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 …

Displacement estimation is a key step in the evaluation of tissue elasticity by quasistatic
strain imaging. An efficient approach may incorporate a tracking strategy whereby each …

We report a summary of recent developments and current status of our team's efforts to
image and quantify in vivo nonlinear strain and tissue mechanical properties. Our work is …

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 …

Mutual information (MI) quantifies the information that is shared between two random
variables and has been widely used as a similarity metric for multi-modal and uni-modal …

Ultrasound is a highly adaptable medical imaging modality that offers several applications
and a wide range of uses, both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The principles of …

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

Ultrasound strain imaging utilizes radio-frequency (RF) ultrasound echo signals to estimate
the relative elasticity of tissue under deformation. Due to the diagnostic value inherent in …

The clinical feasibility of 2D elastography methods is hindered by the requirement that the
operator avoid out-of-plane motion of the ultrasound image during palpation, and also by the …

Ultrasound elastography is an important medical imaging tool for characterization of lesions.
In this paper, we present a wireless and near real-time 3D ultrasound strain imaging system …