Ultrasound elastography is a promising imaging technique that can assist in diagnosis of
thyroid cancer. However, the complexity of the tissue movements under freehand …

Motion tracking algorithms to derive the local displacement distribution inside soft tissue
from ultrasonic radio frequency (RF) signals are critical for ultrasound-based techniques …

Ultrasound elastography has become a wellknown optional imaging method for the
diagnosis of tissue abnormalities in various body parts. It images the elasticity of compliant …

As an important means of medical imaging, elastic imaging is an indispensable part of
mobile telemedicine. Ultrasound elastography has become a research hotspot because it …

We propose a beamforming scheme for ultrasound imaging leading to the generation of two
sets of images, one with oscillations only in the axial direction and one with oscillations only …

This manuscript reports a technical innovation that has been developed for real-time,
freehand strain imaging. This work is based on a well-known block-matching algorithm with …

The current research and development of 2D (matrix-shaped) transducer arrays to acquire
3D ultrasound data sets provides new insights into medical ultrasound applications and in …

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 …

Tissue deformation in ultrasound imaging poses a challenge to the development of many
image registration techniques, including multimodal image fusion, multi-angle compound …

Elastography is a bioelasticity-based imaging modality which has been proved to be a
potential evaluation tool to detect the tissue abnormalities. Conventional method for …