IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Nov 24, 2020
Data-driven modeling of human motions is ubiquitous in computer graphics and computer vision applications, such as synthesizing realistic motions or recognizing actions. Recent research has shown that such problems can be approached by learning a nat...
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...
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...