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Ma X, Shen E, Yuan J, Gong L, Kong W, Jin Z, Tao C, Liu X. Volumetric B-mode ultrasound and Doppler Imaging: Automatic Tracking With One Single Camera. ULTRASONIC IMAGING 2024; 46:90-101. [PMID: 38041446 DOI: 10.1177/01617346231213385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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Vascular diseases may occur in the upper extremities, and the lesions can span the entire length of the blood vessel. One of the most popular methods to identify vascular disorders is ultrasound Doppler imaging. However, traditional two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound Doppler imaging cannot capture the entire length of a long vessel in one image. Medical professionals often have to painstakingly reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) data using 2D ultrasound images to locate the lesions, especially for large blood vessels. 3D ultrasound Doppler imaging can display the morphological structure of blood vessels and the distribution of lesions more directly, providing a more comprehensive view compared to 2D imaging. In this work, we propose a wide-range 3D volumetric ultrasound Doppler imaging system with dual modality, in which a high-definition camera is adopted to automatically track the movement of the ultrasound transducer, simultaneously capturing a corresponding sequence of 2D ultrasound Doppler images. We conducted experiments on human arms using our proposed system and separately with X-ray computerized tomography (X-CT). The comparison results prove the potential value of our proposed system in the diagnosis of arm vascular diseases.
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- Xiaoli Ma
- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Zhao L, Song S, Zhang C, Huang P, Zhang Y, Zhang M, Zheng R. Investigation of 3D Reconstruction Algorithms For Wireless Freehand Ultrasound Imaging System. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38083639 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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The handheld 3D ultrasound imaging technique based on position tracking systems has been rapidly developed and widely applied in recent decades. The objectives of this study are to investigate the performance and accuracy of different 3D reconstruction algorithms including Voxel Nearest Neighbor (VNN), Pose Optimization Based (POB), and Implicit Representation (IR) methods. The high-precision phantom was used as the validation model to measure 2D/3D distance on the reconstructed image volume, and the measurements were evaluated with the true values obtained by caliber. The results indicated that the IR method presented the best reconstruction visualization and the smallest reconstruction errors for different motion cases. It demonstrated that the neural network-based reconstruction method can improve image quality and reduce reconstruction errors for the wireless freehand 3D ultrasound imaging systems.Clinical Relevance- This study validates the accuracy and precision of the different reconstruction algorithms for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging systems.
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Guo H, Chao H, Xu S, Wood BJ, Wang J, Yan P. Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction From Freehand Scans Without Tracking. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2023; 70:970-979. [PMID: 36103448 PMCID: PMC10011008 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2022.3206596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Transrectal ultrasound is commonly used for guiding prostate cancer biopsy, where 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction is often desired. Current methods for 3D reconstruction from freehand ultrasound scans require external tracking devices to provide spatial information of an ultrasound transducer. This paper presents a novel deep learning approach for sensorless ultrasound volume reconstruction, which efficiently exploits content correspondence between ultrasound frames to reconstruct 3D volumes without external tracking. The underlying deep learning model, deep contextual-contrastive network (DC 2-Net), utilizes self-attention to focus on the speckle-rich areas to estimate spatial movement and then minimizes a margin ranking loss for contrastive feature learning. A case-wise correlation loss over the entire input video helps further smooth the estimated trajectory. We train and validate DC 2-Net on two independent datasets, one containing 619 transrectal scans and the other having 100 transperineal scans. Our proposed approach attained superior performance compared with other methods, with a drift rate of 9.64 % and a prostate Dice of 0.89. The promising results demonstrate the capability of deep neural networks for universal ultrasound volume reconstruction from freehand 2D ultrasound scans without tracking information.
