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 …

Background Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect
tissue abnormalities, involves estimating the time delay between two radio‐frequency (RF) …

Ultrasound elastography is a prominent noninvasive medical imaging technique that
estimates tissue elastic properties to detect abnormalities in an organ. A common …

Energy-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize a regularized cost function
consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain local displacement estimates based on the …

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 …

In this paper, a novel computationally efficient quasi-static ultrasound elastography
technique is introduced by optimizing an energy function. Unlike conventional elastography …

Regularized optimization-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize an energy
function consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain the displacement tensor between …

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 …

Free-hand palpation ultrasound elastography is a noninvasive approach for detecting
pathological alteration in tissue. In this method, the tissue is compressed by a handheld …

Time delay estimation (TDE) is a critical and challenging step in all ultrasound elastography
methods. A growing number of TDE techniques require an approximate but robust and fast …