H-Scan ultrasound (US) is a new imaging technology that estimates the relative size of acoustic scattering objects and structures. The purpose of this study was to introduce a three-dimensional (3-D) H-scan US imaging approach for scatterer size esti...
Effective epidural needle placement and injection involves accurate identification of the midline of the spine. Ultrasound, as a safe pre-procedural imaging modality, is suitable for epidural guidance because it offers adequate visibility of the vert...
Registration and fusion of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) of the prostate can provide guidance for prostate brachytherapy. However, accurate registration remains a challenging task due to the lack of ground truth r...
PURPOSE: Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems assist in solving subjective diagnosis problems that typically rely on personal experience. A CAD system has been developed to differentiate malignant thyroid nodules from benign thyroid nodules in ultr...
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth is a major global health challenge, the leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age, and a key measure of a population's general health and nutritional status. Current clinical methods of estimating fetal gestati...
We present a novel multi-task neural network called Temporal SonoEyeNet (TSEN) with a primary task to describe the visual navigation process of sonographers by learning to generate visual attention maps of ultrasound images around standard biometry p...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jun 18, 2020
PURPOSE: In the field of medical image analysis, deep learning methods gained huge attention over the last years. This can be explained by their often improved performance compared to classic explicit algorithms. In order to work well, they need larg...
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
Jun 18, 2020
BACKGROUND Thyroid nodules are extremely common and typically diagnosed with ultrasound whether benign or malignant. Imaging diagnosis assisted by Artificial Intelligence has attracted much attention in recent years. The aim of our study was to build...
MOTIVATION: Machine learning (ML)-based stroke risk stratification systems have typically focused on conventional risk factors (CRF) (AtheroRisk-conventional). Besides CRF, carotid ultrasound image phenotypes (CUSIP) have shown to be powerful phenoty...
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
Jun 15, 2020
We study training deep neural network (DNN) frequency-domain beamformers using simulated and phantom anechoic cysts and compare to training with simulated point target responses. Using simulation, physical phantom, and in vivo scans, we find that tra...