Automatic needle segmentation in 3D ultrasound images using 3D Hough transform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6789, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Hua ^a   Qiu, Wu ^a   Ding, Mingyue ^a   Zhang, Songgeng ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

3D hough transform; 3D randomized hough transform; 3D ultrasound images; Needle segmentation

Indexed keywords

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEEDLES; SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; NEEDLE SEGMENTATION; RANDOMIZED HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 42549160431     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.749339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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