Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Myeong Gee Kim

Seokhwan Oh

Gibbeum Lee

Hyeon-Min Bae

YoungMin Kim

The method of operating an image device comprises receiving an input of virtual tissues modeled with an arbitrary shape and a quantitative feature, simulating a TOF change or a signal strength change of ultrasound data having penetrated the virtual tissues modeled with a speed-of-sound distribution or an attenuation coefficient distribution in a first and in a second direction, and creating an image pair representing the TOF change or the signal strength change, creating a speed-of-sound distribution image or an attenuation coefficient distribution image of each of the virtual tissues as a ground truth of an image pair created in the corresponding virtual tissue, and training a first neural network that reconstruct the speed-of-sound distribution image from an input image pair or training a second neural network that reconstructs the attenuation coefficient distribution image from the input image pair.

Method and apparatus for quantitative imaging using ultrasound data

A method of operating an image device operated by at least one processor is provided. The method of operating an image device comprises generating beamformed RF-mode images including phase shift information for each incident angle by using multi-angle ultrasound-echo data, generating phase shift maps representing a displacement of speckle pattern between adjacent beamformed RF-mode images, and obtaining a speed-of-sound distribution image corresponding to the phase shift maps by using a deep neural network which is trained to reconstruct speed-of-sound distribution of a tissue from training phase shift maps.

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Myeong Gee Kim