Innovative Technologies Oriented towards Real-Time Ultrasound Medical Imaging
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 158
Special Issue Editors
Interests: beamforming methods; high frame rate imaging; ultrasound simulation; arrays design; systems design
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to introduce the Special Issue on “Innovative technologies oriented towards real-time ultrasound medical imaging” to be published in the open-access journal Applied Sciences.
Ultrasound medical imaging stands out, among other diagnostic imaging modalities, for its patient-friendliness, high temporal resolution, affordability, the absence of ionizing radiation, and its provision of real-time feedback, which facilitates patient care decisions and bedside diagnoses.
Over the last few decades, innovative imaging techniques have been developed and demonstrated to be effective in reconstructing quantitative information (e.g., of blood flow, tissue motion, and elasticity) at high spatiotemporal resolutions over two- and three-dimensional regions of interest. However, such techniques impose strict requirements on the hardware and processing abilities of an ultrasound system, which can be challenging to meet. Hence, the ultrasound system’s ability to produce results in real time is often lost, hindering a clinical translation. Considering this perspective, it becomes paramount to focus our efforts on the development of low-complexity algorithms, highly efficient implementations, and high-performance systems in order to activate real-time feedback, even for innovative imaging techniques.
This Special Issue aims to gather (algorithm-, implementation-, or system-wise) technological innovations that take into account the need for real-time feedback.
We warmly invite authors to collaborate on the Special Issue with original high-quality research or review papers.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Alessandro Ramalli
Dr. Valentino Meacci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ultrasound medical imaging
- ultrasound medical systems
- ultrasound ultraportable and handheld systems
- ultrasound hardware design
- research scanners
- real-time implementation
- GPU implementation
- FPGA implementation
- low-computational-cost algorithms
- deep learning and neural networks
- beamforming and image formation
- signal and image processing
- 3D imaging
- high frame rate
- flow imaging
- tissue motion
- advanced filtering
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