Ultrasound elastography is a prominent noninvasive medical imaging technique that
estimates tissue elastic properties to detect abnormalities in an organ. A common …

Time delay estimation (TDE) between two radio-frequency (RF) frames is one of the major
steps of quasi-static ultrasound elastography, which detects tissue pathology by estimating …

Energy-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize a regularized cost function
consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain local displacement estimates based on the …

Background Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect
tissue abnormalities, involves estimating the time delay between two radio‐frequency (RF) …

In this paper, a novel computationally efficient quasi-static ultrasound elastography
technique is introduced by optimizing an energy function. Unlike conventional elastography …

Ultrasound elastography aims to determine the mechanical properties of the tissue by
monitoring tissue deformation due to internal or external forces. Tissue deformations are …

A critical step in quasi-static ultrasound elastography is the estimation of time delay between
two frames of radio-frequency (RF) data that are obtained while the tissue is undergoing …

Free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography is a noninvasive approach for detecting
pathological alteration in tissue. In this method, the tissue is compressed by a handheld …

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that consists of
determining a measure of deformation (ie strain) of soft tissue in response to an applied …

A major challenge of free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography (USE) is estimating the
displacement of RF samples between pre-and post-compressed RF data. The problem of …