An automatic geometrical and statistical method to detect acoustic shadows in intraoperative ultrasound brain images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-204

  Hellier, Pierre ^a,b   Coupé, Pierrick ^a,b,c,e   Morandi, Xavier ^a,b,c,d   Collins, D Louis ^e  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Acoustic shadows; Reconstruction; Registration

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; 3D ULTRASOUND; BRAIN IMAGES; INTRA-OPERATIVE; INTRAOPERATIVE ULTRASOUND; LOW SIGNAL INTENSITY; REGISTRATION ERROR; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; ULTRASOUND IMAGE STATISTICS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOMINERALIZATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REPAIR; STATISTICAL TESTS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 75749105352     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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