A novel, adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for independent component sorting for block-wise ICA filtering

Abbie Weeks; Jaime Tierney Stanton; Brett Byram

doi:10.1117/12.2582212

15 February 2021 A novel, adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for independent component sorting for block-wise ICA filtering

Abbie Weeks, Jaime Tierney Stanton, Brett Byram

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Proceedings Volume 11602, Medical Imaging 2021: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 116020O (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582212
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Non-contrast ultrasound blood flow imaging is difficult at slow blood flow rates. Singular value decomposition (SVD) and independent component analysis (ICA) are useful for separating tissue, blood, and noise sources for Doppler filtering. In addition, it has been shown that applying SVD and ICA in a block-wise manner further improves source separation; noise within a small block is theoretically more stationary, and thus easier to separate. Yet, there is much discussion on how to select independent components; several methods have been introduced with some success. We present a novel, adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for selecting appropriate independent components for blood flow image filtering that utilizes Kurtosis and Normalized Cross Correlation. Components are clustered based on the Kurtosis and NCC of each component; an optimal number of clusters is chosen using the Silhouette Method. Appropriate clusters are selected based on the Autocorrelation Function of each cluster. Our method was tested on 1 mm/s and 5 mm/s flowrate phantoms containing a 0.6 mm vessel and resulted in average SNR and CNR increases of 6.2 dB and 3.7 dB, respectively, for 1 mm/s blood flow velocities. We demonstrate that our method improves tissue and noise suppression throughout the field of view while maintaining blood flow information.

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Abbie Weeks, Jaime Tierney Stanton, and Brett Byram "A novel, adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for independent component sorting for block-wise ICA filtering", Proc. SPIE 11602, Medical Imaging 2021: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 116020O (15 February 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2582212

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