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Afrakhteh S, Jalilian H, Iacca G, Demi L. Temporal super-resolution of echocardiography using a novel high-precision non-polynomial interpolation. Biomed Signal Process Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.104003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dong J, Fu T, Lin Y, Deng Q, Fan J, Song H, Cheng Z, Liang P, Wang Y, Yang J. Hole-filling based on content loss indexed 3D partial convolution network for freehand ultrasound reconstruction. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2021; 211:106421. [PMID: 34583228 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE During the 3D reconstruction of ultrasound volume from 2D B-scan ultrasound images, holes are usually found in the reconstructed 3D volumes due to the fast scans. This condition will affect the positioning and judgment of the doctor to the lesion. Hence, in this study, we propose to fill the holes by using a novel content loss indexed 3D partial convolution network for 3D freehand ultrasound volume reconstruction. The network can synthesize novel ultrasound volume structures and reconstruct ultrasound volume with missing regions with variable sizes and at arbitrary locations. METHODS First, the 3D partial convolution is introduced into the convolutional layer, which is masked and renormalized to be conditioned on only valid voxels. Then, the mask in the next layer is automatically updated as a part of the forward pass. To better preserve texture and structure details of the reconstruction results, we couple the adversarial loss of the least squares generative adversarial network (LSGAN) with the innovative content loss, which consists of the context loss, the feature-matching loss and the total variation loss. Thereafter, we introduce a novel spectral-normalized LSGAN by adding spectral normalization (SN) to the generator and discriminator of the LSGAN. The proposed method is simple in formulation, and is stable in training. RESULTS Experiments on public and in-vivo ultrasound datasets and comparisons with popular algorithms demonstrate that the proposed approach can generate high-quality hole-filling results with preserved perceptual image details. CONCLUSIONS Considering the high quality of the hole-filling results, the proposed method can effectively fill the missing regions in the reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume from 2D ultrasound image sequences.
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- Jiahui Dong
- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Institute of Engineering Medicine, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Laboratory of Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
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Chen HB, Zheng R, Qian LY, Liu FY, Song S, Zeng HY. Improvement of 3-D Ultrasound Spine Imaging Technique Using Fast Reconstruction Algorithm. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL 2021; 68:3104-3113. [PMID: 34106851 DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2021.3087712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Three-dimensional (3-D) freehand ultrasound (US) imaging has been applied to the investigation of spine deformity. However, it is a challenge for the current 3-D imaging reconstruction algorithms to achieve a balance between image quality and computation time. The objectives of this article are to implement a new fast reconstruction algorithm that can fulfill the request of immediate demonstration and processing for high-quality 3-D spine imaging, and to evaluate the reliability and accuracy of scoliotic curvature measurement when using the algorithm. The fast dot-projection (FDP) algorithm was applied for voxel-based nearest neighbor (VNN), multiple plane interpolation (MPI), and pixel nearest neighbor (PNN) protocols to reduce the reconstruction time. The 3-D image volume was reconstructed from the datasets acquired from scoliotic subjects. The computational cost, image characteristics, and statistical analyses of curve measurements were compared and evaluated among different reconstruction protocols. The results illustrated that the 3-D spine images using the FDP-MPI4 algorithm showed higher brightness (20%), contrast (14%), and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (26%) than FDP-VNN. The measurement performed by trainee rater exhibited significant improvement in measurement reliability and accuracy using FDP-MPI4 in comparison with FDP-VNN ( ), and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of interrater measurement increased from 0.88 to 0.96. The FDP-PNN method could acquire and reconstruct spine images simultaneously and present the results in 1-2 min, which showed the potential to provide the approximate real-time visualization for fast screening.
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Chen Z, Huang Q. Real-time freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: IMAGING & VISUALIZATION 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/21681163.2016.1167623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Zhenping Chen
- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Vision Based Monitoring for Hydroelectric Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China
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Wen T, Yang F, Gu J, Chen S, Wang L, Xie Y. An adaptive kernel regression method for 3D ultrasound reconstruction using speckle prior and parallel GPU implementation. Neurocomputing 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cong W, Yang J, Ai D, Song H, Chen G, Liang X, Liang P, Wang Y. Global Patch Matching (GPM) for freehand 3D ultrasound reconstruction. Biomed Eng Online 2017; 16:124. [PMID: 29084564 PMCID: PMC5661982 DOI: 10.1186/s12938-017-0411-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction from B-model ultrasound slices can provide more clearly and intuitive structure of tissue and lesion for the clinician. METHODS This paper proposes a novel Global Path Matching method for the 3D reconstruction of freehand ultrasound images. The proposed method composes of two main steps: bin-filling scheme and hole-filling strategy. For the bin-filling scheme, this study introduces two operators, including the median absolute deviation and the inter-quartile range absolute deviation, to calculate the invariant features of each voxel in the 3D ultrasound volume. And the best contribution range for each voxel is obtained by calculating the Euclidian distance between current voxel and the voxel with the minimum invariant features. Hence, the intensity of the filling vacant voxel can be obtained by weighted combination of the intensity distribution of pixels in the best contribution range. For the hole-filling strategy, three conditions, including the confidence term, the data term and the gradient term, are designed to calculate the weighting coefficient of the matching patch of the vacant voxel. While the matching patch is obtained by finding patches with the best similarity measure that defined by the three conditions in the whole 3D volume data. RESULTS Compared with VNN, PNN, DW, FMM, BI and KR methods, the proposed Global Path Matching method can restore the 3D ultrasound volume with minimum difference. CONCLUSIONS Experimental results on phantom and clinical data sets demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method for the reconstruction of ultrasound volume.
