IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Ultrasound (US) has the unique potential to offer access to medical imaging to anyone, everywhere. Devices have become ultraportable and cost-effective, akin to the stethoscope. Nevertheless, and despite many advances, US image quality and diagnostic...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) quantifies acoustic tissue properties such as the speed-of-sound (SOS). Although full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for accurate SOS reconstruction, it can be computationally challenging for lar...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Color Doppler echocardiography enables visualization of blood flow within the heart. However, the limited frame rate impedes the quantitative assessment of blood velocity throughout the cardiac cycle, thereby compromising a comprehensive analysis of ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Left ventricle (LV) segmentation of 2-D echocardiography images is an essential step in the analysis of cardiac morphology and function and-more generally-diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Several deep learning (DL) algorithms have recently...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Intraventricular vector flow mapping (iVFM) seeks to enhance and quantify color Doppler in cardiac imaging. In this study, we propose novel alternatives to the traditional iVFM optimization scheme using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and a ...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Deep learning (DL) models have emerged as alternative methods to conventional ultrasound (US) signal processing, offering the potential to mimic signal processing chains, reduce inference time, and enable the portability of processing chains across h...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 27, 2024
Autonomous ultrasound image quality assessment (US-IQA) is a promising tool to aid the interpretation by practicing sonographers and to enable the future robotization of ultrasound procedures. However, autonomous US-IQA has several challenges. Ultras...
Medical image analysis
Nov 26, 2024
In medical image analysis, the utilization of biophysical models for signal analysis offers valuable insights into the underlying tissue types and microstructural processes. In diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI), a major challenge li...
Medical physics
Nov 26, 2024
BACKGROUND: Automatic segmentation of meibomian glands in near-infrared meibography images is basis of morphological parameter analysis, which plays a crucial role in facilitating the diagnosis of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). The special strip ...
Medical image analysis
Nov 26, 2024
The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) aims to explore developmental patterns of the human brain during the perinatal period. An automated processing pipeline has been developed to extract high-quality cortical surfaces from structural brain ...