Article Dans Une Revue Biomedical Engineering = Biomedizinische Technik Année : 2026

ICEEMDAN–power cepstrum framework for mean scatterer spacing estimation in breast and porcine liver tissues with microwave ablation validation

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Objectives: To introduce ICEEMDAN-PC, a novel quantitative ultrasound (QUS) approach for accurate and noiserobust estimation of mean scatterer spacing (MSS), enabling refined characterization of liver and breast tissue microstructures in health, disease, and post-treatment states. Methods: ICEEMDAN-PC integrates the improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (ICEEMDAN) and power cepstrum (PC). The intrinsic mode function with the highest energy is extracted, and its cepstrum is analyzed to determine MSS. The method was validated using 30,100 simulated noisy RF signals (semi-periodic/diffuse scatterers) and applied to: (1) 301 ex vivo porcine liver signals, (2) 31,488 paired RF signals pre/post microwave ablation (MWA), and (3) RF data from 100 clinical breast lesions (52 malignant, 48 benign). Results: Simulations recovered the theoretical MSS (1.25 mm) with low variance despite high noise. In a healthy liver, MSS was 1.02 mm, with significant shifts post-MWA indicating microstructural disruption. Breast lesion MSS values (0.8736 mm benign, 0.9068 mm malignant) matched literature trends. Conclusions: ICEEMDAN-PC consistently achieved high accuracy and sensitivity across simulated, experimental, and clinical datasets, demonstrating strong potential for non-invasive QUS-based tissue characterization and therapeutic monitoring.

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hal-05620691 , version 1 (12-05-2026)

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Ouissem Chibani Bahi, Saadia Benhalouche, Abdelhafid Kaddour, Wei-Jiang Xu. ICEEMDAN–power cepstrum framework for mean scatterer spacing estimation in breast and porcine liver tissues with microwave ablation validation. Biomedical Engineering = Biomedizinische Technik, 2026, ⟨10.1515/bmt-2025-0101⟩. ⟨hal-05620691⟩
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