Title
A regularized quantitative ultrasound method for simultaneous calculation of backscatter and attenuation coefficients
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
Quantitative ultrasound has shown potential of improving medical diagnosis. In this work, a regularized power law (RPL) for the joint estimation of backscatter coefficient (BSC) and attenuation coefficient (AC) parameters was derived and tested with simulated phantoms and in vivo. For the RPL method, a total variation regularization term regarding the BSC and AC parameters were used. The results were compared with ground truth simulated values. An improvement of precision can be appreciated without compromising the accuracy by factor of 80% and 54% according to bias and coefficient of variation, respectively. The in vivo experiments showed comparable results of the algorithm with the literature (i.e. fibroadenoma:1.90 ± 0.31dB.cm-1.MHz-1, normal tissue: 0.62 ± 0.20dB.cm-1.MHz-1). The results suggest the RPL method has the potential to accurately and precisely estimating BSCs and ACs.
Volume
11330
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería médica Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85081116210
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
9781510634275
Conference
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: 15th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, SIPAIM 2019
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico-PERU under grant 012-2014-FONDECYT-C1 from the Peruvian Government.
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