Stiffness reconstruction methods for MR elastography

D Fovargue, D Nordsletten, R Sinkus - NMR in Biomedicine, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of tissue stiffness is desirable for clinicians and researchers, as it is well
established that pathophysiological mechanisms often alter the structural properties of …

Physics‐informed deep‐learning for elasticity: forward, inverse, and mixed problems

CT Chen, GX Gu - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Elastography is a medical imaging technique used to measure the elasticity of tissues by
comparing ultrasound signals before and after a light compression. The lateral resolution of …

Learning hidden elasticity with deep neural networks

CT Chen, GX Gu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Elastography is an imaging technique to reconstruct elasticity distributions of heterogeneous
objects. Since cancerous tissues are stiffer than healthy ones, for decades, elastography has …

Multiscale elasticity mapping of biological samples in 3D at optical resolution

K Regan, R LeBourdais, R Banerji, S Zhang… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of biological tissues have emerged as an integral determinant of
tissue function in health and disease. Nonetheless, characterizing the elasticity of biological …

Quantitative compression optical coherence elastography as an inverse elasticity problem

L Dong, P Wijesinghe, JT Dantuono… - IEEE Journal of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative elasticity imaging seeks to retrieve spatial maps of elastic moduli of tissue.
Unlike strain, which is commonly imaged in compression elastography, elastic moduli are …

A comparison of direct and iterative finite element inversion techniques in dynamic elastography

M Honarvar, R Rohling… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
As part of tissue elasticity imaging or elastography, an inverse problem needs to be solved
to find the elasticity distribution from the measured displacements. The finite element method …

The Coupled Adjoint-State Equation in forward and inverse linear elasticity: Incompressible plane stress

DT Seidl, AA Oberai, PE Barbone - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
A persistent challenge present in inverse or parameter estimation problems with interior data
is how to deal with uncertainty in the boundary conditions employed in the forward or state …

Gradient-based optimization for poroelastic and viscoelastic MR elastography

L Tan, MDJ McGarry, EEW Van Houten… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe an efficient gradient computation for solving inverse problems arising in
magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). The algorithm can be considered as a …

Introducing regularization into the virtual fields method (VFM) to identify nonhomogeneous elastic property distributions

Y Mei, J Deng, X Guo, S Goenezen, S Avril - Computational Mechanics, 2021 - Springer
The identification of nonhomogeneous elastic property distributions has been traditionally
achieved with well acknowledged optimization based inverse approaches, but when full …

A novel Bayesian strategy for the identification of spatially varying material properties and model validation: an application to static elastography

PS Koutsourelakis - International Journal for Numerical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper proposes a novel Bayesian, a computational strategy in the context of
model‐based inverse problems in elastostatics. On one hand, we attempt to provide …