Ultrasound elasticity imaging based multilevel estimation using radiofrequency data

ARH Al-jader, A Alazawi… - IOP Conference Series …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
An ultrasound elastography introduced to differentiate hard tumor inclusion embedded in
soft tissue background based on similarity measurement of before and after deformation. In …

Dynamic estimation of myocardial deformation using ultrasound RF-data: A preliminary study

ZR Shan, X Li, YN Wang… - 2015 37th Annual …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analytic minimization (AM) is one of elastography algorithms. In this study, a healthy male
volunteer lying in lateral position was examined by an ultrasound system. The left ventricular …

Motion estimation and compensation of feature-motion decorrelation

W Yu, T Liang - US Patent 9,286,691, 2016 - Google Patents
(73) Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
5,524,636 A 6/1996 Sarvazyan et al. Hong Kong (CN) 5,720,708 A 2/1998 Lu et …

Imaging tumor microenvironment with ultrasound

M Sridhar, MF Insana - … Conference on Information Processing in Medical …, 2005 - Springer
Recent advances in molecular biology are providing new opportunities for breast cancer
imaging. Our approach uses ultrasound to image viscoelastic features of tumors. These …

A two-dimensional locally regularized strain estimation technique: preliminary clinical results for the assessment of benign and malignant breast lesions

E Brusseau, V Detti, A Coulon… - Medical Imaging …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We previously developed a 2D locally regularized strain estimation technique that was
already validated with ex vivo tissues. In this study, our technique is assessed with in vivo …

Ultrasound strain imaging using spatiotemporal Bayesian regularized multi-level block matching method

R Al Mukaddim, AM Weichmann… - Medical Imaging …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Ultrasound Strain imaging (USI) is a radiofrequency (RF) signal-based method for mapping
mechanical tissue properties with widespread preclinical and clinical uses. USI quality is …

Effect of prior probability quality on biased time-delay estimation

BC Byram, GE Trahey, ML Palmeri - Ultrasonic imaging, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
When properly constructed, biased estimators are known to produce lower mean-square
errors than unbiased estimators. A biased estimator for the problem of ultrasound time-delay …

Ultrasonic imaging of biochemical changes in tissues

M Sridhar, H Du, C Pellot-Barakat… - IEEE Ultrasonics …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced breast carcinomas are complex mixtures of epithelial, stromal and inflammatory
cells with heterogenous, chaotic blood flow. Elevated cell metabolism and poor perfusion …

A novel method for monitoring liver ablation using ultrasound elastography

H Rivaz, A Kapoor, I Fleming… - Medical Imaging …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Monitoring the ablation process in order to document the adequacy of margins during
treatment is of significant importance. Observing that the ablation lesion is harder than …

Chronic Myocardial Infarct Visualization Using Three-Dimensional Ultrasound

BC Byram - 2011 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation aims to demonstrate the feasibility of direct infarct visualization using 3D
medical ultrasound. The dissertation proceeds by providing the first ever demonstration of …