[HTML][HTML] Aberration correction in diagnostic ultrasound: A review of the prior field and current directions

R Ali, T Brevett, L Zhuang, H Bendjador… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical ultrasound images are reconstructed with simplifying assumptions on wave
propagation, with one of the most prominent assumptions being that the imaging medium is …

Pulse-echo quantitative US biomarkers for liver steatosis: toward technical standardization

DT Fetzer, IM Rosado-Mendez, M Wang, ML Robbin… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Excessive liver fat (steatosis) is now the most common cause of chronic liver disease
worldwide and is an independent risk factor for cirrhosis and associated complications …

Multimodal llms for health grounded in individual-specific data

A Belyaeva, J Cosentino, F Hormozdiari… - Workshop on Machine …, 2023 - Springer
Foundation large language models (LLMs) have shown an impressive ability to solve tasks
across a wide range of fields including health. To effectively solve personalized health tasks …

Local sound speed estimation for pulse-echo ultrasound in layered media

R Ali, AV Telichko, H Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our previous methodology in local sound speed estimation utilized time delays measured by
the cross correlation of delayed full-synthetic aperture channel data to estimate the average …

Pulse-echo speed-of-sound imaging using convex probes

M Jaeger, P Stähli, NK Martiartu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode (CUTE) is a new ultrasound (US)-based
medical imaging modality with promise for diagnosing various types of disease based on the …

Deep learning for ultrasound speed-of-sound reconstruction: Impacts of training data diversity on stability and robustness

FK Jush, M Biele, PM Dueppenbecker… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Ultrasound b-mode imaging is a qualitative approach and diagnostic quality strongly
depends on operators' training and experience. Quantitative approaches can provide …

Windowed Radon Transform for Robust Speed-of-Sound Imaging with Pulse-Echo Ultrasound

S Beuret, B Hériard-Dubreuil… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, methods estimating the spatial distribution of tissue speed of sound with
pulse-echo ultrasound are gaining considerable traction. They can address limitations of B …

Ultrasound matrix imaging—Part II: The distortion matrix for aberration correction over multiple isoplanatic patches

W Lambert, LA Cobus, J Robin, M Fink… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This is the second article in a series of two which report on a matrix approach for ultrasound
imaging in heterogeneous media. This article describes the quantification and correction of …

Refraction-based speed of sound estimation in layered media: an angular approach

B Hériard-Dubreuil, A Besson… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speed of sound estimation in ultrasound imaging is a growing modality with several clinical
applications such as hepatic steatosis stages quantification. A key challenge for clinically …

First-in-human diagnostic study of hepatic steatosis with computed ultrasound tomography in echo mode

P Stähli, C Becchetti, N Korta Martiartu… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is rapidly emerging as the leading global
cause of chronic liver disease. Efficient disease management requires low-cost, non …