Abstract
Block matching techniques have been studied exhaustively for motion estimation in Ultrasound (US) images. Exhaustive Search (ES) is the most commonly used search algorithm for block matching in US images. However, ES can be computationally expensive and slow. In this paper, a faster search algorithm called the Adaptive Rood Pattern Search (ARPS) is adopted to US images along with subpixel matching to reduce the computational cost and enhance block matching. Both ES and ARPS were applied in the context of block matching based 2D speckle tracking and were compared using Number of Computations per Frame (NCF), Computational Time per Frame (CTF) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) as metrics. Our simulations and experimental results proved that ARPS outperformed ES by a substantial margin. Adaptation of this technique could help improve the performance of real-time motion estimation drastically.
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