Tracking large deformations in tissue using ultrasound can enable the reconstruction of
nonlinear elastic parameters, but poses a challenge to displacement estimation algorithms …

In ultrasound elastography, the strain in compressed tissue due to external deformation is
estimated and is smaller in harder than softer tissue. With increased stress, the nonaxial …

Ultrasound strain imaging utilizes radio-frequency (RF) ultrasound echo signals to estimate
the relative elasticity of tissue under deformation. Due to the diagnostic value inherent in …

Background Model-based reconstruction algorithms have shown potentials over
conventional strain-based methods in quasi-static elastographic image by using realistic …

Displacement estimation is an essential step for ultrasound elastography and numerous
techniques have been proposed to improve its quality using two frames of ultrasound RF …

A new strain estimator for quasi-static elastography is presented, based on tracking of the
analytical signal phase as a function of the external force. Two implementations are …

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 …

Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (USWE) with conventional B-mode imaging
demonstrates better performance in lesion segmentation and classification problems. In this …

Ultrasound elastography is an imaging technology which can detect differences in tissue
stiffness based on tissue deformation. For successful clinical use in cancer diagnosis and …

Novel viscoelastic and poroelastic elastography techniques rely on the accurate estimation
of the temporal behavior of the axial or lateral strains and related parameters. From the …