Neural-network-based motion tracking for breast ultrasound strain elastography: An initial assessment of performance and feasibility

B Peng, Y Xian, Q Zhang, J Jiang - Ultrasonic imaging, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Accurate tracking of tissue motion is critically important for several ultrasound elastography
methods. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using three published convolution …

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 …

A hybrid knee exoskeleton using real-time ultrasound-based muscle fatigue assessment

Z Sheng, A Iyer, Z Sun, K Kim… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound-based state assessment of the human muscle during rehabilitation and its
integration into a hybrid exoskeleton comprising an functional electrical stimulation (FES) …

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 …

GPU accelerated multilevel Lagrangian carotid strain imaging

NH Meshram, T Varghese - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multilevel Lagrangian carotid strain imaging algorithm is analyzed to identify
computational bottlenecks for implementation on a graphics processing unit (GPU) …

Hadamard-encoded synthetic transmit aperture imaging for improved lateral motion estimation in ultrasound elastography

Y Wang, X Xie, Q He, H Liao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lateral motion estimation has been a challenge in ultrasound elastography mainly due to
the low resolution, low sampling frequency, and lack of phase information in the lateral …

A convolution neural network-based speckle tracking method for ultrasound elastography

B Peng, Y Xian, J Jiang - 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate tracking of tissue motion is critically important for several ultrasound elastography
methods including strain elastography and shear wave elastography. In this study, we …

A comparison of hyperelastic constitutive models applicable to shear wave elastography (SWE) data in tissue-mimicking materials

DP Rosen, J Jiang - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Shear wave elastography (SWE) techniques have received substantial attention in recent
years. Strong experimental data in SWE suggest that shear wave speed changes …

A 3-D region-growing motion-tracking method for ultrasound elasticity imaging

Y Wang, J Jiang, TJ Hall - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2018 - Elsevier
A 3-D region-growing motion-tracking (RGMT) method for ultrasound elasticity imaging is
described. This 3-D RGMT method first estimates the displacements at a sparse subset of …

An application of super-resolution generative adversary networks for quasi-static ultrasound strain elastography: A feasibility study

L He, B Peng, T Yang, J Jiang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a super-resolution approach based on generative adversary network (GAN)
was used to interpolate (up-sample) ultrasound radio-frequency (RF) echo data along the …