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Papers

(The median citation count of Ultrasonic Imaging is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance of Ultrasonography-Based Fractal Parameters in Distinguishing Hepatocellular Carcinoma From Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma	49
Volumetric B-mode ultrasound and Doppler Imaging: Automatic Tracking With One Single Camera	35
A Data-Driven Approach for Estimating Temperature Variations Based on B-mode Ultrasound Images and Changes in Backscattered Energy	23
ENAS-B: Combining ENAS With Bayesian Optimization for Automatic Design of Optimal CNN Architectures for Breast Lesion Classification From Ultrasound Images	23
Automatic Quantitative Assessment of Muscle Strength Based on Deep Learning and Ultrasound	18
Ultrasound Shear Wave Attenuation Estimates are Sensitive to In situ Fluid Content: In vitro and Ex vivo Studies	16
Nonlinear Harmonic Distortion of Complementary Golay Codes	15
Development and Assessment of a Predictive Model for Ki-67 Expression Using Ultrasound Indicators and Non-Morphological Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters Before Breast Cancer Therapy	13
3D Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Musculoskeletal Tissue Assessment Under Compressive Load: A Feasibility Study	10
Human Observer Sensitivity to Temporal Noise During B-Mode Ultrasound Scanning: Characterization and Imaging Implications	8
Corrigendum to “A Data-Driven Approach for Estimating Temperature Variations Based on B-mode Ultrasound Images and Changes in Backscattered Energy”	8
In Vivo Performance of Airway and Lung Ultrasound Enhanced via Inhalable Contrast Agents	8
Dynamic Evaluation of Skeletal Muscle Voluntary Contraction Function Using Pulsed Wave Doppler Imaging: An Exploratory Study Based on Wearable Ultrasound	8
Toward Real-Time GPU Implementation of Diverging Beam With Synthetic Aperture Technique With Non-linear Beamforming for a Curvilinear Array	7
A Streamlined Method for Placement of Diverging-Wave Virtual Sources for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging	7
Pulmonary Transit Time Assessment by CEUS in Healthy Rabbits: Feasibility, and the Effects of UCAs Dilution Concentration	6
Histology-based Microstructural Tissue Phantoms for Realistic Ultrasound Simulation	6
Clinical Feasibility of 3-D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging for Targeted Prostate Biopsy Guidance	5
2023 Symposium Announcement	5
Perfusion Assessment in CEUS Imaging for Estimating Pancreatic Cancer Response to Sonoporation-Enhanced Chemotherapy	5
Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing	5
Abstracts for the 2022 Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization	5
Differentiation Between Fibro-Adipose Vascular Anomaly and Intramuscular Venous Malformation Using Grey-Scale Ultrasound-Based Radiomics and Machine Learning	4
Image Features and Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: Preliminary Findings	4
CBAM-RIUnet: Breast Tumor Segmentation With Enhanced Breast Ultrasound and Test-Time Augmentation	4

Element Position Calibration for Matrix Array Transducers with Multiple Disjoint Piezoelectric Panels	4
Cardiac Segmentation Method Based on Domain Knowledge	4
Regularized Joint Estimator of the Nonlinearity Parameter and Attenuation Coefficient Using a Nonlinear Least-Squares Algorithm	3
Elastic Modulus Imaging for Breast Application Using a Virtual Fields Based-Method in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography	3
The Differential Diagnostic Value of Ultrasound Radiomics in TI-RADS 4a Follicular Thyroid Neoplasms	3
Segmentation Enhanced Elastic Image Registration for 2D Speckle Tracking Echocardiography—Performance Study In Silico	3
Novel Clinical Hybrid Deep Framework for Denoising and Anatomical Segmentation in Challenging Ultrasound Conditions	3
MVKD-Trans: A Multi-View Knowledge Distillation Vision Transformer Architecture for Breast Cancer Classification Based on Ultrasound Images	3
Ultrasound Patterns and Disease Progression in Medullary Sponge Kidney in Adults	3
Development of a Polymer Ultrasound Contrast Agent Incorporating Nested Carbon Nanodots	3
Deep learning Radiomics Based on Two-Dimensional Ultrasound for Predicting the Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer	3
Liver Fibrosis Assessment Using Radiomics of Ultrasound Homodyned-K imaging Based on the Artificial Neural Network Estimator	3
Rapid and Efficient Computation of Cell Paths During Ultrasonic Focusing	2
In Vivo Label-Free Observation of Tumor-Related Blood Vessels in Small Animals Using a Newly Designed Photoacoustic 3D Imaging System	2
Synthetic Aperture Ultrasound Imaging through Adaptive Integrated Transmitting-Receiving Beamformer	2
Skeletal Muscle Texture Assessment Using Ultrasonography: Comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chronic Kidney Disease	2
Ultrasonographic Findings and Prognosis of Metastases to the Thyroid Gland	2
Application Value of Ultrasound Elastography Combined With Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) Quantitative Analysis in Differentiation of Nodular Fibrocystic Changes of the Breast From Invasive Ducta	2
Optimized Reconstruction Procedure of Photoacoustic Imaging for Reflection Artifacts Reduction	2
Regularization-Based 2D Strain Tensor Imaging in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography SAGE Publications	2
Classification and Clinical Application of Ultrasound Contrast Agents	2
Ultrasound-Based Radiomics for the Classification of Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Nephritis in Children	2
Ring-Enhancement on CEUS: Is it Useful in the Differential Diagnosis of Solid Thyroid Nodules?	1
A Deep Learning-based Method to Extract Lumen and Media-Adventitia in Intravascular Ultrasound Images	1
Demonstration Study of Reflector-Based Volumetric Speed-of-Sound Imaging With Linear Ultrasound Arrays	1
A Review of Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Approaches to Thermometry and Ablation Zone Identification Over the Past Decade	1
The Application of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Galactography in Patients With Pathologic Nipple Discharge	1
An Ultrasound Radiomics Model for the Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer	1
Complex-Valued Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolution Neural Network optimized With Giraffe Kicking Optimization Algorithm for Thyroid Nodule Classification in Ultrasound Images	1
Microfabrication of a 16 MHz 1D-pMUT-Array for Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging	1
Breast Tumor Classification using Short-ResNet with Pixel-based Tumor Probability Map in Ultrasound Images	1
Ultrasonic Imaging of Deeper Bone Defect Using Virtual Source Synthetic Aperture with Phased Shift Migration: A Phantom Study	1
Prediction of Renal Function 1 Year After Transplantation Using Machine Learning Methods Based on Ultrasound Radiomics Combined With Clinical and Imaging Features	1
The Effect of Mixing Iodinated Contrast Media and Ultrasound Contrast Agents on Subharmonic Signals	1
UITC 2025 ABSTRACTS	1
Ultrasound Phase Aberrated Point Spread Function Estimation with Convolutional Neural Network: Simulation Study	1