Investigating pulse-echo sound speed estimation in breast ultrasound with deep learning

WA Simson, M Paschali, V Sideri-Lampretsa, N Navab… - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is an adjunct tool to mammography that can quickly and safely aid physicians in
diagnosing breast abnormalities. Clinical ultrasound often assumes a constant sound speed …

Neural-network-based motion tracking for breast ultrasound strain elastography: An initial assessment of performance and feasibility

B Peng, Y Xian, Q Zhang, J Jiang - Ultrasonic imaging, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Accurate tracking of tissue motion is critically important for several ultrasound elastography
methods. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using three published convolution …

Convolutional neural network-based speckle tracking for ultrasound strain elastography: an unsupervised learning approach

S Wen, B Peng, X Wei, J Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and computationally efficient motion estimation is a critical component of real-time
ultrasound strain elastography (USE). With the advent of deep-learning neural network …

Combining total variation regularization with window-based time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A major challenge of free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography (USE) is estimating the
displacement of RF samples between pre-and post-compressed RF data. The problem of …

Antibody with infinite affinity for in vivo tracking of genetically engineered lymphocytes

S Krebs, A Ahad, LM Carter, J Eyquem… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
There remains an urgent need for the noninvasive tracking of transfused chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR) T cells to determine their biodistribution, viability, expansion, and antitumor …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic radiation force based ultrasound elasticity imaging for biomedical applications

L Wang - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pathological changes in biological tissue are related to the changes in mechanical
properties of biological tissue. Conventional medical screening tools such as ultrasound …

4D cardiac electromechanical activation imaging

J Grondin, D Wang, CS Grubb, N Trayanova… - Computers in biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cardiac abnormalities, a major cause of morbidity and mortality, affect millions of people
worldwide. Despite the urgent clinical need for early diagnosis, there is currently no …

A real-time medical ultrasound simulator based on a generative adversarial network model

B Peng, X Huang, S Wang… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an artificial intelligence-based ultrasound simulator suitable for medical
simulation and clinical training. Particularly, we propose a machine learning approach to …

A convolution neural network-based speckle tracking method for ultrasound elastography

B Peng, Y Xian, J Jiang - 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate tracking of tissue motion is critically important for several ultrasound elastography
methods including strain elastography and shear wave elastography. In this study, we …

An application of super-resolution generative adversary networks for quasi-static ultrasound strain elastography: A feasibility study

L He, B Peng, T Yang, J Jiang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a super-resolution approach based on generative adversary network (GAN)
was used to interpolate (up-sample) ultrasound radio-frequency (RF) echo data along the …