IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 7, 2025
Class imbalance is a significant challenge in medical image analysis, particularly in lung ultrasound (LUS), where severe patterns are often underrepresented. Traditional oversampling techniques, which simply duplicate original data, have limited eff...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 7, 2025
Ultrasound (US) is considered a key modality for the clinical assessment of hepatic steatosis (i.e., fatty liver) due to its noninvasiveness and availability. Deep learning methods have attracted considerable interest in this field, as they are capab...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 7, 2025
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) is a promising technique for breast cancer detection because of its quantitative imaging capability of the speed of sound (SOS) of soft tissues and the fact that malignant breast lesions often have a higher SOS c...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 22, 2025
Plane wave imaging (PWI) is pivotal in medical ultrasound (US), prized for its ultrafast capabilities essential for real-time physiological monitoring. Traditionally, enhancing image quality in PWI has necessitated an increase in the number of plane ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 22, 2025
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) is a blood flow imaging technique that utilizes micrometer-sized microbubbles (MBs) as contrast agents to achieve high-resolution microvessel reconstruction through precise localization and tracking of MBs. Th...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 22, 2025
Ultrasound (US) imaging is an important and commonly used medical imaging modality. Accurate and fast automatic segmentation of regions of interest (ROIs) in US images is essential for enhancing the efficiency of clinical and robot-assisted diagnosis...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 22, 2025
Resolving arterial flows is essential for understanding cardiovascular pathologies, improving diagnosis, and monitoring patient condition. Ultrasound contrast imaging uses microbubbles to enhance the scattering of the blood pool, allowing for real-ti...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 8, 2025
Ultrasound microvascular imaging (UMI), including ultrafast power Doppler imaging (uPDI) and ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), obtains blood flow information through plane wave (PW) transmissions at high frame rates. However, low signal-to-no...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 8, 2025
Accurate assessment of spinal cord vasculature is important for the urgent diagnosis of injury and subsequent treatment. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) offers super-resolution imaging of microvasculature by localizing and tracking individua...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 8, 2025
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) is a novel super-resolution imaging technique that can image the vasculature in vivo at depth with resolution far beyond the conventional limit of diffraction. By relying on the localization and tracking of cl...