Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 29, 2021
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been recently applied to medical imaging on different modalities (MRI, CT, X-ray, etc). However there are not many applications on ultrasound modality as a data augmentation technique applied to downstream ...
Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001)
Nov 27, 2021
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to detect two dimensional and sub-pixel displacement with high spatial resolution using an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. Conventional displacement detection methods assume neighborhood uniformity and cannot a...
Journal of healthcare engineering
Nov 25, 2021
This research was to explore the accuracy of ultrasonic diagnosis based on artificial intelligence algorithm in the diagnosis of pregnancy complicated with brain tumors. In this study, 18 patients with pregnancy complicated with brain tumor confirmed...
Dento maxillo facial radiology
Nov 23, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Ultrasound emerges as a complement to cone-beam computed tomography in dentistry, but struggles with artifacts like reverberation and shadowing. This study seeks to help novice users recognize soft tissue, bone, and crown of a dental sono...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 23, 2021
Deep learning is heavily being borrowed to solve problems in medical imaging applications, and Siamese neural networks are the front runners of motion tracking. In this article, we propose to upgrade one such Siamese architecture-based neural network...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Nov 23, 2021
Deep learning for ultrasound image formation is rapidly garnering research support and attention, quickly rising as the latest frontier in ultrasound image formation, with much promise to balance both image quality and display speed. Despite this pro...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Nov 21, 2021
PURPOSE: Noise-free ultrasound images are essential for organ monitoring during regional ultrasound-guided therapy. When the affected area is located under the ribs, however, acoustic shadow is caused by the reflection of sound from hard tissues such...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 20, 2021
Peripheral nerve blocking (PNB) is a standard procedure to support regional anesthesia. Still, correct localization of the nerve's structure is needed to avoid adverse effects; thereby, ultrasound images are used as an aid approach. In addition, imag...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 19, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The speed of sound (SoS) has great potential as a quantitative imaging biomarker since it is sensitive to pathological changes in tissues. In this paper, a target-aware deep neural (TAD) network reconstructing an SoS image quantitatively f...
Physics in medicine and biology
Nov 18, 2021
Compressional or quasi-static elastography has demonstrated the capability to detect occult cancers in a variety of tissue types, however it has a serious limitation in that the resulting elastograms are generally qualitative whereas other forms of e...