Lateral strain imaging using self-supervised and physically inspired constraints in unsupervised regularized elastography

AKZ Tehrani, M Ashikuzzaman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown promising results for displacement
estimation in UltraSound Elastography (USE). Many modifications have been proposed to …

Surgical-DINO: adapter learning of foundation models for depth estimation in endoscopic surgery

B Cui, M Islam, L Bai, H Ren - International Journal of Computer Assisted …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Depth estimation in robotic surgery is vital in 3D reconstruction, surgical navigation
and augmented reality visualization. Although the foundation model exhibits outstanding …

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 …

Knowledge fused latent representation from lung ultrasound examination for COVID-19 pneumonia severity assessment

Z Li, X Yang, H Lan, M Wang, L Huang, X Wei, G Xie… - Ultrasonics, 2024 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pneumonia severity assessment is of great clinical importance, and lung
ultrasound (LUS) plays a crucial role in aiding the severity assessment of COVID-19 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Teacher-student guided knowledge distillation for unsupervised convolutional neural network-based speckle tracking in ultrasound strain elastography

T Xiang, Y Li, H Deng, C Tian, B Peng… - Medical & Biological …, 2024 - Springer
Accurate and efficient motion estimation is a crucial component of real-time ultrasound
elastography (USE). However, obtaining radiofrequency ultrasound (RF) data in clinical …

A data-efficient deep learning strategy for tissue characterization via quantitative ultrasound: Zone training

U Soylu, ML Oelze - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning (DL) powered biomedical ultrasound imaging is an emerging research field
where researchers adapt the image analysis capabilities of DL algorithms to biomedical …