Improving the robustness of time-of-flight based shear wave speed reconstruction methods using RANSAC in human liver in vivo

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 802-813

  Wang, Michael H ^a   Palmeri, Mark L ^a   Rotemberg, Veronica M ^a   Rouze, Ned C ^a   Nightingale, Kathryn R ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force; Hepatic fibrosis; Shear wave; Stiffness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ANTARES; BUSINESS UNITS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ESTIMATION METHODS; GROSS OUTLIERS; HEPATIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN LIVER; HUMAN PATIENTS; IN-VIVO; LIVER STIFFNESS; MEAN ERRORS; MODEL FITTING; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; PHYSIOLOGIC MOTION; RADIATION FORCES; RANDOM SAMPLE CONSENSUS; REALTIME IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR STIFFNESS; SHEAR WAVE SPEED; SIEMENS; SOFT TISSUE; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STIFFNESS MEASUREMENTS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; TISSUE DISPLACEMENT; TISSUE STIFFNESS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; LIVER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REPAIR; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RIGIDITY; SHEAR RATE; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 77952320923     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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