IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Apr 27, 2022
Traditional beamforming of medical ultrasound images relies on sampling rates significantly higher than the actual Nyquist rate of the received signals. This results in large amounts of data to store and process, imposing hardware and software challe...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 30, 2022
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging based on plane wave (PW) compounding has been proposed for use in various clinical and preclinical applications, including shear wave imaging and super resolution blood flow imaging. Because the image quality afforded by ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 30, 2022
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) is an emerging vascular imaging technique that overcomes the resolution-penetration compromise of ultrasound imaging. Accurate and robust microbubble (MB) localization is essential for successful ULM. In this ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 30, 2022
Segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) myocardium in 2-D echocardiography is essential for clinical decision making, especially in geometry measurement and index computation. However, segmenting the myocardium is a time-consuming process and chall...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 30, 2022
Deep learning is an effective method for ultrasonic crack characterization due to its high level of automation and accuracy. Simulating the training set has been shown to be an effective method of circumventing the lack of experimental data common to...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 30, 2022
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims to reveal information about the tissue microstructure using backscattered echo signals from clinical scanners. Among different QUS parameters, scatterer number density is an important property that can affect the es...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
In medical imaging, quantitative measurements have shown promise in identifying diseases by classifying normal versus pathological parameters from tissues. The support vector machine (SVM) has shown promise as a supervised classification algorithm an...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging remains an active area of interest in the ultrasound community due to its ultrahigh frame rates. Recently, a wide variety of studies based on deep learning have sought to improve ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Most of thes...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
Instrumented ultrasonic tracking is used to improve needle localization during ultrasound guidance of minimally invasive percutaneous procedures. Here, it is implemented with transmitted ultrasound pulses from a clinical ultrasound imaging probe, whi...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Dec 31, 2021
Nuclear reactor inspections are critical to ensure the safety and reliability of a nuclear facility's operation. In Canada, ultrasonic testing (UT) is used to inspect the health of pressure tubes that are part of Canada's Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) re...