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| Mozumi, Michiya; Nagaoka, Ryo; Hasegawa, Hideyuki; 'Improving image contrast and accuracy in velocity estimation by convolution filters for intracardiac blood flow imaging'. Ultrasonics. 2022; 120: 106650. Elsevier. View |
| Tehrani, Ali KZ; Rosado-Mendez, Ivan M; Rivaz, Hassan; 'Robust Scatterer Number Density Segmentation of Ultrasound Images'. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2022; IEEE. View |
| Zhao, Na; Xu, Yuan; 'Decorrelated compounding improves lesion signal-to-noise ratio of low-contrast lesions in synthetic transmit aperture ultrasound imaging'. JASA Express Letters. 2022; 2 (2): 22001. Acoustical Society of America. View |
| Lu, Jui-Ying; Lee, Po-Yang; Huang, Chih-Chung; 'Improving Image Quality for Single-Angle Plane Wave Ultrasound Imaging with Convolutional Neural Network Beamformer'. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2022; IEEE. View |
Warringa, Niek; Dam-Vervloet, Lida J; Boomsma, Martijn F; 'Assessment of Liver Fibrosis With Elastography Point Quantification Versus Transient Elastography'. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2021; 19 (3): 618-619. Elsevier. View
Summary: A new algorithm for estimating the speed of sound, used to improve image quality in ultrasound systems, was tested on a urethane phantom (the CIRS Model 42, which was recently replaced by the ATS539). |
| Vaidya, Avinash S; Srinivas, MB; 'A low-complexity and robust minimum variance beamformer for ultrasound imaging systems using beamspace dominant mode rejection'. 2021; IEEE. View |
| Bofeng Zhang, Gianmarco F Pinton, Kathryn R Nightingale 'On the Relationship between Spatial Coherence and In Situ Pressure for Abdominal Imaging'. Ultrasound in medicine & biology. 2021; Elsevier. View |
| Yan, Xin; Qi, Yanxing; Wang, Yinmeng; Wang, Yuanyuan; 'High Resolution, High Contrast Beamformer Using Minimum Variance and Plane Wave Nonlinear Compounding with Low Complexity'. Sensors. 2021; 21 (2): 394. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. View |
| Wang, Yinmeng; Qi, Yanxing; Wang, Yuanyuan; 'A Low-complexity Minimum-variance Beamformer Based on Orthogonal Decomposition of the Compounded Subspace'. Ultrasonic Imaging. 2021; 43 (1): 18-Mar. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA. View |
| Chen, Yinran; Liu, Jing; Luo, Jianwen; Luo, Xiongbiao; 'A Data-Driven Approach for High Frame Rate Synthetic Transmit Aperture Ultrasound Imaging'. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. 2021; 412-420. Springer. View |
| Kim, Myeong-Gee; Oh, SeokHwan; Kim, Youngmin; Kwon, Hyuksool; Bae, Hyeon-Min; 'Learning-Based Attenuation Quantification in Abdominal Ultrasound'. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. 2021; 14-23. Springer. View |
| Xie, Hui-Wen; Guo, Hao; Zhou, Guang-Quan; Nguyen, Nghia Q; Prager, Richard W; 'Improved ultrasound image quality with pixel-based beamforming using a Wiener-filter and a SNR-dependent coherence factor'. Ultrasonics. 2021; 106594. Elsevier. View |
| Starkhammar, Josefin; Reinhold, Isabella; Erlöv, Tobias; Sandsten, Maria; 'Scaled reassigned spectrograms applied to linear transducer signals'. JASA Express Letters. 2021; 1 (5): ASA. View |
| Qi, Yanxing; Wang, Yinmeng; Wang, Yuanyuan; 'United Wiener postfilter for plane wave compounding ultrasound imaging'. Ultrasonics. 2021; 113: 106373. Elsevier. View |
Vayyeti, Anudeep; Thittai, Arun K; 'Optimally-weighted non-linear beamformer for conventional focused beam ultrasound imaging systems'. Scientific Reports. 2021; 11 (1): 14-Jan. Nature Publishing Group. View
Summary: Measurements of lateral resolution, axial resolution, contrast ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio were performed on the 40GSE to comparte the performance of a novel beamforming method, filtered delay optimally-weighted multiply and sum (F-DowMAS), against more convenient techiques such as delay and sum. |
