Displacement1 estimation is an essential step for ultrasound elastography and numerous
techniques have been proposed to improve its quality using two frames of ultrasound RF …

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 …

Monitoring the ablation process in order to document the adequacy of margins during
treatment is of significant importance. Observing that the ablation lesion is harder than …

Background: Ultrasound elastography [1] involves imaging tissue while it undergoes
deformation, and estimating its mechanical properties from the deformation pattern. Many …

This paper introduces two real-time elastography techniques based on analytic minimization
(AM) of regularized cost functions. The first method (1D AM) produces axial strain and …

Ultrasound Elastography is an emerging imaging technique that allows estimation of the
mechanical characteristics of tissue. Two issues that need to be addressed before …

This paper introduces a 2-D strain imaging technique based on minimizing a cost function
using dynamic programming (DP). The cost function incorporates similarity of echo …

We present a novel and efficient approach for robust estimation of displacement in real-time
strain imaging for freehand ultrasound elastography by utilizing pre-and post-deformation …

Similar to many other types of cancer, liver cancer is associated with biological changes that
lead to tissue stiffening. An effective imaging technique that can be used for liver cancer …

Ultrasound elastography can provide tissue stiffness information that is complementary to
the anatomy and blood flow information offered by conventional ultrasound machines, but it …