Ultrasound diagnosis is routinely used in obstetrics and gynecology for fetal biometry, and owing to its time-consuming process, there has been a great demand for automatic estimation. However, the automated analysis of ultrasound images is complicated because they are patient-specific, operator-dependent, and machine-…
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Paper proposes a method to extract disentangled features for multi-task learning in medical images.
problem Indiscriminate mixing of image properties leads to poor generalization in deep learning.
method Uses deep neural networks and adversarial regularization to disentangle features.
result Demonstrates improved performance on images with new properties like artifacts.
The automatic analysis of ultrasound sequences can substantially improve the efficiency of clinical diagnosis. In this work we present our attempt to automate the challenging task of measuring the vascular diameter of the fetal abdominal aorta from ultrasound images. We propose a neural network architecture consisting …
PLIs improve classifier performance by fine-tuning latent representations.
problem Difficult interpretation of high-dimensional latent representations in neural networks.
method Back-propagation of manual changes to low-dimensional embeddings using t-distributed stochastic neighbourhood embeddings.
result Manual separation of class clusters in latent space enhances classifier performance.
Ultrasound (US) is the most widely used fetal imaging technique. However, US images have limited capture range, and suffer from view dependent artefacts such as acoustic shadows. Compounding of overlapping 3D US acquisitions into a high-resolution volume can extend the field of view and remove image artefacts, which is…
Self-supervised method enhances ultrasound images without needing clean targets.
problem Multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur, and scanner artifacts hamper ultrasound interpretation.
method Physics-guided degradation model trained on rotated/cropped patches with synthesized inputs.
result Achieves highest PSNR/SSIM across Gaussian and speckle noise levels, with significant improvements in heavy noise conditions.
Efficient fetal-maternal ECG signal separation from two channel maternal abdominal ECG via diffusion-based channel selectionphysics.med-ph
There is a need for affordable, widely deployable maternal-fetal ECG monitors to improve maternal and fetal health during pregnancy and delivery. Based on the diffusion-based channel selection, here we present the mathematical formalism and clinical validation of an algorithm capable of accurate separation of maternal …
Fetal brain imaging is a cornerstone of prenatal screening and early diagnosis of congenital anomalies. Knowledge of fetal gestational age is the key to the accurate assessment of brain development. This study develops an attention-based deep learning model to predict gestational age of the fetal brain. The proposed mo…
Understanding human fetal neurodevelopment is of great clinical importance as abnormal development is linked to adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes after birth. Recent advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) have provided new insight into development of the human brain before birth, but these studies hav…
The multiple fundamental frequency detection problem and the source separation problem from a single-channel signal containing multiple oscillatory components and a nonstationary noise are both challenging tasks. To extract the fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) from a single-lead maternal abdominal ECG, we face both challe…
MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.
problem Learning discriminative class boundaries across different domains.
method Distance metric guided feature alignment (MetFA) for domain-invariant and discriminative feature extraction.
result MetFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-device image classification.
System guides freehand obstetric ultrasound probe movements.
problem Reducing operator expertise for standard plane acquisition.
method Artificial neural network trained on real scans.
result 88.8% accuracy for goal prediction, 90.9% for action prediction.
IrisNet tracks tongue contours in ultrasound videos using deep learning.
problem Automatic and real-time tracking of tongue contours in ultrasound videos.
method Convolutional neural network mimicking peripheral vision.
result Outstanding generalization on various ultrasound tongue datasets.
Deep learning improves medical ultrasound image segmentation accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in medical ultrasound image segmentation.
method Categorizes deep learning methods into six groups and analyzes current representative algorithms.
result Current methods show significant improvement in image segmentation accuracy.
Neural network Kalman filtering improves 3D ultrasound object tracking.
problem Accurate and robust 3D positional estimation from 2D ultrasound data.
method Neural network training for out-of-plane offset estimation, combined with Kalman filtering.
result Mean error of 0.1mm for simulated data, 0.2mm for experimental data.
Fast Approximate Time-Delay Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography Using Principal Component Analysiseess.IV
A fast method for approximate TDE in ultrasound elastography.
problem Challenging and critical step in ultrasound elastography.
method PCA-GLUE, exploiting PCA to find TDE principal components.
result PCA-GLUE is more than ten times faster than Dynamic Programming.
