A novel robust template matching method to track and follow body targets for NIUTS

Author

Koizumi, N. ; Funamoto, Takakazu ; Joonho Seo ; Dongjung Lee ; Tsukihara, Hiroyuki ; Nomiya, Akira ; Azuma, Teruaki ; Yoshinaka, Kiyoshi ; Sugita, Naohiko ; Homma, Yukio ; Matsumoto, Yuki ; Mitsuishi, Mamoru

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

May 31 2014-June 7 2014

Firstpage

1929

Lastpage

1936

Abstract

The authors have developed a bed-type non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system (NIUTS) that compensates for movement by tracking and following the area to be treated by stereo ultrasound imaging while irradiating high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) onto the affected area. In this paper, we propose a novel robust template matching method to track and follow body targets, which include tumors and stones for the NIUTS. The proposed novel robust template matching method could be applied to a motion tracking of the real human kidney based on the ultrasound images, which is the first successful report as far as I know. This robust visual servoing method could be a great tool to treat the tumors and stones precisely and safely.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; image matching; kidney; medical image processing; stereo image processing; target tracking; tumours; ultrasonic imaging; visual servoing; HIFU; NIUTS; bed-type noninvasive ultrasound theragnostic system; body target tracking; high-intensity focused ultrasound; motion tracking; real human kidney; robust template matching method; robust visual servoing method; stereo ultrasound imaging; stones; tumors; ultrasound images; Acoustics; Kidney; Robustness; Target tracking; Tumors; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907114

Filename

6907114