Double-stage delay multiply and sum beamforming algorithm: Application to linear-array photoacoustic imaging

M Mozaffarzadeh, A Mahloojifar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging medical imaging modality capable of providing
high spatial resolution of Ultrasound (US) imaging and high contrast of optical imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound signal processing: from models to deep learning

B Luijten, N Chennakeshava, YC Eldar… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide
reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound image reconstruction from plane wave radio-frequency data by self-supervised deep neural network

J Zhang, Q He, Y Xiao, H Zheng, C Wang, J Luo - Medical Image Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Image reconstruction from radio-frequency (RF) data is crucial for ultrafast plane wave
ultrasound (PWUS) imaging. Compared with the traditional delay-and-sum (DAS) method …

Coherent automotive radar networks: The next generation of radar-based imaging and mapping

M Gottinger, M Hoffmann, M Christmann… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging radar is a key perception technology for automotive and industrial applications. A lot
of progress has been made with high channel count systems, deploying, for example, 12 …

The effect of dynamic range alterations in the estimation of contrast

OMH Rindal, A Austeng, A Fatemi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many adaptive beamformers claim to produce images with increased contrast, a feature that
could enable a better detection of lesions and anatomical structures. Contrast is often …

Enhanced linear-array photoacoustic beamforming using modified coherence factor

M Mozaffarzadeh, Y Yan… - … of biomedical optics, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising medical imaging modality providing the spatial
resolution of ultrasound imaging and the contrast of optical imaging. For linear-array PAI, a …

Inverse problem of ultrasound beamforming with sparsity constraints and regularization

E Ozkan, V Vishnevsky, O Goksel - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) beamforming is the process of reconstructing an image from acquired echo
traces on several transducer elements. Typical beamforming approaches, such as delay …

Inverse problem of ultrasound beamforming with denoising-based regularized solutions

S Goudarzi, A Basarab, H Rivaz - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the past few years, inverse problem formulations of ultrasound beamforming have
attracted growing interest. They usually pose beamforming as a minimization problem of a …

Joint generalized coherence factor and minimum variance beamformer for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging

Z Lan, L Jin, S Feng, C Zheng, Z Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformer is the most commonly used method in medical
ultrasound imaging. Compared with the DAS beamformer, the minimum variance (MV) …

An inverse approach for ultrasonic imaging from full matrix capture data: Application to resolution enhancement in NDT

N Laroche, S Bourguignon, E Carcreff… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of nondestructive testing (NDT), this article proposes an inverse problem
approach for the reconstruction of high-resolution ultrasonic images from full matrix capture …