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Tumor localization in automated whole breast ultrasound (ABUS) images is an important and challenging task in a computer-aided detection (CAD) system. In this study, a completely automatic tumor detection method using the local phase information was proposed to accurately locate the tumor in ABUS images, thus accelerate the segmenting process. The phase in the max-energy orientation (PMO) image of...
In view of the inherent speckle noise in medical ultrasound images, a novel method is proposed based on the blind deconvolution and the Maximum-Likelihood (ML) filtering. Firstly, the point spread function (PSF) is blindly estimated based on the complex-cepstrum filtering; then the PSF is input into a Wiener Filter in order to recover the tissue reflectivity. Secondly, the reflectivity is reasonably...
Muscle fatigue is an exercise-induced reduction in the maximal capacity of muscle to produce force or power output. The continuous changes of brachialis pennation angles during the fatiguing isometric contraction was investigated in this study. The muscle torque, surface electromyography (SEMG) and ultrasound image of brachialis were continuously recorded during the process of isometric contraction...
Ultrasound imaging has been widely used to investigate the morphological changes during skeletal muscle contraction. In this study, the ultrasound images were recorded from extensor muscle during finger flexion, and the optical flow algorithm was used to recognize the muscle deformation for different fingers' flexions. The preliminary results demonstrated that the directions of optical flow and deformation...
Most of the commercial upper-limb externally powered prosthetic devices are controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals. We previously proposed using the real-time change of muscle thickness detected using ultrasound, namely sonomyography (SMG), for the control of prostheses. In this study, we compared the performance of subjects using 1-D SMG signal and surface EMG signal, using a discrete target...
Nowadays, most of the commercial upper-limb externally powered prosthetic devices are controlled by electromyography (EMG) signal. It is detected from the remaining muscles of amputated arms to control the prostheses. However, there are some inherent limitations of EMG control, such as muscle cross talk. On the other hand, it has been demonstrated that the muscle thickness change collected by ultrasound...
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