A new scheme for curved needle segmentation in threedimensional ultrasound images

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1067-1070

  Aboofazeli, Mohammad ^a   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^a   Mousavi, Parvin ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical acoustics; Biomedical imaging; Hough transform; Image analysis; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; 3-D IMAGE; APRIORI; BIOMEDICAL ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; FLEXIBLE NEEDLE; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; NEEDLE INSERTION; NEEDLE SEGMENTATION; NEEDLE SHAPE; NOVEL ALGORITHM; SOFT TISSUE; THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ULTRASOUND IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) IMAGES; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEEDLES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 70449388876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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