Minimizing image quality loss after channel count reduction for plane wave ultrasound via deep learning inference

D Xiao, WMK Pitman, BYS Yiu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-frame-rate ultrasound imaging uses unfocused transmissions to insonify an entire
imaging view for each transmit event, thereby enabling frame rates over 1000 frames per …

Self-supervised content-consistent contrast enhancement framework for ultrafast plane-wave imaging

A Wang, J Lu, Z Yang, W Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging based on plane waves (PWs) has attracted increasing attention
owing to its high frame rate. However, the image quality provided by this technology …

Ultrafast cardiac imaging using deep learning for speckle-tracking echocardiography

J Lu, F Millioz, F Varray, J Porée… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-quality ultrafast ultrasound imaging is based on coherent compounding from multiple
transmissions of plane waves (PW) or diverging waves (DW). However, compounding …

Hadamard-encoded synthetic transmit aperture imaging for improved lateral motion estimation in ultrasound elastography

Y Wang, X Xie, Q He, H Liao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lateral motion estimation has been a challenge in ultrasound elastography mainly due to
the low resolution, low sampling frequency, and lack of phase information in the lateral …

Complex transformer network for single-angle plane-wave imaging

X Qu, C Ren, Z Wang, S Fan, D Zheng, S Wang… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Plane-wave imaging (PWI) is a high-frame-rate imaging technique that sacrifices
image quality. Deep learning can potentially enhance plane-wave image quality, but …

Deep null space learning improves dataset recovery for high frame rate synthetic transmit aperture imaging

J Zhang, L Huang, J Luo - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic transmit aperture (STA) imaging benefits from the two-way dynamic focusing to
achieve optimal lateral resolution and contrast resolution in the full field of view, at the cost of …

An efficient ultrasonic full-matrix imaging method for industrial curved-surface components defect detection

K Ji, P Zhao, H Jin, C Zhuo, J Fu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
Curved-surface components are ubiquitous in various industries. However, defects inside
the components badly degenerate the mechanical properties and lead to premature failure …

A data-efficient deep learning strategy for tissue characterization via quantitative ultrasound: Zone training

U Soylu, ML Oelze - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning (DL) powered biomedical ultrasound imaging is an emerging research field
where researchers adapt the image analysis capabilities of DL algorithms to biomedical …

Acceleration of reconstruction for compressed sensing based synthetic transmit aperture imaging by using in-phase/quadrature data

J Zhang, Y Wang, J Liu, Q He, R Wang, H Liao, J Luo - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
Compressed sensing-based synthetic transmit aperture (CS-STA) was previously proposed
to recover the full radio-frequency (RF) channel dataset of synthetic transmit aperture (STA) …

Partial Hadamard encoded synthetic transmit aperture for high frame rate imaging with minimal l 2-norm least squares method

J Zhang, J Liu, W Fan, W Qiu, J Luo - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Synthetic transmit aperture (STA) ultrasound imaging is well known for ideal
focusing in the full field of view. However, it suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and …