Short-lag spatial coherence weighted minimum variance beamformer for plane-wave images

Gustavo Chau, Roberto Lavarello, Jeremy Dahl

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The minimum variance (MV) beamformer is an adaptive beamforming technique that can convey enhancements in resolution and contrast and that can be applied to various ultrasonic sequences, including plane-wave imaging. Despite its improvements, it is still susceptible to clutter. The present work uses the short-lag spatial coherence (SLSC) value as a weighting factor in order to improve over conventional MV beamformed images. The proposed SLSC weighted MV beamformer (SLSCw-MV) coherently compounds the different emissions of a plane wave sequence in order to synthesize a tight transmission focus and then computes the SLSC value of signal. This SLSC value is used as a weigthing factor for the beamformed value obtained from the application of the frequency-domain version of the MV beamformer. The proposed method is tested on the 75 plane-wave dataset of the 2016 International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) beamforming challenge. Results on simulated and experimental data reveal that SLSCw-MV can convey improvements of 7%-55% in lateral resolution and of 2.5%-13% in contrast with respect to conventional delay-and-sum coherent plane-wave images.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojada2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016
EditorialIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (versión digital)9781467398978
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 nov. 2016
Evento2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016 - Tours, Francia
Duración: 18 set. 201621 set. 2016

Serie de la publicación

NombreIEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
Volumen2016-November
ISSN (versión impresa)1948-5719
ISSN (versión digital)1948-5727

Conferencia

Conferencia2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2016
País/TerritorioFrancia
CiudadTours
Período18/09/1621/09/16

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