IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 25, 2021
Lung ultrasound (US) imaging has the potential to be an effective point-of-care test for detection of COVID-19, due to its ease of operation with minimal personal protection equipment along with easy disinfection. The current state-of-the-art deep le...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
May 25, 2021
Recently, deep learning approaches have been successfully used for ultrasound (US) image artifact removal. However, paired high-quality images for supervised training are difficult to obtain in many practical situations. Inspired by the recent theory...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 26, 2021
Ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) propagating in the long cortical bone can be measured via the axial transmission method. The characterization of long cortical bone using UGW is a multiparameter inverse problem. The optimal solution of the inverse prob...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Mar 26, 2021
Plane wave imaging (PWI), a typical ultrafast medical ultrasound imaging mode, adopts single plane wave emission without focusing to achieve a high frame rate. However, the imaging quality is severely degraded in comparison with the commonly used foc...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Feb 25, 2021
The highly complementary information provided by multispectral optoacoustics and pulse-echo ultrasound have recently prompted development of hybrid imaging instruments bringing together the unique contrast advantages of both modalities. In the hybrid...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
One way of resolving the problem of scarce and expensive data in deep learning for medical applications is using transfer learning and fine-tuning a network which has been trained on a large data set. The common practice in transfer learning is to ke...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Segmentation of cardiac structures is one of the fundamental steps to estimate volumetric indices of the heart. This step is still performed semiautomatically in clinical routine and is, thus, prone to interobserver and intraobserver variabilities. R...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Despite being used clinically as a noninvasive flow visualization tool, color flow imaging (CFI) is known to be prone to aliasing artifacts that arise due to fast blood flow beyond the detectable limit. From a visualization standpoint, these aliasing...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is often used together with a spectral Doppler ultrasound to separate heart cycles by determining the end-diastole locations. However, the ECG signal is not always recorded. In such cases, the cardiac cycles can be estimated m...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Single plane wave transmissions are promising for automated imaging tasks requiring high ultrasound frame rates over an extended field of view. However, a single plane wave insonification typically produces suboptimal image quality. To address this l...