Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Nov 23, 2024
PURPOSE: Early detection and quantitative evaluation of liver steatosis are crucial. Therefore, this study investigated a method for classifying ultrasound images to fatty liver grades based on echo-envelope statistics (ES) and convolutional neural n...
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Mar 14, 2024
PURPOSE: Vascular distribution is important information for diagnosing diseases and supporting surgery. Photoacoustic imaging is a technology that can image blood vessels noninvasively and with high resolution. In photoacoustic imaging, a hemispheric...
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Dec 15, 2023
PURPOSE: Preterm birth presents a major challenge in perinatal care, and predicting preterm birth remains a major challenge. If preterm birth cases can be accurately predicted during pregnancy, preventive interventions and more intensive prenatal mon...
PURPOSE: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) shows different enhancement patterns depending on the time after administration of the contrast agent. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of liver nodule characterization usin...
PURPOSE: In recent years, efforts to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the medical field have been growing. In general, a vast amount of high-quality training data is necessary to make great AI. For tumor detection AI, annotation quality is impor...
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Jul 15, 2022
PURPOSE: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) infers properties about tissue microstructure from backscattered radio-frequency ultrasound data. This paper describes how to implement the most practical QUS parameters using an ultrasound research system for t...
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Feb 18, 2022
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to construct a 3D tongue model and to generate an animation of tongue movement for speech therapy in patients with lateral articulation (LA).