Deep learning predicts preterm birth risk with improved accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in predicting spontaneous preterm deliveries.
method U-Net segmentation network for automatic extraction of cervical length and anterior cervical angle.
result Combined markers reduce false-negative ratio from 30% to 18%
Robotic navigation improves with RL and ultrasound images.
problem Improving accuracy in robotic navigation for ultrasound-guided procedures.
method Combines deep Q-networks with ultrasound images and binary classifier.
result Significantly improved navigation accuracy compared to pure RL and SL.
Microlocal analysis of an ultrasound transform with circular source and receiver trajectoriesmath.AP
In this article, we consider a generalized Radon transform that comes up in ultrasound reflection tomography. In our model, the ultrasound emitter and receiver move at a constant distance apart along a circle. We analyze the microlocal properties of the transform that arises from this model. As a consequence, we sh…
Paper explores unsupervised learning for ultrasound image artifact removal.
problem Improving visual quality of ultrasound images from various artifacts.
method Inspired by optimal transport cycleGAN, unsupervised deep learning for artifact removal.
result Unsupervised learning method provides comparable results to supervised learning.
Medical ultrasound technology is widely used in routine clinical applications such as disease diagnosis and treatment as well as other applications like real-time monitoring of human tongue shapes and motions as visual feedback in second language training. Due to the low-contrast characteristic and noisy nature of ultr…
Ultrasound (US) imaging is based on the time-reversal principle, in which individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented as a delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformer, the image quality quickly degrades as the…
Contrast enhanced ultrasound is a radiation-free imaging modality which uses encapsulated gas microbubbles for improved visualization of the vascular bed deep within the tissue. It has recently been used to enable imaging with unprecedented subwavelength spatial resolution by relying on super-resolution techniques. A t…
Enhanced deep learning model improves tumor segmentation in ultrasound images.
problem Challenges in integrating patient-specific medical priors into deep learning models.
method Integrates visual saliency into a U-Net architecture with attention blocks.
result Achieved a Dice similarity coefficient of 90.5 percent on a dataset of 510 images.
DDSTN improves breast cancer diagnosis by leveraging imbalanced ultrasound modalities.
problem Imbalanced ultrasound modalities in diagnosing breast cancer.
method Integrates LUPI and MMD into a deep transfer learning framework.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in BUS-based CAD.
In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformer, the performance of DAS decreases rapidly in situations w…
MimickNet approximates clinical ultrasound post-processing without proprietary data.
problem Matching proprietary clinical-grade ultrasound post-processing techniques.
method Deep learning framework MimickNet that transforms raw DAS beams into post-processed images.
result MimickNet achieves high SSIM scores (0.930-0.967) on test sets.
CNN improves frame selection for ultrasound elastography.
problem Choosing suitable frames for accurate strain estimation in ultrasound elastography.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for frame selection.
result CNN selects frames in 5.4 ms for high-quality strain images.
Single CNN removes multiple ultrasound artifacts.
problem Efficiently remove multiple ultrasound artifacts.
method OT-driven multi-domain unsupervised deep learning.
result Single neural network removes various artifacts.
Objective: Ultrasound elastography is gaining traction as an accessible and useful diagnostic tool for such things as cancer detection and differentiation and thyroid disease diagnostics. Unfortunately, state of the art shear wave imaging techniques, essential to promote this goal, are limited to high-end ultrasound ha…
Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging allows contrast-agent free in vivo perfusion quantification with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, its use is limited by typically low accuracy due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at large gradient encoding magnitudes as well as dephasing artefacts caused by subje…
In portable, 3-D, or ultra-fast ultrasound (US) imaging systems, there is an increasing demand to reconstruct high quality images from limited number of data. However, the existing solutions require either hardware changes or computationally expansive algorithms. To overcome these limitations, here we propose a novel d…
Wavesplit separates speech from mixtures using clustering.
problem Permutation problem in speech separation.
method End-to-end system infers speaker representations and estimates signals.
result Robust separation of long recordings, new benchmarks set.
