Experiments have proved that an electrical signal appears in the ultrasonic cavitation field; its properties are influenced by the ultrasound frequency, the liquid type, and liquid characteristics such as density, viscosity, and surface tension. Stil...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Jan 29, 2022
Accurate and efficient catheter segmentation in 3D ultrasound (US) is essential for ultrasound-guided cardiac interventions. State-of-the-art segmentation algorithms, based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), suffer from high computational cost ...
Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Jan 28, 2022
INTRODUCTION: Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (UGRA) involves the acquisition and interpretation of ultrasound images to delineate sonoanatomy. This study explores the utility of a novel artificial intelligence (AI) device designed to assist in...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
In medical imaging, quantitative measurements have shown promise in identifying diseases by classifying normal versus pathological parameters from tissues. The support vector machine (SVM) has shown promise as a supervised classification algorithm an...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging remains an active area of interest in the ultrasound community due to its ultrahigh frame rates. Recently, a wide variety of studies based on deep learning have sought to improve ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Most of thes...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jan 27, 2022
Instrumented ultrasonic tracking is used to improve needle localization during ultrasound guidance of minimally invasive percutaneous procedures. Here, it is implemented with transmitted ultrasound pulses from a clinical ultrasound imaging probe, whi...
BACKGROUND: Germinal matrix hemorrhage-intraventricular hemorrhage is among the most common intracranial complications in premature infants. Early detection is important to guide clinical management for improved patient prognosis.
Early detection of malignant thyroid nodules leading to patient-specific treatments can reduce morbidity and mortality rates. Currently, thyroid specialists use medical images to diagnose then follow the treatment protocols, which have limitations du...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jan 20, 2022
OBJECTIVE: The morphology of the carpal arch implicates the available space for the median nerve within the carpal tunnel. The purposes of this study were to 1) reconstruct the three-dimensional (3D) carpal arch by robot-assisted ultrasonography with...
Placenta localization from obstetric 2-D ultrasound (US) imaging is unattainable for many pregnant women in low-income countries because of a severe shortage of trained sonographers. To address this problem, we present a method to automatically detec...