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Deep-Learning-Driven High Spatial Resolution Attenuation Imaging for Ultrasound Tomography (AI-UT) 深度学习驱动的高空间分辨率超声断层成像（AI-UT）。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3592578

Mingrui Liu;Zhengchang Kou;James W. Wiskin;Gregory J. Czarnota;Michael L. Oelze

{"title":"Deep-Learning-Driven High Spatial Resolution Attenuation Imaging for Ultrasound Tomography (AI-UT)","authors":"Mingrui Liu;Zhengchang Kou;James W. Wiskin;Gregory J. Czarnota;Michael L. Oelze","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3592578","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3592578","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasonic attenuation can be used to characterize tissue properties of the human breast. Both quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and ultrasound tomography (USCT) can provide attenuation estimation. However, limitations have been identified for both approaches. In QUS, the generation of attenuation maps involves separating the whole image into different data blocks. The optimal size of the data block is around 15–30 pulse lengths, which dramatically decreases the spatial resolution for attenuation imaging. In USCT, the attenuation is often estimated with a full wave inversion (FWI) method, which is affected by background noise. To achieve a high-resolution attenuation image with low variance, a deep learning (DL)-based method was proposed. In the approach, RF data from 60 angle views from the QTI Breast Acoustic CT (BACT) scanner were acquired as the input and attenuation images as the output. To improve image quality for the DL method, the spatial correlation between speed of sound (SOS) and attenuation were used as a constraint in the model. The results indicated that by including the SOS structural information, the performance of the model was improved. With a higher spatial resolution attenuation image, further segmentation of the breast can be achieved. The structural information and actual attenuation values provided by DL-generated attenuation images were validated with the values from the literature and the SOS-based segmentation map. The information provided by DL-generated attenuation images can be used as an additional biomarker for breast cancer diagnosis.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"72 9","pages":"1173-1186"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11095819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144707347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Compact 2-D Matrix Array Comprised of Hexagonal Transducer Elements for Fast Volumetric Ultrasound Imaging 一种紧凑的二维矩阵阵列，由六边形换能器元件组成，用于快速体积超声成像。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3591315

Hugues Favre;Merijn Berendsen;Rick Waasdorp;David Maresca

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Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition-Based Hyperecho Suppression for Diagnostic Power Doppler Ultrasound Image Processing 基于自适应奇异值分解的超回波抑制功率多普勒超声诊断图像处理。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025

Yongchao Wang;Yang Liu;Xingzhao Liu;Ye Zhang;Weicheng Li;Yaokun He;Jianbo Tang

{"title":"Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition-Based Hyperecho Suppression for Diagnostic Power Doppler Ultrasound Image Processing","authors":"Yongchao Wang;Yang Liu;Xingzhao Liu;Ye Zhang;Weicheng Li;Yaokun He;Jianbo Tang","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3590025","url":null,"abstract":"The power Doppler (PD) ultrasound imaging provides high-quality, noninvasive visualization of blood flow and has the potential to be used for circulation screening. However, its application in human arterial imaging remains challenging due to the presence of complex hyperechoic moving structures (HMSs). In this study, we propose an adaptive singular value decomposition (SVD) filtering strategy for HMS suppression. The proposed method used a k-means clustering algorithm directly on prebeamformed IQ data to segment HMS and non-HMS regions, followed by an adaptive SVD filtering strategy tailored to each tissue type. Compared to the existing SVD filtering methods, the proposed approach can effectively suppress the HMS artifacts. In addition, the human carotid artery imaging experiments demonstrate significant improvement in HMS suppression throughout cardiac cycles and across various imaging locations. With such capability, we believe that the proposed strategy will be a useful tool in applying PD for the 3-D imaging of human blood vessels.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"72 9","pages":"1213-1221"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Extending the Transmit and Receive Bandwidths of Dual-Frequency Transducers Toward Clinical Acoustic Angiography: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies 延长双频换能器的发送和接收带宽，用于临床声学血管造影：体外和体内研究。

IF 3.7 2区工程技术

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586556

Kathlyne Jayne B. Bautista;Emmanuel Cherin;Jianhua Yin;Elvira C. Vazquez Avila;F. Stuart Foster;Christine E. M. Demore;Paul A. Dayton

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High-Volume Acquisition Rate Nonlinear Imaging Enables Robust 3-D Ultrasound Localization Microscopy 高容量采集率非线性成像使鲁棒三维超声定位显微镜。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3589815

YiRang Shin;Bing-Ze Lin;Matthew R. Lowerison;Qi You;Pengfei Song

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Off-Grid Ultrasound Imaging by Stochastic Optimization 随机优化离网格超声成像。

IF 3.7 2区工程技术

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586377

Vincent van de Schaft;Oisín Nolan;Ruud J. G. van Sloun

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High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping With the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method 交叉相关角谱法的高质量被动声学映射。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460

