Ultrasound guided catheter insertion is a common procedure in current clinical practice, but
it requires a skilled ultrasound practitioner to correctly acquire the images so that the …

Ultrasound (US) has been increasingly used during interventions, such as cardiac
catheterization. To accurately identify the catheter inside US images, extra training for …

Ultrasound-guided surgery navigation are medical procedures that use computer-based
systems to provide real-time ultrasound images to help the physician precisely visualize and …

Ultrasound-guided procedures have been applied in many clinical therapies, such as
cardiac catheterization and regional anesthesia. Medical instrument detection in 3D …

Ultrasound-guided medical interventions are broadly applied in diagnostics and therapy, eg,
regional anesthesia or ablation. A guided intervention using 2-D ultrasound is challenging …

Purpose Efficient image-based catheter localization in 3D US during cardiac interventions is
highly desired, since it facilitates the operation procedure, reduces the patient risk and …

A6 IB5/00(2006.01) Del Zoppo, Co. LPA; Anthony M. Del Zoppo, III A6 IBS/00(2006.01)(57)
ABSTRACT (Continued) An ultrasound imaging system has a 3D location system and (52) …

This work uses ultrasound signals to track the 3D location of a catheter. Our system provides
3D coordinate data and not images. The coordinates can be registered with preoperative …

We present an instrument tracking and visualization system for intra-cardiac ultrasound
catheter guided procedures, enabled through the robotic control of ultrasound catheters. Our …

The use of classifier-based object detection has found to be a promising approach in
medical anatomy detection. In ultrasound images, the detection task is very challenging due …