Now, with the availability of 3-D ultrasound data, a lot of research efforts are being devoted
to developing 3-D ultrasound strain elastography (USE) systems. Because 3-D motion …

Ultrasound applications such as elastography can benefit from 3-D data acquisition and
processing. In this article, we describe a specific ultrasound probe, designed to acquire …

Cette thèse concerne l'estimation du mouvement dans des séquences d'images
échographiques, avec comme application médicale l'élastographie statique de la thyroïde …

Under mechanical compression, tissue movements are inherently three-dimensional. 2-D
strain imaging can suffer from decorrelation noise caused by out-of-plane tissue movement …

The vast majority of strain imaging systems applies linear filtering to estimate strain from
displacement data. Methods such as piecewise-linear least squares regression and …

The goal of cancer imaging is to exploit disease-specific object contrast mechanisms that
provide very specific information about cellular structure and function to help diagnose and …

This book describes the different principles and equipment used in medical imaging. The
importance of medical imaging for diagnostics is rapidly increasing. A good working …

Many engineering and biological media can be described as the combination of several
heterogeneous constituent phases. For instance, a tumor-containing organ can be …

In ultrasound image analysis, the speckle tracking methods are widely applied to study the
elasticity of body tissue. However,“feature-motion decorrelation” still remains as a challenge …

Ultrasonic imaging has been implemented as a powerful tool for noninvasive subsurface
inspections of both structural and biological media. Current ultrasound probes are rigid and …