IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2022
Conventionally, ultrasound (US) diagnosis is performed using hand-held rigid probes. Such devices are difficult to be used for long-term monitoring because they need to be continuously pressed against the body to remove the air between the probe and ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 2, 2022
The piezoelectric actuator is a kind of actuation device that acts through the inverse piezoelectric effect. Due to advantages of high precision, low power consumption, compact size, and flexible structure design, they have a wide range of applicatio...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sep 27, 2022
As an established biometric authentication approach, fingerprint scanning has received considerable attention due to its high accuracy and reliability. In this article, the fingerprint reconstruction at any position is achieved in large physical doma...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sep 27, 2022
High-frame-rate ultrasound imaging uses unfocused transmissions to insonify an entire imaging view for each transmit event, thereby enabling frame rates over 1000 frames per second (fps). At these high frame rates, it is naturally challenging to real...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Aug 26, 2022
Osteoporosis is still a worldwide problem, particularly due to associated fragility fractures. Patients at risk of fracture are currently detected using the X-Ray gold standard dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), based on a calibrated 2-D image. ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jun 30, 2022
Deep learning for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) has received a lot of attention in recent years for its potential ability to provide human level data analysis. However, little research into quantifying the uncertainty of its predictions has been do...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 26, 2022
The successful integration of computer vision, robotic actuation, and photoacoustic imaging to find and follow targets of interest during surgical and interventional procedures requires accurate photoacoustic target detectability. This detectability ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 27, 2022
While accuracy is an evident criterion for ultrasound image segmentation, output consistency across different tests is equally crucial for tracking changes in regions of interest in applications such as monitoring the patients' response to treatment,...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 27, 2022
Many interventional surgical procedures rely on medical imaging to visualize and track instruments. Such imaging methods not only need to be real time capable but also provide accurate and robust positional information. In ultrasound (US) application...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 27, 2022
The application of lung ultrasound (LUS) imaging for the diagnosis of lung diseases has recently captured significant interest within the research community. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many efforts have been made to evaluate LUS data. A four...