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Structures that invalidate this assumption can significantly affect the estimated QUS parameters and decrease performance when classifying disease. In this study, methods were developed to reduce the effects of echoes that invalidate the assumption of uniform diffuse scattering. In order to accomplish this task, backscattered signal sections containing non-diffuse echoes were identified and removed from the QUS analysis. In the first strategy, the data blocks used in the QUS estimation process and that contained non-diffuse echoes were identified and excluded from the QUS characterization of the diffuse scatterers. In the second strategy, power spectra were estimated using a method to reduce or eliminate the effects of non-diffuse echoes on the estimated data block power spectra. QUS analysis was then performed on the modified data block power spectra. Simulations and experiments were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed methods. 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