A 3D Freehand Ultrasound System for Multi-view Reconstructions from Sparse 2D Scanning Planes

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yu, Honggang ^a   Pattichis, Marios S ^a   Agurto, Carla ^a   Beth Goens, M ^b  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; 2D SCANNING; 3-D ULTRASOUND; 3D FREEHAND; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; B-MODE IMAGES; CLINICAL MEASURE; COARSE TO FINE; FINE SCALE FEATURES; HOTELLING TRANSFORM; IN-VIVO; LEFT VENTRICLES; LEVEL SET APPROACH; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-VIEW RECONSTRUCTION; MULTI-VIEW REGISTRATION; MULTI-VIEWS; MULTIPLE VIEWS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; RELIABLE PERFORMANCE; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SINGLE-VIEW RECONSTRUCTION; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; VOLUME QUANTIFICATION; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REPAIR; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT; ULTRASONICS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 78651568741     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-10-7     Document Type: Article

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