Robust Multiscale Deformable Registration of 3D Ultrasound Images

2003 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 547-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Pratikakis ◽  
Christian Barillot ◽  
Pierre Hellier ◽  
Etienne Memin
Keyword(s):  
3D Ultrasound ◽  
Scale Space ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Initial Model ◽  
Model Formulation ◽  
Registration Method ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
Coarse To Fine ◽  
Linear Scale Space ◽  
Minimization Scheme

In this paper, we embed the minimization scheme of an automatic 3D non-rigid registration method in a multiscale framework. The initial model formulation was expressed as a robust multiresolution and multigrid minimization scheme. At the finest level of the multiresolution pyramid, we introduce a focusing strategy from coarse-to-fine scales which leads to an improvement in the accuracy of the registration process. A focusing strategy has been tested for a linear and a non-linear scale-space. Results on real 3D ultrasound images are discussed.

scholarly journals A Preprocess Method of External Disturbance Suppression for Carotid Wall Motion Estimation Using Local Phase and Orientation of B-Mode Ultrasound Sequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Qinghui Zhang ◽  
Junqiu Li ◽  
Zhenping Qiang ◽  
Libo He
Keyword(s):  
Motion Estimation ◽  
Wall Motion ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
External Disturbance ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Local Phase ◽  
Registration Method ◽  
Anisotropic Diffusion Filter ◽  
Disturbance Suppression

Estimating the motions of the common carotid artery wall plays a very important role in early diagnosis of the carotid atherosclerotic disease. However, the disturbances caused by either the instability of the probe operator or the breathing of subjects degrade the estimation accuracy of arterial wall motion when performing speckle tracking on the B-mode ultrasound images. In this paper, we propose a global registration method to suppress external disturbances before motion estimation. The local vector images, transformed from B-mode images, were used for registration. To take advantage of both the structural information from the local phase and the geometric information from the local orientation, we proposed a confidence coefficient to combine them two. Furthermore, we altered the speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion filter to improve the performance of disturbance suppression. We compared this method with schemes of extracting wall displacement directly from B-mode or phase images. The results show that this scheme can effectively suppress the disturbances and significantly improve the estimation accuracy.

scholarly journals SPPD: A Novel Reassembly Method for 3D Terracotta Warrior Fragments Based on Fracture Surface Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
Wenmin Yao ◽  
Tong Chu ◽  
Wenlong Tang ◽  
Jingyu Wang ◽  
Xin Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Surface ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Point Clouds ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
Registration Method ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Coarse To Fine ◽  
Fine Registration ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
Better Than

As one of China′s most precious cultural relics, the excavation and protection of the Terracotta Warriors pose significant challenges to archaeologists. A fairly common situation in the excavation is that the Terracotta Warriors are mostly found in the form of fragments, and manual reassembly among numerous fragments is laborious and time-consuming. This work presents a fracture-surface-based reassembling method, which is composed of SiamesePointNet, principal component analysis (PCA), and deep closest point (DCP), and is named SPPD. Firstly, SiamesePointNet is proposed to determine whether a pair of point clouds of 3D Terracotta Warrior fragments can be reassembled. Then, a coarse-to-fine registration method based on PCA and DCP is proposed to register the two fragments into a reassembled one. The above two steps iterate until the termination condition is met. A series of experiments on real-world examples are conducted, and the results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than the conventional reassembling methods. We hope this work can provide a valuable tool for the virtual restoration of three-dimension cultural heritage artifacts.

scholarly journals A Fast, Fully Automated Prostate Boundary Segmentation Using Probabilistic Approaches In Ultrasound Images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Vafaie
Keyword(s):  
Em Algorithm ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Transrectal Ultrasound ◽  
Speckle Noise ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Dice Similarity Coefficient ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Segmentation Method ◽  
Initial Model ◽  
Hybrid Segmentation

Segmentation of prostate boundaries in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images plays a great role in prostate cancer diagnosis. Due to the low signal to noise ratio and existence of the speckle noise in TRUS images, prostate image segmentation has proven to be an extremely difficult task. In this thesis report, a fast fully automated hybrid segmentation method based on probabilistic approaches is presented. First, the position of the initial model is automatically estimated using prostate boundary representative patterns. Next, the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm and Markov Random Field (MRF) theory are utilized in the deformation strategy to optimally fit the initial model on the prostate boundaries. A less computationally EM algorithm and a new surface smoothing technique are proposed to decrease the segmentation time. Successful experimental results with the average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) value 93.9±2.7% and computational time around 9 seconds validate the algorithm.

Prostate boundary segmentation from 3D ultrasound images

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1648-1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Hu ◽  
Dónal B. Downey ◽  
Aaron Fenster ◽  
Hanif M. Ladak
Keyword(s):  
3D Ultrasound ◽  
Ultrasound Images
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