Exploiting mechanics-based priors for lateral displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, AKZ Tehrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking the displacement between the pre-and post-deformed radio-frequency (RF) frames
is a pivotal step of ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to …

Combining total variation regularization with window-based time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An unsupervised approach to ultrasound elastography with end-to-end strain regularisation

R Delaunay, Y Hu, T Vercauteren - … Conference, Lima, Peru, October 4–8 …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Physically inspired constraint for unsupervised regularized ultrasound elastography

A KZ Tehrani, H Rivaz - … Conference on Medical Image Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
Displacement estimation is a critical step of virtually all Ultrasound Elastography (USE)
techniques. Two main features make this task unique compared to the general optical flow …

[HTML][HTML] An H Strategy for Strain Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography Using Biomechanical Modeling Constraint

Z Hu, H Zhang, J Yuan, M Lu, S Chen, H Liu - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The purpose of ultrasound elastography is to identify lesions by reconstructing the hardness
characteristics of tissue reconstructed from ultrasound data. Conventional quasi-static …

Locally optimized correlation-guided Bayesian adaptive regularization for ultrasound strain imaging

R Al Mukaddim, NH Meshram… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound strain imaging utilizes radio-frequency (RF) ultrasound echo signals to estimate
the relative elasticity of tissue under deformation. Due to the diagnostic value inherent in …

Lateral strain imaging using self-supervised and physically inspired constraints in unsupervised regularized elastography

AKZ Tehrani, M Ashikuzzaman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising results for displacement
estimation in UltraSound Elastography (USE). Many modifications have been proposed to …

Gluenet: Ultrasound elastography using convolutional neural network

MG Kibria, H Rivaz - … , Image Processing, and Ultrasound Systems for …, 2018 - Springer
Displacement estimation is a critical step in ultrasound elastography and failing to estimate
displacement correctly can result in large errors in strain images. As conventional ultrasound …

Fast strain estimation and frame selection in ultrasound elastography using machine learning

A Zayed, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography aims to determine the mechanical properties of the tissue by
monitoring tissue deformation due to internal or external forces. Tissue deformations are …

Systematic performance evaluation of a cross-correlation-based ultrasound strain imaging method

H Li, Y Guo, WN Lee - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Estimation of tissue motion in the lateral direction remains a major challenge in 2-D
ultrasound strain imaging (USI). Although various methodologies have been proposed to …