Enhancing Ultrasound Image Quality Across Disease Domains: Application of Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Network and Perceptual Loss

Shreeram Athreya   ¹ , MS ;   Ashwath Radhachandran   ² , BS ;   Vedrana Ivezić   ³ , BS ;   Vivek R Sant   ⁴ , MD ;   Corey W Arnold   ^{1, 2, 3, 5, 6} , PhD ;   William Speier   ^{2, 3, 5} , PhD

¹ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

² Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

³ Medical Informatics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁵ Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States