VidFuncta: Towards Generalizable Neural Representations for Ultrasound Videos

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Main Authors: Wolleb, Julia, Bieder, Florentin, Friedrich, Paul, Tagare, Hemant D., Papademetris, Xenophon
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author Wolleb, Julia
Bieder, Florentin
Friedrich, Paul
Tagare, Hemant D.
Papademetris, Xenophon
author_facet Wolleb, Julia
Bieder, Florentin
Friedrich, Paul
Tagare, Hemant D.
Papademetris, Xenophon
contents 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.
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spellingShingle VidFuncta: Towards Generalizable Neural Representations for Ultrasound Videos
Wolleb, Julia
Bieder, Florentin
Friedrich, Paul
Tagare, Hemant D.
Papademetris, Xenophon
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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.
title VidFuncta: Towards Generalizable Neural Representations for Ultrasound Videos
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21863