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ECCV
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Computer-Aided Measurement of Solid Breast Tumor Features on Ultrasound Images
This paper presents a new approach in the application of computer vision techniques to the diagnosis of solid breast tumors on ultrasound images. Most works related to medical imag...
Miguel Alemán-Flores, Patricia Alemá...
ICNC
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Genetic Algorithms for Thyroid Gland Ultrasound Image Feature Reduction
The problem of automatic classification of ultrasound images is addressed. For texture analysis of ultrasound images quantifiable indexes, called features, are used. Classificat...
Ludvík Tesar, Daniel Smutek, Jan Jiskra
CVPR
2005
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Speckle-Constrained Filtering of Ultrasound Images
Ultrasound images provide the clinician with noninvasive, low cost, and real-time images that can help them in diagnosis, plannnig and therapy. However, although the human eye is ...
Karl Krissian, Ron Kikinis, Carl-Fredrik Westin, K...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Calibration of a Robotized 3D Ultrasound Imaging System by Visual Servoing
— Three-dimensional free-hand ultrasound imaging consists of capturing a set of ultrasound images with a 2D ultrasound system and their respective locations in order to position ...
Alexandre Krupa
ICNSC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Extraction of fine blood vessels from an ultrasound image by an adaptive local image processing
This paper discusses some useful image processing techniques for an ultrasound image using adaptive morphological operations. They are defined in such a way that the used structur...
Masayasu Ito, Yuzuru Saito
CBMS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Computational Characterization of Thyroid Tissue in the Radon Domain
This paper investigates a novel computational approach to thyroid tissue characterization in ultrasound images. It is based on the hypothesis that tissues in thyroid ultrasound im...
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Nik...
ISVC
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Novel Method for Enhanced Needle Localization Using Ultrasound-Guidance
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...
Bin Dong, Eric Savitsky, Stanley Osher
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Velocity Estimation in Ultrasound Images: A Block Matching Approach
In this paper, we focus on velocity estimation in ultrasound images sequences. Ultrasound images present many difficulties in image processing because of the typically high level o...
Djamal Boukerroui, J. Alison Noble, Michael Brady
IPMI
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Tracking Brain Deformations in Time-Sequences of 3D US Images
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...
Xavier Pennec, Pascal Cachier, Nicholas Ayache
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic Registration and Fusion of Ultrasound with CT for Radiotherapy
We present a framework for rigid registration of a set of B-mode ultrasound images to a CT scan in the context of Radiotherapy planning. Our main focus is on deriving an appropriat...
Wolfgang Wein, Barbara Röper, Nassir Navab