Spectral doppler estimation utilizing 2-D spatial information and adaptive signal processing

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1182-1192

  Ekroll, Ingvild K ^a   Torp, Hans ^a   Løvstakken, Lasse ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ESTIMATIONS; CAPON TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL INFORMATION; COLOR FLOW IMAGING; DOPPLER; DOPPLER SIGNALS; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; IN-VIVO; LONG PULSE; MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION; OBSERVATION WINDOW; POWER SPECTRAL; PULSED WAVE; RECEIVE BEAMFORMING; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; TEMPORAL AVERAGING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRANSIT TIME; VELOCITY SPECTRUM;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84862683301     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2308     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. P. Vaitkus and R. Cobbold, "A comparative study and assessment of Doppler ultrasound spectral estimation techniques. Part I: Estimation methods," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 661-672, 1988.
2. P. Vaitkus, R. Cobbold, and K. Johnston, "A comparative study and assessment of Doppler ultrasound spectral estimation techniques. Part II: Methods and results," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 673-688, 1988.
3. H. Talhami and R. Kitney, "Maximum likelihood frequency tracking of the audio pulsed Doppler ultrasound signal using a Kalman filter," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 599-609, 1988.
4. A. Herment and J. Giovanelli, "An adaptive approach to computing the spectrum and mean frequency of Doppler signals," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-26, 1995.
5. M. Allam and J. Greenleaf, "Isomorphism between pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound and direction-of-arrival estimation-Part II: Experimental results," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 923-935, 1996.
6. E. D. Übeyli and I. Güler, "Comparison of eigenvector methods with classical and model-based methods in analysis of internal carotid arterial Doppler signals," Comput. Biol. Med., vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 473-493, 2003.
7. M. Allam and J. Greenleaf, "Isomorphism between pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound and direction-of-arrival estimation-Part I: Basic principles," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 911-922, 1996.
8. J. Capon, "High resolution frequency-wavenumber spectrum analysis," Proc. IEEE, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1408-1418, 1969.
9. R. Lacoss, "Data adaptive spectral analysis methods," Geophysics, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 661-675, 1971.
10. J. Li and P. Stoica, "An adaptive filtering approach to spectral estimation and SAR imaging," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1469-1484, 1996.
11. P. Stoica and R. Moses, Spectral Analysis of Signals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
12. F. Gran, A. Jakobsson, and J. Jensen, "Adaptive spectral Doppler estimation," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 56, no. 4, p. 700-714, 2009.
13. K. Hansen, F. Gran, M. Pedersen, I. Holfort, J. Jensen, and M. Nielsen, "In-vivo validation of fast spectral velocity estimation techniques," Ultrasonics, vol. 50, no. 1, p. 52-59, 2009.
14. D. Shattuck, M. D. Weinshenker, S. Smith, and O. von Ramm, "Explososcan: A parallel processing technique for high speed ultrasound imaging with linear phased arrays," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 1273-1282, 1984.
15. O. von Ramm, S. Smith, and H. Pavy, "High-speed ultrasound volumetric imaging system-Part II: Parallel processing and image display," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 109-115, 1991.
16. P. Stoica, A. Jakobsson, and J. Li, "Matched-filter bank interpretation of some spectral estimators," Signal Process., vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 45-59, 1998.
17. J. G. Proakis and D. G. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing. Principles, Algorithms and Applications, 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007.
18. D. Feldman and L. Griffiths, "A projection approach for robust adaptive beamforming," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 867-876, 1994.
19. J. Goldstein and S. Reed, "Reduced-rank adaptive filtering," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 492-496, 1997.
20. J.-F. Synnevåg, A. Austeng, and S. Holm, "Adaptive beamforming applied to medical ultrasound imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1606-1613, 2007.
21. H. Torp, K. Kristoffersen, and B. Angelsen, "Autocorrelation techniques in color flow imaging: Signal model and statistical properties of the autocorrelation estimates," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 604-612, 1994.
22. A. Papoulis and S. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, 3rd ed., New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
23. A. Jakobsson and P. Stoica, "Combining Capon and APES for estimation of spectral lines," Circuits Syst. Signal Process., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 159-169, 2000.
24. D. Feldman, "An analysis of the projection method for robust adaptive beamforming," IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag., vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 1023-1030, 1997.
25. F. Schlindweind and D. Evans, "Selection of the order of autoregressive models for spectral analysis of Doppler ultrasound signals," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 81-91, 1989.
26. A. Fort, C. Manfredi, and S. Rocchi, "Adaptive SVD-based AR model order determination for time-frequency analysis of Doppler ultrasound signals," Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 793-805, 1995.
27. F. Forsberg, "On the usefulness of singular value decomposition-ARMA models in Doppler ultrasound," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 416-426, 1991.
28. J.-F. Synnevåg, A. Austeng, and S. Holm, "Benefits of minimumvariance beamforming in medical ultrasound imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 1868-1879, 2009.
29. H. Torp, "Clutter rejection filters in color flow imaging: A theoretical approach," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 417-424, 1997.
30. T. Hergum, T. G. Bjastad, L. Løvstakken, K. Kristoffersen, and H. Torp, "Reducing color flow artifacts caused by parallel beamforming," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 830-838, 2010.
31. J. Bercoff, G. Montaldo, T. Loupas, D. Savery, F. Meandzieandre, M. Fink, and M. Tanter, "Ultrafast compound Doppler imaging: Providing full blood flow characterization," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 134-147, Jan. 2011.