IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 29, 2023
Fusing intraoperative 2-D ultrasound (US) frames with preoperative 3-D magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding interventions has become the clinical gold standard in image-guided prostate cancer biopsy. However, developing an automatic image regis...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 29, 2023
Two-dimensional lung ultrasound (LUS) has widely emerged as a rapid and noninvasive imaging tool for the detection and diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, image differences will be magnified due to changes in ultrasound (US) im...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 29, 2023
This study presents a portable device that ensures precise contact force between a subject and a probe to improve the stability and reproducibility of ultrasound (US) acquisition. The mechanical portion of the device includes a servo motor, gears, an...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 2, 2023
Color Doppler echocardiography is a widely used noninvasive imaging modality that provides real-time information about intracardiac blood flow. In an apical long-axis view of the left ventricle, color Doppler is subject to phase wrapping, or aliasing...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jun 29, 2023
Noninvasive imaging of microvascular structures in deep tissues provides morphological and functional information for clinical diagnosis and monitoring. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) is an emerging imaging technique that can generate micro...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 25, 2023
Deep learning (DL) can fail when there are data mismatches between training and testing data distributions. Due to its operator-dependent nature, acquisition-related data mismatches, caused by different scanner settings, can occur in ultrasound imagi...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 26, 2023
Deep learning (DL) powered biomedical ultrasound imaging is an emerging research field where researchers adapt the image analysis capabilities of DL algorithms to biomedical ultrasound imaging settings. A major roadblock to wider adoption of DL power...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 11, 2023
In the field of biomedical imaging, ultrasonography has become common practice, and used as an important auxiliary diagnostic tool with unique advantages, such as being non-ionizing and often portable. This article reviews the state-of-the-art in med...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2022
Acoustic holography has been gaining attention for various applications, such as noncontact particle manipulation, noninvasive neuromodulation, and medical imaging. However, only a few studies on how to generate acoustic holograms have been conducted...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2022
Accurate quantification of cardiac valve regurgitation jets is fundamental for guiding treatment. Cardiac ultrasound is the preferred diagnostic tool, but current methods for measuring the regurgitant volume (RVol) are limited by low accuracy and hig...