Ultrasound (US) imaging for medical purposes has been increasing in popularity over the years. The US technology has some valuable strengths, such as it is harmless, very cheap, and can provide real-time feedback. At the same time, it has also some drawbacks that the research in this field is trying to mitigate, such as the high level of noise and the low quality of the images. This survey aims at presenting the advances in the techniques used for US medical imaging. It describes the studies on the different organs that the US uses the most and tries to categorize the research in this field into three groups, i.e., segmentation, classification, and miscellaneous. This latter group includes the works that either provide aid during surgical operations or try to enhance the quality of the acquired US images/volumes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first review that analyzes the different techniques exploited on a large selection of body locations (i.e., brain, thyroid, heart, breast, fetal, and prostate) in the three sub-fields of research.

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超声医学成像技术

多年来，用于医疗目的的超声 (US) 成像越来越受欢迎。美国的技术有一些宝贵的优势，比如它无害、非常便宜，并且可以提供实时反馈。同时，该领域的研究也试图缓解一些缺点，例如高水平的噪声和低质量的图像。本次调查旨在介绍用于美国医学成像的技术的进步。它描述了美国使用最多的不同器官的研究，并试图将这一领域的研究分为三类，即分割、分类和杂项。后一组包括在外科手术期间提供帮助或试图提高获得的美国图像/体积质量的作品。据我们所知，