Real-time regularized ultrasound elastography

H Rivaz, EM Boctor, MA Choti… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Learning the implicit strain reconstruction in ultrasound elastography using privileged information

Z Gao, S Wu, Z Liu, J Luo, H Zhang, M Gong, S Li - Medical image analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
Quasi-static ultrasound elastography is an importance imaging technology to assess the
conditions of various diseases through reconstructing the tissue strain from radio frequency …

Global time-delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

HS Hashemi, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A critical step in quasi-static ultrasound elastography is the estimation of time delay between
two frames of radio-frequency (RF) data that are obtained while the tissue is undergoing …

B-mode ultrasound with algorithm based on statistical analysis of signals: evaluation of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C

H Toyoda, T Kumada, N Kamiyama… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree of liver fibrosis in patients
with chronic hepatitis C by use of a method in which the homogeneity of the tissue texture of …

Combining total variation regularization with window-based time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Mirzaei, A Asif, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A major challenge of free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography (USE) is estimating the
displacement of RF samples between pre-and post-compressed RF data. The problem of …

Global ultrasound elastography in spatial and temporal domains

M Ashikuzzaman, CJ Gauthier… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel computationally efficient quasi-static ultrasound elastography
technique is introduced by optimizing an energy function. Unlike conventional elastography …

A coupled subsample displacement estimation method for ultrasound-based strain elastography

J Jiang, TJ Hall - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Obtaining accurate displacement estimates along both axial (parallel to the acoustic beam)
and lateral (perpendicular to the beam) directions is an important task for several clinical …

Ultrasound elastography using multiple images

H Rivaz, EM Boctor, MA Choti, GD Hager - Medical image analysis, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Analysis of strain estimation methods in phase-sensitive compression optical coherence elastography

J Li, E Pijewska, Q Fang, M Szkulmowski… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In compression optical coherence elastography (OCE), deformation is quantified as the local
strain at each pixel in the OCT field-of-view. A range of strain estimation methods have been …

Recent results in nonlinear strain and modulus imaging

TJ Hall, PE Barboneg, AA Oberai… - Current Medical …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
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 …