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Abstracts for the 2022 Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization 2022年超声成像和组织表征研讨会摘要
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221107728
Bret McCandless, Marie Muller
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引用次数: 0
An Improved Parameter Estimator of the Homodyned K Distribution Based on the Maximum Likelihood Method for Ultrasound Tissue Characterization 基于极大似然法的改进的同差K分布参数估计方法用于超声组织表征
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221097867
Yang Liu, Yufeng Zhang, Bingbing He, Zhiyao Li, Xun Lang, Hong Liang, Jianhua Chen
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引用次数: 1
Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Integer and Fractional-Order Total Variation 基于整数和分数阶总变异的颈总动脉超声图像斑点减少
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221096840
Kun Wang, Zhiyao Li, Yufeng Zhang
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引用次数: 3
Cardiac Segmentation Method Based on Domain Knowledge 基于领域知识的心脏分割方法
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221099435
Yingni Wang, Wenbin Chen, Tianhong Tang, Wenquan Xie, Yong Jiang, Huabin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, Kehong Yuan
{"title":"Cardiac Segmentation Method Based on Domain Knowledge","authors":"Yingni Wang, Wenbin Chen, Tianhong Tang, Wenquan Xie, Yong Jiang, Huabin Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, Kehong Yuan","doi":"10.1177/01617346221099435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346221099435","url":null,"abstract":"Echocardiography plays an important role in the clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Cardiac function assessment by echocardiography is a crucial process in daily cardiology. However, cardiac segmentation in echocardiography is a challenging task due to shadows and speckle noise. The traditional manual segmentation method is a time-consuming process and limited by inter-observer variability. In this paper, we present a fast and accurate echocardiographic automatic segmentation framework based on Convolutional neural networks (CNN). We propose FAUet, a segmentation method serially integrated U-Net with coordinate attention mechanism and domain feature loss from VGG19 pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset. The coordinate attention mechanism can capture long-range dependencies along one spatial direction and meanwhile preserve precise positional information along the other spatial direction. And the domain feature loss is more concerned with the topology of cardiac structures by exploiting their higher-level features. In this research, we use a two-dimensional echocardiogram (2DE) of 88 patients from two devices, Philips Epiq 7C and Mindray Resona 7T, to segment the left ventricle (LV), interventricular septal (IVS), and posterior left ventricular wall (PLVW). We also draw the gradient weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) to improve the interpretability of the segmentation results. Compared with the traditional U-Net, the proposed segmentation method shows better performance. The mean Dice Score Coefficient (Dice) of LV, IVS, and PLVW of FAUet can achieve 0.932, 0.848, and 0.868, and the average Dice of the three objects can achieve 0.883. Statistical analysis showed that there is no significant difference between the segmentation results of the two devices. The proposed method can realize fast and accurate segmentation of 2DE with a low time cost. Combining coordinate attention module and feature loss with the original U-Net framework can significantly increase the performance of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"33 1","pages":"105 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81140367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing 基于压缩感知的声层析成像温度分布重建方法
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221092695
Hua Yan, Yuankun Wei, Yinggang Zhou, Yifan Wang
{"title":"Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing","authors":"Hua Yan, Yuankun Wei, Yinggang Zhou, Yifan Wang","doi":"10.1177/01617346221092695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346221092695","url":null,"abstract":"Acoustic tomography (AT) is one of a few non-contact measurement techniques that can present information about the temperature distribution. Its successful application greatly depends on the performance of the reconstruction algorithm. In this paper, a temperature distribution reconstruction method based on compressed sensing (CS) is proposed. Firstly, a measurement matrix of an AT system in a CS framework is established. Secondly, a sparse basis is selected based on the mutual coherence between the measurement matrix and sparse basis. Thirdly, an improvement of the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm, called the IMOMP algorithm, is proposed for pursuing efficiency in recovering sparse signals. Reconstruction experiments of Gaussian sparse signals showed that IMOMP was better than OMP in both success ratio and running time, and the selection method of sparse basis was effective. Finally, a temperature distribution reconstruction algorithm based on compressed sensing, that is, the CS-IMOMP algorithm, is proposed. Simulation and experiment results show that, compared with the least square algorithm and the Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique algorithm, the CS-IMOMP algorithm has smaller reconstruction errors and provides more accurate information about the temperature distribution.","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"12 1","pages":"77 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81951606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
The Spectrum-Beamformer for Conventional B-Mode Ultrasound Imaging System: Principle, Validation, and Robustness 传统b型超声成像系统的频谱波束形成器:原理、验证和鲁棒性
