Spatial Coherence in Medical Ultrasound: A Review

Reverberation Clutter Suppression Using 2-D Spatial Coherence Analysis

(2021) Rifat Ahmed et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Spatial Coherence Beamforming With Multi-Line Transmission to Enhance the Contrast of Coherent Structures in Ultrasound Images Degraded by Acoustic Clutter

(2021) Giulia Matrone et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Ultrafast 3-D Ultrasound Imaging Using Row–Column Array-Specific Frame-Multiply-and-Sum Beamforming

(2021) Joseph Hansen-Shearer et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Effects of motion on correlations of pulse-echo ultrasound signals: Applications in delay estimation and aperture coherence

(2020) Dongwoon Hyun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Coherence-Based Beamforming Increases the Diagnostic Certainty of Distinguishing Fluid from Solid Masses in Breast Ultrasound Exams

(2020) Alycen Wiacek et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Synthetic Aperture Focusing for Multi-Covariate Imaging of Sub-Resolution Targets

(2020) Matthew R. Morgan et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Incoherent Clutter Suppression Using Lag-One Coherence

(2020) Will Long et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

GPU implementation of photoacoustic short-lag spatial coherence imaging for improved image-guided interventions

(2020) Eduardo A. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

Distortion matrix approach for ultrasound imaging of random scattering media

(2020) William Lambert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photoacoustic Spatial Coherence Theory and Applications to Coherence-Based Image Contrast and Resolution

(2020) Michelle T. Graham et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Coherence-based quantification of acoustic clutter sources in medical ultrasound

(2020) James Long et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

CohereNet: A Deep Learning Architecture for Ultrasound Spatial Correlation Estimation and Coherence-Based Beamforming

(2020) Alycen Wiacek et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Blood Flow Imaging in the Neonatal Brain Using Angular Coherence Power Doppler

(2020) Marko Jakovljevic et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

An Automated ALARA Method for Ultrasound

(2020) Katelyn Flint et al.   JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE

Histogram Matching for Visual Ultrasound Image Comparison

(2020) Nick Bottenus et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Studying the Origin of Reverberation Clutter in Echocardiography: In Vitro Experiments and In Vivo Demonstrations

(2019) Ali Fatemi et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Multi-covariate Imaging of Sub-resolution Targets

(2019) Matthew R. Morgan et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging in 1.5-D and 1.75-D Arrays: Elevation Performance and Array Design Considerations

(2019) Matthew R. Morgan et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Speckle coherence of piecewise-stationary stochastic targets

(2019) Matthew R. Morgan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Two-Dimensional Spatial Coherence for Ultrasonic DMAS Beamforming in Multi-Angle Plane-Wave Imaging

(2019) Che-Chou Shen et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

A Comparison of Coherence-Based Beamforming Techniques in High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging With Multi-Line Transmission

(2019) Giulia Matrone et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A Spatial Coherence Beamformer Design for Power Doppler Imaging

(2019) Kathryn Ozgun et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

The Impact of Acoustic Clutter on Large Array Abdominal Imaging

(2019) Nick Bottenus et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

The Generalized Contrast-to-Noise Ratio: A Formal Definition for Lesion Detectability

(2019) Alfonso Rodriguez-Molares et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Improved Sensitivity in Ultrasound Molecular Imaging With Coherence-Based Beamforming

(2018) Dongwoon Hyun et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Robust Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging

(2018) Arun Asokan Nair et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Lag-One Coherence as a Metric for Ultrasonic Image Quality

(2018) Will Long et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Clinical Utility of Fetal Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging

(2018) Will Long et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

In vitro feasibility of next generation non-linear beamforming ultrasound methods to characterize and size kidney stones

(2018) Jaime E. Tierney et al.   Urolithiasis

Spatial Coherence of Backscattered Signals in Multi-Line Transmit Ultrasound Imaging and Its Effect on Short-Lag Filtered-Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming

(2018) Giulia Matrone et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Deep Learning Applications in Medical Image Analysis

(2018) Justin Ker et al.   IEEE Access

Robust Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging of Breast Ultrasound Data: Initial Clinical Results

(2018) Alycen Wiacek et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Improved Visualization in Difficult-to-Image Stress Echocardiography Patients Using Real-Time Harmonic Spatial Coherence Imaging

(2018) Dongwoon Hyun et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Segmentation of Fetal Left Ventricle in Echocardiographic Sequences Based on Dynamic Convolutional Neural Networks

(2017) Li Yu et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

High Frame-Rate, High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging With Multi-Line Transmission and Filtered-Delay Multiply And Sum Beamforming

(2017) Giulia Matrone et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Spatial Prediction Filtering of Acoustic Clutter and Random Noise in Medical Ultrasound Imaging

(2017) Junseob Shin et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Efficient Strategies for Estimating the Spatial Coherence of Backscatter

(2017) Dongwoon Hyun et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Angular coherence in ultrasound imaging: Theory and applications

(2017) You Leo Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

A survey on deep learning in medical image analysis

(2017) Geert Litjens et al.   MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS

Robust sound speed estimation for ultrasound-based hepatic steatosis assessment

(2017) Marion Imbault et al.   PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Short-lag Spatial Coherence Ultrasound Imaging with Adaptive Synthetic Transmit Aperture Focusing

(2017) Jinxin Zhao et al.   ULTRASONIC IMAGING

A pre-trained convolutional neural network based method for thyroid nodule diagnosis

