Automatic localization of curvilinear object in 3D ultrasound images

Martin Barva; Jan Kybic; Jean-Martial Mari; Christian Cachard; Vaclav Hlavac

doi:10.1117/12.594763

12 April 2005 Automatic localization of curvilinear object in 3D ultrasound images

Martin Barva, Jan Kybic, Jean-Martial Mari, Christian Cachard, Vaclav Hlavac

Proceedings Volume 5750, Medical Imaging 2005: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594763
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Utilization of tools during surgical interventions sets the problem of their accurate localization within biological tissue. The ultrasound imaging represents an inexpensive and a flexible approach for a real-time image acquisition of tissue structure with metal instruments. There are several difficulties involving processing of ultrasound images: Their noisy nature makes the localization task difficult; the objects appear irregular and incomplete. Our task is to determine the position of a curvilinear electrode in biological tissue from a three-dimensional ultrasound image. Initially, the data are segmented by thresholding and processed with the randomized version of the RANSAC (R-RANSAC) algorithm. The curvilinear electrode is modeled by a three-dimensional cubic curve. Its shape is subject to check using a curvature measure in the hypothesis evaluation step of the R-RANSAC algorithm. Subsequently, we perform the least squares curve fitting to the data that have been marked by the R-RANSAC as the ones corresponding to the sought object. The position estimation is optimal with respect to the mean square criterion. Finally, the localization of the electrode tips is carried out by a hypothesis testing on the distances between projections of inliers on the estimated curve. The algorithm has been tested on real three-dimensional ultrasound images of a tissue mimicking phantom with a curvilinear object. From the results, we conclude that the method is very stable even if the data contain high percentage of outliers. The computational cost of the algorithm shows the possibility of real-time data processing.

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Martin Barva, Jan Kybic, Jean-Martial Mari, Christian Cachard, and Vaclav Hlavac "Automatic localization of curvilinear object in 3D ultrasound images", Proc. SPIE 5750, Medical Imaging 2005: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing, (12 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.594763

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