Limited angle breast ultrasound tomography with a priori information and artifact removal

Rungroj Jintamethasawat; Yunhao Zhu; Oliver D. Kripfgans; Jie Yuan; Mitchell M. Goodsitt; Paul L. Carson

doi:10.1117/12.2253911

13 March 2017 Limited angle breast ultrasound tomography with a priori information and artifact removal

Rungroj Jintamethasawat, Yunhao Zhu, Oliver D. Kripfgans, Jie Yuan, Mitchell M. Goodsitt, Paul L. Carson

Proceedings Volume 10139, Medical Imaging 2017: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 101390N (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253911
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In B-mode images from dual-sided ultrasound, it has been shown that by delineating structures suspected of being relatively homogeneous, one can enhance limited angle tomography to produce speed of sound images in the same view as X-ray Digital Breast Tomography (DBT). This could allow better breast cancer detection and discrimination, as well as improved registration of the ultrasound and X-ray images, because of the similarity of SOS and X-ray contrast in the breast. However, this speed of sound reconstruction method relies strongly on B-mode or other reflection mode segmentation. If that information is limited or incorrect, artifacts will appear in the reconstructed images. Therefore, the iterative speed of sound reconstruction algorithm has been modified in a manner of simultaneously utilizing the image segmentations and removing most artifacts. The first step of incorporating a priori information is solved by any nonlinearnonconvex optimization method while artifact removal is accomplished by employing the fast split Bregman method to perform total-variation (TV) regularization for image denoising. The proposed method was demonstrated in simplified simulations of our dual-sided ultrasound scanner. To speed these computations two opposed 40-element ultrasound linear arrays with 0.5 MHz center frequency were simulated for imaging objects in a uniform background. The proposed speed of sound reconstruction method worked well with both bent-ray and full-wave inversion methods. This is also the first demonstration of successful full-wave medical ultrasound tomography in the limited angle geometry. Presented results lend credibility to a possible translation of this method to clinical breast imaging.

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Rungroj Jintamethasawat, Yunhao Zhu, Oliver D. Kripfgans, Jie Yuan, Mitchell M. Goodsitt, and Paul L. Carson "Limited angle breast ultrasound tomography with a priori information and artifact removal", Proc. SPIE 10139, Medical Imaging 2017: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 101390N (13 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253911

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