Abstract
Non-destructive characterization of multi-layered structures that can be accessed from only a single side is important for applications such as well-bore integrity inspection. Existing methods related to Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique (SAFT) rapidly produce acceptable results but with significant artifacts. Recently, ultrasound model-based iterative reconstruction (UMBIR) approaches have shown significant improvements over SAFT. However, even these methods produce ringing artifacts due to the high fractional-bandwidth of the excitation signal.In this paper, we propose a ringing artifact reduction method for ultrasound image reconstruction that uses a multi-agent consensus equilibrium (RARE-MACE) framework. Our approach integrates a physics-based forward model that accounts for the propagation of a collimated ultrasonic beam in multi-layered media, a spatially varying image prior, and a denoiser designed to suppress the ringing artifacts that are characteristic of reconstructions from high-fractional bandwidth ultrasound sensor data. We test our method on simulated and experimental measurements and show substantial improvements in image quality compared to SAFT and UMBIR.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2023 - Proceedings |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 336-340 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728198354 |
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| State | Published - 2023 |
| Event | 30th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2023 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: Oct 8 2023 → Oct 11 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1522-4880 |
Conference
| Conference | 30th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | Malaysia |
| City | Kuala Lumpur |
| Period | 10/8/23 → 10/11/23 |
Funding
A. M. Alanazi was supported by King Saud University. C. A. Bouman was partially supported by the Showalter Trust and by the U.S. Department of Energy. C. A. Bouman and G.T. Buzzard were partially supported by NSF CCF-1763896. S. Venkatakrishnan was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy staff office of the Under Secretary for Science and Energy under the Subsurface Technology and Engineering Research, Development, and Demonstration (Sub-TER) Crosscut program, and the office of Nuclear Energy under the Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program. This manuscript has been supported by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. G. Buzzard was partially supported by NSF CCF-1763896, and C. Bouman was partially supported by the Showalter Trust. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).
Keywords
- RARE-MACE
- UMBIR
- Ultrasound imaging
- multi-layered structures
- ringing artifacts