Alignment-by-reconstruction for 3D ultrasound imaging

Author

Sanches, J.M. ; Marques, Jorge S.

Author_Institution

Inst. Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

37

Abstract

This paper addresses 3D reconstruction of human organs from a set of ultrasound images, assuming that the probe position and orientation is available. Unfortunately, pose measurement errors produce significant misalignments which degrade the performance of the reconstruction algorithms. This paper proposes a method for correcting these distortions by estimating the true position and orientation of the ultrasound probe. This is achieved by a joint computation of the 3D data and probe parameters using a MAP criterion. An evaluation of the proposed algorithm, by Monte Carlo method is included in the paper

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; biomedical ultrasonics; image reconstruction; medical image processing; ultrasonic imaging; 3D data; 3D ultrasound imaging alignment-by-reconstruction; MAP criterion; Monte Carlo method; US imaging; human organ reconstruction; misalignments; pose measurement errors; probe orientation; probe parameters; probe position; ultrasound probe; Bayesian methods; Humans; Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Position measurement; Positron emission tomography; Probes; Robots; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0750-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2000.903480

Filename

903480