M Lu, D Wu, W Lin, W Li, H Zhang… - Biomedical engineering …, 2014 - Springer
Background Model-based reconstruction algorithms have shown potentials over conventional strain-based methods in quasi-static elastographic image by using realistic …
M Lu, H Zhang, J Wang, J Yuan, Z Hu, H Liu - Biomedical engineering …, 2013 - Springer
Background The convectional strain-based algorithm has been widely utilized in clinical practice. It can only provide the information of relative information of tissue stiffness …
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 …
A recent technique named Mechanically-inspired L1-norm-based Second-Order Ultrasound eLastography (L1-MechSOUL) has provided a promising solution to the well-known issue of …
Purpose Most cancers are associated with biological and structural changes that lead to tissue stiffening. Therefore, imaging tissue stiffness using quasi‐static ultrasound …
S Srinivasan, J Ophir, SK Alam - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Conventional techniques in elastography estimate the axial strain as the gradient of the displacement (time-delay) estimates obtained using cross-correlation of pre-and temporally …
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 …
MA Hussain, F Alam, SA Rupa, R Awwal, SY Lee… - Ultrasonics, 2014 - Elsevier
Elasticity imaging techniques with built-in or regularization-based smoothing feature for ensuring strain continuity are not intelligent enough to prevent distortion or lesion edge …
SK Alam, FL Lizzi, T Varghese, EJ Feleppa… - Ultrasonic …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
In conventional elastography, internal tissue deformations, induced by external compression applied to the tissue surface, are estimated by cross-correlation analysis of echo signals …