Statistical Segmentation of Surgical Instruments in 3-D Ultrasound Images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1428-1437

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Vasilyev, Nikolay V ^b   Del Nido, Pedro J ^b   Howe, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME CONTROL; TISSUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MISCLASSIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOXELS;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART BEAT; KERNEL METHOD; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SWINE;

EID: 34548118176     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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