scholarly journals High-resolution image reconstruction for portable ultrasound imaging devices

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruoyao Wang ◽  
Zhenghan Fang ◽  
Jiaqi Gu ◽  
Yi Guo ◽  
Shicong Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Portable Ultrasound ◽  
Imaging Quality ◽  
Reconstruction Performance

AbstractPursuing better imaging quality and miniaturizing imaging devices are two trends in the current development of ultrasound imaging. While the first one leads to more complex and expensive imaging equipment, poor image quality is a common problem of portable ultrasound imaging systems. In this paper, an image reconstruction method was proposed to break through the imaging quality limitation of portable devices by introducing generative adversarial network (GAN) model into the field of ultrasound image reconstruction. We combined two GAN generator models, the encoder-decoder model and the U-Net model to build a sparse skip connection U-Net (SSC U-Net) to tackle this problem. To produce more realistic output, stabilize the training procedure, and improve spatial resolution in the reconstructed ultrasound images, a new loss function which combines adversarial loss, L1 loss, and differential loss was proposed. Three datasets including 50 pairs of simulation, 40 pairs of phantom, and 72 pairs of in vivo images were used to evaluate the reconstruction performance. Experimental results show that our SSC U-Net is able to reconstruct ultrasound images with improved quality. Compared with U-Net, our SSC U-Net is able to preserve more details in the reconstructed images and improve full width at half maximum (FWHM) of point targets by 3.23%.

scholarly journals Empirical Analysis of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network for Ultrasound Image Synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Kumar ◽  
Mayuri A. Mehta ◽  
Indranath Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Ultrasound Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Synthetic Images

Introduction: Recent research on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the biomedical field has proven the effectiveness in generating synthetic images of different modalities. Ultrasound imaging is one of the primary imaging modalities for diagnosis in the medical domain. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of the state-of-the-art Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) for generating synthetic ultrasound images. Aims: This work aims to explore the utilization of deep convolutional generative adversarial networks for the synthesis of ultrasound images and to leverage its capabilities. Background: Ultrasound imaging plays a vital role in healthcare for timely diagnosis and treatment. Increasing interest in automated medical image analysis for precise diagnosis has expanded the demand for a large number of ultrasound images. Generative adversarial networks have been proven beneficial for increasing the size of data by generating synthetic images. Objective: Our main purpose in generating synthetic ultrasound images is to produce a sufficient amount of ultrasound images with varying representations of a disease. Methods: DCGAN has been used to generate synthetic ultrasound images. It is trained on two ultrasound image datasets, namely, the common carotid artery dataset and nerve dataset, which are publicly available on Signal Processing Lab and Kaggle, respectively. Results: Results show that good quality synthetic ultrasound images are generated within 100 epochs of training of DCGAN. The quality of synthetic ultrasound images is evaluated using Mean Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). We have also presented some visual representations of the slices of generated images for qualitative comparison. Conclusion: Our empirical analysis reveals that synthetic ultrasound image generation using DCGAN is an efficient approach. Other: In future work, we plan to compare the quality of images generated through other adversarial methods such as conditional GAN, progressive GAN.

scholarly journals CNN-Based Image Reconstruction Method for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Dimitris Perdios ◽  
Manuel Vonlanthen ◽  
Florian Martinez ◽  
Marcel Arditi ◽  
Jean-Philippe Thiran
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Image Reconstruction Method

scholarly journals Reference-Driven Compressed Sensing MR Image Reconstruction Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks without Pre-Training

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Zhao ◽  
Feng Zhao ◽  
Yongjin Gan
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Compressed Sensing ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Mr Image ◽  
Space Data ◽  
Mr Image Reconstruction

Deep learning has proven itself to be able to reduce the scanning time of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and to improve the image reconstruction quality since it was introduced into Compressed Sensing MRI (CS-MRI). However, the requirement of using large, high-quality, and patient-based datasets for network training procedures is always a challenge in clinical applications. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based compressed sensing MR image reconstruction method that does not require any pre-training procedure or training dataset, thereby largely reducing clinician dependence on patient-based datasets. The proposed method is based on the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework and uses a high-resolution reference MR image as the input of the convolutional neural network in order to induce the structural prior in the learning procedure. This reference-driven strategy improves the efficiency and effect of network learning. We then add the k-space data correction step to enforce the consistency of the k-space data with the measurements, which further improve the image reconstruction accuracy. Experiments on in vivo MR datasets showed that the proposed method can achieve more accurate reconstruction results from undersampled k-space data.

