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High-Quality Plane Wave Compounding using Convolutional Neural Networks
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017, 64 (10), pp.1637-1639. ⟨10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2736890⟩, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017, 64 (10), pp.1637-1639. 〈10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2736890〉
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2017.
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Abstract
- International audience; Single plane wave (PW) imaging produces ultrasound (US) images of poor quality at high frame rates (ultrafast). High-quality PW imaging usually relies on the coherent compounding of several successive steered emissions (typically more than ten), which in turn results in a decreased frame rate. We propose a new strategy to reduce the number of emitted PWs by learning a compounding operation from data, i.e. by training a convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct high quality images using a small number of transmissions. We present experimental evidence that this approach is promising, as we were able to produce high-quality images from only 3 PWs, competing in terms of contrast ratio and lateral resolution with the standard compounding of 31 PWs (10x speed-up factor).
- Subjects :
- Standards
Speedup
[ INFO.INFO-TS ] Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Computer science
Plane wave
Iterative reconstruction
01 natural sciences
Convolutional neural network
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Optics
Image resolution
[INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing
0103 physical sciences
[INFO.INFO-IM]Computer Science [cs]/Medical Imaging
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
010301 acoustics
Instrumentation
Artificial neural network
[ INFO.INFO-IM ] Computer Science [cs]/Medical Imaging
business.industry
Acoustics
Frame rate
Compounding
Image reconstruction
Frequency control
business
Algorithm
Neural networks
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08853010
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017, 64 (10), pp.1637-1639. ⟨10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2736890⟩, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017, 64 (10), pp.1637-1639. 〈10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2736890〉
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e6924ab71377d55511284fee09b812a5