IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Shear-wave elastography (SWE) permits local estimation of tissue elasticity, an important imaging marker in biomedicine. This recently developed, advanced technique assesses the speed of a laterally traveling shear wave after an acoustic radiation fo...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Deep fully connected networks are often considered "universal approximators" that are capable of learning any function. In this article, we utilize this particular property of deep neural networks (DNNs) to estimate normalized cross correlation as a ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Volume and ejection fraction (EF) measurements of the left ventricle (LV) in 2-D echocardiography are associated with a high uncertainty not only due to interobserver variability of the manual measurement, but also due to ultrasound acquisition error...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Tracking the myotendinous junction (MTJ) in consecutive ultrasound images is crucial for understanding the mechanics and pathological conditions of the muscle-tendon unit. However, the lack of reliable and efficient identification of MTJ due to poor ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a noninvasive imaging modality combining the benefits of optical contrast at ultrasonic resolution. Analytical reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic (PA) signals require a large number of data points for accura...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
In recent years, deep learning (DL) has been successfully applied to the analysis and processing of ultrasound images. To date, most of this research has focused on segmentation and view recognition. This article benchmarks different convolutional ne...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
In this article, two novel deep learning methods are proposed for displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography (USE). Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been very successful for displacement estimation in computer vision, they h...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Knee arthroscopy is a complex minimally invasive surgery that can cause unintended injuries to femoral cartilage or postoperative complications, or both. Autonomous robotic systems using real-time volumetric ultrasound (US) imaging guidance hold pote...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 24, 2020
Optical photons undergo strong scattering when propagating beyond 1-mm deep inside biological tissue. Finding the origin of these diffused optical wavefronts is a challenging task. Breaking through the optical diffusion limit, photoacoustic (PA) imag...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sep 3, 2020
Early diagnosis is critical for the prevention and control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We attempted to apply a protocol using teleultrasound, which is supported by the 5G network, to explore the feasibility of solving the problem of e...