An unsupervised approach to ultrasound elastography with end-to-end strain regularisation

R Delaunay, Y Hu, T Vercauteren - … Conference, Lima, Peru, October 4–8 …, 2020 - Springer
Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that consists of
determining a measure of deformation (ie strain) of soft tissue in response to an applied …

Direct reconstruction of ultrasound elastography using an end-to-end deep neural network

S Wu, Z Gao, Z Liu, J Luo, H Zhang, S Li - … 16-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I, 2018 - Springer
In this work, we developed an end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN) to reconstruct
the ultrasound elastography directly from radio frequency (RF) data. The novelty of this …

An unsupervised learning approach to ultrasound strain elastography with spatio-temporal consistency

R Delaunay, Y Hu, T Vercauteren - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that measures
deformation (ie strain) of tissue in response to an applied mechanical force. In USE, the …

Gluenet: Ultrasound elastography using convolutional neural network

MG Kibria, H Rivaz - … , Image Processing, and Ultrasound Systems for …, 2018 - Springer
Displacement estimation is a critical step in ultrasound elastography and failing to estimate
displacement correctly can result in large errors in strain images. As conventional ultrasound …

Combining total variation regularization with window-based time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Exploiting mechanics-based priors for lateral displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, AKZ Tehrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking the displacement between the pre-and post-deformed radio-frequency (RF) frames
is a pivotal step of ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to …

Displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography using pyramidal convolutional neural network

AKZ Tehrani, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, two novel deep learning methods are proposed for displacement estimation in
ultrasound elastography (USE). Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been …

Automatic frame selection using MLP neural network in ultrasound elastography

A Zayed, H Rivaz - Image Analysis and Recognition: 16th International …, 2019 - Springer
Ultrasound elastography estimates the mechanical properties of the tissue from two Radio-
Frequency (RF) frames collected before and after tissue deformation due to an external or …

Fast strain estimation and frame selection in ultrasound elastography using machine learning

A Zayed, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography aims to determine the mechanical properties of the tissue by
monitoring tissue deformation due to internal or external forces. Tissue deformations are …

Lateral strain imaging using self-supervised and physically inspired constraints in unsupervised regularized elastography

AKZ Tehrani, M Ashikuzzaman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising results for displacement
estimation in UltraSound Elastography (USE). Many modifications have been proposed to …