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- Weijian Cong
- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191 China
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- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China
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- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China
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- School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China
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- Interventional Ultrasound Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100853 China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191 China
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- Interventional Ultrasound Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100853 China
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- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China
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Mozaffari MH, Lee WS. Freehand 3-D Ultrasound Imaging: A Systematic Review. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2017; 43:2099-2124. [PMID: 28716431 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Two-dimensional ultrasound (US) imaging has been successfully used in clinical applications as a low-cost, portable and non-invasive image modality for more than three decades. Recent advances in computer science and technology illustrate the promise of the 3-D US modality as a medical imaging technique that is comparable to other prevalent modalities and that overcomes certain drawbacks of 2-D US. This systematic review covers freehand 3-D US imaging between 1970 and 2017, highlighting the current trends in research fields, the research methods, the main limitations, the leading researchers, standard assessment criteria and clinical applications. Freehand 3-D US systems are more prevalent in the academic environment, whereas in clinical applications and industrial research, most studies have focused on 3-D US transducers and improvement of hardware performance. This topic is still an interesting active area for researchers, and there remain many unsolved problems to be addressed.
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- Mohammad Hamed Mozaffari
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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GPU-based volume reconstruction for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2017; 2017:3700-3703. [PMID: 29060702 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2017.8037661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Volume reconstruction plays an important role in improving image quality for freehand three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging. The kernel regression provides an effective method for volume reconstruction in 3D ultrasound imaging, but it requires heavily computational time-cost. In this paper, a programmable graphic-processor-unit-(GPU) based fast kernel regression method is proposed for freehand 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction. The most significant aspect of our method is the adopting of powerful data-parallel computing capability of GPU to improve the overall efficiency. To produce higher image quality, the results of the kernel regression with various parameter settings is deeply investigated under the help of the fast implementation of the algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the computational performance of the proposed GPU-based method can be over 200 times faster than that on CPU. Better image quality for speckle reduction and details preservation can be obtained with the parameter setting of kernel window size of 5×5×5 and kernel bandwidth of 1.0.
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A Review on Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging Technology. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 2017:6027029. [PMID: 28459067 PMCID: PMC5385255 DOI: 10.1155/2017/6027029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Real-time three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) has attracted much more attention in medical researches because it provides interactive feedback to help clinicians acquire high-quality images as well as timely spatial information of the scanned area and hence is necessary in intraoperative ultrasound examinations. Plenty of publications have been declared to complete the real-time or near real-time visualization of 3D ultrasound using volumetric probes or the routinely used two-dimensional (2D) probes. So far, a review on how to design an interactive system with appropriate processing algorithms remains missing, resulting in the lack of systematic understanding of the relevant technology. In this article, previous and the latest work on designing a real-time or near real-time 3D ultrasound imaging system are reviewed. Specifically, the data acquisition techniques, reconstruction algorithms, volume rendering methods, and clinical applications are presented. Moreover, the advantages and disadvantages of state-of-the-art approaches are discussed in detail.
