Improvement of displacement estimation of breast tissue in ultrasound elastography using the monogenic signal

Table 8 Comparison of CNR for the proposed method with OMS and BS methods for 20 patients

	B-mode image	OMS method	BS method	Proposed method
CNR: patient 1	0.31	0.39	0.41	0.62
CNR: patient 2	1.62	1.97	2.01	2.32
CNR: patient 3	0.62	1.12	1.20	1.27
CNR: patient 4	1.14	1.98	2.03	2.47
CNR: patient 5	0.74	1.31	1.40	1.76
CNR: patient 6	0.16	0.93	1.21	1.43
CNR: patient 7	1.23	1.76	1.87	1.97
CNR: patient 8	0.18	0.86	0.92	1.16
CNR: patient 9	0.95	1.32	1.99	2.23
CNR: patient 10	0.19	0.49	0.52	1.23
CNR: patient 11	0.53	0.97	1.12	1.45
CNR: patient 12	0.61	1.32	1.63	1.97
CNR: patient 13	0.73	1.83	1.98	2.31
CNR: patient 14	0.39	0.84	0.89	1.36
CNR: patient 15	0.41	0.79	0.96	1.42
CNR: patient 16	0.72	1.14	1.38	1.79
CNR: patient 17	0.87	1.34	1.64	1.84
CNR: patient 18	0.74	1.20	1.56	1.95
CNR: patient 19	0.73	1.17	1.53	2.09
CNR: patient 20	0.39	1.16	1.37	1.79

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