Ultrasound Image Analysis for Renal Stone Tracking During Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy

Author

Manousakas, Ioannis ; Pu, Yong-Ren ; Chang, Chien-Chen ; Liang, Shen-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

2746

Lastpage

2749

Abstract

Although extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the standard procedure for treating renal stones, little work has been done on ways to minimize the side effects and on treatment optimization. A system that uses ultrasound imaging for real time renal stone monitoring is presented here and some aspects of the image analysis module are described. The improved system has proved to be more robust than the unmodified system. With such a system, the injury on healthy tissues is reduced while the treatment time is shortened

Keywords

biological effects of acoustic radiation; biomedical ultrasonics; kidney; patient treatment; shock waves; tracking; extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; image analysis module; renal stone monitoring; renal stone tracking; renal stone treatment; treatment optimization; treatment time; ultrasound image analysis; Brightness; Cities and towns; Focusing; Image analysis; Image texture analysis; Lithotripsy; Probes; Real time systems; Shock waves; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259581

Filename

4462364