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 …

Tracking the displacement between the pre-and post-deformed radio-frequency (RF) frames
is a pivotal step of ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to …

Cardiac strain imaging (CSI) plays a critical role in the detection of myocardial motion
abnormalities. Displacement estimation is an important processing step to ensure the …

In this paper, a 2-D locally regularized strain estimation method for imaging deformation of
soft biological tissues from radio-frequency (RF) ultrasound (US) data is introduced …

In ultrasound elastography, the strain in compressed tissue due to external deformation is
estimated and is smaller in harder than softer tissue. With increased stress, the nonaxial …

The purpose of ultrasound elastography is to identify lesions by reconstructing the hardness
characteristics of tissue reconstructed from ultrasound data. Conventional quasi-static …

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 …

Most strain imaging techniques follow a pipeline strategy: in the first step, tissue
displacement is estimated from radio-frequency (RF) frames, and in the second step, a …

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 ultrasound strain and elasticity imaging, an accurate and cost-effective sub-pixel
displacement estimator is required because strain/elasticity imaging quality relies on the …