Research Article
The H-Scan Format for Classification of Ultrasound Scattering
Parker KJ*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Received Date: September 01, 2016; Accepted Date: October 21, 2016; Published Date: October 27, 2016
Citation: Parker KJ (2016) The H-Scan Format for Classification of Ultrasound Scattering. OMICS J Radiol 5:236. doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000236
Copyright: © 2016 Parker KJ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The H-scan is based on a simplified framework for characterizing scattering behavior, and visualizing the results as color-coding of the B-scan image. The methodology begins with a standard convolution model of pulse-echo formation from typical situations, and then matches those results to the mathematics of Gaussian Weighted Hermite Functions. In this framework, echoes can be classified as returning from specific categories of scatterers, and these can be conveniently displayed as colors. Thus, some information not evident in conventional grayscale pulse-echo images can be visualized in the H-scan format.