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Wen T, Yang F, Gu J, Wang L. A novel Bayesian-based nonlocal reconstruction method for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging. Neurocomputing 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Kainz B, Steinberger M, Wein W, Kuklisova-Murgasova M, Malamateniou C, Keraudren K, Torsney-Weir T, Rutherford M, Aljabar P, Hajnal JV, Rueckert D. Fast Volume Reconstruction From Motion Corrupted Stacks of 2D Slices. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2015; 34:1901-13. [PMID: 25807565 PMCID: PMC7115883 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2015.2415453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Capturing an enclosing volume of moving subjects and organs using fast individual image slice acquisition has shown promise in dealing with motion artefacts. Motion between slice acquisitions results in spatial inconsistencies that can be resolved by slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) methods to provide high quality 3D image data. Existing algorithms are, however, typically very slow, specialised to specific applications and rely on approximations, which impedes their potential clinical use. In this paper, we present a fast multi-GPU accelerated framework for slice-to-volume reconstruction. It is based on optimised 2D/3D registration, super-resolution with automatic outlier rejection and an additional (optional) intensity bias correction. We introduce a novel and fully automatic procedure for selecting the image stack with least motion to serve as an initial registration target. We evaluate the proposed method using artificial motion corrupted phantom data as well as clinical data, including tracked freehand ultrasound of the liver and fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging. We achieve speed-up factors greater than 30 compared to a single CPU system and greater than 10 compared to currently available state-of-the-art multi-core CPU methods. We ensure high reconstruction accuracy by exact computation of the point-spread function for every input data point, which has not previously been possible due to computational limitations. Our framework and its implementation is scalable for available computational infrastructures and tests show a speed-up factor of 1.70 for each additional GPU. This paves the way for the online application of image based reconstruction methods during clinical examinations. The source code for the proposed approach is publicly available.
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- Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- ImFusion GmbH and the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality at TU Munich, Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1, 80992 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health within the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health within the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Visualization and Data Analysis group within the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna, Waehringer Strae 29, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health within the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health within the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health within the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Ali MF, Ray S. Offline RF thermal ablation planning using CT/MRI scan data. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrnm.2014.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Onogi S, Phan TH, Mochizuki T, Masuda K. Automatic Doppler Volume Fusion of 3D Ultrasound using Point-based Registration of Shared Bifurcation Points. ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2015. [DOI: 10.14326/abe.4.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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- Shinya Onogi
- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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Reconstruction of freehand 3D ultrasound based on kernel regression. Biomed Eng Online 2014; 13:124. [PMID: 25168643 PMCID: PMC4165991 DOI: 10.1186/1475-925x-13-124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 08/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Freehand three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound has the advantages of flexibility for allowing clinicians to manipulate the ultrasound probe over the examined body surface with less constraint in comparison with other scanning protocols. Thus it is widely used in clinical diagnose and image-guided surgery. However, as the data scanning of freehand-style is subjective, the collected B-scan images are usually irregular and highly sparse. One of the key procedures in freehand ultrasound imaging system is the volume reconstruction, which plays an important role in improving the reconstructed image quality. SYSTEM AND METHODS A novel freehand 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction method based on kernel regression model is proposed in this paper. Our method consists of two steps: bin-filling and regression. Firstly, the bin-filling step is used to map each pixel in the sampled B-scan images to its corresponding voxel in the reconstructed volume data. Secondly, the regression step is used to make the nonparametric estimation for the whole volume data from the previous sampled sparse data. The kernel penalizes distance away from the current approximation center within a local neighborhood. EXPERIMENTS AND RESULTS To evaluate the quality and performance of our proposed kernel regression algorithm for freehand 3D ultrasound reconstruction, a phantom and an in-vivo liver organ of human subject are scanned with our freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system. Root mean square error (RMSE) is used for the quantitative evaluation. Both of the qualitative and quantitative experimental results demonstrate that our method can reconstruct image with less artifacts and higher quality. CONCLUSION The proposed kernel regression based reconstruction method is capable of constructing volume data with improved accuracy from irregularly sampled sparse data for freehand 3D ultrasound imaging system.
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Onogi S, Wu J, Yoshida T, Masuda K. Patient-mounted Robot for 2D Ultrasound Probe Scanning using McKibben Artificial Muscles. ADVANCED BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2014. [DOI: 10.14326/abe.3.130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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- Shinya Onogi
- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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- Department of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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