A displacement estimated method for real time tissue ultrasound elastography

H Li, M Zhang, K Yu, X Qi, J Tong - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2021 - Springer
… -zero search under large displacement conditions. So we propose a novel displacement
estimation method for real time tissue ultrasound elastography, which combines the quality-…

A tissue mechanics based method to improve tissue displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

N Kheirkhah, SCH Dempsey, H Rivaz… - 2020 42nd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this work, the focus is on quasi-static ultrasound elastography where the tissue is externally
excited by pressing the ultrasound probe against the tissue. In quasistatic elastography, …

Virtual source synthetic aperture for accurate lateral displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract — Ultrasound elastography (USE) is an emerging noninvasive imaging technique
… of the tissue. Estimating tissue displacement in all directions is required to accurately …

3D normalized cross-correlation for estimation of the displacement field in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, M Fortin, H Rivaz - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
… to estimate tissue displacement in quasi-static elastography. A major challenge in
elastography is estimation of displacement (also referred to time-delay estimation) between pre-…

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

M Ashikuzzaman, AKZ Tehrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract—Tracking the displacement between the pre- and post-deformed … ultrasound
elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to identify pathologies. Due to ultrasound

Displacement Tracking Techniques in Ultrasound Elastography: From Cross-Correlation to Deep Learning

M Ashikuzzaman, A Héroux, A Tang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography distinguishes the pathologic tissue from the normal one based on
the assumption that certain abnormalities, such as deposition of collagen related to fibrosis …

Displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography using pyramidal convolutional neural network

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 …

Bi-directional semi-supervised training of convolutional neural networks for ultrasound elastography displacement estimation

AKZ Tehrani, M Sharifzadeh, E Boctor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… 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 …

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
… 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 tissue displacement. Unlike …

A novel tissue mechanics‐based method for improved motion tracking in quasi‐static ultrasound elastography

N Kheirkhah, S Dempsey, A Sadeghi‐Naini… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… To obtain an initial estimate of the tissue axial and lateral displacement fields, we process a
… on the Global Ultrasound Elastography (GLUE) or Second-Order Ultrasound eLastography (…