3 papers
cs.GR2022
Insonification Angle-based Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction for Spine Intervention
Baichuan Jiang, Keshuai Xu, Abhay Moghekar +2
Ultrasound-guided spine interventions, such as lumbar-puncture procedures, often suffer from the reduced visibility of key anatomical features such as the inter-spinous process spa…
eess.IV2022
Feature-aggregated spatiotemporal spine surface estimation for wearable patch ultrasound volumetric imaging
Baichuan Jiang, Keshuai Xu, Ahbay Moghekar +2
Clear identification of bone structures is crucial for ultrasound-guided lumbar interventions, but it can be challenging due to the complex shapes of the self-shadowing vertebra an…
eess.IV2022
Bi-Directional Semi-Supervised Training of Convolutional Neural Networks for Ultrasound Elastography Displacement Estimation
Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Mostafa Sharifzadeh, Emad Boctor +1
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of displacement estimation. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising perf…