OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ultrasonic Imaging is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Classification of Breast Masses on Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography using Convolutional Neural Networks	32
Deep Learning for Carotid Plaque Segmentation using a Dilated U-Net Architecture	27
A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Automated Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumors From Ultrasound Images	19
Artificial Intelligence Medical Ultrasound Equipment: Application of Breast Lesions Detection	16
Burr, Lomax, Pareto, and Logistic Distributions from Ultrasound Speckle	13
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Uterine Disorders: A Systematic Review	13
Fast and Accurate U-Net Model for Fetal Ultrasound Image Segmentation	13
Application of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Differential Diagnosis of Different Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer	12
Assessment of Axillary Lymph Nodes for Metastasis on Ultrasound Using Artificial Intelligence	11
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Image-based Texture Features Extracted from Static B-mode Ultrasound Images in Distinguishing between Benign and Malignant Ovarian Masses	11
Fourier-based Synthetic-aperture Imaging for Arbitrary Transmissions by Cross-correlation of Transmitted and Received Wave-fields	10
Quantitative Muscle Ultrasonography Using 2D Textural Analysis: A Novel Approach to Assess Skeletal Muscle Structure and Quality in Chronic Kidney Disease	10
Automatic Measurement of Pennation Angle from Ultrasound Images using Resnets	10
Simultaneous Segmentation of Fetal Hearts and Lungs for Medical Ultrasound Images via an Efficient Multi-scale Model Integrated With Attention Mechanism	10
Skeletal Muscle Fatigue State Evaluation with Ultrasound Image Entropy	10
Liver Fibrosis Assessment Using Radiomics of Ultrasound Homodyned-K imaging Based on the Artificial Neural Network Estimator	9
Ultrasonic Imaging of High-contrasted Objects Based on Full-waveform Inversion: Limits under Fluid Modeling	8
Automatic Lumen Border Detection in IVUS Images Using Deep Learning Model and Handcrafted Features	8
Spatial-frequency Analysis of the Anatomical Differences in Hamstring Muscles	8
In Vivo Label-Free Observation of Tumor-Related Blood Vessels in Small Animals Using a Newly Designed Photoacoustic 3D Imaging System	8
An Ultrasound Image Enhancement Method Using Neutrosophic Similarity Score	8
An Automatic Biopsy Needle Detection and Segmentation on Ultrasound Images Using a Convolutional Neural Network	7
Fully Automatic Measurement of Intima-Media Thickness in Ultrasound Images of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Improved Otsu’s Method and Adaptive Wind Driven Optimization	7
A Deep Learning-based Method to Extract Lumen and Media-Adventitia in Intravascular Ultrasound Images	7
A Review of Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Approaches to Thermometry and Ablation Zone Identification Over the Past Decade	6

Automated Pleural Line Detection Based on Radon Transform Using Ultrasound	5
Computation of Photoacoustic Absorber Size from Deconvolved Photoacoustic Signal Using Estimated System Impulse Response	5
Acoustic-Field Beamforming for Low-Power Portable Ultrasound	5
Sodium Alginate Ultrasound Phantom for Medical Education	5
Diagnostic Performance of Muscle Echo Intensity and Fractal Dimension for the Detection of Frailty Phenotype	4
Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing	4
Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Images of the Common Carotid Artery Based on Integer and Fractional-Order Total Variation	3
An Improved Parameter Estimator of the Homodyned K Distribution Based on the Maximum Likelihood Method for Ultrasound Tissue Characterization	3
Boundary-oriented Network for Automatic Breast Tumor Segmentation in Ultrasound Images	3
Efficacy of High Temporal Frequency Photoacoustic Guidance of Laser Ablation Procedures	3
Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging through Adaptive Integrated Transmitting-Receiving Beamformer	3
Single Versus Multi-channel Dispersion Analysis of Ultrasonic Guided Waves Propagating in Long Bones	3
A Low-complexity Minimum-variance Beamformer Based on Orthogonal Decomposition of the Compounded Subspace	3
Toward Quantitative and Operator-independent Quasi-static Ultrasound Elastography: An Ex Vivo Feasibility Study	3
Nipple Localization in Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound Coronal Scans Using Ensemble Learning	2
Regularization-Based 2D Strain Tensor Imaging in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography SAGE Publications	2
Ultrasonographic Detection of Vascularity of Focal Breast Lesions: Microvascular Imaging Versus Conventional Color and Power Doppler Imaging	2
Automated Ultrasound Measurement of the Inferior Vena Cava: An Animal Study	2
A Geometric Model of Ultrasound Backscatter to Describe Microstructural Anisotropy of Tissue	2
Is There a Difference Between the Joint Ultrasounds of Healthy Women and Men? A Study With Small, Medium, and Large Joints	2