Recent advances in artificial intelligence-assisted ultrasound scanning

R Tenajas, D Miraut, CI Illana, R Alonso-Gonzalez… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ultrasound (US) is a flexible imaging modality used globally as a first-line medical exam
procedure in many different clinical cases. It benefits from the continued evolution of …

Harnessing machine intelligence in automatic echocardiogram analysis: Current status, limitations, and future directions

G Zamzmi, LY Hsu, W Li, V Sachdev… - IEEE reviews in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Echocardiography (echo) is a critical tool in diagnosing various cardiovascular diseases.
Despite its diagnostic and prognostic value, interpretation and analysis of echo images are …

Automatic quality assessment of echocardiograms using convolutional neural networks: feasibility on the apical four-chamber view

AH Abdi, C Luong, T Tsang, G Allan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Echocardiography (echo) is a skilled technical procedure that depends on the experience of
the operator. The aim of this paper is to reduce user variability in data acquisition by …

A fused deep learning architecture for viewpoint classification of echocardiography

X Gao, W Li, M Loomes, L Wang - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
This study extends the state of the art of deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN)
to the classification of video images of echocardiography, aiming at assisting clinicians in …

Automatic apical view classification of echocardiograms using a discriminative learning dictionary

H Khamis, G Zurakhov, V Azar, A Raz, Z Friedman… - Medical image …, 2017 - Elsevier
As part of striving towards fully automatic cardiac functional assessment of
echocardiograms, automatic classification of their standard views is essential as a pre …

[HTML][HTML] Automated annotation and quantitative description of ultrasound videos of the fetal heart

CP Bridge, C Ioannou, JA Noble - Medical image analysis, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Interpretation of ultrasound videos of the fetal heart is crucial for the antenatal
diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD). We believe that automated image analysis …

Recognition of finger flexion motion from ultrasound image: A feasibility study

J Shi, JY Guo, SX Hu, YP Zheng - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Muscle contraction results in structural and morphologic changes of the related muscle.
Therefore, finger flexion can be monitored from measurements of these morphologic …

Machine learning with incomplete data sets

DJ Beymer, KW Brannon, T Chen, MAW Hardt… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
Cristianini et al.,“On Kernel-Target Alignment.” NIPS, 2002, pp. 367-373. http://research.
microsoft. com/en-us/um/people/manik projects/trade-off papers/CristianiniNIPS01. pdf. Dick …

Automatic recognition of fetal facial standard plane in ultrasound image via fisher vector

B Lei, EL Tan, S Chen, L Zhuo, S Li, D Ni, T Wang - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Acquisition of the standard plane is the prerequisite of biometric measurement and
diagnosis during the ultrasound (US) examination. In this paper, a new algorithm is …

A generalized framework for medical image classification and recognition

M Abedini, NCF Codella, JH Connell… - IBM Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we study the performance of a two-stage ensemble visual machine learning
framework for classification of medical images. In the first stage, models are built for subsets …