Multi-needle localization in ultrasound (US) images is a crucial step of treatment planning for US-guided prostate brachytherapy. However, current computer-aided technologies are mostly focused on single-needle digitization, while manual digitization...
A non-rigid MR-TRUS image registration framework is proposed for prostate interventions. The registration framework consists of a convolutional neural networks (CNN) for MR prostate segmentation, a CNN for TRUS prostate segmentation and a point-cloud...
Instrument segmentation plays a vital role in 3D ultrasound (US) guided cardiac intervention. Efficient and accurate segmentation during the operation is highly desired since it can facilitate the operation, reduce the operational complexity, and the...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 3, 2020
PURPOSE: The main purpose of this study is to construct a system to track the tumor position during radiofrequency ablation (RFA) treatment. Existing tumor tracking systems are designed to track a tumor in a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound (US) image...
BACKGROUND: Completion axillary lymph node dissection is overtreatment for patients with sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis in whom the metastatic risk of residual non-SLN (NSLN) is low. However, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network panel posi...
PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: Point-of-care ultrasound using small ultrasound devices has expanded beyond emergency and critical care medicine to many other subspecialties. Awareness of the strengths and limitations of the technology and knowledge of the ap...
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association
Sep 9, 2020
The risk stratification system of the American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (ACR TI-RADS) for thyroid nodules is affected by low diagnostic specificity. Machine learning (ML) methods can optimize the diagnostic perf...
Fifty years of research on the nature of backscatter from tissues has resulted in a number of promising diagnostic parameters. We recently introduced two analyses tied directly to the biophysics of ultrasound scattering: the H-scan, based on a matche...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Sep 3, 2020
Early diagnosis is critical for the prevention and control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We attempted to apply a protocol using teleultrasound, which is supported by the 5G network, to explore the feasibility of solving the problem of e...