Study decomposes uncertainty in HK-distribution parameter estimation for QUS.
problem Uncertainty in HK-distribution parameter estimation for quantitative ultrasound.
method Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) for parameter estimation and uncertainty decomposition.
result Decomposes total predictive uncertainty into epistemic and aleatoric components.
Improved AI lung ultrasound segmentation using expert confidence values.
problem Label uncertainty in lung ultrasound due to subjective interpretation by radiologists.
method Designing a data annotation protocol capturing expert confidence, training AI on binarized labels with confidence thresholds.
result Improved AI segmentation and better clinical outcomes (e.g., S/F oxygenation ratio estimation, patient readmission prediction).
Study improves breast lesion segmentation with limited in vivo data using simulated and natural images.
problem Challenges in automatic breast lesion segmentation due to limited annotated data.
method Pre-training a segmentation network on simulated and natural images, followed by fine-tuning with limited in vivo data.
result Fine-tuning improves dice score by 21% with as little as 19 in vivo images.
Fetal ECG (FECG) telemonitoring is an important branch in telemedicine. The design of a telemonitoring system via a wireless body-area network with low energy consumption for ambulatory use is highly desirable. As an emerging technique, compressed sensing (CS) shows great promise in compressing/reconstructing data with…
In this paper we present a new method for motion tracking of tumors in liver ultrasound image sequences. Our algorithm has two main steps. In the first step, we apply mean shift algorithm with multiple features to estimate the center of the target in each frame. Target in the first frame is defined using an ellipse. Ed…
New biomarker predicts MRgFUS treatment outcome without contrast agents.
problem Inaccurate assessment of treated tissue viability after MRgFUS.
method Deep learning on noncontrast multiparametric MRI images, voxel-wise registration.
result Predicted follow-up NPV with DICE coefficient 0.71, outperforming current standard.
Deep learning maps tongue movements to speech sounds for voiceless individuals.
problem Developing silent speech interfaces for individuals without a larynx.
method Hybrid spatio-temporal 3D convolutions and feature shuffling for formant estimation and tracking from ultrasound tongue images.
result Best model achieves R-squared of 99.96% for vowel formant regression.
Switchable Deep Beamformereess.IV
A switchable deep beamformer enables versatile image processing.
problem Training and storing separate beamformers for each application.
method Switchable deep beamformer using Adaptive Instance Normalization (AdaIN) layers.
result Single network can produce various image processing outputs.
In portable, three dimensional, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or transmit (Xmit) event sub-sampling. However, due to the presence of side lobe artifact…
A benchmark evaluates ioUS-to-MR synthesis methods for brain tumor surgery.
problem Difficult interpretation of ioUS images for brain tumor surgery.
method Six generators trained under four inference regimes and two targets on public data.
result SynDiff-2.5D best preserved downstream segmentation (U_Dice=0.55).
Volumetric analysis of brain ventricle (BV) structure is a key tool in the study of central nervous system development in embryonic mice. High-frequency ultrasound (HFU) is the only non-invasive, real-time modality available for rapid volumetric imaging of embryos in utero. However, manual segmentation of the BV from H…
Develops an online nonparametric classifier for massive data.
problem Challenges of batch kernel-based nonparametric classifiers in massive data.
method Online principle components analysis to reduce dimensionality, followed by stochastic approximation algorithm for real-time calculation.
result Online classifier provides the best trade-off between accuracy and computation cost.
This paper presents a novel approach for detection of liver abnormalities in an automated manner using ultrasound images. For this purpose, we have implemented a machine learning model that can not only generate labels (normal and abnormal) for a given ultrasound image but it can also detect when its prediction is like…
Prostate motion modelling using biomechanically-trained deep neural networks on unstructured nodescs.LG
Deep neural networks predict prostate motion from MR images.
problem Predicting prostate motion during ultrasound-guided interventions.
method Biomechanically-trained deep neural networks on unstructured nodes.
result Trained networks yield near real-time inference with 0.017 mm error.
The paper discovers a hidden component in data using an autoencoder with a discriminator.
problem Discovering a single independent latent variable in data.
method An autoencoder with a discriminator is used to recover the hidden component.
result The approach can recover the hidden component up to entropy-preserving transformations.