News

• December, 2020:

 • Congrats to Brandon Rebholz for his accepter paper the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems titled “Analysis of Speckle Tracking Methods: Correlation and RF Interpolation”.

 • Niranjan Thirusangu is attending the Acoustic Society of America Conference to present his work titled “Segmentation of Induced Substantia Nigra from Transcranial Ultrasound Images using Deep Convolutional Neural Network”.

 • Sumukha Prasad is attending the Acoustic Society of America Conference to present his work titled “A fast and efficient Ultrasound Tomography using Deep Learning”.

 • Skanda Bharadwaj is attending the Acoustic Society of America Conference to present his work titled “Motion Estimation for Ultrasound Image Sequences Using Deep Learning”.

 

• November, 2020:

 • Congrats to Xilun Liu for his accepted paper at the IEEE UFFF Journal, titled “An Optimized Control approach for HIFU Tissue Ablation Using PDE Constrained Optimization Method”.

 • Congrats to Michael Maslakowski for his accepted paper at the 14th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference titled “The Characterization and Assembly of an Efficient, Cost Effective Focused Ultrasound Transducer”.

 • Shaikhah Alkhadhr is attending the 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound to present her work titled “The effects of skull numerical representation on intracranial fields in transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) simulations”.

 • Xilun Liu is attending the 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound to present her work titled “Thermal dose optimization method for focused ultrasound treatment”.

 

• September, 2020:

 • Congrats to Brandon Rebholz for his accepter paper at the IEEE International Ultrasonic Symposium titled “Constrained RF Level Interpolation for Normalized Cross Correlation Based Speckle Tracking”

 • Congrats to Skanda Bharadwaj for his accepter paper at the IEEE International Ultrasonic Symposium titled “Deep Learning based Motion Tracking of Ultrasound Image Sequences”

 • Congrats to Colin Hills for his accepter paper at the IEEE International Ultrasonic Symposium titled “A New Approach for Passive Cavitation Imaging and Detection”

 

• July, 2020:

 • Congrats to Skanda Bharadwaj for his accepter paper at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference titled “Faster Search Algorithm for Speckle Tracking in Ultrasound Images.

 • Congrats to Brandon Rebholz for his accepter paper at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference titled “Efficacy of Kriging Interpolation in Ultrasound Imaging”.

 

• February, 2020: Our paper has been accepted at the IEEE UFFF Journal, titled “Elements Selection for Transcostal HIFU Refocusing Method: Simulation Study”.

 

• November 2019: Congrats to James Cunningham for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis “Ultrasound Medical Image Processing For Improved Segmentation Of Substantia Nigra Hyperechogenicity”.

 

• November 2019: Sumukha B N, Skanda Bharadwaj and Niranjan Thirusangu bagged the runner-up position in HackPSU and won MLH's Best use of Google Cloud and NittanyAi's Artificial Intelligence Challenge.

 

• September 2019: Our paper has been accepted at the IEEE UFFF Journal, titled “The Optimization of Transcostal Phased Array Refocusing Using the Semidefinite Relaxation Method”.

 

• September 2019: Brandon Rebholz, Xilun Liu and Skanda Bharadwaj is attending the Biomedical Engineering Forum at Carnegie Mellon University with 3 posters.

 

• August 2019: Dr. Almekkawy is an invited speaker at the International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. His presentation title is “Strain Imaging with Subsample Displacement Estimation Using a Projection Method”.

 

• August 2019: Abdulrahman Alsaggaf joined Almekkawy lab as a PhD student, welcome Abdulrahman.

 

• July 2019: Congrats to Navid Mahmood for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis “Applying Deep Learning Techniques to Generate Medical Images”.

 

• June 2019: Our paper has been accepted at the Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Journal, titled “Regularization in ultrasound tomography using projection-based regularized total least squares”.

 

• June 2019: Brandon Rebholz is presenting his work titled “Fast Subsample Speckle Tracking Based on Normalized Cross Correlation” at the Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization Conference.

 

• April 2019: Congrats to Xingzhao Yun for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis “Reconstruction Of Ultrasound Tomography For Cancer Detection Using Advanced Regularization Methods”.

 

• April 2019: Our paper has been accepted at the IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, titled “Therapeutic Systems and Technologies: State-of-the-Art, Applications, Opportunities and Challenges”.

 

• Mar 2019: Congrats to Poojitha Kale for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis “Study of Transfer Entropy on Epileptic EEG Signals”.

 

• February 2019: Dr. Almekkawy was the Chair of the “Ultrasound Tomography II” session at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (San Diego, USA).

