High-quality coherent plane-wave compounding using enhanced covariance-matrix-based statistical beamforming

Y Wang, C Zheng, H Peng, Y Wang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) enables high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging,
but the imaging quality is mainly determined by the beamforming method. Covariance-matrix …

Minimum variance beamforming combined with covariance matrix-based adaptive weighting for medical ultrasound imaging

Y Wang, Y Wang, M Liu, Z Lan, C Zheng… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2022 - Springer
Background The minimum variance (MV) beamformer can significantly improve the image
resolution in ultrasound imaging, but it has limited performance in noise reduction. We …

Enhancement of Ultrasound B-Mode Image Quality Using Nonlinear Filtered-Multiply-and-Sum Compounding for Improved Carotid Artery Segmentation

A Mohamed Moubark, L Nie, MH Mohd Zaman… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In ultrasound B-mode imaging, the axial resolution (AR) is commonly determined by the
duration or bandwidth of an excitation signal. A shorter-duration pulse will produce better …