no code implementations • 19 Jan 2024 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Guy Cloutier, An Tang, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Hassan Rivaz
Statistics of the envelope of the backscattered radiofrequency (RF) data can be utilized to estimate several QUS parameters.
no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Md Ashikuzzaman, Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Hassan Rivaz
This paper proposes exploiting the effective Poisson's ratio (EPR)-based mechanical correspondence between the axial and lateral strains along with the RF data fidelity and displacement continuity to improve the lateral displacement and strain estimation accuracies.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2023 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Hayley Whitson, Hassan Rivaz
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) aims to find properties of scatterers which are related to the tissue microstructure.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Md Ashikuzzaman, Hassan Rivaz
Many modifications have been proposed to improve the displacement estimation of CNNs for USE in the axial direction.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Hassan Rivaz
Speckle statistics are the QUS parameters that describe the first order statistics of ultrasound (US) envelope data.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Hassan Rivaz
This method took into account the range of the feasible lateral strain defined by the rules of physics of motion and employed a regularization strategy to improve the lateral strains.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Hassan Rivaz
Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) provides important information about the tissue properties.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Hassan Rivaz
Recently, the architecture of the optical flow networks has been modified to be able to use RF data.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Mostafa Sharifzadeh, Emad Boctor, Hassan Rivaz
We also show that the network fine-tuned by our proposed method using experimental phantom data performs well on in vivo data similar to the network fine-tuned on in vivo data.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2022 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Hassan Rivaz
In conventional methods, the envelope data is divided into small overlapping windows (a strategy here we refer to as patching), and statistical parameters such as SNR and skewness are employed to classify each patch of envelope data.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2021 • Mostafa Sharifzadeh, Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Habib Benali, Hassan Rivaz
A common issue in exploiting simulated ultrasound data for training neural networks is the domain shift problem, where the trained models on synthetic data are not generalizable to clinical data.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2020 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Mina Amiri, Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, Timothy J. Hall, Hassan Rivaz
The results also show that the proposed network is able to work with different imaging parameters with no need for a reference phantom.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2020 • Ali K. Z. Tehrani, Morteza Mirzaei, Hassan Rivaz
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.
Image and Video Processing