IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 8, 2025
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) overcomes the acoustic diffraction limit by localizing tiny microbubbles (MBs), thus enabling the microvascular to be rendered at subwavelength resolution. Nevertheless, to obtain such superior spatial resolut...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is the gold standard modality for in vivo visualization of coronary arteries and atherosclerotic plaques. Classification of coronary plaques helps to characterize heterogeneous components and evaluate the risk of plaqu...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Ultrasound (US) has the unique potential to offer access to medical imaging to anyone, everywhere. Devices have become ultraportable and cost-effective, akin to the stethoscope. Nevertheless, and despite many advances, US image quality and diagnostic...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) quantifies acoustic tissue properties such as the speed-of-sound (SOS). Although full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for accurate SOS reconstruction, it can be computationally challenging for lar...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Color Doppler echocardiography enables visualization of blood flow within the heart. However, the limited frame rate impedes the quantitative assessment of blood velocity throughout the cardiac cycle, thereby compromising a comprehensive analysis of ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Left ventricle (LV) segmentation of 2-D echocardiography images is an essential step in the analysis of cardiac morphology and function and-more generally-diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Several deep learning (DL) algorithms have recently...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Intraventricular vector flow mapping (iVFM) seeks to enhance and quantify color Doppler in cardiac imaging. In this study, we propose novel alternatives to the traditional iVFM optimization scheme using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and a ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Deep learning (DL) models have emerged as alternative methods to conventional ultrasound (US) signal processing, offering the potential to mimic signal processing chains, reduce inference time, and enable the portability of processing chains across h...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
The reliability of automated image interpretation of point-of-care (POC) echocardiography scans depends on the quality of the acquired ultrasound data. This work reports on the development and validation of spatiotemporal deep learning models to asse...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are rupture-prone dilatations of the aorta. In current clinical practice, the maximal diameter of AAAs is monitored with 2-D ultrasound to estimate their rupture risk. Recent studies have shown that 3-D and mechanica...