OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance of Ultrasonography-Based Fractal Parameters in Distinguishing Hepatocellular Carcinoma From Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma	26
Optimization of Ultrasound Phase-Encoded Multiplane Wave Tissue Harmonic Imaging	24
ENAS-B: Combining ENAS With Bayesian Optimization for Automatic Design of Optimal CNN Architectures for Breast Lesion Classification From Ultrasound Images	20
Volumetric B-mode ultrasound and Doppler Imaging: Automatic Tracking With One Single Camera	20
Automatic Quantitative Assessment of Muscle Strength Based on Deep Learning and Ultrasound	16
A Data-Driven Approach for Estimating Temperature Variations Based on B-mode Ultrasound Images and Changes in Backscattered Energy	15
Optimizing Diagnosis of Non-Microcalcified BI-RADS 4 Breast Lesions Using Multimodal Ultrasound Logistic Regression	10
Ultrasound Shear Wave Attenuation Estimates are Sensitive to In situ Fluid Content: In vitro and Ex vivo Studies	9
Human Observer Sensitivity to Temporal Noise During B-Mode Ultrasound Scanning: Characterization and Imaging Implications	8
3D Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography for Musculoskeletal Tissue Assessment Under Compressive Load: A Feasibility Study	8
Corrigendum to “A Data-Driven Approach for Estimating Temperature Variations Based on B-mode Ultrasound Images and Changes in Backscattered Energy”	8
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	8
Ultrasound-Based Kidney Stone Classification Using Kronecker Self-Organizing Map Forward Harmonic Network	8
Nonlinear Harmonic Distortion of Complementary Golay Codes	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
In Vivo Performance of Airway and Lung Ultrasound Enhanced via Inhalable Contrast Agents	6
Histology-based Microstructural Tissue Phantoms for Realistic Ultrasound Simulation	6
Dynamic Evaluation of Skeletal Muscle Voluntary Contraction Function Using Pulsed Wave Doppler Imaging: An Exploratory Study Based on Wearable Ultrasound	6
Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing	5
Pulmonary Transit Time Assessment by CEUS in Healthy Rabbits: Feasibility, and the Effects of UCAs Dilution Concentration	5
2023 Symposium Announcement	5
Clinical Feasibility of 3-D Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging for Targeted Prostate Biopsy Guidance	5
Perfusion Assessment in CEUS Imaging for Estimating Pancreatic Cancer Response to Sonoporation-Enhanced Chemotherapy	5
Abstracts for the 2022 Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization	5

CBAM-RIUnet: Breast Tumor Segmentation With Enhanced Breast Ultrasound and Test-Time Augmentation	4
Deep learning Radiomics Based on Two-Dimensional Ultrasound for Predicting the Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer	4
Differentiation Between Fibro-Adipose Vascular Anomaly and Intramuscular Venous Malformation Using Grey-Scale Ultrasound-Based Radiomics and Machine Learning	4
Element Position Calibration for Matrix Array Transducers with Multiple Disjoint Piezoelectric Panels	4
Regularized Joint Estimator of the Nonlinearity Parameter and Attenuation Coefficient Using a Nonlinear Least-Squares Algorithm	4
Cardiac Segmentation Method Based on Domain Knowledge	4
Image Features and Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: Preliminary Findings	4
Anisotropic Viscoelastic Characterization of In Vitro Muscle During Passive Stretching	4
The Differential Diagnostic Value of Ultrasound Radiomics in TI-RADS 4a Follicular Thyroid Neoplasms	3
MVKD-Trans: A Multi-View Knowledge Distillation Vision Transformer Architecture for Breast Cancer Classification Based on Ultrasound Images	3
Novel Clinical Hybrid Deep Framework for Denoising and Anatomical Segmentation in Challenging Ultrasound Conditions	3
Liver Fibrosis Assessment Using Radiomics of Ultrasound Homodyned-K imaging Based on the Artificial Neural Network Estimator	3
Elastic Modulus Imaging for Breast Application Using a Virtual Fields Based-Method in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography	3
Rapid and Efficient Computation of Cell Paths During Ultrasonic Focusing	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
Regularization-Based 2D Strain Tensor Imaging in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography SAGE Publications	2
Skeletal Muscle Texture Assessment Using Ultrasonography: Comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chronic Kidney Disease	2
Ultrasound Phase Aberrated Point Spread Function Estimation with Convolutional Neural Network: Simulation Study	2
Optimized Reconstruction Procedure of Photoacoustic Imaging for Reflection Artifacts Reduction	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
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
Ultrasonographic Findings and Prognosis of Metastases to the Thyroid Gland	2
Classification and Clinical Application of Ultrasound Contrast Agents	2
Ultrasound-Based Radiomics for the Classification of Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Nephritis in Children	2
Complex-Valued Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolution Neural Network optimized With Giraffe Kicking Optimization Algorithm for Thyroid Nodule Classification in Ultrasound Images	1
Demonstration Study of Reflector-Based Volumetric Speed-of-Sound Imaging With Linear Ultrasound Arrays	1
Ultrasonic Imaging of Deeper Bone Defect Using Virtual Source Synthetic Aperture with Phased Shift Migration: A Phantom Study	1
Breast Tumor Classification using Short-ResNet with Pixel-based Tumor Probability Map in Ultrasound Images	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
Microfabrication of a 16 MHz 1D-pMUT-Array for Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging	1
The Application of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Galactography in Patients With Pathologic Nipple Discharge	1
A Deep Learning-based Method to Extract Lumen and Media-Adventitia in Intravascular Ultrasound Images	1
Predicting Central Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Integration of Two-Dimensional Ultrasound Radiomics with Clinical Features	1
An Ultrasound Radiomics Model for the Early Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer	1
A Review of Quantitative Ultrasound-Based Approaches to Thermometry and Ablation Zone Identification Over the Past Decade	1
Ring-Enhancement on CEUS: Is it Useful in the Differential Diagnosis of Solid Thyroid Nodules?	1