Experimental Validation of Ultrasound Beamforming with End-to-End Deep Learning for Single Plane Wave Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14188v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:58:36 GMT
• Title: Experimental Validation of Ultrasound Beamforming with End-to-End Deep Learning for Single Plane Wave Imaging
• Authors: Ryan A. L. Schoop, Gijs Hendriks, Tristan van Leeuwen, Chris L. de Korte, Felix Lucka,
• Abstract summary: Ultrafast ultrasound imaging insonifies a medium with one or a combination of a few plane waves at different beam-steered angles instead of many focused waves. Deep learning approaches have been proposed to mitigate this disadvantage, in particular for single plane wave imaging. We consider data-to-image networks which incorporate a conventional image formation techniques as differentiable layers in the network architecture.
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• Abstract: Ultrafast ultrasound imaging insonifies a medium with one or a combination of a few plane waves at different beam-steered angles instead of many focused waves. It can achieve much higher frame rates, but often at the cost of reduced image quality. Deep learning approaches have been proposed to mitigate this disadvantage, in particular for single plane wave imaging. Predominantly, image-to-image post-processing networks or fully learned data-to-image neural networks are used. Both construct their mapping purely data-driven and require expressive networks and large amounts of training data to perform well. In contrast, we consider data-to-image networks which incorporate a conventional image formation techniques as differentiable layers in the network architecture. This allows for end-to-end training with small amounts of training data. In this work, using f-k migration as an image formation layer is evaluated in-depth with experimental data. We acquired a data collection designed for benchmarking data-driven plane wave imaging approaches using a realistic breast mimicking phantom and an ultrasound calibration phantom. The evaluation considers global and local image similarity measures and contrast, resolution and lesion detectability analysis. The results show that the proposed network architecture is capable of improving the image quality of single plane wave images on all evaluation metrics. Furthermore, these image quality improvements can be achieved with surprisingly little amounts of training data.

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