Comparison of wall filter algorithms for ultrasonic microvascular imaging.
10.7507/1001-5515.202203032
- Author:
Baoyu WANG
1
;
Miao ZHANG
1
;
Ruilin LIU
1
;
Shi ZHANG
1
Author Information
1. School of Computer Science & Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, P. R. China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Micro flow imaging;
Singular value decomposition;
Ultrasonic imaging;
Wall filter
- MeSH:
Algorithms;
Humans;
Microvessels/diagnostic imaging*;
Signal-To-Noise Ratio;
Ultrasonics;
Ultrasonography/methods*
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2022;39(4):740-748
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The design of wall filter in ultrasonic microvascular imaging directly affects the resolution of blood flow imaging. We compared the traditional polynomial regression wall filter algorithm and two algorithms based on singular value decomposition (SVD), Full-SVD algorithm and RS-RSVD algorithm (random sampling based on random singular value decomposition) through experiments with simulated data and human renal entity data imaging experiments. The experimental results showed that the filtering effect of the traditional polynomial regression wall filter algorithm was limited, however, Full-SVD algorithm and RS-RSVD algorithm could better extract the micro blood flow signal from the tissue or noise signal. When RS-RSVD algorithm was randomly divided into 16 blocks, the signal-to-noise ratio was the same as that of Full-SVD algorithm, reduces the contrast-to-noise ratio by 2.05 dB, and reduces the execution time by 90.41%. RS-RSVD algorithm can improve the operation efficiency and is more conducive to the real-time imaging of high frame rate ultrasound microvessels.
