2022 News Archive
"Improving Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Incorporating Raw Ultrasound Parameters into Machine Learning"
December 1, 2022
A paper authored by Jihye Baek, Professor Kevin Parker, and Dr. Avice O'Connell (Imaging Sciences) titled "Improving breast cancer diagnosis by incorporating raw ultrasound parameters into machine learning" has been published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology. The abstract follows, and more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"No Sonographer, No Radiologist: Assessing Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence on Breast Ultrasound Volume Sweep Imaging cans"
November 23, 2022
A paper co-authored by Professor Kevin Parker and collaborators from URMC (Thomas Marini, Timothy M. Baran, Yu Zhao, Galen Brennan, Jonah Kan, Steven Meng, Ann Dozier, Avice O'Connell), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Benjamin Castaneda, Stefano Romero), and Samsung (Zaegyoo Hah, Moon Ho Park) titled "No sonographer, no radiologist: assessing accuracy of artificial intelligence on breast ultrasound volume sweep imaging scans" has been published in PLOS Digital Health. The abstract follows, and more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Theory of Sleep/Wake Cycles Affecting Brain Elastography"
November 16, 2022
A paper co-authored by MD/PhD student Gary Ge, Professor Kevin Parker, Professor Jannick Rolland (Institute of Optics), and Drs. Wei Song and Maikan Nedergaard (Center for Translational Neuromedicine) titled "Theory of sleep/wake cycles affecting brain elastography" has been published in Physics in Medicine and Biology. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"The Spherical Harmonic Family of Beampatterns"
November 15, 2022
A paper co-authored by Professor Kevin Parker and Professor Miguel Alonso (Institute of Optics) titled "The spherical harmonic family of beampatterns" has been published in Acoustics. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Breast Ultrasound Volume Sweep Imaging: a New Horizon in Expanding Imaging Access for Breast Cancer Detection"
July 8, 2022
A paper co-authored by Professor Kevin Parker and collaborators from URMC (Thomas Marini, Radha Iyer, Timothy M. Baran, Omar Nemer, Ann Dozier, Yu Zhao, William Serratelli, Gregory Matos, Shania Ali, Bishoy Ghobryal, Adam Visca, Avice O'Connell) and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Benjamin Castaneda) titled "Breast ultrasound volume sweep imaging: a new horizon in expanding imaging access for breast cancer detection" has been published in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. The abstract follows, and more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Comprehensive Experimental Assessments of Rheological Models’ Performance in Elastography of Soft Tissues"
July 1, 2022
A paper co-authored by PhD student Sedy Poul, MD/PhD student Gary Ge, former PhD student/postdoctoral associate Dr. Juvenal Ormachea (currently with Verasonics, Inc.), and Professor Kevin Parker titled "Comprehensive experimental assessments of rheological models’ performance in elastography of soft tissues" has been published in Acta BioMaterialia. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Power Laws Prevail in Medical Ultrasound"
April 20, 2022
A paper authored by Professor Kevin Parker titled "Power laws prevail in medical ultrasound" has been published inPhysics in Medicine and Biology. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"A Preliminary Study of Liver Fat Quantification Using Reported Longitudinal Ultrasound Speed of Sound and Attenuation Parameters"
April 1, 2022
A paper co-authored by former PhD student/postdoctoral associate Juvenal Ormachea (currently with Verasonics, Inc.) and Professor Kevin Parker titled "A preliminary study of liver fat quantification using reported longitudinal ultrasound speed of sound and attenuation parameters" has been published in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Generalized Formulations Producing a Burr Distribution of Speckle Statistics"
March 1, 2022
A paper co-authored by PhD student Sedy Poul and Professor Kevin Parker titled "Generalized formulations producing a Burr distribution of speckle statistics" has been published in the Journal of Medical Imaging. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Assessing Corneal Cross-Linking with Reverberant 3D Optical Coherence Elastography"
February 14, 2022
A paper co-authored by MD/PhD student Gary Ge, Professor Kevin Parker, Professor Jannick Rolland (Institute of Optics), and collaborators at Glaukos Corporation (Behrouz Tavakol, David Usher, and Desmond Adler) titled "Assessing corneal cross-linking with reverberant 3D optical coherence elastography" has been published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue Reading"Disease-Specific Imaging Utilizing Support Vector Machine Classification of H-scan Parameters: Assessment of Steatosis in a Rat Model"
February 1, 2022
A paper co-authored by PhD student Jihye Baek, Professor Kevin Parker, and collaborators at the University of Texas at Dallas (Dr. Lokesh Basavarajappa and Dr. Kenneth Hoyt) titled "Disease-specific imaging utilizing support vector machine classification of H-scan parameters: assessment of steatosis in a rat model" has been published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. The abstract follows; more information can be found here.
Continue ReadingSPIE BiOS 2022
January 27, 2022
Congratulations to PhD student Sedy Poul and MD/PhD student Gary Ge on their accepted abstracts and presentations at the SPIE BiOS conference which took place in San Francisco, CA from January 22-27, 2022. Part of SPIE Photonics West, BiOS focuses on biomedical optics.
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