Yi Zeng;Shixiao W. Jiang;Hui Zhu;Jinwei Li;Jianfeng Li;Fei Li;Shukuan Lu;Xiran Cai

{"title":"High-Quality Passive Acoustic Mapping With the Cross-Correlated Angular Spectrum Method","authors":"Yi Zeng;Shixiao W. Jiang;Hui Zhu;Jinwei Li;Jianfeng Li;Fei Li;Shukuan Lu;Xiran Cai","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3586460","url":null,"abstract":"While passive acoustic mapping (PAM) has been advanced for monitoring acoustic cavitation activity in focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy, achieving both real-time and high-quality imaging capabilities is still challenging. The angular spectrum (AS) method presents the most efficient algorithm for PAM, but it suffers from artifacts and low resolution due to the diffraction pattern of the imaging array. Data-adaptive beamformers suppress artifacts well, but their overwhelming computational complexity, more than two orders of magnitude higher than the classical time exposure acoustic (TEA) method, hinders their application in real time. In this work, we introduce the cross-correlated AS method to address the challenge. This method is based on cross-correlating the AS back-propagated wave fields, in the frequency domain (FD), measured by different apodized subapertures of the transducer array to provide the normalized cross-correlation coefficient (NCC) matrix for artifacts suppression. We observed that the spatial pattern of NCC matrix is variable, which can be utilized by the triple apodization with cross correlation (TAX) with AS scheme, namely, the AS-TAX method, for optimal artifacts suppression outcomes. Both the phantom and mouse tumor experiments showed that: 1) the AS-TAX method has comparable image quality as the data-adaptive beamformers, reducing the energy spread area (ESA) by 34.8%–65.0% and improving image signal-to-noise ratio (ISNR) by 10.6–14.4 dB compared to TEA; 2) it reduces the computational complexity by two orders of magnitude compared to TEA allowing millisecond-level image reconstruction speed with a parallel implementation; and 3) it can well map microbubble cavitation activity of different status (stable or inertial). The AS-TAX method represents a real-time approach to monitor cavitation-based FUS therapy with high image quality.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"72 10","pages":"1352-1363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11072264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144583813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Real-Time 3-D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-Column Arrays With the Cross-Spectrum Method 基于交叉谱法的行-列阵列实时三维被动声映射。

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301

Hui Zhu;Yi Zeng;Jianfeng Li;Kailiang Xu;Xiran Cai

{"title":"Real-Time 3-D Passive Acoustic Mapping for Row-Column Arrays With the Cross-Spectrum Method","authors":"Hui Zhu;Yi Zeng;Jianfeng Li;Kailiang Xu;Xiran Cai","doi":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3585301","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time and 3-D monitoring of cavitation activity is critical for safe, effective, and controlled treatments in cavitation-based focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies. This 3-D monitoring capability is essential for detecting off-target cavitation events, particularly in at-risk structures and those occurring outside the plane of 2-D imaging. In this work, we demonstrate that using row-column arrays (RCAs) for 3-D passive acoustic mapping (PAM), which can be easily integrated into commercial ultrasound scanners compared to using hemispherical arrays or matrix arrays, represents a potent solution. For that, we propose the RCA-PAM method for image formation. This method deploys the angular spectrum (AS) method to back-propagate 3-D harmonic wave fields using the passively received cavitation signals by the RCA’s row and column apertures, respectively. Then, the 3-D PAM volume is obtained by integrating the cross-spectrum of the two wave fields over a selected bandwidth. To further reduce image artifacts, we combine AS with dual-apodization with cross correlation (AS-DAX) for wave field propagation. Our experiments showed that RCA-PAM achieved 0.04±0.07 mm source localization error and comparable image quality to the ones reconstructed for the matrix array (same aperture size). We realized over 40 volumes/second reconstruction speed for a volume sized <inline-formula> <tex-math>$128,times , 128,times ,250$ </tex-math></inline-formula> voxels, using all frequency components in the RCA’s working bandwidth. We also demonstrate the seamless combination of RCA-PAM and B-mode imaging using the same RCA for 3-D monitoring of MB cavitation activity in a mouse tumor model. In summary, the use of RCAs for cavitation monitoring represents a promising avenue to minimize treatment risks in cavitation-based FUS therapies.","PeriodicalId":13322,"journal":{"name":"IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control","volume":"72 9","pages":"1187-1198"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144553398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Publication Information IEEE超音波学、铁电学与频率控制论文集

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IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3577872

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Spatially Variant Ultrasound Image Restoration With Product Convolution 基于积卷积的空间变异超声图像恢复。

IF 3.7 2区工程技术

IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2025.3584533

Arthur Floquet;Emmanuel Soubies;Duong-Hung Pham;Denis Kouame

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