US backscatter for liver fat quantification: an AIUM-RSNA QIBA pulse-echo quantitative ultrasound initiative

KA Wear, A Han, JM Rubin, J Gao, R Lavarello… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is believed to affect one-third of American adults.
Noninvasive methods that enable detection and monitoring of NAFLD have the potential for …

Scatterer size estimation for ultrasound tissue characterization: A survey

Z Zhou, R Gao, S Wu, Q Ding, G Bin, PH Tsui - Measurement, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative ultrasound is a cutting-edge ultrasound technology which can measure
quantified information related to tissue or material microstructures from ultrasound …

[HTML][HTML] Multiparametric ultrasound imaging for the assessment of normal versus steatotic livers

L Basavarajappa, J Baek, S Reddy, J Song, H Tai… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Liver disease is increasing in prevalence across the globe. We present here a
multiparametric ultrasound (mpUS) imaging approach for assessing nonalcoholic fatty liver …

Clusters of ultrasound scattering parameters for the classification of steatotic and normal livers

J Baek, SS Poul, L Basavarajappa, S Reddy… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
The study of ultrasound tissue interactions in fatty livers has a long history with strong clinical
potential for assessing steatosis. Recently we proposed alternative measures of first-and …

Disease-specific imaging utilizing support vector machine classification of H-scan parameters: assessment of steatosis in a rat model

J Baek, L Basavarajappa, K Hoyt… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In medical imaging, quantitative measurements have shown promise in identifying diseases
by classifying normal versus pathological parameters from tissues. The support vector …

Multiparametric ultrasound imaging for early‐stage steatosis: Comparison with magnetic resonance imaging‐based proton density fat fraction

J Baek, L Basavarajappa, R Margolis, L Arthur… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The prevalence of liver diseases, especially steatosis, requires a more
convenient and noninvasive tool for liver diagnosis, which can be a surrogate for the gold …

Noninvasive estimation of local speed of sound by pulse-echo ultrasound in a rat model of nonalcoholic fatty liver

AV Telichko, R Ali, T Brevett, H Wang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Speed of sound has previously been demonstrated to correlate with fat
concentration in the liver. However, estimating speed of sound in the liver noninvasively can …

Improving breast cancer diagnosis by incorporating raw ultrasound parameters into machine learning

J Baek, AM O'Connell, KJ Parker - Machine Learning: Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The improved diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound breast examinations remains an important
goal. In this study, we propose a biophysical feature-based machine learning method for …

A preliminary study of liver fat quantification using reported ultrasound speed of sound and attenuation parameters

J Ormachea, KJ Parker - Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The quantification of liver fat as a diagnostic assessment of steatosis remains an important
priority for non-invasive imaging systems. We derive a framework in which the unknown fat …

H‐scan trajectories indicate the progression of specific diseases

J Baek, KJ Parker - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The ability of ultrasound to assess pathology is increasing with the development of
quantitative parameters. Among these are a set of parameters derived from the recent H …