OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control is 30. 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
The Generalized Contrast-to-Noise Ratio: A Formal Definition for Lesion Detectability	219
Automated Lung Ultrasound B-Line Assessment Using a Deep Learning Algorithm	84
Adaptive and Compressive Beamforming Using Deep Learning for Medical Ultrasound	79
Kalman Filter-Based Microbubble Tracking for Robust Super-Resolution Ultrasound Microvessel Imaging	70
A Novel Reconstruction Method for Temperature Distribution Measurement Based on Ultrasonic Tomography	70
Deep Learning to Obtain Simultaneous Image and Segmentation Outputs From a Single Input of Raw Ultrasound Channel Data	69
Fine-Tuning U-Net for Ultrasound Image Segmentation: Different Layers, Different Outcomes	62
Deep Learning for Ultrasonic Crack Characterization in NDE	59
Automatic Pleural Line Extraction and COVID-19 Scoring From Lung Ultrasound Data	58
Deep Neural Network-Based Sinogram Super-Resolution and Bandwidth Enhancement for Limited-Data Photoacoustic Tomography	55
Review on Piezoelectric Actuators Based on High-Performance Piezoelectric Materials	55
Mini-COVIDNet: Efficient Lightweight Deep Neural Network for Ultrasound Based Point-of-Care Detection of COVID-19	49
Displacement Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography Using Pyramidal Convolutional Neural Network	47
A Photoacoustic Imaging Device Using Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUTs)	47
Deep Learning for Ultrasound Image Formation: CUBDL Evaluation Framework and Open Datasets	46
Ultrasound for the Brain: A Review of Physical and Engineering Principles, and Clinical Applications	46
Quantitative Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Applied to the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Fibrosis: The First Clinical Study	45
Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators With Hetero Acoustic Layer (HAL) Structure Using Lithium Tantalate and Quartz	45
Real-Time Automatic Ejection Fraction and Foreshortening Detection Using Deep Learning	45
Design and Fabrication of a Novel Dual-Frequency Confocal Ultrasound Transducer for Microvessels Super-Harmonic Imaging	44
Deep Learning of Spatiotemporal Filtering for Fast Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging	42
Automated Defect Detection From Ultrasonic Images Using Deep Learning	42
High-Figure-of-Merit X-Cut Lithium Niobate MEMS Resonators Operating Around 50 MHz for Large Passive Voltage Amplification in Radio Frequency Applications	42
Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Teleultrasound Based on 5G Network: A New Feasible Strategy for Early Imaging Assessment During COVID-19 Pandemic	40
Real-Time 3-D Imaging Using an Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Phased-Array	40

Transparent High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducer for Photoacoustic Microscopy Application	39
Applications of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: A Comprehensive Review	36
CohereNet: A Deep Learning Architecture for Ultrasound Spatial Correlation Estimation and Coherence-Based Beamforming	36
Automatic Detection of Atherosclerotic Plaque and Calcification From Intravascular Ultrasound Images by Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks	35
Histotripsy Ablation Alters the Tumor Microenvironment and Promotes Immune System Activation in a Subcutaneous Model of Pancreatic Cancer	31
Deep Learning for Automatic Segmentation of Hybrid Optoacoustic Ultrasound (OPUS) Images	30