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Compression Hurts, Pooling Helps: Information Loss in Rayleigh-Scale Estimation from B-Mode Ultrasound

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Clinical B-mode images are widely available as potential data sources for quantitative ultrasound (QUS) analysis for tissue characterization. However, standard clinical ultrasound devices apply unknown log-compression to RF envelope data before display and storage. Previous work has demonstrated estimation of the underlying RF envelope statistics in the presence of an unknown compression law. Using Fisher information analysis, we show that finite-offset log compression causes severe information loss when estimating the Rayleigh scale $σ$, which controls diffuse speckle. For a single image wind

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