Adaptation of Dictionary Learning for Electrode Displacement Elastography

Overview

Journal Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2020 Oct 6

PMID 33018401

Authors

Robert M Pohlman

Tomy Varghese

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Abstract

Microwave ablation has become a common treatment method for liver cancers. Unfortunately, microwave ablation success is correlated with clinician's ability for proper electrode placement and assess ablative margins, requiring accurate imaging of liver tumors and ablated zones. Conventionally, ultrasound and computed tomography are utilized for this purpose, yet both have their respective drawbacks. As an alternate approach, electrode displacement elastography offers promise but is still plagued by decorrelation artifacts reducing lesion depiction and visualization. A recent filtering method, namely dictionary representation, has improved contrast-to-noise ratios without reducing delineation contrast. As a supplement to this recent work, this paper evaluates adaptations on this initial dictionary-learning algorithm and applies them to an EDE phantom and 15 in-vivo patient datasets. Two new adaptations of dictionary representations were evaluated, namely a combined dictionary and magnitude-based dictionary representation. When comparing numerical results, the combined dictionary representation algorithm outperforms the previous developed dictionary representation in signal-to-noise (1.54 dB) and contrast-to-noise (0.67 dB) ratios, while a magnitude dictionary representation produces higher noise levels, but improves visualized strain tensor resolution.

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