Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy based on a high frame-rate clinical ultrasound scanner: an in-human feasibility study

C Huang, W Zhang, P Gong, UW Lok… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive detection of microvascular alterations in deep tissues in vivo provides critical
information for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of a broad-spectrum of pathologies …

Use of ultrasound to assess hemodynamics in acutely ill patients

S Safadi, S Murthi, KB Kashani - Kidney360, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Early diagnosis of AKI and preventive measures can likely decrease the severity of the injury
and improve patient outcomes. Current hemodynamic monitoring variables, including BP …

High-quality ultrafast power Doppler imaging based on spatial angular coherence factor

L Huang, Y Wang, R Wang, X Wei, Q He… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The morphological and hemodynamic changes of microvessels are demonstrated to be
related to the diseased conditions in tissues. Ultrafast power Doppler imaging (uPDI) is a …

Improved ultrafast power Doppler imaging by using spatiotemporal non-local means filtering

L Huang, J Zhang, X Wei, L Jing, Q He… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The change of microvasculature is associated with the occurrence and development of
many diseases. Ultrafast power Doppler imaging (uPDI) is an emerging technology for the …

Real time SVD-based clutter filtering using randomized singular value decomposition and spatial downsampling for micro-vessel imaging on a Verasonics ultrasound …

UW Lok, P Song, JD Trzasko, R Daigle, EA Borisch… - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
Singular value decomposition (SVD)-based clutter filters can robustly reject the tissue clutter
as compared with the conventional high pass filter-based clutter filters. However, the …

Novel uses of ultrasound to assess kidney mechanical properties

MW Urban, AD Rule, TD Atwell, S Chen - Kidney360, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Ultrasound is a key imaging tool for evaluating the kidney. Over the last two decades,
methods to measure the mechanical properties of soft tissues have been developed and …

Improved ultrafast power Doppler imaging using united spatial-angular adaptive scaling wiener postfilter

Y Wang, L Huang, R Wang, X Wei… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast power Doppler imaging (uPDI) using high-frame-rate plane-wave transmission is a
new microvascular imaging modality that offers high Doppler sensitivity. However, due to the …

Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy for visualization of the ocular blood flow

X Qian, C Huang, R Li, BJ Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: The ocular vascular system plays an important role in preserving the visual
function. Alterations in either anatomy or hemodynamics of the eye may have adverse …

Three-dimensional ultrasound localization microscopy with bipartite graph-based microbubble pairing and Kalman-filtering-based tracking on a 256-channel …

UW Lok, C Huang, JD Trzasko, Y Kim, F Lucien… - Journal of medical and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) using a
2-D matrix probe and microbubbles (MBs) has recently been proposed to visualize …

Mammogram image enhancement techniques for online breast cancer detection and diagnosis

DS da Silva, CS Nascimento, SK Jagatheesaperumal… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the type of cancer with the highest incidence and global mortality of female
cancers. Thus, the adaptation of modern technologies that assist in medical diagnosis in …