Adaptive ultrasound beamforming using deep learning

B Luijten, R Cohen, FJ De Bruijn… - … on Medical Imaging, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biomedical imaging is unequivocally dependent on the ability to reconstruct interpretable
and high-quality images from acquired sensor data. This reconstruction process is pivotal …

[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 …

Deep learning for fast adaptive beamforming

B Luijten, R Cohen, FJ De Bruijn… - ICASSP 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The real-time nature that makes diagnostic ultrasonography so appealing to clinicians
imposes strong constraints on the computational complexity of image reconstruction …

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 …

Plane wave ultrasound imaging using compressive sensing and minimum variance beamforming

R Paridar, BM Asl - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
Coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) is a widely used technique in medical
ultrasound imaging due to its high frame rate property. It is well-known that increasing the …

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) …

Minimum variance combined with modified delay multiply-and-sum beamforming for plane-wave compounding

MS Ziksari, BM Asl - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plane-wave compounding is an active topic of research in ultrasound imaging because it is
a promising technique for ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Unfortunately, due to the data …

Ultrafast ultrasound imaging as an inverse problem: Matrix-free sparse image reconstruction

A Besson, D Perdios, F Martinez, Z Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional ultrasound (US) image reconstruction methods rely on delay-and-sum (DAS)
beamforming, which is a relatively poor solution to the image reconstruction problem. An …

Joint subarray coherence and minimum variance beamformer for multitransmission ultrasound imaging modalities

Y Qi, Y Wang, W Guo - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multitransmission modalities, such as plane wave compounding and synthetic aperture
imaging, are promising techniques for ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Adaptive beamformers …

Improving lateral resolution and contrast by combining coherent plane-wave compounding with adaptive weighting for medical ultrasound imaging

X Zhang, Q Wang - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the severe lateral lobe artifact by coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) and
the low signal-to-noise ratio of radiofrequency (RF) data collected from the plane wave, the …