The cervix is the essential gatekeeper for birth. Incomplete cervix remodeling contributes to
problems with delivery at or post-term while preterm birth is a major factor in perinatal …

With recent advances in cancer therapeutics, there is a great need for improved imaging
methods for characterizing cancer onset and progression in a quantitative and actionable …

Although a variety of techniques have been developed to reduce the appearance of B-mode
speckle, quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims at extracting the hidden properties of the tissue …

The understanding of changes in the viscoelastic properties of cervical tissue during the
gestation process is a challenging problem. In this work, we explore the importance of …

Background Cervical remodeling is an important aspect of birth timing. Before cervical
ripening, the collagen fibers are arranged in a closely interweaved network, but during …

Predicting how and when a pregnant woman will deliver her fetus has always been a
problem for the clinician, and, consequently, there has been little progress made in …

A large deformation continuum model for an elastically isotropic visco-plastic matrix
reinforced by a distribution of fibres has been formulated. The fibre distribution is a …

Importance Determining interventions to manage obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) depends
on clinical examination, polysomnography (PSG) results, and imaging analysis. There …

Objectives Here we report on the intra‐and inter‐operator variability of the backscatter
coefficient (BSC) estimated with a new low‐variance quantitative ultrasound (QUS) …

Background Spontaneous preterm birth occurs more frequently in multiple pregnancies. This
syndrome has multiple triggers that result in a unified downstream pathway of cervical …