… In this work, the focus is on quasi-static ultrasoundelastography where the tissue is externally excited by pressing the ultrasound probe against the tissue. In quasistatic elastography, …
M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract — Ultrasoundelastography (USE) is an emerging noninvasive imaging technique … of the tissue. Estimatingtissuedisplacement in all directions is required to accurately …
… to estimatetissuedisplacement in quasi-static elastography. A major challenge in elastography is estimation of displacement (also referred to time-delay estimation) between pre-…
… Abstract—Tracking the displacement between the pre- and post-deformed … ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to identify pathologies. Due to ultrasound…
… Ultrasoundelastography distinguishes the pathologic tissue from the normal one based on the assumption that certain abnormalities, such as deposition of collagen related to fibrosis …
AKZ Tehrani, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… USE compliments B-mode ultrasound by providing biomechanical properties of the tissue [6]… is that the operator compresses the tissue by the ultrasound probe. The images before and …
… and can be broadly categorized into two groups: dynamic and quasi-static elastography. In … in the tissue [4]. In contrast, the motions in the tissue are slow in quasi-static elastography and …
… In this paper, we proposed an unsupervised method for time-delay estimation that allows a neural network to be trained directly on clinical data and predict tissuedisplacement. Unlike …
… To obtain an initial estimate of the tissue axial and lateral displacement fields, we process a … on the Global UltrasoundElastography (GLUE) or Second-Order UltrasoundeLastography (…