-Sound Tomography Using the Adjoint-State Method.
	Naiara Korta Martiartu (1), Chenyu Cui (1), Alexandre Aubry (2) @ 1. Laboratory of Signal Processing, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2. Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France.

13:40 - 14:00	Ultrasound imaging of nonlinear liver properties using dual acoustic pressure levels.
	Andrzej Nowicki, Piotr Karwat, Jurij Tasinkiewicz, Norbert Żołek, Ihor Trots, Ryszard Tymkiewicz @ Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Warsaw, Poland.

14:00 - 14:20	Deep Learning-Based Inpainting for Enhanced Matrix Imaging under.
	Roser Viñals, Naiara Korta Martiartu, Jean-Philippe Thiran @ Signal Processing Laboratory 5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

14:20 - 14:40	deepPatella: A Tool for Automatic Tracking of Patella Tendon Insertions and Tendon Elongation Estimation.
	Gerardo Romeny (1), Romina Ledergerber (1), Martin Keller (1), Daniel Behr (2), Luca Benini (3), Oliver Faude (1), Christoph Leitner (3), Paul Ritsche (1) @ 1. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2. University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland, 3. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Oral Session [15:00–16:40]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

15:00 - 15:20

UMUD a web application for easy access to musculoskeletal ultrasonography datasets.

Paul Ritsche (1), Fabio Sarto (2), Francesco Santini (1), Christoph Leitner (3), Martino V. Franchi (2), Oliver Faude (1), Gerardo Romeny (1), Taija Finni (4), Olivier Seynnes (5), Neil Cronin (4) @ 1. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2. University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 3. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4. University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland, 5. Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.

15:20 - 15:40	Physical left ventricle phantoms for validating cardiac deformation imaging state of the art, challenges and future directions.
	Szymon Cygan, Jan Łusakowski-Milencki, Jakub Żmigrodzki @ Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Warsaw, Poland.

15:40 - 16:00	Deep Convolutional Autoencoder with Quantized Latent Space for Efficient Ultrasound RF Signal Compression.
	Marzieh Jalali, Claudio Giangrossi, Enrico Boni Alessandro Ramalli @ Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

16:00 - 16:20	Real-Time Ultrasound Computed Tomography Data Acquisition and Processing using a Deep Learning Approach.
	Ziemowit Klimonda @ us4us Ltd, Warsaw, Poland.

16:20 - 16:40	Feasibility Study — Exploring the Potential Application of the US4US System in 3D Ultrasound Tomography.
	Luisa Gupta, Zewei Lu, Michael Zapf, Ian Andree, Nicole Ruiter @ Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

TUE (23 JUN 2026)

Oral Session [11:40–12:40]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

11:40 - 12:00	3D printed hemispherical underwater ultrasound absorbers for USCT applications.
	Leonard Kraus (1), Michael Zapf (1), Lukas Armbrust (2), Nicole Ruiter (1) @ 1. Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2. Technik - Haus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

12:00 - 12:20	Data-Driven Forward Prediction for Acoustic Metamaterial Topology Optimization.
	Sourava Prasad Mishra, Paweł Kudela @ Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk, Poland.

12:20 - 12:40	Broadband Ultrasonic Focusing in Water Using a Trapped-Air PLA Parabolic Meta-Mirror.
	Hafiz Muhammad Imran (1), Marco Ricci (2), Rocco Zito (1), Francesco Simonetta (1), Stefano Laureti (1) @ 1. DIMES Dept., University of Calabria, Italy; 2. DIET Dept., Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Oral Session [13:40–15:20]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

13:40 - 14:00	Additively Manufactured Metamaterial Filter for Fundamental and Second Harmonic Suppression in Ultrasound Passive Cavitation Detection.
	Manu K. S., Ravi S. Hegde, Himanshu Shekhar @ Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India.

14:00 - 14:20	Temporal Stability of SonoVue Microbubbles and Their Efficient Use in Research.
	Katarzyna Sendek, Grzegorz Molak, Łukasz Fura @ Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Warsaw, Poland.

14:20 - 14:40	In vitro characterisation of ultrasound stimulation of specific cell populations in the mouse amygdala
	Nastasia MIROFLE(1), Łukasz BIJOCH(1), Piotr KARWAT(2), Marcin LEWANDOWSKI(2), Paweł SZCZYPKOWSKI(3), Piotr WASYLCZYK(3), Radek ŁAPKIEWICZ(3), Anna BEROUN(1), Ewelina KNAPSKA(1) @ 1. Nencki-EMBL Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders: BRAINCITY, Warsaw, Poland; 2. us4us Ltd., Warsaw, Poland; 3. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

14:40 - 15:00	System-Level Evaluation of High-Impedance Ultrasound Transducers on a Commercial Research Platform.
	Michael Zapf, Zewei Lu, Ian Andree, Luisa Gupta, Nicole Ruiter @ Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

15:00 - 15:20	Simulation and Characterisation of a One-Dimensional Ultrasound Scanner based on All-Silicon Electrostatic MUTs.
	Jorge M. Monsalve, Marcel Jongmanns, Michael Stolz, Sergiu Langa, Sandro G. Koch @ Fraunhofer IPMS, Dresden, German.

Oral Session [15:40–17:20]

Chairs: Piotr Karwat, Beata Brzozowska

15:40 - 16:00	Highly Flexible Graphene-based Ultrasound Transducer with Enhanced Acoustic Performance.
	Shirin Movaghgharnezhad, Ehsan Ansari, Spencer Hagen, Clayton Baker, Parag Chitnis @ Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA.

16:00 - 16:20	Simulation-Drive Multilayer Ultrasound Transducer Using xMason.
	Sofia Papa (1), Christoph Leitner (2), Laura Ferrari (1), Luca Benini (2,3), Francesco Greco (1) @ 1. BioRobotics Institute, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna, Italy; 2. Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 3. DEI, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

16:20 - 16:40	Highly Sensitive Broadband Ultrasonic Hydrophones Based on CMUTs
	Uwe Völz, Marco Kircher, Sören Köble @ Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Dresden, Germany.