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Main Authors: Gao, Ya, Wang, Yifan, Chen, Yiming, Sun, Haohan, Lyu, Shoukun, Cao, Junmei, Xu, Weijiang, Cheng, Qian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04596
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  • Wave propagation through complex poroelastic multilayered media is difficult to model and invert because pronounced heterogeneity, scattering, mode conversion and fluid-solid coupling jointly distort acoustic signals during propagation. Here we present Physics-Constrained Learning for Complex Multilayered Media (PCL-CMM), a general framework that integrates Biot's poroelastic theory with the elastic wave equation to bridge the gap between physically rigorous wave modelling and data-driven learning. PCL-CMM constructs a high-fidelity digital twin that dynamically computes an effective acoustic stiffness tensor for forward wave modelling and incorporates the resulting physical constraint as a loss term to regularize the training of deep neural networks. We demonstrate PCL-CMM on transcranial photoacoustic imaging, where skull-induced acoustic distortions severely degrade image formation. Across simulations and ex vivo experiments, PCL-CMM effectively compensates for these distortions and improves SSIM by more than 0.06 compared with purely data-driven neural networks. This work establishes a physics-constrained learning framework for acoustic wave modelling in complex poroelastic multilayered media.