Deep learning in ultrasound elastography imaging: A review

H Li, M Bhatt, Z Qu, S Zhang, MC Hartel… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is known that changes in the mechanical properties of tissues are associated with the
onset and progression of certain diseases. Ultrasound elastography is a technique to …

Displacement estimation in ultrasound elastography using pyramidal convolutional neural network

AKZ Tehrani, H Rivaz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, two novel deep learning methods are proposed for displacement estimation in
ultrasound elastography (USE). Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been …

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 …

An upgraded siamese neural network for motion tracking in ultrasound image sequences

S Bharadwaj, S Prasad… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning is heavily being borrowed to solve problems in medical imaging applications,
and Siamese neural networks are the front runners of motion tracking. In this article, we …

Semi-supervised training of optical flow convolutional neural networks in ultrasound elastography

A KZ Tehrani, M Mirzaei, H Rivaz - International Conference on Medical …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been found to have great potential in
optical flow problems thanks to an abundance of data available for training a deep network …

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 …

Bi-directional semi-supervised training of convolutional neural networks for ultrasound elastography displacement estimation

AKZ Tehrani, M Sharifzadeh, E Boctor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of ultrasound elastography (USE) heavily depends on the accuracy of
displacement estimation. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown …

Phase aberration correction: A convolutional neural network approach

M Sharifzadeh, H Benali, H Rivaz - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main sources of image degradation in ultrasound imaging is the phase aberration
effect, which imposes limitations to both data acquisition and reconstruction. Phase …

A pilot study on convolutional neural networks for motion estimation from ultrasound images

E Evain, K Faraz, T Grenier, D Garcia… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, deep learning (DL) has been successfully applied to the analysis and
processing of ultrasound images. To date, most of this research has focused on …

Ultrasound image despeckling and detection of breast cancer using deep CNN

G Latif, MO Butt, FY Al Anezi… - 2020 RIVF International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast Cancer is a common type of cancer diagnosed and it is a leading cause of death
amongst the female population worldwide. Ultrasound imaging is the preferred method used …