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A QUALITY-GUIDED DISPLACEMENT TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR ULTRASONIC ELASTICITY IMAGING L. Chen, G. M. Treece, J. E. Lindop, A. H. Gee and R. W. Prager CUED/F-INFENG/TR 593 January 2008 University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ United Kingdom Email: lc420/gmt11/jel35/ahg/rwp @eng.cam.ac.uk A quality-guided displacement tracking algorithm for ultrasonic elasticity imaging Lujie Chen, Graham M. Treece, Joel E. Lindop, Andrew H. Gee and Richard W. Prager University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ Abstract Displacement estimation is a key step in the evaluation of tissue elasticity by quasistatic strain imaging. An efficient displacement estimation process may incorporate a tracking strat- egy that initializes each point according to its neighbours’ displacements and then performs a localized search. This increases the accuracy and reduces the computation expense compared with exhaustive search. However, simple tracking strategies fail when the target displacement map exhibits complex structure. For example, there may be discontinuities and regions of indeterminate displacement caused by decorrelation between the pre- and post-deformation radio frequency (RF) echo signals. This paper introduces a novel displacement tracking al- gorithm, with an intelligent search s