Design, implementation, and medical applications of 2-D ultrasound sparse arrays

A Ramalli, E Boni, E Roux, H Liebgott… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrasound sparse array consists of a sparse distribution of elements over a 2-D aperture.
Such an array is typically characterized by a limited number of elements, which in most …

[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 …

Joint DoA-range estimation using space-frequency virtual difference coarray

Z Mao, S Liu, YD Zhang, L Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of joint direction-of-arrival (DoA) and range estimation
using frequency diverse coprime array (FDCA). By incorporating the coprime array structure …

ULA fitting for sparse array design

W Shi, SA Vorobyov, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing sparse array (SA) geometries, such as coprime and nested arrays, can be regarded
as a concatenation of two uniform linear arrays (ULAs). Such arrays lead to a significant …

Jointly learning selection matrices for transmitters, receivers and fourier coefficients in multichannel imaging

H Wang, Y Zhou, E Pérez… - ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Strategic subsampling has become a focal point due to its effectiveness in compressing
data, particularly in the Full Matrix Capture (FMC) approach in ultrasonic imaging. This …

Sparse symmetric linear arrays with low redundancy and a contiguous sum co-array

R Rajamäki, V Koivunen - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse arrays can resolve significantly more scatterers or sources than sensor by utilizing
the co-array-a virtual array structure consisting of pairwise differences or sums of sensor …

High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part I: Structures and DOFs

Z Yang, Q Shen, W Liu, YC Eldar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Array structures based on the high-order difference co-array concept provide a large number
of degrees of freedom, but are typically difficult to design under multiple optimality criteria. In …

High-order cumulants based sparse array design via fractal geometries—Part II: Robustness and mutual coupling

Z Yang, Q Shen, W Liu, YC Eldar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Array robustness and mutual coupling are two important factors affecting the direction
finding performance of various array structures. These properties are not typically analyzed …

Diffusion–advection equations on a comb: Resetting and random search

T Sandev, V Domazetoski, A Iomin, L Kocarev - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review addresses issues of various drift–diffusion and inhomogeneous advection
problems with and without resetting on comblike structures. Both a Brownian diffusion …

Deep-learning based adaptive ultrasound imaging from sub-nyquist channel data

A Mamistvalov, A Amar, N Kessler… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional beamforming of medical ultrasound images relies on sampling rates significantly
higher than the actual Nyquist rate of the received signals. This results in large amounts of …