BACKGROUND: Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is one of the most serious neurovascular complications resulting from premature birth. It can result in clotting of blood within the ventricles, which causes a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid that can lead...
Temperature monitoring in ultrasound (US) imaging is important for various medical treatments, such as high-intensity focused US (HIFU) therapy or hyperthermia. In this work, we present a deep learning based approach to temperature monitoring based o...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The application of bubble-based ablation with the focus ultrasound therapy histotripsy is gaining traction for the treatment of venous thrombosis, among other pathologies. For extensive clot burden, the histotripsy source must be translate...
The nonperfused volume (NPV) ratio is the key to the success of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation treatment of adenomyosis. However, there are no qualitative interpretation standards for predicting the NPV ratio of adenomyosis using m...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Feb 17, 2017
BACKGROUND: In this paper an MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) robotic system was developed that can be used for conducting experiments in small animals.The target for this robotic system regarding motion was to move a therapeutic ultrasound tra...
Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University
Jan 20, 2026
OBJECTIVES: To improve the accuracy of machine learning models for preoperative prediction of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation efficacy for uterine fibroids by correcting class imbalance in small sample datasets using undersampling m...
International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group
Dec 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Currently high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is widely used to treat uterine fibroids (UFs). The aim of this study is to develop a machine learning model that can accurately predict the efficacy of HIFU ablation for UFs, assisting t...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
Oct 18, 2024
This study presented a novel approach for the precise ablation of breast tumors using focused ultrasound (FUS), leveraging a physics-informed neural network (PINN) integrated with a realistic breast model. FUS has shown significant promise in treatin...
International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group
Jan 1, 2020
PURPOSE: High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a potential noninvasive thermal ablation method for the treatment of peripheral artery disease. Dual-mode ultrasound arrays (DMUA) offer the possibility of simultaneous imaging and treatment. In th...
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