Texture-based instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Howe, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Echocardiography; Expectation maximization; Principal component analysis; Segmentation; Surgical instrument; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEXTURES; TISSUE; ULTRASONICS; WATERSHEDS;

3D ULTRASOUND; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WATERSHED TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745123684     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.649980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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