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-04-02 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221085184
Chen Jiang, Chengcheng Liu, Y. Zhan, Dean Ta
{"title":"The Spectrum-Beamformer for Conventional B-Mode Ultrasound Imaging System: Principle, Validation, and Robustness","authors":"Chen Jiang, Chengcheng Liu, Y. Zhan, Dean Ta","doi":"10.1177/01617346221085184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346221085184","url":null,"abstract":"Fast and efficient imaging techniques are important for real-time ultrasound imaging. The delay and sum (DAS) beamformer is the most widely-used strategy in focused ultrasound imaging (FUI) modality. However, calculating the time delays and coherently summing the amplitude response in DAS is computationally expensive and generally require a high-performance processor to realize real-time processing. In this study, an efficient spectrum beamformer, namely full-matrix capture (FMC)-stolt, is proposed in FUI system with a linear phased array. The imaging performance of FMC-stolt was validated with the point-scatter simulation and in vitro point and cyst phantoms, and then compared with that of five beamformers, that is, Multiline acquisition (MLA), retrospective transmit beamforming (RTB) in the FUI modality, as well as DAS, Garcia’s frequency-wavenumber (f-k), Lu’s f-k in the coherent plane wave compounding imaging (CPWCI) modality, under specific conditions. We show that the imaging performance of FMC-stolt is better than MLA-DAS in non-transmit-focal regions, and comparable with RTB-DAS at all imaging depths. FMC-stolt also shows better discontinuity alleviation than MLA and RTB. In addition, FMC-stolt has similar imaging characteristics (e.g., off-axis resolution, computational cost) as the f-k beamformers. The computational complexity and actual computational time indicate that FMC-stolt is comparable to Garcia’s f-k, Lu’s f-k, and faster than RTB and CPWCI-DAS if the transmitting numbers are close for FUI and CPWCI. The study demonstrates that the proposed FMC-stolt could achieve good reconstruction speed while preserving high-quality images and thus provide a choice for software beamforming for conventional B-mode ultrasound imaging, especially for hand-held devices with limited performance processors.","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"1 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91128204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Fast and Accurate U-Net Model for Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation. 快速准确的U-Net胎儿超声图像分割模型。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-06 DOI: 10.1177/01617346211069882
Vahid Ashkani Chenarlogh, Mostafa Ghelich Oghli, Ali Shabanzadeh, Nasim Sirjani, Ardavan Akhavan, Isaac Shiri, Hossein Arabi, Morteza Sanei Taheri, Mohammad Kazem Tarzamni
{"title":"Fast and Accurate U-Net Model for Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation.","authors":"Vahid Ashkani Chenarlogh,&nbsp;Mostafa Ghelich Oghli,&nbsp;Ali Shabanzadeh,&nbsp;Nasim Sirjani,&nbsp;Ardavan Akhavan,&nbsp;Isaac Shiri,&nbsp;Hossein Arabi,&nbsp;Morteza Sanei Taheri,&nbsp;Mohammad Kazem Tarzamni","doi":"10.1177/01617346211069882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346211069882","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>U-Net based algorithms, due to their complex computations, include limitations when they are used in clinical devices. In this paper, we addressed this problem through a novel U-Net based architecture that called fast and accurate U-Net for medical image segmentation task. The proposed fast and accurate U-Net model contains four tuned 2D-convolutional, 2D-transposed convolutional, and batch normalization layers as its main layers. There are four blocks in the encoder-decoder path. The results of our proposed architecture were evaluated using a prepared dataset for head circumference and abdominal circumference segmentation tasks, and a public dataset (HC18-Grand challenge dataset) for fetal head circumference measurement. The proposed fast network significantly improved the processing time in comparison with U-Net, dilated U-Net, R2U-Net, attention U-Net, and MFP U-Net. It took 0.47 seconds for segmenting a fetal abdominal image. In addition, over the prepared dataset using the proposed accurate model, Dice and Jaccard coefficients were 97.62% and 95.43% for fetal head segmentation, 95.07%, and 91.99% for fetal abdominal segmentation. Moreover, we have obtained the Dice and Jaccard coefficients of 97.45% and 95.00% using the public HC18-Grand challenge dataset. Based on the obtained results, we have concluded that a fine-tuned and a simple well-structured model used in clinical devices can outperform complex models.</p>","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"44 1","pages":"25-38"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39788975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Feasibility of Quantitative Tissue Characterization Using Novel Parameters Extracted From Photoacoustic Power Spectrum Considering Multiple Absorbers. 考虑多吸收剂的光声功率谱提取新参数定量组织表征的可行性。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/01617346211055053
Nikita Rathi, Saugata Sinha, Bhargava Chinni, Vikram Dogra, Navalgund Rao
