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 …

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

Time delay estimation (TDE) between two radio-frequency (RF) frames is one of the major
steps of quasi-static ultrasound elastography, which detects tissue pathology by estimating …

Elasticity imaging techniques with built-in or regularization-based smoothing feature for
ensuring strain continuity are not intelligent enough to prevent distortion or lesion edge …

Quasi-static ultrasound (US) elastography is now a well-established technique that involves
acquiring US (RF/envelope) signals from an imaging plane before and after a small quasi …

In biological tissue, an increase in elasticity is often a marker of abnormalities. Techniques
such as quasi-static ultrasound elastography have been developed to assess the strain …

Shear-wave elastography (SWE) permits local estimation of tissue elasticity, an important
imaging marker in biomedicine. This recently developed, advanced technique assesses the …

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography was introduced in the early 1990s to provide a way to
visualize the mechanical properties of target tissue. Most commonly, only the axial strain is …

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

Estimation of tissue motion in the lateral direction remains a major challenge in 2-D
ultrasound strain imaging (USI). Although various methodologies have been proposed to …