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Papers

(The median citation count of Ultrasonography 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
Utility of fusion imaging for the evaluation of ultrasound quality in hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance	37
Endoscopic ultrasonography is useful for predicting perforation in the endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal tumors originating from the muscularis propria: a retrospective case-control study	36
Ultrasonographic atlas of splenic lesions	35
Optic nerve sheath diameter, strain ratio, and shear wave elastography	34
Comparison of ultrasound-detected and undetected hepatocellular carcinomas: a post-hoc, subgroup analysis from the MAGNUS-HCC surveillance trial	32
A comparison of the diagnostic performance of the O-RADS, RMI4, IOTA LR2, and IOTA SR systems by senior and junior doctors	21
Accuracy of the ultrasound attenuation coefficient for the evaluation of hepatic steatosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	21
Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of solitary hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer: risk factors of local tumor progression-free survival and overall survival	20
The efficiency of contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) combined with EUS elastography for pancreatic cancer diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	20
A prospective comparison of two ultrasound attenuation imaging modes using different frequencies for assessing hepatic steatosis	19
The role of Doppler ultrasonography in the detection and management of nutcracker syndrome	19
Sonazoid-enhanced ultrasonography for noninvasive imaging diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: special emphasis on the 2022 KLCA-NCC guideline	19
Agreement of shear wave and strain elastography according to the size of the region of interest: a study of epidermal cysts	19
Transient elastography with controlled attenuation parameter versus two-dimensional shear wave elastography with attenuation imaging for the evaluation of hepatic steatosis and fibrosis in NAFLD	18
Relationship between endometriosis and uterine cervical elasticity assessed using ultrasound strain elastography	18
Quantitative analysis using intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound in adult-type diffuse gliomas with isocitrate dehydrogenase mutations: association between hemodynamics and molecular features	18
Assessment of thyroid-specific quality of life in patients with benign symptomatic thyroid nodules treated with radiofrequency or ethanol ablation: a prospective multicenter study	17
Predicting the chemotherapeutic response of colorectal cancer liver metastasis using shear-wave elastography	17
Unraveling distinctions between contrast-enhanced ultrasound and CT/MRI for liver mass diagnosis	17
Intraoperative sonography using high-frequency transducer during living Donor liver transplantation with modified right-lobe graft	16
Nerve entrapment syndromes: detection by ultrasound	15
Improving breast ultrasonography education: the impact of AI-based decision support on the performance of non-specialist medical professionals	15
2022 Taiwan clinical multicenter expert consensus and recommendations for thyroid radiofrequency ablation	15
Direct deep learning analysis of three-dimensional automated breast ultrasound videos with reading mode optimization for breast cancer diagnosis	15
Multiparametric ultrasound for upper extremity dialysis access evaluation	15

Contrast-enhanced voiding ultrasonography to detect intrarenal reflux in children: comparison with 99mTc-DMSA renal scans	13
Transperineal versus transrectal prostate fiducial insertion in radiation treatment of prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Supplemental automated breast ultrasound in negative screening mammography: early-stage cancer detection in dense breasts with limited yield in non-dense breasts	12
Essentials for parathyroid imaging and intervention: what radiologists need to know	11
Pelvic ultrasonography of the postpartum uterus in patients presenting to the emergency room with vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain	11
Malignancy risk stratification and subcategorization of K-TIRADS intermediate suspicion thyroid nodules: a retrospective multicenter study	11
Comparison of two different lung ultrasound imaging protocols in COVID-19 pneumonia	11
How to use intestinal ultrasonography in patients with Crohn disease: its role in the assessment of disease activity and disease monitoring in the era of the treat-to-target strategy	11
Applications of artificial intelligence in obstetrics	11
Ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation versus the Sistrunk operation as a primary treatment for thyroglossal duct cysts	10
Evaluation of ultrasound point shear wave elastography reliability in an elasticity phantom	10
Combined accuracy of optic nerve sheath diameter, strain ratio, and shear wave elastography of the optic nerve in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension	9
Role of high-frequency ultrasound in differentiating benign and malignant skin lesions: potential and limitations	9
Shear-wave elastography for the assessment of testicular involvement of hematologic malignancies in children and young adults: a feasibility study	9
Plaque biomarkers from high-frame rate vector flow imaging and shear wave elastography in mild carotid stenosis	9
Analyzing the adoption of radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules using the diffusion of innovations theory: understanding where we are in the United States?	8
