NDLI: High-contrast and low-computational complexity medical ultrasound imaging using beamspace capon method

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Okumura, S. Taki, H. Sato, T.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Grad. Sch. of Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan (Taki, H.) \|\| Grad. Sch. of Inf., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan (Okumura, S.; Sato, T.)
Abstract	Several adaptive beamforming techniques have been proposed to improve the quality of medical ultrasound images. The beamspace (BS) Capon method is one common method used to depict high-resolution images with low computational complexity. However, the complexity is not low enough for real-time imaging in clinical situations because the conventional BS Capon method employs a time-delay process and a transition process from elementspace signal processing to BS signal processing at all points of interest. Thus, we propose a technique that replaces the time-delay process using a steering vector. In addition, the Capon method employs a spatial averaging (SA) technique to stabilize the estimation in intensity. However, when the averaging size is not adequate, the estimated intensity might be smaller than that given by the delay-and-sum (DAS) method. Because most medical diagnoses are presented based on the estimation of intensity acquired by the DAS beamformer, accurate estimation of intensity is also required. Therefore, we propose a compensation technique that uses both small and large sizes for SA. In an experiment, the -6 dB beam width, sidelobe level, and estimation error in the intensity of the proposed method were 0.17 mm, -27 dB, and 0.92 dB, respectively, where those of the conventional BS Capon method were 0.29 mm, -22 dB, and 8.1 dB. The complexity of the proposed method is one-fourteenth that of the conventional method. Compared with conventional methods, the proposed method succeeded in depicting a higher-contrast image with accurate intensity estimation and lower computational complexity.
Starting Page	6334
Ending Page	6337
File Size	970006
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781424492718
DOI	10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319841
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-08-25
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Power generation Ultrasonic imaging Biomedical imaging Computational complexity Signal processing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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