New international guidelines and consensus on the use of lung ultrasound

L Demi, F Wolfram, C Klersy… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Following the innovations and new discoveries of the last 10 years in the field of lung
ultrasound (LUS), a multidisciplinary panel of international LUS experts from six countries …

The role of ultrasound lung artifacts in the diagnosis of respiratory diseases

G Soldati, M Demi, A Smargiassi… - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Thoracic ultrasound is employed for the diagnosis of many thoracic diseases
and is an accepted detection tool of pleural effusions, atelectasis, pneumothorax, and …

Localizing B-Lines in Lung Ultrasonography by Weakly Supervised Deep Learning, In-Vivo Results

RJG Van Sloun, L Demi - IEEE journal of biomedical and health …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is nowadays gaining growing attention from both the clinical and
technical world. Of particular interest are several imaging-artifacts, eg, A-and B-line artifacts …

State of the art in lung ultrasound, shifting from qualitative to quantitative analyses

F Mento, U Khan, F Faita, A Smargiassi… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lung ultrasound (LUS) has been increasingly expanding since the 1990s, when the clinical
relevance of vertical artifacts was first reported. However, the massive spread of LUS is only …

Physical mechanisms providing clinical information from ultrasound lung images: hypotheses and early confirmations

M Demi, R Prediletto, G Soldati… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In standard B mode imaging, a set of ultrasound pulses is used to reconstruct a 2-D image
even though some of the assumptions needed to do this are not fully satisfied. For this …

Deep learning applied to lung ultrasound videos for scoring COVID-19 patients: A multicenter study

F Mento, T Perrone, A Fiengo, A Smargiassi… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the current pandemic, lung ultrasound (LUS) played a useful role in evaluating patients
affected by COVID-19. However, LUS remains limited to the visual inspection of ultrasound …

Multi-objective automatic analysis of lung ultrasound data from covid-19 patients by means of deep learning and decision trees

LL Custode, F Mento, F Tursi, A Smargiassi… - Applied Soft …, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 raised the need for automatic medical diagnosis, to increase the physicians'
efficiency in managing the pandemic. Among all the techniques for evaluating the status of …

Distortion matrix approach for ultrasound imaging of random scattering media

W Lambert, LA Cobus, T Frappart, M Fink… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Focusing waves inside inhomogeneous media is a fundamental problem for imaging.
Spatial variations of wave velocity can strongly distort propagating wave fronts and degrade …

On the influence of imaging parameters on lung ultrasound B-line artifacts, in vitro study

F Mento, L Demi - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The clinical relevance of lung ultrasonography (LUS) has been rapidly growing since the
1990s. However, LUS is mainly based on the evaluation of visual artifacts (also called B …

Quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy applied to the diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis: The first clinical study

F Mento, G Soldati, R Prediletto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The application of ultrasound imaging to the diagnosis of lung diseases is nowadays
receiving growing interest. However, lung ultrasound (LUS) is mainly limited to the analysis …