OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ultrasonic Imaging is 3. 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
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
Human Observer Sensitivity to Temporal Noise During B-Mode Ultrasound Scanning: Characterization and Imaging Implications	8
A Streamlined Method for Placement of Diverging-Wave Virtual Sources for Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging	7
Toward Real-Time GPU Implementation of Diverging Beam With Synthetic Aperture Technique With Non-linear Beamforming for a Curvilinear Array	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
Temperature Distribution Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Tomography Based on Compressed Sensing	5
Abstracts for the 2022 Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization	5
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
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

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
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
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