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A method of ultrasound imaging includes a) performing a pulse-echo acquisition to produce channel signals using ultrasound transducers; b) processing transmitted and received channel signals to produce a dataset of a set of transmit elements and a set of receive elements; c) calculating an estimate of a critical imaging parameter; d) performing beamforming using the dataset and the estimate of the critical imaging parameter; e) calculating a desired loss function minimized with respect to the critical imaging parameter; f) differentiating the calculated loss function with respect to the critical imaging parameter by backpropagation; g) updating the estimate of the critical imaging parameter; h) repeating steps (d)-(g) until a convergence condition is satisfied; and i) generating an enhanced ultrasound image using the estimate of the critical imaging parameter.

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