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Seasonal Changes in Lumbar Multifidus Muscle in University Rugby Players.

Author(s): Roy A, Rivaz H, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Fortin M

PURPOSE: Although smaller lumbar multifidus muscle (LMM) was reported to be a strong predictor of lower limb injury (LLI) in Australian Football League (AFL) players, LMM morphology has not been investigated in rugby athletes. This study examined seasonal c...

Article GUID: 32925493
The effect of low back pain and lower limb injury on lumbar multifidus muscle morphology and function in university soccer players.

Author(s): Nandlall N, Rivaz H, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Fortin M

BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2020 Feb 12;21(1):96 Authors: Nandlall N, Rivaz H, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Fortin M

Article GUID: 32050966
Nonlocal Coherent Denoising of RF Data for Ultrasound Elastography.

Author(s): Khavari P, Asif A, Boily M, Rivaz H

J Healthc Eng. 2018;2018:7979528 Authors: Khavari P, Asif A, Boily M, Rivaz H

Article GUID: 30034676
Corrigendum to "Ultrasonography of multifidus muscle morphology and function in ice hockey players with and without low back pain" [Physical Therapy in Sport 37 (2019) 77-85].

Author(s): Fortin M, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Rivaz H

Phys Ther Sport. 2019 Apr 17;38:16 Authors: Fortin M, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Rivaz H PMID: 31005031 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Article GUID: 31005031
High-Dynamic-Range Ultrasound: Application for Imaging Tendon Pathology.

Author(s): Xiao Y, Boily M, Hashemi HS, Rivaz H

Ultrasound Med Biol. 2018 07;44(7):1525-1532 Authors: Xiao Y, Boily M, Hashemi HS, Rivaz H

Article GUID: 29628224
Ultrasonography of multifidus muscle morphology and function in ice hockey players with and without low back pain.

Author(s): Fortin M, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Rivaz H

Phys Ther Sport. 2019 Mar 13;37:77-85 Authors: Fortin M, Rizk A, Frenette S, Boily M, Rivaz H

Article GUID: 30897493
A comparison of muscle activation and knee mechanics during gait between patients with non-traumatic and post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis.

Author(s): Robbins SM, Morelli M, Martineau PA, St-Onge N, Boily M, Dimentberg R, Antoniou J

A comparison of muscle activation and knee mechanics during gait between patients with non-traumatic and post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2019 Mar 18;:
Authors: Robbins SM, Morelli M, Martineau PA, St-Onge N, Boily M, Di...

Article GUID: 30898621
Title:Nonlocal Coherent Denoising of RF Data for Ultrasound Elastography.
Authors:Khavari P,  Asif A,  Boily M,  Rivaz H
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034676?dopt=Abstract
Category:J Healthc Eng
PMID:30034676
Dept Affiliation: ENCS
1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

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Nonlocal Coherent Denoising of RF Data for Ultrasound Elastography.

J Healthc Eng. 2018;2018:7979528

Authors: Khavari P, Asif A, Boily M, Rivaz H

Abstract

Ultrasound elastography infers mechanical properties of living tissues from ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) data recorded while the tissues are undergoing deformation. A challenging yet critical step in ultrasound elastography is to estimate the tissue displacement (or, equivalently the time delay estimate) fields from pairs of RF data. The RF data are often corrupted with noise, which causes the displacement estimator to fail in many in vivo experiments. To address this problem, we present a nonlocal, coherent denoising approach based on Bayesian estimation to reduce the impact of noise. Despite incoherent denoising algorithms that smooth the B-mode images, the proposed denoising algorithm is used to suppress noise while maintaining useful information such as speckle patterns. We refer to the proposed approach as COherent Denoising for Elastography (CODE) and evaluate its performance when CODE is used in conjunction with the two state-of-art elastography algorithms, namely: (i) GLobal Ultrasound Elastography (GLUE) and (ii) Dynamic Programming Analytic Minimization elastography (DPAM). Our results show that CODE substantially improves the strain result of both GLUE and DPAM.

PMID: 30034676 [PubMed - in process]