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 …

Combining first-and second-order continuity constraints in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, A Sadeghi-Naini… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound elastography is a prominent noninvasive medical imaging technique that
estimates tissue elastic properties to detect abnormalities in an organ. A common …

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 …

Second-Order Ultrasound Elastography With L1-Norm Spatial Regularization

M Ashikuzzaman, H Rivaz - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time delay estimation (TDE) between two radio-frequency (RF) frames is one of the major
steps of quasi-static ultrasound elastography, which detects tissue pathology by estimating …

Incorporating gradient similarity for robust time delay estimation in ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, TJ Hall… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize a regularized cost function
consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain local displacement estimates based on the …

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 …

Adaptive data function for robust ultrasound elastography

M Ashikuzzaman, TJ Hall… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Regularized optimization-based ultrasound elastography techniques minimize an energy
function consisting of data and continuity terms to obtain the displacement tensor between …

Denoising of LCR Wave Signal of Residual Stress for Rail Surface Based on Lifting Scheme Wavelet Packet Transform

P Li, C Xu, Q Pan, Y Lu, S Li - Coatings, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to the acousto elastic effect, the residual stress on the surface of the rail can be
evaluated by measuring the change in the propagation velocity of ultrasonic waves, such as …

Ultrasound Strain Imaging using ADMM

M Ashikuzzaman, H Rivaz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04363, 2022 - arxiv.org
Ultrasound strain imaging, which delineates mechanical properties to detect tissue
abnormalities, involves estimating the time-delay between two radio-frequency (RF) frames …