H-scan analysis of thyroid lesions

Gary R. Ge; Rosa Laimes; Joseph Pinto; Jorge Guerrero; Himelda Chavez; Claudia Salazar; Roberto J. Lavarello; Kevin J. Parker

doi:10.1117/1.JMI.5.1.013505

H-scan analysis of thyroid lesions

Gary R. Ge, Rosa Laimes, Joseph Pinto, Jorge Guerrero, Himelda Chavez, Claudia Salazar, Roberto J. Lavarello, Kevin J. Parker

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Abstract

The H-scan analysis of ultrasound images is a matched-filter approach derived from analysis of scattering from incident pulses in the form of Gaussian-weighted Hermite polynomial functions. This framework is applied in a preliminary study of thyroid lesions to examine the H-scan outputs for three categories: Normal thyroid, benign lesions, and cancerous lesions within a total group size of 46 patients. In addition, phantoms comprised of spherical scatterers are analyzed to establish independent reference values for comparison. The results demonstrate a small but significant difference in some measures of the H-scan channel outputs between the different groups.

Original language	English
Article number	013505
Journal	Journal of Medical Imaging
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.5.1.013505
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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medical imaging
scattering
tissues
ultrasonics

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