Recent advances in vascular ultrasound imaging technology and their clinical implications

S Golemati, DD Cokkinos - Ultrasonics, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper recent advances in vascular ultrasound imaging technology are discussed,
including three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS), contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and …

Therapeutic ultrasound experiments in vitro: Review of factors influencing outcomes and reproducibility

M Snehota, J Vachutka, G Ter Haar, L Dolezal… - Ultrasonics, 2020 - Elsevier
Current in vitro sonication experiments show immense variability in experimental set-ups
and methods used. As a result, there is uncertainty in the ultrasound field parameters …

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 …

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 …

Bi-directional semi-supervised training of convolutional neural networks for ultrasound elastography displacement estimation

AKZ Tehrani, M Sharifzadeh, E Boctor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of
displacement estimation. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown …

Combining first-and second-order continuity constraints in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, A Sadeghi-Naini… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography is a prominent noninvasive medical imaging technique that
estimates tissue elastic properties to detect abnormalities in an organ. A common …

A novel tissue mechanics‐based method for improved motion tracking in quasi‐static ultrasound elastography

N Kheirkhah, S Dempsey, A Sadeghi‐Naini… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Most cancers are associated with biological and structural changes that lead to
tissue stiffening. Therefore, imaging tissue stiffness using quasi‐static ultrasound …

B-mode ultrasound to elastography synthesis using multiscale learning

F Dai, Y Li, Y Zhu, B Li, Q Shi, Y Chen, D Ta - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
Elastography is a promising diagnostic tool that measures the hardness of tissues, and it has
been used in clinics for detecting lesion progress, such as benign and malignant tumors …

Incorporating gradient similarity for robust time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, TJ Hall… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize a regularized cost function
consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain local displacement estimates based on the …

Alternating direction method of multipliers for displacement estimation in ultrasound strain elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, B Peng, J Jiang, H Rivaz - Medical physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect
tissue abnormalities, involves estimating the time delay between two radio‐frequency (RF) …