An Intelligent Interface for Freehand Strain Imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1117-1128

  Lindop, Joel E ^a   Treece, Graham M ^a   Gee, Andrew H ^a   Prager, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freehand; Normalisation; Post processing; Strain imaging; User interface

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CLINICAL TRIALS; ESTIMATION PRECISION; FREEHAND; IN-LINE; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTELLIGENT INTERFACES; NOISE RATIOS; NORMALISATION; POST-PROCESSING; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; STRAIN DATA; STRAIN ESTIMATION; STRAIN IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING; USER INTERFACE;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FREEHAND STRAIN IMAGING; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMALISATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 45949088493     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Barbone P.E., and Bamber J.C. Quantitative elasticity imaging: What can and cannot be inferred from strain images. Phys Med Biol 47 (2002) 2147-2164
2. Dresp B., and Grossberg S. Spatial facilitation by color and luminance edges: boundary, surface and attentional factors. Vis Res 39 (1999) 3431-3443
3. Emelianov S.Y., Chen X., Knipp B., and Myers D. Triplex ultrasound: Elasticity imaging to age deep venous thrombosis. Ultrasound Med Biol 28 (2002) 757-767
4. Garra B.S., Céspedes E.I., Ophir J., Spratt S.R., Zuurbier R.A., Magnant C.M., and Pennanen M.F. Elastography of breast lesions: Initial clinical results. Radiology 202 (1997) 79-86
5. Gee A., Prager R., Treece G., and Berman L. Engineering a freehand 3D ultrasound system. Pattern Recognition Lett 24 (2003) 757-777
6. Hall T.J., Zhu Y., and Spalding C.S. In vivo real-time freehand palpation imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 29 (2003) 427-435
7. Itoh A., Ueno E., Tohno E., Kamma H., Takahashi H., Shiina T., Yamakawa M., and Mat-sumura T. Breast disease: Clinical application of US elastography for diagnosis. Radiology 239 (2006) 341-350
8. Jiang J., Hall T.J., and Sommer A.M. A novel image formation method for ultrasonic strain imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 33 (2007) 643-652
9. Judd D.B., and Wyszecki G. Color in Business, Science, and Industry (1975), Wiley, New York
10. Kallel F., and Bertrand M. Tissue elasticity reconstruction using linear perturbation method. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 15 (1996) 299-313
11. Kallel F., and Ophir J. A least-squares strain estimator for elastography. Ultrason Imaging 19 (1997) 195-208
12. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Frame filtering for improved freehand 3D US elastography. Proceedings-Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity 4 (2005) 74
13. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. 3D elastography using freehand ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 32 (2006) 529-545
14. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Estimation of displacement location for enhanced strain imaging. IEEE Trans Ultras Ferroelectr Freq Control 54 (2007) 1751-1771
15. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Phase-based ultrasonic deformatin estimation. IEEE Trans Ultras Ferroelectr Freq Control 55 (2008) 94-111
16. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Dynamic resolution selection in ultrasonic strain imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol (2008) (in press)
17. Lindop J.E., Treece G.M., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Dynamic resolution selection in strain imaging. In: Akiyama I. (Ed). To appear in Acoustical Imaging 29 (2008), Springer, New York
18. Matsumura T., Tamano S., Shinomura R., Mitake T., Yamakawa M., Shiina T., Itoh A., and Ueno E. Diagnostic results for breast disease by real-time elasticity imaging system. In: Yuhas M.P. (Ed). Proceedings-IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (2004), IEEE Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, Montreal 1484-1487
19. Miyanaga N., Akaza H., Yamakawa M., Oikawa T., Sekido N., Hinotsu S., Kawai K., Shimazui T., and Shiina T. Tissue elasticity imaging for diagnosis of prostate cancer: A preliminary report. Int J Urol 13 (2006) 1514-1518
20. Ophir J., Céspedes I., Ponnekanti H., Yazdi Y., and Li X. Elastography: A quantitative method for imaging the elasticity of biological tissues. Ultrason Imaging 13 (1991) 111-134
21. Pellot-Barakat C., Frouin F., Insana M., and Herment A. Ultrasound elastography based on multiscale estimations of regularized displacement fields. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 23 (2004) 153-163
22. Pesavento A., and Lorenz A. Real-time strain imaging-a new ultrasonic method for cancer detection: first study results. In: Yuhas D.E. (Ed). Proceedings-IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium (2001), IEEE Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, Atlanta 1647-1652
23. Pesavento A., Perrey C., Krueger M., and Ermert H. A time efficient and accurate strain estimation concept for ultrasonic elastography using iterative phase zero estimation. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 46 (1999) 1057-1067
24. Regner D.M., Hesley G.K., Hangiandreou N.J., Morton M.J., Nordland M.R., Meixner D.D., Hall T.J., Farrell M.A., Mandrekar J.N., Harmsen W.S., and Charboneau J.W. Breast lesions: Evaluation with US strain imaging - clinical experience of multiple observers. Radiology 238 (2006) 425-437
25. Svensson W.E., and Amiras D. Ultrasound elasticity imaging. Breast Cancer Online 9 (2006) 1-7
26. Treece G.M., Lindop J.E., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Efficient elimination of dropouts in displacement tracking. Proceedings-Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity 5 (2006) 68
27. Treece G.M., Lindop J.E., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Freehand ultrasound elastography with a 3D probe. Ultrasound Med Biol 34 (2008) 463-474
28. Treece G.M., Lindop J.E., Gee A.H., and Prager R.W. Near-real-time 3D ultrasonic strain imaging. In: Akiyama I. (Ed). To appear in Acoustical Imaging 29 (2008), Springer
29. Varghese T., and Ophir J. Performance optimization in elastography: Multicompression with temporal stretching. Ultrason Imaging 18 (1996) 193-214