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 …
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 …
Z Hosseini, A Khadem, MH Bibalan - Biomedical Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective: Displacement estimation (also known as time-delay estimation (TDE)) is a challenging step in ultrasound elastography. The main issue of existing TDE techniques is …
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 …
This paper introduces a novel technique to estimate tissue displacement in quasi-static elastography. A major challenge in elastography is estimation of displacement (also referred …
MD Horeh, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography is a convenient and affordable method for imaging mechanical properties of tissue, which are often correlated with pathologies. An emerging novel …
Ultrasound elastography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that maps viscoelastic properties to characterize tissues and diseases. Elastography can be divided …
In this paper, a novel real-time kernel-based and gradient-based Phase Root Seeking (PRS) algorithm for ultrasound elastography is proposed. The signal-to-noise ratio of the strain …
Ultrasound elastography is emerging with enormous potential as a medical imaging modality for effective discrimination of pathological changes in soft tissue. It maps the tissue …