The ultrasound elastography inverse problem and the effective criteria

被引:9
作者
Aghajani, Atefeh [1 ]
Haghpanahi, Mohammad [1 ]
Nikazad, Touraj [2 ]
机构
[1] Iran Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Mech Engn, Tehran 1684613114, Iran
[2] Iran Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Math, Tehran, Iran
关键词
Elastography; inverse elasticity problem; Gauss-Newton method; initial guess; contrast ratio; noise level; regularization method; ELASTICITY; TISSUE; BREAST; PARAMETERS;
D O I
10.1177/0954411913494324
中图分类号
R318 [生物医学工程];
学科分类号
0831 ;
摘要
The elastography (elasticity imaging) is one of the recent state-of-the-art methods for diagnosis of abnormalities in soft tissue. The idea is based on the computation of the tissue elasticity distribution. This leads to the inverse elasticity problem; in that, displacement field and boundary conditions are known, and elasticity distribution of the tissue is aimed for computation. We treat this problem by the Gauss-Newton method. This iterative method results in an ill-posed problem, and therefore, regularization schemes are required to deal with this issue. The impacts of the initial guess for tissue elasticity distribution, contrast ratio between elastic modulus of tumor and normal tissue, and noise level of the input data on the estimated solutions are investigated via two different regularization methods. The numerical results show that the accuracy and speed of convergence vary when different regularization methods are applied. Also, the semi-convergence behavior has been observed and discussed. At the end, we signify the necessity of a clever initial guess and intelligent stopping criteria for the iterations. The main purpose here is to highlight some technical factors that have an influence on elasticity image quality and diagnostic accuracy, and we have tried our best to make this article accessible for a broad audience.
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页码:1203 / 1212
页数:10
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