Adaptive hybrid flow measurement of color Doppler and speckle image velocimetry. 2020

Jun Hong Park, and Woorak Choi, and Sang Joon Lee
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77, Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang 37679, Republic of Korea.

Color Doppler (CD) ultrasound has been commonly employed in biomedical field to get hemodynamic information. However, reliable diagnostic evaluation and criteria for vascular diseases may not be provided due to technical limitations of CD, including single-directional measurement, aliasing, and limited imaging conditions. In this study, adaptive hybrid (AH) scheme is proposed to enhance measurement accuracy of conventional CD. It can improve the accuracy of velocity field measurement by replacing erroneous vectors in the measured CD results with the correct vectors obtained from a speckle image velocimetry (SIV) technique. The performance of the proposed AH technique was validated through in vitro experiments for various flow rates and insonation angle conditions, comparing conventional velocimetry techniques. The in vitro experiments demonstrated that the AH technique could measure flow velocity with better accuracy than the CD with bias errors of below 0.7 mm/s. The clinical applicability of the AH was also validated by measuring venous flows at human lower extremity, checking constant volumetric flow rates. Flow rates measured by the AH were maintained along the vein, while the CD and SIV results varied. As a result, the AH can provide improved measurement accuracy without installing a new supplementary equipment. It would be effectively utilized for analyzing flow dynamics and diagnosing valve-related disease.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007089 Image Enhancement Improvement of the quality of a picture by various techniques, including computer processing, digital filtering, echocardiographic techniques, light and ultrastructural MICROSCOPY, fluorescence spectrometry and microscopy, scintigraphy, and in vitro image processing at the molecular level. Image Quality Enhancement,Enhancement, Image,Enhancement, Image Quality,Enhancements, Image,Enhancements, Image Quality,Image Enhancements,Image Quality Enhancements,Quality Enhancement, Image,Quality Enhancements, Image
D008297 Male Males
D001783 Blood Flow Velocity A value equal to the total volume flow divided by the cross-sectional area of the vascular bed. Blood Flow Velocities,Flow Velocities, Blood,Flow Velocity, Blood,Velocities, Blood Flow,Velocity, Blood Flow
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D000465 Algorithms A procedure consisting of a sequence of algebraic formulas and/or logical steps to calculate or determine a given task. Algorithm
D014159 Transducers Any device or element which converts an input signal into an output signal of a different form. Examples include the microphone, phonographic pickup, loudspeaker, barometer, photoelectric cell, automobile horn, doorbell, and underwater sound transducer. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed) Transducer
D014652 Vascular Diseases Pathological processes involving any of the BLOOD VESSELS in the cardiac or peripheral circulation. They include diseases of ARTERIES; VEINS; and rest of the vasculature system in the body. Disease, Vascular,Diseases, Vascular,Vascular Disease
D018615 Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color Ultrasonography applying the Doppler effect, with the superposition of flow information as colors on a gray scale in a real-time image. This type of ultrasonography is well-suited to identifying the location of high-velocity flow (such as in a stenosis) or of mapping the extent of flow in a certain region. Doppler Ultrasonography, Color,Ultrasonography, Color Doppler,Color Doppler Ultrasonography,Color Ultrasonography, Doppler,Doppler Color Ultrasonography,Ultrasonography, Doppler Color

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