This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate the displacement fields, which is a
common and challenging step in ultrasound elastography. Maximization of normalized cross …

An experimental study of the spatial resolution in elastography was conducted. Models that
involved two cylindrical inclusions arranged as a wedge were used to characterize the axial …

A new method is proposed to estimate the motion and relative local compression between
two successive ultrasound RF signals under different compression states. The algorithm …

Displacement1 estimation is an essential step for ultrasound elastography and numerous
techniques have been proposed to improve its quality using two frames of ultrasound RF …

The purpose of ultrasound elastography is to identify lesions by reconstructing the hardness
characteristics of tissue reconstructed from ultrasound data. Conventional quasi-static …

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 …

Elastography typically measures and images the normal strain component along the
insonification/compression axis, ie, in the axial direction. We have recently shown that, by …

In conventional elastography, strains are estimated by computing gradient of estimated
displacement. However, gradient-based algorithms are susceptible to noise. We have …

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 …

The elastic properties of tissues are expected to provide novel information for use in
diagnosing pathologic changes in tissues and discriminating between malignant and benign …