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 …

Direct reconstruction of ultrasound elastography using an end-to-end deep neural network

S Wu, Z Gao, Z Liu, J Luo, H Zhang, S Li - … 16-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I, 2018 - Springer
In this work, we developed an end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct
the ultrasound elastography directly from radio frequency (RF) data. The novelty of this …

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 …

Displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography using pyramidal convolutional neural network

AKZ Tehrani, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, two novel deep learning methods are proposed for displacement estimation in
ultrasound elastography (USE). Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been …

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
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of
displacement estimation. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown …

Deep learning in ultrasound elastography imaging: A review

H Li, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Zhang, MC Hartel… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is known that changes in the mechanical properties of tissues are associated with the
onset and progression of certain diseases. Ultrasound elastography is a technique to …

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 …

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 …

Unsupervised convolutional neural network for motion estimation in ultrasound elastography

X Wei, Y Wang, L Ge, B Peng, Q He… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-quality motion estimation is essential for ultrasound elastography (USE). Traditional
motion estimation algorithms based on speckle tracking such as normalized cross …

An unsupervised learning approach to ultrasound strain elastography with spatio-temporal consistency

R Delaunay, Y Hu, T Vercauteren - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that measures
deformation (ie strain) of tissue in response to an applied mechanical force. In USE, the …