Ultrasound Elastography in Biomedicine: Principles, Techniques and Applications
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosignal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 71
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, ON, Canada
Interests: biological tissue computer modeling; medical imaging; elastography; computer and medical imaging-assisted diagnosis; intervention and therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ultrasound elastography is a rapidly evolving field in medical imaging due to its great potential in diagnosis and image-guided intervention in oncology, cardiology, hepatology, and other fields of medicine. Despite its potential as a low-cost and real-time imaging modality, the clinical utility of ultrasound elastography has been relatively limited. This limited utility stems primarily from the noisy radiofrequency data acquired during ultrasound imaging. While inherent to ultrasound imaging, the noise issue has been mitigated through effective data processing algorithms and hardware systems developed by researchers in the ultrasound elastography field. Furthermore, effective algorithms have been developed for image reconstruction of tissue viscoelasticity parameters. To advance this exciting field towards further establishment of ultrasound elastography as an effective imaging modality in various fields of medicine, research efforts and innovation in algorithm, hardware and software component development need to be ramped up. As a step toward this goal, this Special Issue of Bioengineering aims to showcase recent developments in the work of researchers in the field of ultrasound elastography. This Special Issue focuses on software and hardware developments pertaining to ultrasound data processing, motion tracking, image reconstruction algorithms, both conventional and machine learning-based, and clinical applications.
Prof. Dr. Abbas Samani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ultrasound elastography
- motion tracking
- inverse problems
- quasi-static elastography
- strain imaging
- stiffness imaging
- dynamic elastography
- shear wave elastography
- transient elastography
- instrumentation
- clinical applications