{"title":"Feasibility of Quantitative Tissue Characterization Using Novel Parameters Extracted From Photoacoustic Power Spectrum Considering Multiple Absorbers.","authors":"Nikita Rathi,&nbsp;Saugata Sinha,&nbsp;Bhargava Chinni,&nbsp;Vikram Dogra,&nbsp;Navalgund Rao","doi":"10.1177/01617346211055053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346211055053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Frequency domain analysis of radio frequency signal is performed to differentiate between different tissue categories in terms of spectral parameters. However, due to complex relationship between the absorber size and spectral parameters, they cannot be used for quantitative tissue characterization. In an earlier study, we showed that using linear relationship between absorber size and two new spectral parameters namely number of lobes and average lobe width, absorber size can be successfully recovered from photoacoustic signal generated by single absorber. As actual biological tissue contains multiple absorbers, in this study we extended the application of these two new spectral parameters for computing absorber size from signals generated by multiple PA absorbers. We revisited our analytical model to establish two new linear relationships between the absorber radius and number of lobes as well as average lobe width considering multiple absorbers with bandlimited acquisition. A simulation study was performed to validate these linear relationships. A retrospective ex vivo study, in which the spectral parameters were computed using multiwavelength photoacoustic signals, was performed with freshly exercised thyroid specimens from 38 actual human patients undergoing thyroidectomy after having a diagnosis of suspected thyroid lesions. From statistical analysis it is shown that both the parameters were significantly different between malignant and non-malignant thyroid and malignant and normal thyroid tissue. Performance of the supervised classification with the computed spectral parameters showed that the extracted parameters could be successfully used to differentiate malignant thyroid tissue from normal thyroid tissue with reasonable degree of accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"44 1","pages":"13-24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39823906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Automated Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumors From Ultrasound Images. 基于超声图像的乳腺肿瘤自动分割与分类的多任务学习框架。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/01617346221075769
Jignesh Chowdary, Pratheepan Yogarajah, Priyanka Chaurasia, Velmathi Guruviah
{"title":"A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Automated Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumors From Ultrasound Images.","authors":"Jignesh Chowdary,&nbsp;Pratheepan Yogarajah,&nbsp;Priyanka Chaurasia,&nbsp;Velmathi Guruviah","doi":"10.1177/01617346221075769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346221075769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer is one of the most fatal diseases leading to the death of several women across the world. But early diagnosis of breast cancer can help to reduce the mortality rate. So an efficient multi-task learning approach is proposed in this work for the automatic segmentation and classification of breast tumors from ultrasound images. The proposed learning approach consists of an encoder, decoder, and bridge blocks for segmentation and a dense branch for the classification of tumors. For efficient classification, multi-scale features from different levels of the network are used. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to enhance the accuracy and recall of segmentation by <math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>08</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, <math><mrow><mn>4</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>13</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, and classification by <math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>16</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, <math><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>34</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, respectively than the methods available in the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"44 1","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/8f/98/10.1177_01617346221075769.PMC8902030.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39593634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Segmentation Enhanced Elastic Image Registration for 2D Speckle Tracking Echocardiography-Performance Study In Silico. 二维散斑跟踪超声心动图分割增强弹性图像配准性能研究。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Ultrasonic Imaging Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-16 DOI: 10.1177/01617346211068812
Aleksandra Wilczewska, Szymon Cygan, Jakub Żmigrodzki
{"title":"Segmentation Enhanced Elastic Image Registration for 2D Speckle Tracking Echocardiography-Performance Study In Silico.","authors":"Aleksandra Wilczewska,&nbsp;Szymon Cygan,&nbsp;Jakub Żmigrodzki","doi":"10.1177/01617346211068812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346211068812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the two dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography has gained a strong position among medical diagnostic techniques in cardiology, it still requires further developments to improve its repeatability and reliability. Few works have attempted to incorporate the left ventricle segmentation results in the process of displacements and strain estimation to improve its performance. We proposed the use of mask information as an additional penalty in the elastic image registration based displacements estimation. This approach was studied using a short axis view synthetic echocardiographic data, segmented using an active contour method. The obtained masks were distorted to a different degree, using different methods to assess the influence of the segmentation quality on the displacements and strain estimation process. The results of displacements and circumferential strain estimations show, that even though the method is dependent on the mask quality, the potential loss in accuracy due to the poor segmentation quality is much lower than the potential accuracy gain in cases where the segmentation performs well.</p>","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":"44 1","pages":"39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39827094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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