Fusion of electromagnetic tracking with speckle-tracked 3D freehand ultrasound using an unscented Kalman filter

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7265, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lang, Andrew ^a   Mousavi, Parvin ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic tracking; Freehand ultrasound; Sensor fusion; Speckle tracking; Unscented Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING; FREEHAND ULTRASOUND; SENSOR FUSION; SPECKLE TRACKING; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; JITTER; KALMAN FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OPTICAL SENSORS; PROBES; RESTORATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECKLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 67149123909     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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