High Resolution Ultrasound Image Reconstruction for Plane-Wave Imaging Using Deep Learning

Leang Sim Nguon, Jungwung Seo, Kangwon Seo, Suhyun Park

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Abstract

The plane-wave imaging (PWI) has attracted researchers' attention owing to its ability to obtain high frame rate ultrasound imaging, which is crucial for cardiac applications. However, degraded image quality remains a drawback in PWI. Coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) using multiple plane-waves steered at different angles can be employed but it compensates the framerate. Thus, an imaging method that can provide both high image quality and frame rate is required. In this study, we propose a method to reconstruct high-resolution ultrasound images from plane-wave raw channel data (pre-beamform RF data) by adapting the modified U-Net as the deep learning network architecture. The training and test data consist of the combination of simulation and experimental data conducted on phantom and in-vivo study. The performance evaluation result shows improvement in terms of the structure of similarity, peak signal to noise ratio, and full width at half maximum compared to the conventional delay and sum (DAS) method. In conclusion, the proposed ultrasound image reconstruction method using the deep learning beamformer is capable of reconstructing a high-resolution image of the carotid artery for a single plane-wave ultrasound imaging.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics
StatePublished - 2022
Event24th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2022 - Gyeongju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 24 Oct 202228 Oct 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT under grant number NRF-2020R1A2C1011889.

Publisher Copyright:
© ICA 2022.All rights reserved

Keywords

  • deep learning beamformer
  • plane-wave
  • ultrasound

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