(2017) Jinlian Ma et al.   ULTRASONICS

Depth-of-field enhancement in Filtered-Delay Multiply and Sum beamformed images using Synthetic Aperture Focusing

(2017) Giulia Matrone et al.   ULTRASONICS

Imaging the dynamics of cardiac fiber orientation in vivo using 3D Ultrasound Backscatter Tensor Imaging

(2017) Clement Papadacci et al.   Scientific Reports

Predictors of adequate ultrasound quality for hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in patients with cirrhosis

(2016) O. Simmons et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Visualization of Small-Diameter Vessels by Reduction of Incoherent Reverberation With Coherent Flow Power Doppler

(2016) You Leo Li et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A simple uniformity test for ultrasound phased arrays

(2016) Nicholas J. Dudley et al.   Physica Medica-European Journal of Medical Physics

Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Architecture: Applications to Breast Lesions in US Images and Pulmonary Nodules in CT Scans

(2016) Jie-Zhi Cheng et al.   Scientific Reports

Obesity and the challenges of ultrasound fetal abnormality diagnosis

(2015) Pai-Jong Stacy Tsai et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

The Delay Multiply and Sum Beamforming Algorithm in Ultrasound B-Mode Medical Imaging

(2015) Giulia Matrone et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Resolution and brightness characteristics of short-lag spatial coherence (SLSC) images

(2015) Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Coherent flow power doppler (CFPD): flow detection using spatial coherence beamforming

(2015) You Leo Li et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Plane wave compounding based on a joint transmitting-receiving adaptive beamformer

(2015) Jinxin Zhao et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Acoustic reciprocity of spatial coherence in ultrasound imaging

(2015) Nick Bottenus et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A model and regularization scheme for ultrasonic beamforming clutter reduction

(2015) Brett Byram et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Equivalence of time and aperture domain additive noise in ultrasound coherence

(2015) Nick B. Bottenus et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Acoustical cross-talk in row–column addressed 2-D transducer arrays for ultrasound imaging

(2015) Thomas Lehrmann Christiansen et al.   ULTRASONICS

Short-lag spatial coherence imaging on matrix arrays, Part 1: Beamforming methods and simulation studies

(2014) Dongwoon Hyun et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Short-lag spatial coherence imaging on matrix arrays, Part II: Phantom and in vivo experiments

(2014) Marko Jakovljevic et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

SNR-dependent coherence-based adaptive imaging for high-frame-rate ultrasonic and photoacoustic imaging

(2014) Yu-Hsin Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Ultrasound backscatter tensor imaging (BTI): analysis of the spatial coherence of ultrasonic speckle in anisotropic soft tissues

(2014) Clement Papadacci et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Spatial coherence in human tissue: implications for imaging and measurement

(2014) Gianmarco Pinton et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Piezoelectric single crystal ultrasonic transducers for biomedical applications

(2014) Qifa Zhou et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Reverberation Clutter from Subcutaneous Tissue Layers: Simulation and in Vivo Demonstrations

(2014) Jeremy J. Dahl et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

A Joint Scheme for Angle and Array Gain-Phase Error Estimation in Bistatic MIMO Radar

(2013) Jianfeng Li et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Synthetic aperture focusing for short-lag spatial coherence imaging

(2013) Nick Bottenus et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Quantitative Assessment of the Magnitude, Impact and Spatial Extent of Ultrasonic Clutter

(2013) Muyinatu A. Lediju et al.   ULTRASONIC IMAGING

Lesion Detectability in Diagnostic Ultrasound with Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging

(2013) Jeremy J. Dahl et al.   ULTRASONIC IMAGING

In Vivo Application of Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging in Human Liver

(2013) Marko Jakovljevic et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging of Cardiac Ultrasound Data: Initial Clinical Results

(2013) Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Short-lag spatial coherence beamforming of photoacoustic images for enhanced visualization of prostate brachytherapy seeds

(2013) Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell et al.   Biomedical Optics Express

Harmonic spatial coherence imaging: an ultrasonic imaging method based on backscatter coherence

(2012) J. J. Dahl et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Challenges in Seafloor Imaging and Mapping With Synthetic Aperture Sonar

(2011) Roy Edgar Hansen et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Sources of image degradation in fundamental and harmonic ultrasound imaging using nonlinear, full-wave simulations

(2011) Gianmarco F Pinton et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Short-lag spatial coherence of backscattered echoes: imaging characteristics

(2011) M. A. Lediju et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Wiener beamforming and the coherence factor in ultrasound imaging

(2010) Carl-Inge Colombo Nilsen et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

MVDR-based coherence weighting for high-frame-rate adaptive imaging

(2009) Shun-Li Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Minimum variance beamforming combined with adaptive coherence weighting applied to medical ultrasound imaging

(2009) B.M. Asl et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Benefits of minimum-variance beamforming in medical ultrasound imaging

(2009) J.-F. Synnevag et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

Phase Coherence Imaging

(2009) J. Camacho et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

A generalized measurement equation and van Cittert-Zernike theorem for wide-field radio astronomical interferometry

(2009) T. D. Carozzi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Confocal Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: Delay-Multiply-and-Sum Image Reconstruction Algorithm

(2008) Hooi Been Lim et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

The impact of maternal obesity on satisfactory detailed anatomic ultrasound image acquisition

(2008) Fadi R. Khoury et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine