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Detecting Stripe Artifacts in Ultrasound Images

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Brain perfusion diseases such as acute ischemic stroke are detectable through computed tomography (CT)-/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based methods. An alternative approach makes use of ultrasound imaging. In this low-cost bedside method, noise and artifacts degrade the imaging process. Especially stripe artifacts show a similar signal behavior compared to acute stroke or brain perfusion diseases. This document describes how stripe artifacts can be detected and eliminated in ultrasound images obtained through harmonic imaging (HI). On the basis of this new method, both proper identification of areas with critically reduced brain tissue perfusion and classification between brain perfusion defects and ultrasound stripe artifacts are made possible.

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The authors would like to thank Toni W. Vomweg and Sarah M. Hilbert, CADMEI GmbH, Germany, for their assistance and valuable input.

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  1. CADMEI GmbH, Otto-Hahn-Str. 6, 55424, Ingelheim, Germany

    Adam Maciak

  2. Institute for Signal Processing, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Christian Kier & Ulrich G. Hofmann

  3. Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Holstein, Germany

    Günter Seidel & Karsten Meyer-Wiethe

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Maciak, A., Kier, C., Seidel, G. et al. Detecting Stripe Artifacts in Ultrasound Images. J Digit Imaging 22, 548–557 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-007-9049-0

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