In silico simulation of liver crack detection using ultrasonic shear wave imaging

BMC Medical Imaging
Erwei NieYanying Zhu

Abstract

Liver trauma is an important source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A timely detection and precise evaluation of traumatic liver injury and the bleeding site is necessary. There is a need to develop better imaging modalities of hepatic injuries to increase the sensitivity of ultrasonic imaging techniques for sites of hemorrhage caused by cracks. In this study, we conduct an in silico simulation of liver crack detection and delineation using an ultrasonic shear wave imaging (USWI) based method. We simulate the generation and propagation of the shear wave in a liver tissue medium having a crack using COMSOL. Ultrasound radio frequency (RF) signal synthesis and the two-dimensional speckle tracking algorithm are applied to simulate USWI in a medium with randomly distributed scatterers. Crack detection is performed using the directional filter and the edge detection algorithm rather than the conventional inversion algorithm. Cracks with varied sizes and locations are studied with our method and the crack localization results are compared with the given crack. Our pilot simulation study shows that, by using USWI combined with a directional filter cum edge detection technique, the near-end edge of the crack can be detected in al...Continue Reading

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