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 …
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 …
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of displacement estimation. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown …
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 …
Quasi-static ultrasound elastography is an importance imaging technology to assess the conditions of various diseases through reconstructing the tissue strain from radio frequency …
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 …
R Xia, G Tao, AK Thittai - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …
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 …
It is known that changes in the mechanical properties of tissues are associated with the onset and progression of certain diseases. Ultrasound elastography is a technique to …