Ultrasound

Vienneau, Emelina; Weeks, Abbie; Morgan, Victoria; Byram, Brett. “Reliable Transcranial Functional Ultrasound in an Adult Cohort (N=13).” IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, UFFC-JS 2024 – Proceedings, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10793710.  Functional ultrasound was first tested in rodents, but more recently, it… Read More

Pan, Ying-Chun; Khan, Christopher; Lefevre, Ryan; Eagle, Susan; Byram, Brett. “GCNR Regularization Improves Deep Neural Network Beamformers.” IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, UFFC-JS 2024 – Proceedings, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10793808.  Deep neural network (DNN) beamformers are becoming increasingly… Read More

Schlunk, Siegfried; Byram, Brett. “A Generalized SNR to Quantify Lesion Detectability for Modern Adaptive beamformers.” IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, UFFC-JS 2024 – Proceedings, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10793748.  Ultrasound images are often processed using a method called delay-and-sum… Read More

Georgina E. Sellyn, Andrea A. Lopez, Shramana Ghosh, Michael C. Topf, Heidi Chen, Eric Tkaczyk, & Jennifer G. Powers. (2024). High-frequency ultrasound accuracy in preoperative cutaneous melanoma assessment: A meta-analysis. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.20179 High-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) is a safe… Read More

Lening Cui, Christopher Khan, Ying-Chun Pan, Siegfried Schlunk, Emelina Vienneau, Emmanuel Ofosu, Jason Harbert, Ryan LeFevre, Susan Eagle, and Brett Byram. “Using Domain Adaptive Deep Neural Networks to Improve Transthoracic Echocardiography.” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, vol. 12932, 129320M, 2024, San Diego, California Previous… Read More

Siegfried Schlunk and Brett Byram. “Expanding gCNR into a Clinically Relevant Measure of Lesion Detectability by Considering Size and Spatial Resolution.” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, vol. 12932, 1293205, 2024, San Diego, California, Early image quality metrics were often developed with the goal of… Read More

Rui Wang, Katelyn Craft, Elisa Holtzman, Hannah Mason, Christopher Khan, Brett Byram, Jason Mitchell, and Jack H. Noble. “Evaluation of U-Nets for Object Segmentation in Ultrasound Images.” Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, vol. 12932, 129321G, 2024, San Diego, California, United States. Ultrasound imaging is… Read More