| Sadeghi, Ali; Apostolakis, Iason; Meral, Can; Vignon, Francois; Shin, Jun Seob; Robert, Jean-Luc; 'Improving Contrast of Fundamental Ultrasound Imaging Using a Deep Neural Network'. 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). 2021; 3-Jan. IEEE. View |
| Hewener, Holger; Tretbar, Steffen; 'Ultrafast adaptive coherence beamforming using a fast and simple quad phase estimator'. 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). 2021; 4-Jan. IEEE. View |
| Vayyeti, Anudeep; Thittai, Arun K; 'A Novel Spatio-Temporal DMAS (ST-DMAS) Beamforming for Sparse Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging: Initial Results'. 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). 2021; 3-Jan. IEEE. View |
| Lee, Hyoung-Ki; Greenleaf, James F; Urban, Matthew W; 'A new plane wave compounding scheme using phase compensation for motion detection'. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 2021; 69 (2): 702-710. IEEE. View |
| Afrakhteh, Sajjad; Behnam, Hamid; 'Low-complexity adaptive minimum variance ultrasound beam-former based on diagonalization'. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 2020; 62: 102110. Elsevier. View |
| Afrakhteh, Sajjad; Behnam, Hamid; 'A fast and high frame rate adaptive beamforming using DCT‐based RF‐line recovery in line‐by‐line ultrasound imaging'. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 2020; 30 (4): 1080-1094. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, USA. View |
| Mclaughlin, Glen W; Gee, Albert; 'Attenuation estimation using ultrasound'. 2020; US Patent App. 16/242,287. View |
| Geng, Chuan; Xie, Qiang; Chen, Long; Li, Alex; Qin, Binjie; 'Study and analysis of a remote robot-assisted ultrasound imaging system'. 2020 IEEE 4th Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (ITNEC). 2020; 1: 389-393. IEEE. View |
| Marzougui, Houssem; 'Efficient sensor array subsampling for plane-wave ultrasound imaging'. 2020; University of Victoria. View |
| Parker, Kevin J; Baek, Jihye; 'Fine-tuning the H-scan for discriminating changes in tissue scatterers'. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. 2020; 6 (4): 45012. IOP Publishing. View |
| Wang, Yaning; Kempski, Kelley; Kang, Jin U; Bell, Muyinatu A Lediju; 'A Conditional Adversarial Network for Single Plane Wave Beamforming'. 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). 2020; 44200. IEEE. View |
| Long, Zaiyang; Zhou, Wei; Tradup, Donald J; Stekel, Scott F; Callstrom, Matthew R; Hangiandreou, Nicholas J; 'Systematic optimization of ultrasound grayscale imaging presets and its application in abdominal scanning'. Journal of applied clinical medical physics. 2020; 21 (10): 192-199. View |
| Κουνάβης, Παναγιώτης; 'Quality control in ultrasonography systems'. University of Patras. 2020; View |
| Li, Chunqi; Clegg, Harry R; Carpenter, Thomas M; Nie, Luzhen; Freear, Steven; Cowell, David MJ; McLaughlan, James R; 'Apodizing delay and auto-correlation reconstruction algorithm for high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging'. 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). 2020; 4-Jan. IEEE. View |
| Rizzo G, Capponi A, Pietrolucci ME, Arduini D. Role of Sonographic Automatic Volume Calculation in Measuring Fetal Cardiac Ventricular Volumes Using 4-Dimensional Sonography: Comparison With Virtual Organ Computer-Aided Analysis. J Ultrasound Med. 2010; 29(2):261-270. View |
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Ossenkoppele, Boudewine W; Luijten, Ben; Bera, Deep; de Jong, Nico; JG, Ruud; 'High resolution fast 3D imaging with deep learning based adaptive beamforming'. and Signal Processing in the Benelux, May 20-21, TU Eindhoven. 142. View
Summary: The Model 40GSE was used to test a new minimum variance beamformer, in which deep learning techniques were used to enhance the processing speed of the technique so that it can be used in real-time 3D cardiac imaging with a TEE probe. |
