Data-Driven Speed-of-Sound Reconstruction for Medical Ultrasound: Impacts of Training Data Format and Imperfections on Convergence
Khun Jush F, Dueppenbecker PM, Maier A (2021)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
City/Town: Cham
Pages Range: 140--150
Conference Proceedings Title: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis
Event location: Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN: 978-3-030-80432-9
URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_11#citeas
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_11
Abstract
B-mode imaging is a qualitative method and its interpretation depends on users' experience. Quantitative tissue information can increase precision and decrease user ambiguity. For example, Speed-of-Sound (SoS) in tissue is known to carry diagnostic information. Studies showed the possibility of SoS reconstruction from ultrasound raw data (a.k.a., RF data) using deep neural networks (DNNs). However, many ultrasound systems are designed to process demodulated data (i.e., IQ data) and often decimate data in early stages of acquisition. In this study we investigated the impacts of input data format and decimation on convergence of the DNNs for SoS reconstruction. Our results show that fully data-driven SoS reconstruction is possible using demodulated ultrasound data presented in Cartesian or Polar format using an encoder-decoder network. We performed a study using only amplitude and only phase information of ultrasound data for SoS reconstruction. Our results showed that distortion of the phase information results in inconsistent SoS predictions, indicating sensitivity of the investigated approach to phase information. We demonstrated that without losing significant accuracy, decimated IQ data can be used for SoS reconstruction.
Authors with CRIS profile
Farnaz Khun Jush
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)
Andreas Maier
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)
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Germany (DE)How to cite
APA:
Khun Jush, F., Dueppenbecker, P.M., & Maier, A. (2021). Data-Driven Speed-of-Sound Reconstruction for Medical Ultrasound: Impacts of Training Data Format and Imperfections on Convergence. In Papie{ż} BW, Yaqub M, Jiao J, Namburete AIL, Noble JA (Eds.), Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (pp. 140--150). Oxford, United Kingdom: Cham: Springer International Publishing.
MLA:
Khun Jush, Farnaz, Peter Michael Dueppenbecker, and Andreas Maier. "Data-Driven Speed-of-Sound Reconstruction for Medical Ultrasound: Impacts of Training Data Format and Imperfections on Convergence." Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, Oxford, United Kingdom Ed. Papie{ż} BW, Yaqub M, Jiao J, Namburete AIL, Noble JA, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. 140--150.
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