Deep learning-based self-high-resolution for 3D ultrasound imaging

Yang Lei; Tonghe Wang; Xiuxiu He; Ge Cui; Walter J. Curran; Tian Liu; Xiaofeng Yang

doi:10.1117/12.2581072

15 February 2021 Deep learning-based self-high-resolution for 3D ultrasound imaging

Yang Lei, Tonghe Wang, Xiuxiu He, Ge Cui, Walter J. Curran, Tian Liu, Xiaofeng Yang

Proceedings Volume 11602, Medical Imaging 2021: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 1160218 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2581072
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2021, Online Only

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Abstract

For 3D ultrasound (US) images with large slice thickness, high frequency information in the slice direction is missing and cannot be resolved through interpolation. As an ill-posed problem, current high-resolution methods rely on the presence of external/training atlases to learn the transform from low resolution images to high resolution images. In this study, we aim to propose a self-supervised learning method, which does not use any external atlas images, yet can still resolve high resolution images only reliant on the acquired image with a large slice thickness. To circumvent the lack of training data, the simulated training data were obtained from the input image. To do this, each 2D sagittal slice is regarded as a high-resolution image, while each coronal and axial slice is regarded as low-resolution images. By training a deep learning-based model on sagittal slices and using this model to infer high-resolution coronal and axial slices, we can apply the mapping to low-resolution images with large slice thickness to estimate the high-resolution images with thin slice thickness. The proposed algorithm was evaluated using 30 sets of US breast data. The US image downsampled in z-axis was used as low-resolution image, the original US image was used as ground truth. The normalized mean absolute error (NMAE), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and normalized cross-correlation (NCC) indices were used to quantify the accuracy of the proposed algorithm. The NMAE, PSNR and NCC were 0.011±0.02, 34.6±2.14 dB and 0.98±0.01. The proposed method showed similar image quality as compared to ground truth.

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Yang Lei, Tonghe Wang, Xiuxiu He, Ge Cui, Walter J. Curran, Tian Liu, and Xiaofeng Yang "Deep learning-based self-high-resolution for 3D ultrasound imaging", Proc. SPIE 11602, Medical Imaging 2021: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 1160218 (15 February 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2581072

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