Quasi-static ultrasound elastography is an importance imaging technology to assess the
conditions of various diseases through reconstructing the tissue strain from radio frequency …

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

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 …

Ultrafast imaging based on coherent plane-wave compounding is one of the most important
recent developments in medical ultrasound. It significantly improves the image quality and …

Ultrasound vascular strain imaging has shown its potential to interrogate the motion of the
vessel wall induced by the cardiac pulsation for predicting plaque instability. In this study, a …

Lateral motion estimation has been a challenge in ultrasound elastography mainly due to
the low resolution, low sampling frequency, and lack of phase information in the lateral …

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 …

Elastography is a medical imaging modality that enables visualization of tissue stiffness. It
involves quasi-static or harmonic mechanical stimulation of the tissue to generate a …

Ultrasound elastography is a common medical imaging applied in medical applications
since it can provide the tissue hardness information. Most ultrasound elastography …

This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate the displacement fields, which is a
common and challenging step in ultrasound elastography. Maximization of normalized cross …