Table 5.

Top 10 most-cited papers related to the use of AI in ultrasound.

Title	Corresponding authors	Journal	Publication year	Total citations	IF
Standard Plane Localization in Fetal Ultrasound via Domain Transferred Deep Neural Networks	Chen, H	IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics	2015	179	2.093
Automated Breast Ultrasound Lesions Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks	Yap, MH	IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics	2018	160	4.217
Thyroid Nodule Classification in Ultrasound Images by Fine-Tuning Deep Convolutional Neural Network	Chi, JN	Journal of Digital Imaging	2017	137	1.536
The Segmentation of the Left Ventricle of the Heart From Ultrasound Data Using Deep Learning Architectures and Derivative-Based Search Methods	Carneiro, G	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	2012	125	3.199
Deep Learning in Medical Ultrasound Analysis: A Review	Ni, D; Wang, TF	Engineering	2018	118	4.568
A deep learning framework for supporting the classification of breast lesions in ultrasound images	Seong, YK	Physics in Medicine and Biology	2017	111	2.665
Deep learning based classification of breast tumors with shear-wave elastography	Zhang, Q	Ultrasonics	2016	96	2.377
Efficacy of an Artificial Neural Network- Based Approach to Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography in Diagnosis of Focal Pancreatic Masses	Gheonea, DI	Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology	2012	95	6.648
Transfer Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Abdominal Ultrasound Images	Cheng, PM	Journal of Digital Imaging	2017	94	1.536
Stacked deep polynomial network based representation learning for tumor classification with small ultrasound image dataset	Lu, MH	Neurocomputing	2016	94	3.317