Ultrasound image enhancement for HIFU lesion detection and measurement

Author

Yan, Sheng ; Yuan, Jianping ; Hou, Chaohuan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Acoust. Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 Aug. 2009

Abstract

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been investigated as a new technique for treating tumors in clinical applications. Detecting HIFU induced lesions in medical imaging is an important method to monitor and guide the HIFU therapies. In this paper, we propose an ultrasound image enhancement method for HIFU lesion detection and measurement based on the combination of the GenLik method and the local wiener filtering technique in the wavelet packet transform domain. Experimental results of simulated image and HIFU monitor image show that this method can successfully preserve and enhance lesions for auto segmentation and measurement, while reducing the speckle noise in ultrasound images.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; image denoising; image enhancement; medical image processing; radiation therapy; tumours; wavelet transforms; GenLik method; HIFU lesion detection; HIFU therapy; high intensity focused ultrasound; image segmentation; local wiener filtering technique; speckle noise reduction; tumors; ultrasound image enhancement; wavelet packet transform domain; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Focusing; Image enhancement; Lesions; Medical treatment; Neoplasms; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Wiener filter; HIFU; lesion; speckle noise; ultrasound image; wavelet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Measurement & Instruments, 2009. ICEMI '09. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3863-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3864-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMI.2009.5274104

Filename

5274104