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A Performance Evaluation of Filtered Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Preliminary Results
In this work, a filtered delay multiply and sum (F-DMAS) beamforming approach with non-steered plane wave transmit was employed for ULM, and its performance was compared with the conventional DAS-based approach for the different localization algorithms available in the Localization and Tracking Toolbox for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy.
Tiny-VBF: Resource-Efficient Vision Transformer based Lightweight Beamformer for Ultrasound Single-Angle Plane Wave Imaging
Accelerating compute intensive non-real-time beam-forming algorithms in ultrasound imaging using deep learning architectures has been gaining momentum in the recent past.
Towards Non-contact 3D Ultrasound for Wrist Imaging
Objective: The objective of this work is an attempt towards non-contact freehand 3D ultrasound imaging with minimal complexity added to the existing point of care ultrasound (POCUS) systems.
On The Application Of Log Compression and Enhanced Denoising In Contrast Enhancement Of Digital Radiography Images
To address this issue, post-processing algorithms such as the Multiscale Image Contrast Amplification (MUSICA) algorithm can be used to enhance the contrast of DR images even with a low radiation dose.
Fast Marching based Tissue Adaptive Delay Estimation for Aberration Corrected Delay and Sum Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness.
A Simplified 3D Ultrasound Freehand Imaging Framework Using 1D Linear Probe and Low-Cost Mechanical Track
In this study, we propose a novel approach of using a mechanical track for ultrasound scanning, which restricts the probe motion to a linear plane, simplifying the acquisition and hence the reconstruction process.
Ultrasound based Gas Detection: Analyzing Acoustic Impedance for High-Performance and Low-Cost Solutions
In this paper, a novel non-contact gas detection technique based on a 40 kHz ultrasonic signal is described.
A Prototype System for High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging based Prosthetic Arm Control
The creation of unique control methods for a hand prosthesis is still a problem that has to be addressed.
Software Package for Automated Analysis of Lung Ultrasound Videos
In the recent past with the rapid surge of COVID-19 infections, lung ultrasound has emerged as a fast and powerful diagnostic tool particularly for continuous and periodic monitoring of the lung.
Learning while Acquisition: Towards Active Learning Framework for Beamforming in Ultrasound Imaging
In the recent past, there have been many efforts to accelerate adaptive beamforming for ultrasound (US) imaging using neural networks (NNs).
covEcho Resource constrained lung ultrasound image analysis tool for faster triaging and active learning
The tool, based on the you look only once (YOLO) network, has the capability of providing the quality of images based on the identification of various LUS landmarks, artefacts and manifestations, prediction of severity of lung infection, possibility of active learning based on the feedback from clinicians or on the image quality and a summarization of the significant frames which are having high severity of infection and high image quality for further analysis.
Patch Based Transformation for Minimum Variance Beamformer Image Approximation Using Delay and Sum Pipeline
Instead of framing the beamforming problem as a regression problem to estimate the apodization weights, the proposed approach treats the non-linear transformation of the RF data space that can account for the data driven weight adaptation done by the MVDR approach in the parameters of the network.
Exploring Novel Pooling Strategies for Edge Preserved Feature Maps in Convolutional Neural Networks
The results suggest that the proposed pooling approaches outperform the conventional pooling as well as blur pooling for classification, segmentation and autoencoders.
Physics Driven Domain Specific Transporter Framework with Attention Mechanism for Ultrasound Imaging
Also, on employing for classification of the given lung image into normal and abnormal classes, the proposed approach, even with no prior training, achieved an average accuracy of 97\% and an average F1-score of 95\% respectively on the task of co-classification with 3 fold cross-validation.
Unsupervised multi-latent space reinforcement learning framework for video summarization in ultrasound imaging
Using an attention ensemble of encoders, the high dimensional image is projected into a low dimensional latent space in terms of: a) reduced distance with a normal or abnormal class (classifier encoder), b) following a topology of landmarks (segmentation encoder), and c) the distance or topology agnostic latent representation (convolutional autoencoders).
An Angle Independent Depth Aware Fusion Beamforming Approach for Ultrafast Ultrasound Flow Imaging
In the case of vector flow imaging systems, the most employed flow estimation techniques are the directional beamforming based cross correlation and the triangulation-based autocorrelation.
A Nonlinear Beamforming for Enhanced Spatiotemporal Sensitivity in High Frame Rate Ultrasound Flow Imaging
The sensitivity of NLHR beamforming towards the flow transients is validated in-vitro with a sudden reversal of flow direction and air bubble tracking experiments.
Introducing Introspective Transmission for Reflection Characterization in High Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging
In ultrasound imaging, most of the transmit and receive beamforming schemes assume a homogenous diffuse medium and are evaluated based on contrast, temporal and spatial resolutions.
Hand-Drawn Electrical Circuit Recognition using Object Detection and Node Recognition
This paper proposes a real-time algorithm for the automatic recognition of hand-drawn electrical circuits based on object detection and circuit node recognition.
Towards Fast Region Adaptive Ultrasound Beamformer for Plane Wave Imaging Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Automatic learning algorithms for improving the image quality of diagnostic B-mode ultrasound (US) images have been gaining popularity in the recent past.
Learning the Imaging Landmarks: Unsupervised Key point Detection in Lung Ultrasound Videos
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is an increasingly popular diagnostic imaging modality for continuous and periodic monitoring of lung infection, given its advantages of non-invasiveness, non-ionizing nature, portability and easy disinfection.
An Approach Towards Physics Informed Lung Ultrasound Image Scoring Neural Network for Diagnostic Assistance in COVID-19
Subsequently, a multichannel input formed by using the acoustic physics-based feature maps is fused to train a neural network, referred to as LUSNet, to classify the LUS images into five classes of varying severity of lung infection to track the progression of COVID-19.
Domain Specific Transporter Framework to Detect Fractures in Ultrasound
Saliency of keypoints detected in the image\ are compared against manual assessment based on distance from relevant features. The transporter neural network was able to accurately detect 180 out of 250 bone regions sampled from wrist ultrasound videos.
Subject Independent Emotion Recognition using EEG Signals Employing Attention Driven Neural Networks
Secondly, a convolutional neural network (CNN) with attention framework is presented for performing the task of subject-independent emotion recognition on the encoded lower dimensional latent space representations obtained from the proposed LSTM with channel-attention autoencoder.
