Adaptive and compressive beamforming using deep learning for medical ultrasound

S Khan, J Huh, JC Ye - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been
investigated to improve the resolution and the contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum …

Dual-mode fluorescence/ultrasound imaging with biocompatible metal-doped graphene quantum dots

AR Valimukhametova, OS Zub, BH Lee… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sonography offers many advantages over standard methods of diagnostic imaging due to its
non-invasiveness, substantial tissue penetration depth, and low cost. The benefits of …

Variational formulation of unsupervised deep learning for ultrasound image artifact removal

S Khan, J Huh, JC Ye - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep learning approaches have been successfully used for ultrasound (US)
image artifact removal. However, paired high-quality images for supervised training are …

Improved ultrasound image quality with pixel-based beamforming using a Wiener-filter and a SNR-dependent coherence factor

HW Xie, H Guo, GQ Zhou, NQ Nguyen, RW Prager - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
Pixel-based beamforming generates focused data by assuming that the waveforms received
on a linear transducer array are composed of spherical pulses. It does not take into account …

Medical ultrasound image speckle reduction and resolution enhancement using texture compensated multi-resolution convolution neural network

M Moinuddin, S Khan, AU Alsaggaf… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ultrasound (US) imaging is a mature technology that has widespread applications
especially in the healthcare sector. Despite its widespread use and popularity, it has an …

Enhancement of time resolution in ultrasonic time-of-flight diffraction technique with frequency-domain sparsity-decomposability inversion (FDSDI) method

X Sun, L Lin, Z Ma, S Jin - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of time resolution restricts the quantitative detection of shallow subsurface defects
with ultrasonic time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) technique due to the superposition between …

An FPGA-based backend system for intravascular photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging

X Wu, JL Sanders, X Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and intravascular photoacoustic (IVPA)
imaging produces an imaging modality with high sensitivity and specificity which is …

Axial super-resolution in ultrasound imaging with application to non-destructive evaluation

SK Shastri, S Rudresh, R Anand, S Nagesh… - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
A fundamental challenge in non-destructive evaluation using ultrasound is to accurately
estimate the thicknesses of different layers or cracks present in the object under …

Compressed blind deconvolution and denoising for complementary beam subtraction light-sheet fluorescence microscopy

C Bai, C Liu, H Jia, T Peng, J Min, M Lei… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The side-lobes of a Bessel beam (BB) create a severe out-of-focus background in
scanning light-sheet fluorescence microscopy, thereby extremely limiting the axial …

Improvement of high-range-resolution imaging by considering change in ultrasonic waveform during propagation

M Mozumi, R Nagaoka… - Japanese Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The range spatial resolution is an important factor determining the quality of the ultrasound B-
mode image. In this study, the transmit–receive response of a medical ultrasound system …