A robust time delay estimation method for ultrasonic echo signals and elastography

MS Manuchehri, SK Setarehdan - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Modern medicine cannot ignore the significance of elastography in diagnosis and treatment
plans. Despite improvements in accuracy and spatial resolution of elastograms, robustness …

Performance study of a new time-delay estimation algorithm in ultrasonic echo signals and ultrasound elastography

E Shaswary, Y Xu, J Tavakkoli - Ultrasonics, 2016 - Elsevier
Time-delay estimation has countless applications in ultrasound medical imaging. Previously,
we proposed a new time-delay estimation algorithm, which was based on the summation of …

Supervised classification of the accuracy of the time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

MG Amidabadi, MO Ahmad… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accuracy of time-delay estimation (TDE) in ultrasound elastography is usually measured
by calculating the value of normalized cross correlation (NCC) at the estimated …

A new algorithm for time-delay estimation in ultrasonic echo signals [Correspondence]

E Shaswary, J Tavakkoli, Y Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-delay estimation determines the relative displacement between two ultrasound echo
signals. In this paper, we propose a new time-delay estimation algorithm which uses only …

Time-delay estimation in ultrasound echo signals using individual sample tracking

R Zahiri-Azar, SE Salcudean - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of many signal-processing applications in ultrasound medical imaging,
including elastography, blood flow imaging, tissue velocity imaging, and acoustic radiation …

Fast approximate time-delay estimation in ultrasound elastography using principal component analysis

A Zayed, H Rivaz - … 41st Annual International Conference of the …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time delay estimation (TDE) is a critical and challenging step in all ultrasound elastography
methods. A growing number of TDE techniques require an approximate but robust and fast …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of the performance of different time delay estimation techniques for ultrasound elastography

S Sambasubramanian - 2011 - oaktrust.library.tamu.edu
Srinath Sambasubramanian, B. Tech., National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli Chair
of Advisory Committee: Dr. Raffaella Righetti Elastography is a non-invasive medical …

Accurate and precise time-delay estimation for ultrasound elastography with prebeamformed channel data

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography is a noninvasive approach for detecting
pathological alteration in tissue. In this method, the tissue is compressed by a handheld …

Covariance analysis of time delay estimates for strained signals

M Bilgen, MF Insana - IEEE transactions on signal processing, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Estimates of time-varying delays from the ultrasonic echo signals of compressed biological
media are the basis of a new type of medical imaging known as elastography. This paper is …

A novel stretching factor estimator based on an adaptive bisection method for ultrasound strain imaging

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 …