The study developed deep‑learning pipelines using B‑mode and shear wave elastography (SWE) ultrasound images to stage fibrosis and identify at‑risk metabolic dysfunction‑associated steatohepatitis (MASH) in patients with MASLD. Across 250 examinations, SWE‑based learning consistently outperformed B‑mode learning, achieving higher AUROC scores for fibrosis stages F≥2, F≥3, and F4. End‑to‑end SWE models matched operator‑guided SWE performance for fibrosis staging.
By Guangyi Zhang, Xiaohong Wang, Eugene Cheah, Peng Guo, Brian A. Telfer, Theodore T. Pierce, Anthony E. Samir
arXiv:2607. 12054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast ultrasound is widely used for screening, yet automated analysis remains challenging due to speckle noise, acquisition variability, and weak separation of benign and malignant cases in standard ultrasound imaging.
By Sabahattin Mert Daloglu, Ceren Coskun, Harvey Castro, Soner Hacihaliloglu, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
Breast ultrasound is widely used for screening, yet automated analysis remains challenging due to speckle noise, acquisition variability, and weak separation of benign and malignant cases in standard ultrasound imaging. Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently emerged as a promising approach by leveraging relationships among similar patient samples.
The paper introduces an imaging-based method that uses large-scale computer vision models to analyze routine abdominal ultrasound images for predicting cirrhosis decompensation. It extracts predictive features beyond traditional laboratory risk scores, offering a non-invasive, low-cost, and scalable approach for early risk stratification. The framework combines automated ultrasound processing with modern deep learning to identify high-risk patients before clinical deterioration occurs.
By Guangyi Zhang, Peiyun Ni, Eugene Cheah, Rajat Chandra, Peng Guo, Raymond T. Chung, Anthony E. Samir
UltraPIPS introduces domain‑specific foundation models for measuring perceptual similarity in B‑mode ultrasound images. The study shows that ultrasound‑trained LPIPS backbones better correlate with downstream tasks such as classification, segmentation, and reconstruction than natural‑image or general medical models. Optimizing LPIPS loss with an ultrasound backbone yields a strong balance between reconstruction quality and realism, and the authors provide an open‑source library for these metrics.
By Tal Grutman, Tali Ilovitsh
arXiv:2608. 13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are aggregated into five risk levels (TR1-TR5).
By Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou, Wenyan Wang, Li Wen, Lan Huang, Xin Feng, Fengfeng Zhou, Kewei Li