2-D companding for noise reduction in strain imaging

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 179-191

  Chaturvedi, Pawan ^a   Insana, Michael F ^a   Hall, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; ECHO SUPPRESSION; ELASTICITY; STRAIN; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

NOISE REDUCTION; STRAIN IMAGING; SUM ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE (SAD) ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL STRETCHING;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031646482     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.646923     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. L. S. Wilson and D. E. Robinson Ultrasonic measurement of small displacements and deformations of tissues," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 4, pp. 71-82, 1982.
2. M. Tristam, D. C. Barbosa, D. O. Cosgrove, D. K. Nassiri, J. C. Bamber, and C. R. Hill Ultrasonic study of in vivo kinetic characteristics of human tissues," Ultrason. Med. Biol, vol. 12, pp. 927-937, 1986.
3. T. A. Krouskop, D. R. Dougherty, and S. F. Vinson A pulsed Doppler ultrasonic system for making non-invasive measurements of the mechanical properties of soft tissues," J. Rehab. Res. Dev., vol. 24, pp. 1-8, 1987.
4. Y. Yamakoshi, J. Sato, and T. Sato Ultrasonic imaging of internal vibration of soft tissue under forced vibration," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 37, pp. 45-53, 1990.
5. R. M. Lerner, S. R. Huang, and K. J. Parker, "Sonoelasücity images for ultrasound signals in mechanically vibrated tissues," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 16, pp. 231-239, 1990.
6. J. Ophir, I. Céspedes, H. Ponnekanti, Y. Yazdi, and X. Li Elastography: quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissue," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 13, pp. 111-134, 1991.
7. B. S. Garra, I. Céspedes, J. Ophir, S. R. Spratt, R. A. Zuurbier, C. M. Magnant, and M. F. Pennanen Elastography of breast lesions: initial clinical results," Radiology, vol. 202, pp. 79-86, 1997.
8. M. O'Donnell, A. R. Skovoroda, B. M. Shapo, and S. Y. Emelianov Internal displacement and strain imaging using ultrasonic speckle tracking," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 41, pp. 314-325, 1994.
9. A. R. Skovoroda, S. Y. Emelianov, M. A. Lubinski, A. P. Sarvazyan, and M. O'Donnell Theoretical analysis and verification of ultrasound displacement and strain imaging," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 41, pp. 302-313, 1994.
10. C. Sumi, A. Suzuki, and K. Nakayama Estimation of shear modulus distribution in soft tissue from strain distribution," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 42, pp. 193-202,1995.
11. E. J. Chen, R. S. Adler, P. L. Carson, W. K. Jenkins, and W. D. O'Brien Ultrasound tissue displacement imaging with application to breast cancer," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 21, pp. 11531162, 1995.
12. L. Gao, K. J. Parker, R. M. Lerner, and S. F. Levinson Imaging of the elastic properties of the tissue: A review," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 22, pp. 959-977, 1996.
13. R. Muthupillai, D. J. Lomas, P. J. Rossman, J. F. Greenleaf, A. Manduca, and R. L. Ehman Magnetic resonance elastography by direct visualization of propagating acoustic strain waves," Science, vol. 269, pp. 1854-1857, 1995.
14. A. P. Sarvazyan, A. R. Skovoroda, S. Y. Emelianov, J. B. Fowlkes, J. G. Pipe, R. S. Adler, R. B. Buxton, and P. L. Carson Biophysical bases of elasticity imaging," Acoust. Imaging, vol. 21, pp. 223-240, 1995.
15. K. Motoi, H. Morita, N. Fujita, Y. Takano, K. Muzushige, S. Senda, and H. Matsuo Stiffness of human arterial wall assessed by intravascular ultrasound," J. Cardiol., vol. 25, pp. 189197, 1995.
16. I. Céspedes and J. Ophir Reduction of image noise in elastography," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 15, pp. 89-102, 1993.
17. S. K. Alam and J. Ophir Reduction of signal decorrelation from mechanical compression of tissues by temporal stretching: applications to elastography," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 23, pp. 95-105, 1997.