 

• January 2019: Xilun Liu, Skanda Bharadwaj, Sumukha B N and Niranjan Thirusangu joined Almekkawy lab as M.Sc. students, welcome all.

 

• December 2018: Congrats to Anita Carević for her accepted paper at the Medical Imaging conference, titled “Adaptive truncated total least square on distorted born iterative method in ultrasound inverse scattering problem”.

 

• December 2018: Congrats to Anita Carević for her accepted paper at the Medical Imaging conference, titled “Employing methods with generalized singular value decomposition for regularization in ultrasound tomography”.

 

• September 2018: Congrats to Brandon Rebholz for receiving the “Best Paper Award” for his submission titled “Multidimensional Motion Estimation with Stochastic Interpolation via Disjunctive Kriging” at the International Tissue Elasticity Conference.

 

• September 2018: Anita Carević is giving a presentation titled “Regularization of Inverse Scattering Problem in Ultrasound Tomography” at the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing Conference.

 

• September 2018: Shaikhah Alkhadhr joined Almekkawy lab as a PhD student, welcome Sheikha.

 

• July 2018: Dr. Almekkawy was the Chair of the “Therapeutic Ultrasound” session at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (Honolulu, USA).

 

• April 2018: Congrats to James Cunningham for his accepted paper at the IEEE EMBC titled “Improved Real-Time Capability for Nonlinear Seperable Harmonic Filtering of Ultrasound Images Using a Damped Regularization Method with In-Vivo Results”.

 

• April 2018: Congrats to Poojitha Kale for her accepted paper at the IEEE EMBC conference titled “Normalized Transfer Entropy as a Tool to Identify Multisource Functional Epileptic Networks”.

 

• March 2018: Our paper titled “High intensity focused ultrasound: The fundamentals, clinical applications and research trends” has been accepted at the Diagnostic and interventional imaging Journal.

 

• January 2018: Our paper titled “An FPGA Implementation of Resource-Optimized Dynamic Digital Beamformer for a Portable Ultrasound Imaging System” has been accepted at the Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal.

 

• December 2017: Congrats to James Cunningham for his accepted paper at the IEEE ISBI titled “Regularization methods for solving third-order volterra filter with improved convergence speed: In-vivo application”.

 

• November 2017: Congrats to Xingzhao Yun for his accepted paper the Medical Imaging conference, titled “Reconstruction of ultrasound tomography for cancer detection using total least squares and conjugate gradient method”.

 

• November 2017: Congrats to Anita Carević for her accepted paper at the Medical Imaging conference, tilted “Solving the ultrasound inverse scattering problem of inhomogeneous media using different approaches of total least squares algorithms”.

 

• October 2017: Congrats to James Cunningham for his accepted work at the IEEE SPMB conference, titled “Adaptive ℓ 0-norm sparse third order volterra filter for transcranial ultrasound image enhancement: In-vivo results”.

 

• October 2017: Congrats to Poojitha Kale for her accepted work at the IEEE SPMB conference, titled “Prediction of multifocal epileptogenic zones using normalized transfer entropy”.

 

• October 2017: Congrats to Daniel McMahon for his accepted work at the IEEE SPMB conference, titled, “Optimization of transcostal phased-array refocusing using iterative sparse semidefinite relaxation method”.

 

• September 2017: Dr. Almekkawy had an invited talk at Penn State, College of Medicine, Neurology Department Grand Rounds.

 

• April 2017: Congrats to Daniel McMahon for his accepted work at the IEEE EMBC conference, titled “Optimization of transcostal phased-array refocusing using sparse semidefinite relaxation method”.

 

• February 2017: Congrats to James Cunningham for his accepted paper at the IEEE NER, titled “In-vivo transcranial ultrasound imaging of induced substantia nigra hyperechogenicity using adaptive sparse third order volterra filter”.

 

• August 2017: Navid Mahmood joined Almekkawy lab as M.Sc. student, welcome Navid.

 

• April 2017: Dr. Almekkawy was the Chair of the Ultrasound session at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (Melbourne, Australia).

 

• January 2017: Poojitha Kale and Xingzhao Yun joined Almekkawy lab as M.Sc. students, welcome Poojitha and Xingzhao.

 

• December 2016: Congrats to James Cunningham for his accepted work at the IEEE ISBI conference, titled “Transcranial enhanced ultrasound imaging of induced substantia nigra in brain using adaptive third order volterra filter: In-vivo results”.

 

• December 2016: Congrats to our accepted work at the IEEE ISBI conference, titled “Two-dimensional speckle tracking using parabolic polynomial expansion with Riesz transform”.

 

• July 2016: Dr. Almekkawy was the Co-chair of the Computer Simulation session at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (Orlando, USA).