Defcor-net: physics-aware ultrasound deformation correction

Z Jiang, Y Zhou, D Cao, N Navab - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is
challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent …

Exploiting mechanics-based priors for lateral displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, AKZ Tehrani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking the displacement between the pre-and post-deformed radio-frequency (RF) frames
is a pivotal step of ultrasound elastography, which depicts tissue mechanical properties to …

Convolutional neural network-based speckle tracking for ultrasound strain elastography: an unsupervised learning approach

S Wen, B Peng, X Wei, J Luo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and computationally efficient motion estimation is a critical component of real-time
ultrasound strain elastography (USE). With the advent of deep-learning neural network …

Displacement Tracking Techniques in Ultrasound Elastography: From Cross-Correlation to Deep Learning

M Ashikuzzaman, A Héroux, A Tang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that maps
viscoelastic properties to characterize tissues and diseases. Elastography can be divided …

Denoising plane wave ultrasound images using diffusion probabilistic models

H Asgariandehkordi, S Goudarzi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound plane wave (PW) imaging is a cutting-edge technique that enables high frame-
rate imaging. However, one challenge associated with high frame-rate ultrasound imaging is …

Ultrasound viscoelastography by acoustic radiation force: A state-of-the-art review

X Chen, X Li, S Turco, RJG Van Sloun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography (USE) is a promising tool for tissue characterization as several
diseases result in alterations of tissue structure and composition, which manifest as changes …

Photoacoustic Multispectral Elastography Based on the Photoacoustic Oscillation Effect for Microelastomers in Deep Tissue

Y Liu, C Tao, X Liu - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
The detection of microelastomers in deep tissue has significant biomedical value. However,
elastography of microelastomers is still limited to superficial tissues. Here, we propose …

Alternating direction method of multipliers for displacement estimation in ultrasound strain elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, B Peng, J Jiang, H Rivaz - Medical physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect
tissue abnormalities, involves estimating the time delay between two radio‐frequency (RF) …

MixTURE: L1-Norm-Based Mixed Second-Order Continuity in Strain Tensor Ultrasound Elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, A Sharma… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-based displacement tracking of ultrasound images can be implemented by
optimizing a cost function consisting of a data term, a mechanical congruency term, and first …

Ultrafast cardiac imaging using deep learning for speckle-tracking echocardiography

J Lu, F Millioz, F Varray, J Porée… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-quality ultrafast ultrasound imaging is based on coherent compounding from multiple
transmissions of plane waves (PW) or diverging waves (DW). However, compounding …