scholarly journals High-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging Enabled by Random Interference and Joint Image Reconstruction

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6434
Author(s):  
Pavel Ni ◽  
Heung-No Lee
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Joint Reconstruction ◽  
Reconstruction Scheme ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
Noise Ratio

In ultrasound, wave interference is an undesirable effect that degrades the resolution of the images. We have recently shown that a wavefront of random interference can be used to reconstruct high-resolution ultrasound images. In this study, we further improve the resolution of interference-based ultrasound imaging by proposing a joint image reconstruction scheme. The proposed reconstruction scheme utilizes radio frequency (RF) signals from all elements of the sensor array in a joint optimization problem to directly reconstruct the final high-resolution image. By jointly processing array signals, we significantly improved the resolution of interference-based imaging. We compare the proposed joint reconstruction method with popular beamforming techniques and the previously proposed interference-based compound method. The simulation study suggests that, among the different reconstruction methods, the joint reconstruction method has the lowest mean-squared error (MSE), the best peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and the best signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Similarly, the joint reconstruction method has an exceptional structural similarity index (SSIM) of 0.998. Experimental studies showed that the quality of images significantly improved when compared to other image reconstruction methods. Furthermore, we share our simulation codes as an open-source repository in support of reproducible research.

Image Reconstruction with the Fourier Coefficients for Magnetic Induction Tomography

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Jingwen Wang ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Dan Yang ◽  
Kaiyang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Problem ◽  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Magnetic Induction ◽  
Fourier Coefficients ◽  
Signal Reconstruction ◽  
Reconstruction Algorithm ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Measurement Equation ◽  
Image Reconstruction Method ◽  
Magnetic Induction Tomography

Background: Image reconstruction of magnetic induction tomography (MIT) is a typical ill-posed inverse problem, which means that the measurements are always far from enough. Thus, MIT image reconstruction results using conventional algorithms such as linear back projection and Landweber often suffer from limitations such as low resolution and blurred edges. Methods: In this paper, based on the recent finite rate of innovation (FRI) framework, a novel image reconstruction method with MIT system is presented. Results: This is achieved through modeling and sampling the MIT signals in FRI framework, resulting in a few new measurements, namely, fourier coefficients. Because each new measurement contains all the pixel position and conductivity information of the dense phase medium, the illposed inverse problem can be improved, by rebuilding the MIT measurement equation with the measurement voltage and the new measurements. Finally, a sparsity-based signal reconstruction algorithm is presented to reconstruct the original MIT image signal, by solving this new measurement equation. Conclusion: Experiments show that the proposed method has better indicators such as image error and correlation coefficient. Therefore, it is a kind of MIT image reconstruction method with high accuracy.

scholarly journals Constrained Backtracking Matching Pursuit Algorithm for Image Reconstruction in Compressed Sensing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1435
Author(s):  
Xue Bi ◽  
Lu Leng ◽  
Cheonshik Kim ◽  
Xinwen Liu ◽  
Yajun Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Compressed Sensing ◽  
Matching Pursuit ◽  
Reconstruction Algorithm ◽  
Energy Criterion ◽  
Step Size ◽  
Relationship Analysis ◽  
Support Set ◽  
Reconstruction Performance ◽  
Sparsity Level

Image reconstruction based on sparse constraints is an important research topic in compressed sensing. Sparsity adaptive matching pursuit (SAMP) is a greedy pursuit reconstruction algorithm, which reconstructs signals without prior information of the sparsity level and potentially presents better reconstruction performance than other greedy pursuit algorithms. However, SAMP still suffers from being sensitive to the step size selection at high sub-sampling ratios. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a constrained backtracking matching pursuit (CBMP) algorithm for image reconstruction. The composite strategy, including two kinds of constraints, effectively controls the increment of the estimated sparsity level at different stages and accurately estimates the true support set of images. Based on the relationship analysis between the signal and measurement, an energy criterion is also proposed as a constraint. At the same time, the four-to-one rule is improved as an extra constraint. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CBMP yields better performance and further stability than other greedy pursuit algorithms for image reconstruction.

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