Current Research
Paper:Y. Yue, and H.D. Tagare, Ultrasound Segmentation By Directly Modeling the Posterior Distribution", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. (coming)
Paper:Y. Yue, H.D. Tagare,E.L. Madsen, G.R. Frank, and M.A. Hobson Comprehensive Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm, Medical Image Analysis
Paper:Y. Yue, H.D. Tagare, E.L. Madsen, G.R. Frank, and M.A. Hobson, Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultra- sound Segmentation Algorithm with a Phantom Study, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2008, New York, NY
Paper:Y. Yue, and H.D. Tagare, Evaluation of a Level Set Segmentation Method for Cardiac Ultrasound Images, SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, San Diego, CA
Cardiac ultrasound phantom
Research in my ph.D.
2D ultrasound image denoising using nonlinear multiscale wavelet diffusion
Ultrasound speckle is the result of the diffuse scattering, which occurs when an ultrasound pulse randomly interferes with the small particles or objects on a scale comparable to the sound wavelength. Speckle is an inherent property of an ultrasound image, and is modeled as spatial correlated multiplicative noise. In most cases, it is considered a contaminating factor that severely degrades image quality.Paper: Y. Yue, M.M. Croitoru, A. Bidani, J.B. Zwischenberger, and J.W. Clark Jr.,Nonlinear Multiscale Wavelet Diffusion for Speckle Suppression and Edge Enhancement in Ultrasound Images, IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging. 2006 Mar;25(3):297-311.
Envelope-detected ultrasound image
Log-compressed ultrasound image
3D ultrasound image denoising
Paper: Y. Yue and J.W. Clark Jr.,Speckle suppression for 3-D ultrasound images using nonlinear Multiscale Wavelet Diffusion, SPIE Medical Imaging 2007 , San Diego, CA.
Paper: Y. Yue, J.W. Clark Jr., and D.S. Khoury,Speckle Tracking in Intracardiac Echocardiography for the Assessment of Myocardial Deformation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. (in press)
Paper: J. Wang, D.S. Khoury, Y. Yue, G. Torre-Amione and S.F. Nagueh,Preserved left ventricular twist nd circumferential deformation, but depressed longitudinal and radial deformation in patients with diastolic heart failure, European Heart Journal, vol. 29, No. 10, 1283-9, May, 2008
Paper: J. Wang, D.S. Khoury, Y. Yue, G. Torre-Amione and S.F. Nagueh,Left ventricular untwisting rate by speckle tracking echocardiography, Circulation, vol.116, No.22, 2580-6, Nov. 2007.
ICE images in mid LV at end diastole (left) and end systole (right).Arrows indicate motion field of the LV myocardium during systole (left) and diastole (right). Intervals for motion fields are indicated by vertical bars on corresponding ECG
Segmentation
Registration
