Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) was used to classify rabbits that were induced to have liver disease by placing them on a fatty diet for a defined duration and/or periodically injecting them with CCl. The ground truth of the liver state was based on li...
Described here is the modeling used to improve the mycophenolic acid (MPA) titer from Penicillium brevicompactum using central composite design and a comparatively newer, data-centric approach method k-nearest-neighbor algorithm. The two models for e...
Fifty years of research on the nature of backscatter from tissues has resulted in a number of promising diagnostic parameters. We recently introduced two analyses tied directly to the biophysics of ultrasound scattering: the H-scan, based on a matche...
Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging because shape, boundary, curvature, intensity or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new approach t...
H-Scan ultrasound (US) is a new imaging technology that estimates the relative size of acoustic scattering objects and structures. The purpose of this study was to introduce a three-dimensional (3-D) H-scan US imaging approach for scatterer size esti...
Effective epidural needle placement and injection involves accurate identification of the midline of the spine. Ultrasound, as a safe pre-procedural imaging modality, is suitable for epidural guidance because it offers adequate visibility of the vert...
Carpal tunnel syndrome commonly occurs in individuals working in occupations that involve use of vibrating manual tools or tasks with highly repetitive and forceful manual exertion. In recent years, carpal tunnel syndrome has been evaluated by ultras...
Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) enables quantification of myocardial deformation by a generation of spatiotemporal strain curves or time-strain curves (TSCs). Currently, only assessment of peak global longitudinal strain is employed in clinic...
To assist radiologists in breast cancer classification in automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) imaging, we propose a computer-aided diagnosis based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) that classifies breast lesions as benign and malignant. The prop...
Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) have opened up immense diagnostic possibilities by combined use of indicator dilution principles and dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (DCE-US) imaging. UCAs are microbubbles encapsulated in a biocompatible shell....