Deep Learning in Medical Ultrasound Analysis: A Review
Shengfeng Liu,
Yi Wang,
Xin Yang,
Baiying Lei,
Li Liu,
Shawn Xiang Li,
Dong Ni,
Tianfu Wang
Affiliations
Shengfeng Liu
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Yi Wang
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Xin Yang
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Baiying Lei
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Li Liu
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Shawn Xiang Li
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Dong Ni
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Corresponding authors.
Tianfu Wang
National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging & School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Corresponding authors.
Ultrasound (US) has become one of the most commonly performed imaging modalities in clinical practice. It is a rapidly evolving technology with certain advantages and with unique challenges that include low imaging quality and high variability. From the perspective of image analysis, it is essential to develop advanced automatic US image analysis methods to assist in US diagnosis and/or to make such assessment more objective and accurate. Deep learning has recently emerged as the leading machine learning tool in various research fields, and especially in general imaging analysis and computer vision. Deep learning also shows huge potential for various automatic US image analysis tasks. This review first briefly introduces several popular deep learning architectures, and then summarizes and thoroughly discusses their applications in various specific tasks in US image analysis, such as classification, detection, and segmentation. Finally, the open challenges and potential trends of the future application of deep learning in medical US image analysis are discussed. Keywords: Deep learning, Medical ultrasound analysis, Classification, Segmentation, Detection
