Learning beamforming in ultrasound imaging

Sanketh Vedula, Ortal Senouf, Grigoriy Zurakhov, Alex Bronstein, Oleg Michailovich, Michael Zibulevsky
Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, PMLR 102:493-511, 2019.

Abstract

Medical ultrasound (US) is a widespread imaging modality owing its popularity to cost efficiency, portability, speed, and lack of harmful ionizing radiation. In this paper, we demonstrate that replacing the traditional ultrasound processing pipeline with a data-driven, learnable counterpart leads to significant improvement in image quality. Moreover, we demonstrate that greater improvement can be achieved through a learning-based design of the transmitted beam patterns simultaneously with learning an image reconstruction pipeline. We evaluate our method on an in-vivo first-harmonic cardiac ultrasound dataset acquired from volunteers and demonstrate the significance of the learned pipeline and transmit beam patterns on the image quality when compared to standard transmit and receive beamformers used in high frame-rate US imaging. We believe that the presented methodology provides a fundamentally different perspective on the classical problem of ultrasound beam pattern design.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v102-vedula19a, title = {Learning beamforming in ultrasound imaging}, author = {Vedula, Sanketh and Senouf, Ortal and Zurakhov, Grigoriy and Bronstein, Alex and Michailovich, Oleg and Zibulevsky, Michael}, booktitle = {Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning}, pages = {493--511}, year = {2019}, editor = {Cardoso, M. Jorge and Feragen, Aasa and Glocker, Ben and Konukoglu, Ender and Oguz, Ipek and Unal, Gozde and Vercauteren, Tom}, volume = {102}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {08--10 Jul}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v102/vedula19a/vedula19a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v102/vedula19a.html}, abstract = {Medical ultrasound (US) is a widespread imaging modality owing its popularity to cost efficiency, portability, speed, and lack of harmful ionizing radiation. In this paper, we demonstrate that replacing the traditional ultrasound processing pipeline with a data-driven, learnable counterpart leads to significant improvement in image quality. Moreover, we demonstrate that greater improvement can be achieved through a learning-based design of the transmitted beam patterns simultaneously with learning an image reconstruction pipeline. We evaluate our method on an in-vivo first-harmonic cardiac ultrasound dataset acquired from volunteers and demonstrate the significance of the learned pipeline and transmit beam patterns on the image quality when compared to standard transmit and receive beamformers used in high frame-rate US imaging. We believe that the presented methodology provides a fundamentally different perspective on the classical problem of ultrasound beam pattern design.} }
Endnote
%0 Conference Paper %T Learning beamforming in ultrasound imaging %A Sanketh Vedula %A Ortal Senouf %A Grigoriy Zurakhov %A Alex Bronstein %A Oleg Michailovich %A Michael Zibulevsky %B Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2019 %E M. Jorge Cardoso %E Aasa Feragen %E Ben Glocker %E Ender Konukoglu %E Ipek Oguz %E Gozde Unal %E Tom Vercauteren %F pmlr-v102-vedula19a %I PMLR %P 493--511 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v102/vedula19a.html %V 102 %X Medical ultrasound (US) is a widespread imaging modality owing its popularity to cost efficiency, portability, speed, and lack of harmful ionizing radiation. In this paper, we demonstrate that replacing the traditional ultrasound processing pipeline with a data-driven, learnable counterpart leads to significant improvement in image quality. Moreover, we demonstrate that greater improvement can be achieved through a learning-based design of the transmitted beam patterns simultaneously with learning an image reconstruction pipeline. We evaluate our method on an in-vivo first-harmonic cardiac ultrasound dataset acquired from volunteers and demonstrate the significance of the learned pipeline and transmit beam patterns on the image quality when compared to standard transmit and receive beamformers used in high frame-rate US imaging. We believe that the presented methodology provides a fundamentally different perspective on the classical problem of ultrasound beam pattern design.
APA
Vedula, S., Senouf, O., Zurakhov, G., Bronstein, A., Michailovich, O. & Zibulevsky, M.. (2019). Learning beamforming in ultrasound imaging. Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 102:493-511 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v102/vedula19a.html.

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