Analysis of motion tracking in echocardiographic image sequences: Influence of system geometry and point-spread function

B Touil, A Basarab, P Delachartre, O Bernard… - Ultrasonics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on motion tracking in echocardiographic ultrasound images. The
difficulty of this task is related to the fact that echographic image formation induces …

Improving motion estimation by accounting for local image distortion

V Behar, D Adam, P Lysyansky, Z Friedman - Ultrasonics, 2004 - Elsevier
Cardiac elastography is a useful diagnostic technique for detection of heart function
abnormalities, based on analysis of echocardiograms. The analysis of the regional heart …

Motion decorrelation in echocardiography: Analysis from a realistic simulation

B Touil, O Bernard, D Friboulet - 2008 5th IEEE International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Echocardiography has been widely used to perform motion estimation in real time for heart
function analysis. However, this imaging modality may induce a decorrelation between the …

Speckle tracking in interpolated echocardiography to estimate heart motion

AH Curiale, G Vegas Sánchez-Ferrero… - Functional Imaging and …, 2013 - Springer
The heart motion estimation plays an important role in identifying different types of
pathology. For this purpose, ultrasound imaging has commonly used due to its high time …

Towards pointwise motion tracking in echocardiographic image sequences–comparing the reliability of different features for speckle tracking

W Yu, P Yan, AJ Sinusas, K Thiele, JS Duncan - Medical image analysis, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we studied the problem of feature-based motion tracking in echocardiographic
image sequences. We described the relation between possible feature variations and …

Tissue motion assessment from 3D echographic speckle tracking

J Meunier - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
The potential of ultrasonic image speckle tracking to characterize tissue dynamics has been
illustrated and validated elsewhere. In this paper we wish to extend this speckle tracking …

A new technique for the estimation of cardiac motion in echocardiography based on transverse oscillations: A preliminary evaluation in silico and a feasibility …

M Alessandrini, A Basarab, L Boussel… - … on Medical Imaging, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantification of regional myocardial motion and deformation from cardiac ultrasound is
fostering considerable research efforts. Despite the tremendous improvements done in the …

Histogram-based optical flow for motion estimation in ultrasound imaging

D Tenbrinck, S Schmid, X Jiang, K Schäfers… - Journal of mathematical …, 2013 - Springer
Motion estimation on ultrasound data is often referred to as 'Speckle Tracking'in clinical
environments and plays an important role in diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular …

Tracking in high-frame-rate imaging

SY Wu, SL Wang, PC Li - Ultrasonic imaging, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Speckle tracking has been used for motion estimation in ultrasound imaging. Unlike
conventional Doppler techniques, which are angle-dependent, speckle tracking can be …

Assessing local myocardial deformation from speckle tracking in echography

J Meunier, M Bertrand, G Mailloux… - Medical Imaging …, 1988 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In the field of echography, there is a large interest for the diagnostic potential of textures or
speckle patterns encountered in echographic B-scan images. In this work, we present a new …