Temporal enhanced ultrasound (TeUS), comprising the analysis of variations in backscattered signals from a tissue over a sequence of ultrasound frames, has been previously proposed as a new paradigm for tissue characterization. In this paper, we prop...
This work aims at creating 3D freehand ultrasound reconstructions from 2D probes with image-based tracking, therefore not requiring expensive or cumbersome external tracking hardware. Existing model-based approaches such as speckle decorrelation only...
Robotic control of needle bending aims at increasing the precision of percutaneous procedures. Ultrasound feedback is preferable for its clinical ease of use, cost and compactness but raises needle detection issues. In this paper, we propose a comple...
MOTIVATION: The carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is an important biomarker for cardiovascular diseases and stroke monitoring. This study presents an intelligence-based, novel, robust, and clinically-strong strategy that uses a combination of dee...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
May 11, 2018
The important role of angiogenesis in cancer development has driven many researchers to investigate the prospects of noninvasive cancer diagnosis based on the technology of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging. This paper presents a deep learn...
Unlike daily routine images, ultrasound images are usually monochrome and low-resolution. In ultrasound images, the cancer regions are usually blurred, vague margin and irregular in shape. Moreover, the features of cancer region are very similar to n...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 6, 2018
PURPOSE: We propose a framework for automatic and accurate detection of steeply inserted needles in 2D ultrasound data using convolution neural networks. We demonstrate its application in needle trajectory estimation and tip localization.
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Mar 2, 2018
PURPOSE: Ultrasound acquisitions are typically affected by deformations due to the pressure applied onto the contact surface. While a certain amount of pressure is necessary to ensure good acoustic coupling and visibility of the anatomy under examina...
We investigate the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for suppressing off-axis scattering in ultrasound channel data. Our implementation operates in the frequency domain via the short-time Fourier transform. The inputs to the DNN consisted of the sep...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Feb 13, 2018
This paper introduces a computer-aided kidney shape detection method suitable for volumetric (3D) ultrasound images. Using shape and texture priors, the proposed method automates the process of kidney detection, which is a problem of great importance...
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