Ultrasonography allows informative and expressive real time examinations of patients. Findings are usually reported as printouts, screen shots and video sequences. However, in cer...
Paolo Angelelli, Ivan Viola, Kim Nylund, Odd Helge...
During a neurosurgical intervention, the brain tissues shift and warp. In order to keep an accurate positioning of the surgical instruments, one has to estimate this deformation f...
We present a volume modelling approach based on sequences of two-dimensional ultrasound images. Though generally applicable to arbitrary freehand ultrasound, our method is designe...
Gerd Reis, Martin Bertram, Rolf Hendrik van Lengen...
Three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) is a novel imaging modality that allows real time visualization of internal body structures such as the heart, even through visually opaque bl...
Christopher R. Wagner, Douglas P. Perrin, Robert D...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a novel and fast method to localize and track needles during image-guided interventions. Our proposed method is comprised of framework of needle...