2D tissue strain tensor imaging in quasi-static ultrasound elastography

AL Duroy, V Detti, A Coulon, O Basset… - 2021 43rd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurately estimating all strain components in quasi-static ultrasound elastography is crucial
for the full analysis of biological media. In this paper, 2D strain tensor imaging is …

Regularization-Based 2D Strain Tensor Imaging in Quasi-Static Ultrasound Elastography SAGE Publications

AL Duroy, V Detti, A Coulon, O Basset… - Ultrasonic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Accurately estimating all strain components in quasi-static ultrasound elastography is crucial
for the full analysis of biological media. In this study, 2D strain tensor imaging was …

Analytical estimation of out-of-plane strain in ultrasound elastography to improve axial and lateral displacement fields

N Kheirkhah, A Sadeghi-Naini… - 2020 42nd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many types of cancers are associated with changes in tissue mechanical properties. This
has led to the development of elastography as a clinically viable method where tissue …

Two-dimensional displacement estimation using mixed second-order regularization in total variation-based ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, H Rivaz… - Medical Imaging 2024 …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A recent technique named Mechanically-inspired L1-norm-based Second-Order Ultrasound
eLastography (L1-MechSOUL) has provided a promising solution to the well-known issue of …

A tissue mechanics based method to improve tissue displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

N Kheirkhah, SCH Dempsey, H Rivaz… - 2020 42nd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cancer is known to induce significant structural changes to tissue. In most cancers, including
breast cancer, such changes yield tissue stiffening. As such, imaging tissue stiffness can be …

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 …

Effects of Coherence-Based Beamforming on Breast Ultrasound Elastograms

G Matrone, E Lashkevich, A Bertoni… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In quasi-static elastography, the operator compresses the tissue under exam with the probe,
while the scanner processes the beamformed frames, by means of correlation or signal …

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 …

A Comparative Study of Displacement De-Noising Strategies: An in Vivo Feasibility Study Using 3D Whole Breast Ultrasound Data

J Jiang, B Peng - 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the availability of 3D whole breast ultrasound data (WBUS), a lot of recent research
efforts are devoted to 3D ultrasound strain elastography. We propose a software post …

Ultrasound elasticity imaging using physics-based models and learning-based plug-and-play priors

N Mohammadi, MM Doyley… - ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing physical model-based imaging methods for ultrasound elasticity reconstruction
utilize fixed variational regularizers that may not be appropriate for the application of interest …