Improving plane wave imaging performance through post-processing

Siyuan Wei; Jian Zhou; Richard Sampson; Rungroj Jintamethasawat; Oliver D. Kripfgans; J. Brian Fowlkes; Thomas F. Wenisch; Chaitali Chakrabarti

doi:10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728901

Improving plane wave imaging performance through post-processing

Siyuan Wei, Jian Zhou, Richard Sampson, Rungroj Jintamethasawat, Oliver D. Kripfgans, J. Brian Fowlkes, Thomas F. Wenisch, Chaitali Chakrabarti

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Abstract

Plane wave imaging can provide high frame rates and is widely used for fast imaging in medical ultrasound. Due to a lack of transmit focus, its image quality is usually worse than other ultrasonic imaging modalities, such as Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound. In practice, images with high contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) are highly desirable as they make it possible for the sonographer to detect small cysts with better accuracy. In this work, we propose to use edge detection and smoothing filters to improve the CNR of cyst images while keeping the point spread function unchanged after beamforming. We show that our post-processing technique helps achieve CNR larger than 19 dB for cyst images with 75 firing angles compounded.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Volume	2016-November
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467398978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728901
State	Published - Nov 1 2016
Event	2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016 - Tours, France Duration: Sep 18 2016 → Sep 21 2016

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Other	2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016
Country/Territory	France
City	Tours
Period	9/18/16 → 9/21/16

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Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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Wei, S, Zhou, J, Sampson, R, Jintamethasawat, R, Kripfgans, OD, Brian Fowlkes, J, Wenisch, TF & Chakrabarti, C 2016, Improving plane wave imaging performance through post-processing. in 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016. vol. 2016-November, 7728901, IEEE Computer Society, 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016, Tours, France, 9/18/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728901

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