Ultrasonic image analysis and image-guided interventions

JA Noble, N Navab, H Becher - Interface focus, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fields of medical image analysis and computer-aided interventions deal with reducing
the large volume of digital images (X-ray, computed tomography, magnetic resonance …

Postprocessing approaches for the improvement of cardiac ultrasound b-mode images: A review

A Perperidis - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The improvement in the quality and diagnostic value of ultrasound images has been an
ongoing research theme for the last three decades. Cardiac ultrasound suffers from a wide …

Cross-scale coefficient selection for volumetric medical image fusion

R Shen, I Cheng, A Basu - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Joint analysis of medical data collected from different imaging modalities has become a
common clinical practice. Therefore, image fusion techniques, which provide an efficient …

Multiview fusion 3-D echocardiography: improving the information and quality of real-time 3-D echocardiography

K Rajpoot, V Grau, JA Noble, C Szmigielski… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2011 - Elsevier
The advent of real-time 3-D echocardiography (RT3DE) promised dynamic 3-D image
acquisition with the potential of a more objective and complete functional analysis. In spite of …

Full cardiac cycle asynchronous temporal compounding of 3D echocardiography images

WX Chan, Y Zheng, H Wiputra, HL Leo, CH Yap - Medical Image Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
It is important to improve echocardiography image quality, because the accuracy of
echocardiographic assessment and diagnosis relies on image quality. Previous work on 2D …

Deep learning spatial compounding from multiple fetal head ultrasound acquisitions

J Perez-Gonzalez, N Hevia Montiel… - Medical Ultrasound, and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract 3D ultrasound systems have been widely used for fetal brain structures' analysis.
However, the obtained images present several artifacts such as multiplicative noise and …

Multiview 3-D echocardiography fusion with breath-hold position tracking using an optical tracking system

K Punithakumar, AR Hareendranathan… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent advances in echocardiography allow real-time 3-D dynamic image acquisition of the
heart. However, one of the major limitations of 3-D echocardiography is the limited field of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-view 3-d fusion echocardiography: Enhancing clinical feasibility with a novel processing technique

T Lamb, V Sarban, M Shanks, E Mirhadi… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel system for fusing 3-D echocardiography data sets from complementary acoustic
windows was evaluated in 12 healthy volunteers and 12 patients with heart failure. We …

Spatial compounding of 3-D fetal brain ultrasound using probabilistic maps

J Perez-Gonzalez, F Arámbula-Cosío… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
A new method to address the problem of shadowing in fetal brain ultrasound volumes is
presented. The proposed approach is based on the spatial composition of multiple 3-D fetal …

Hybrid Pixel‐Based Method for Cardiac Ultrasound Fusion Based on Integration of PCA and DWT

S Mazaheri, PS Sulaiman, R Wirza… - … methods in medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Medical image fusion is the procedure of combining several images from one or multiple
imaging modalities. In spite of numerous attempts in direction of automation ventricle …