On feature motion decorrelation in ultrasound speckle tracking

T Liang, L Yung, W Yu - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
transformation is able to achieve a similar performance as the coupled filtering method.
Feature … Finally, we show that in typical elastography studies, speckle tracking methods without …

Longitudinal motion assessment of the carotid artery using speckle tracking and scale-invariant feature transform

S Scaramuzzino, C Carallo, G Pileggi… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2017 - Springer
… novel approach for ultra-sound-based speckle tracking to measure the carotid artery longitudinal
… This method utilizes feature detectors and descriptors to localize and track keypoints for …

Towards pointwise motion tracking in echocardiographic image sequences–comparing the reliability of different features for speckle tracking

W Yu, P Yan, AJ Sinusas, K Thiele, JS Duncan - Medical image analysis, 2006 - Elsevier
feature-based tracking is feasible for LV deformation analysis. Among three possible tracking
features … that the BM signal is the best feature for LV deformation analysis. This comparison …

Wavelet-transform-based speckle vector tracking method for X-ray phase imaging

Z Qiao, X Shi, R Celestre, L Assoufid - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
feature enables the DWT to provide a trade-off between local information and spatial
resolution, which is preferred for speckle tracking … The phase sensitivity of the speckle tracking

Nonlocal means filter-based speckle tracking

N Afsham, A Rasoulian, M Najafi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… for the correlation-based tracking. In summary, we propose a framework for speckle tracking
based on noise extraction from ultrasound image. The novelties of the paper include: …

Speckle tracking in intracardiac echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial deformation

Y Yue, DS Khoury, JW Clark - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper, we presented and validated a deformable speckle tracking approach for
motion estimation in ICE images. The method incorporated statistical features of ultrasound …

Two-dimensional iterative projection method for subsample speckle tracking of ultrasound images

B Rebholz, F Zheng, M Almekkawy - Medical & Biological Engineering & …, 2020 - Springer
… shows that the Riesz transform is superior to other methods at the extraction of image structure
[35]. This paper proceeds to apply the Riesz transform in the field of speckle tracking. It is …

Performance and analysis of feature tracking approaches in laser speckle instrumentation

T Charrett, R Tatam - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
… application of feature tracking algorithms as an alternative data processing method for laser
speckle instrumentation. The approach is capable of determining both the speckle pattern …

Phase-coupled two-dimensional speckle tracking algorithm

ES Ebbini - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… correlation-based 2-D speckle tracking and relate it to the 2-D cross spectrum approach.
Section III describes two implementations of the phase-coupled 2-D speckle tracking algorithm. …

Ultrasound speckle tracking with deep convolutional neural network

X Yu, H Wang, L Ma - Journal of Medical Imaging and Health …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
… is also used for speckle tracking. The basic methods of existing speckle tracking technology
are block … The feature of speckle tracking which based on block matching method is the …