bibtext: @InProceedings{ Che_Ultrasound_MICCAI2024,
                   author = { Chen, Tingxiu and Shi, Yilei and Zheng, Zixuan and Yan, Bingcong and Hu, Jingliang and Zhu, Xiao Xiang and Mou, Lichao },
                   title = { { Ultrasound Image-to-Video Synthesis via Latent Dynamic Diffusion Models } },
                   booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2024},
                   year = {2024},
                   publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
                   volume = { LNCS 15004 },
                   month = {October},
                   pages = { pending },
                }
abstract: Ultrasound video classification enables automated diagnosis and has emerged as an important research area. However, publicly available ultrasound video datasets remain scarce, hindering progress in developing effective video classification models. We propose addressing this shortage by synthesizing plausible ultrasound videos from readily available, abundant ultrasound images. To this end, we introduce a latent dynamic diffusion model (LDDM) to efficiently translate static images to dynamic sequences with realistic video characteristics. We demonstrate strong quantitative results and visually appealing synthesized videos on the BUSV benchmark. Notably, training video classification models on combinations of real and LDDM-synthesized videos substantially improves performance over using real data alone, indicating our method successfully emulates dynamics critical for discrimination. Our image-to-video approach provides an effective data augmentation solution to advance ultrasound video analysis. Code is available at https://github.com/MedAITech/U_I2V.
title: Ultrasound Image-to-Video Synthesis via Latent Dynamic Diffusion Models
authors: Chen, Tingxiu Shi, Yilei Zheng, Zixuan Yan, Bingcong Hu, Jingliang Zhu, Xiao Xiang Mou, Lichao