18. M. Bilgen and M. F. Insana Error analysis in acoustic elastography. I. Displacement estimation, and II. Strain estimation and SNR analysis," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 101, pp. 1139-1154, 1997.
19. W. R. Remley Correlation of signals having a linear delay," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 35, pp. 65 and 69, 1963.
20. C. H. Knapp and G. C. Carter Estimation of time delay in the presence of source or receiver motion," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 70, pp. 1545-1549, 1977.
21. W. B. Adams, J. P. Kühn, and W. P. Whyland Correlator compensation requirements for passive time-delay estimation with moving sources or receivers," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. 28, pp. 158-168, 1980.
22. J. W. Betz Comparison of the deskewed short-time correlator and the maximum-likelihood correlator," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. 32, pp. 285-294, 1984.
23. J. W. Betz Effects of uncompensated relative time companding on a broad-band cross correlator," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, vol. 33, pp. 505-510, 1985.
24. T. Varghese, J. Ophir, and I. Céspedes Noise reduction in elastograms using temporal stretching with multicompression averaging," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 22, pp. 1043-1052, 1996.
25. M. A. Lubinski, S. Y. Emelianov, K. H. Raghavan, A. E. Yagle, A. R. Skovoroda, and M. O'Donnell Lateral displacement estimation using tissue incompressibility," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 43, pp. 247-255, 1996.
26. I. Céspedes, Y. Huaiig, J. Ophir, and S. Spratt Methods for estimation of subsample time delays of digitized echo signals," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 17, pp. 142-171, 1995.
27. M. Bilgen and M. F. Insana Deformation models and correlation analysis in elastography," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 99, pp. 3212-3224, 1996.
28. J. Meunier, M. Bertrand, and G. Mailloux A model for dynamic texture analysis in two-dimensional echocardiograms of the myocardium," Proc. SPIE, vol. 768, pp. 193-200, 1987.
29. F. Kallel, M. Bertrand, and J. Meunier Speckle motion artifact under tissue rotation," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 41, pp. 105-122, 1994.
30. F. Kallel and J. Ophir Three-dimensional tissue motion and its effect on image noise in elastography," IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelect., Freq. Contr., vol. 44, pp. 1286-1296, 1997.
31. S. Y. Emelianov, M. A. Lubinski, W. F. Weitzel, R. C. Wiggins, A. R.. Skovoroda, and M. O'Donnell Elasticity imaging for early detection of renal pathology," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 21, pp. 871-883, 1995.
32. E. E. Konofagou and J. Ophir Techniques for expansion of dynamic range in elastography: theory and application," Ultrason. Imaging, vol. 18, p. 64, 1996 (Abstr.).
33. M. F. Insana, M. Bilgen, P. Chaturvedi, T. J. Hall, and M. Bertrand Signal processing strategies in acoustic elastography," Proc. IEEE Ultrason. Symp., 1997, pp. 1139-1142.
34. L. N. Bohs and G. E. Trahey A novel method for angle independent ultrasonic imaging of blood flow and tissue motion," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 38, pp. 280-286, 1991.
35. L. N. Bohs, B. H. Friemel, B. A. McDermott, and G. E. Trahey A real time system for quantifying and displaying twodimensional velocities using ultrasound," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 19, pp. 751-761, 1994.
36. B. J. Geiman, L. N. Bohs, M. E. Anderson, S. P. Czenszak, and G. E. Trahey 2D vector flow imaging using ensemble tracking: initial results," Ultrason, Imaging, vol. 18, pp. 61 62, 1996, (Abstr.).
37. P. Chaturvedi and M. F. Insana Error bounds on ultrasonic scatterer size estimates," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 100, pp. 392-399, 1996.
38. R. M. Lerner and R. C. Waag Wavespace interpretation of scattered ultrasound," Ultrason. Med. Biol., vol. 14, pp. 97-102, 1988.