OBJECTIVE. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of
sonoelastography in detecting malignant thyroid nodules. MATERIALS AND METHODS. A …

The new SinMod method extracts motion from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-tagged
(MRIT) image sequences. Image intensity in the environment of each pixel is modeled as a …

The success rate of medical procedures involving needle insertion is often directly related to
needle placement accuracy. Due to inherent limitations of commonly used freehand needle …

Noise artifacts due to signal decorrelation and reverberation are a considerable problem in
ultrasound strain imaging. For block-matching methods, information from neighboring …

(57) ABSTRACT A robotic system for? exible needle steering under ultrasound imaging. A
robot is used to steer the needle along a predeter mined curved trajectory by maneuvering …

Statistical approach is a valuable way to describe texture primitives. The aim of this study is
to design and implement a classifier framework to automatically identify the thyroid nodules …

A widely used time-domain technique for motion or delay estimation between digitized
ultrasound RF signals involves the maximization of a discrete pattern-matching function …

A phase-based block matching method adapted to motion estimation with unconventional
beamforming strategies is presented. The unconventional beamforming technique used …

In this paper, we present a real-time approach that allows tracking deformable structures in
3D ultrasound sequences. Our method consists in obtaining the target displacements by …

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 …