How many times should we repeat measurements of the ultrasound-guided attenuation parameter for evaluating hepatic steatosis?	8
Application of O-RADS US combined with MV-Flow to diagnose ovarian-adnexal tumors	8
Contrast enhancement for ultrasound-guided interventions: when to use it and what to expect?	8
Unsupervised speckle noise reduction technique for clinical ultrasound imaging	8
Improving the quality of breast ultrasound examination performed by inexperienced ultrasound doctors with synchronous tele-ultrasound: a prospective, parallel controlled trial	7
Ablation therapy for patients with colorectal liver metastases with and without extrahepatic metastases: evaluation of long-term outcomes and prognostic factors	7
Differentiation of cystic biliary atresia and choledochal cysts using prenatal ultrasonography	7
Vascular compression syndromes: a pictorial review	7
Casting light on the overlooked trigger point of the interosseous muscles in metatarsalgia: insights and treatment strategies	7
Long-term follow-up of the radiofrequency ablation of benign thyroid nodules: the value of additional treatment	7
Accuracy of attenuation imaging in the assessment of pediatric hepatic steatosis: correlation with the controlled attenuation parameter	7
Intelligent handheld ultrasound improving the ability of non-expert general practitioners in carotid examinations for community populations: a prospective and parallel controlled trial	7
Ultrasound imaging for inguinal hernia: a pictorial review	7
Non-invasive evaluation of testicular torsion using ultrasound shear wave elastography: an experimental study	6
Cutting-edge progress of intravascular ultrasound in lower-extremity vascular interventions	6
Usefulness of 2D shear wave elastography for the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis and treatment response in patients with autoimmune hepatitis	6
Ultrasonographic evaluation of patients with abnormal liver function tests in the emergency department	6
The utility of two-dimensional shear wave elastography for predicting prostate cancer: a preliminary study	6
Arterial stiffness in subclinical atherosclerosis quantified with ultrafast pulse wave velocity measurements: a comparison with a healthy population using propensity score matching	6
A simplified approach to ovarian lesions based on the O-RADS US risk stratification and management system	6
Ultrasonographic differential diagnosis of medial elbow pain	6
High-contrast spectroscopic photoacoustic characterization of thermal tissue ablation in the visible spectrum	6
Antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease by 3D ultrasonography using spatiotemporal image correlation with HDlive Flow and HDlive Flow silhouette rendering modes	6
A problem-based approach in musculoskeletal ultrasonography: heel pain in adults	6
Controlled attenuation parameter measured using transient elastography for the noninvasive assessment of macrovesicular steatosis in potential living liver donors	6
Knot-and-ear sign: a pathognomonic ultrasonographic feature of suture granuloma after thyroid surgery	6
Diagnostic performance of ultrasound-derived fat fraction for assessing steatotic liver disease with histopathological results as reference	6
Integration of high-frequency ultrasound with the Global Acne Grading System for prediction of treatment efficiency in acne vulgaris	6
Advanced fibrosis leads to overestimation of steatosis with quantitative ultrasound in individuals without hepatic steatosis	6
Comparison of micro-flow imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in assessing segmental congestion after right living donor liver transplantation	6
Urethral configuration and mobility during urine leaking described using real-time transperineal ultrasonography	6
A preliminary study of shear-wave elastography for the evaluation of varicocele in adolescents and young adults	5
Unexpected hyperechoic lesions of the breast and their correlations with pathology: a pictorial essay	5
Combined application of deep learning and conventional computer vision for kidney ultrasound image classification in chronic kidney disease: preliminary study	5

Hemodynamics in Doppler ultrasonography	5
Evaluation of physical properties and image quality of a breast tissue phantom with glycerol-enhanced polyvinyl chloride plastisol for ultrasound imaging	5
Posterior subependymal germinal matrix hemorrhage as a mild form of hemorrhage in extremely preterm infants: neurodevelopmental outcomes at corrected ages of 18-24 months	5
Intra-individual comparison of two-dimensional shear wave elastography techniques using plane wave imaging and the multi-beam technique: are they interchangeable in measuring liver fibrosis?	5
Risk of thyroid cancer in a lung cancer screening population of the National Lung Screening Trial according to the presence of incidental thyroid nodules detected on low-dose chest CT	5
Artificial intelligence models for the diagnosis and management of liver diseases	5
Combined fine-needle aspiration with core needle biopsy for assessing thyroid nodules: a more valuable diagnostic method?	5
Value of Doppler ultrasonography in predicting clinical outcomes for patients with acute cellular rejection after liver transplantation	5
Comparison between vibration-controlled transient elastography and point shear wave elastography for assessment of hepatic fibrosis based on magnetic resonance elastography	5
Noninvasive assessment of hepatic steatosis using a pathologic reference standard: comparison of CT, MRI, and US-based techniques	5
Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a recent cohort at a tertiary cancer center: incidence and factors associated with major complications and unexpected hospitalizatio	5
Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability between manual segmentation and semi-automated segmentation for carotid vessel wall volume measurements on three-dimensional ultrasonography	5
Two-dimensional shear wave elastography (ElastQ) accurately rules out liver fibrosis and rules in advanced chronic liver disease across liver disease etiologies: a prospective multicenter study	5
Clinical applications of shear wave dispersion imaging for breast lesions: a pictorial essay	5
Pulmonary artery stiffness in fetuses with tetralogy of Fallot	5
Scale-attentional U-Net for the segmentation of the median nerve in ultrasound images	5
Ultrasonographic features of the skin and subcutis: correlations with the severity of breast cancer–related lymphedema	5
Early response evaluation of doxorubicin-nanoparticle-microbubble therapy in orthotopic hepatocellular carcinoma rat model using contrast-enhanced ultrasound and intravoxel incoherent motion-diffusion	5
Prostate gland volume estimation: anteroposterior diameters measured on axial versus sagittal ultrasonography and magnetic resonance images	5
Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for the evaluation of malignant focal liver lesions	5
Shaping the future of <italic>Ultrasonography</italic>: bimonthly publication and global growth	4
Combined use of shear-wave elastography and Doppler ultrasonography in equivocal fibroepithelial lesions of the breast diagnosed by core needle biopsy	4
Role of Doppler US and elastography prior to biopsy to identify candidates for avoidance of surgery following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer	4
Do ACR TI-RADS scores demonstrate unique thyroid molecular profiles?	4
Recognition and appreciation of our peer reviewers: honoring the 2024 best reviewer awards	4
Foot pain in children and adolescents: a problem-based approach in musculoskeletal ultrasonography	4
Quantifying carotid stiffness in a pre-hypertensive population with ultrafast ultrasound imaging	4
Predicting multigenic co-mutations in differentiated thyroid cancer using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography: model development and internal validation	4
Does transperineal ultrasound predict the risk of perineal trauma in women with term pregnancy? A prospective observational study	4
Measuring diaphragmatic excursion using 4-dimensional ultrasound: a feasibility study	4
Thrombus stiffness as an independent predictor of endovascular treatment success in hemodialysis fistulas: a study using ultrasound elastography	4
Ultrasound findings of subpial hemorrhage in neonates	4
A computationally efficient pulse compression method of Barker-coded excitation using a mismatched filter in medical ultrasound imaging	4
Erratum: Comprehensive ultrasonographic evaluation of normal and fibrotic kidneys in a mouse model with an ultra-highfrequency transducer	4
Speckle tracking ultrasonography as a new tool to assess diaphragmatic function: a feasibility study	3
High-spatial-resolution, instantaneous passive cavitation imaging with temporal resolution in histotripsy: a simulation study	3
Feasibility of a deep learning artificial intelligence model for the diagnosis of pediatric ileocolic intussusception with grayscale ultrasonography	3
Washout-parametric imaging with Sonazoid for enhanced differentiation of focal liver lesions	3
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System category M: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Approach to the postnatal sonographic evaluation of prenatally detected abdominopelvic cysts	3
Toward acquisition protocol standardization for estimating liver fat content using ultrasound attenuation coefficient imaging	3
Overcoming the limitations of screening mammography in Japan and Korea: a paradigm shift to personalized breast cancer screening based on ultrasonography	3
Intra-individual comparison of liver stiffness measurements by magnetic resonance elastography and two-dimensional shear-wave elastography in 888 patients	3
Erratum: Noninvasive assessment of hepatic steatosis using a pathologic reference standard: comparison of CT, MRI, and US-based techniques	3
The new definition of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: the role of ultrasound and elastography	3
Characterization of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease–related hepatocellular carcinoma on contrast-enhanced ultrasound with Sonazoid	3
Diagnostic performance of quantitative ultrasonography for hepatic steatosis in a health screening program: a prospective single-center study	3
Assessment of renal stiffness in primary hyperparathyroidism using shear-wave elastography and changes after microwave ablation	3
Ultrasonography-assisted near-infrared spectroscopy imaging enhanced by gold nanorods in a xenograft mouse model of prostate cancer	3
Subcategorization of intermediate suspicion thyroid nodules based on suspicious ultrasonographic findings	3
Prevalence and characteristics of vagus nerve variations on neck ultrasonography	3
Modulation of cell viability, apoptosis, and autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells using therapeutic ultrasound with microbubbles and gemcitabine	3
Percutaneous ablation of liver metastases from colorectal cancer: a comparison between the outcomes of ultrasound guidance and CT guidance using propensity score matching	3