BUbble Flow Field: a Simulation Framework for Evaluating Ultrasound Localization Microscopy Algorithms
Ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging has seen widespread uptake in research and clinical diagnostic imaging. This includes applications such as vector flow imaging, functional ultrasound and super-resolution Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM). All of these require testing and validation during development of new algorithms with ground truth data. In this work we present a comprehensive simulation platform BUbble Flow Field (BUFF) that generates contrast enhanced ultrasound images in vascular tree geometries with realistic flow characteristics and validation algorithms for ULM. BUFF allows complex micro-vascular network generation of random and user-defined vascular networks. Blood flow is simulated with a fast Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver and allows arbitrary input and output positions and custom pressures. The acoustic field simulation is combined with non-linear Microbubble (MB) dynamics and simulates a range of point spread functions based on user-defined MB characteristics. The validation combines both binary and quantitative metrics. BFF's capacity to generate and validate user-defined networks is demonstrated through its implementation in the Ultrasound Localisation and TRacking Algorithms for Super Resolution (ULTRA-SR) Challenge at the International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2022 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The ability to produce ULM images, and the availability of a ground truth in localisation and tracking enables objective and quantitative evaluation of the large number of localisation and tracking algorithms developed in the field. BUFF can also benefit deep learning based methods by automatically generating datasets for training. BUFF is a fully comprehensive simulation platform for testing and validation of novel ULM techniques and is open source.
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