Ultrasound calibration using intensity-based image registration: For application in cardiac catheterization procedures

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Ma, Y. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5770-5843, Rhode, K. S., Gao, G., King, A. P., Chinchapatnam, P., Schaeffter, T., Hawkes, D. J., Razavi, R. and Penney, G. P. (2008) Ultrasound calibration using intensity-based image registration: For application in cardiac catheterization procedures. In: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. SPIE Press. ISBN 16057422

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Abstract

We present a novel method to calibrate a 3D ultrasound probe which has a 2D transducer array. By optically tracking a calibrated 3D probe we are able to produce extended field of view 3D ultrasound images. Tracking also enables us to register our ultrasound images to other tracked and calibrated surgical instruments or to other tracked and calibrated imaging devices. Our method applies rigid intensity-based image registration to three or more ultrasound images. These images can either be of a simple phantom, or could potentially be images of the patient. In this latter case we would have an automated calibration system which required no phantom, no image segmentation and was optimized to the patient's ultrasound characteristics i.e. speed of sound. We have carried out experiments using a simple calibration phantom and with ultrasound images of a volunteer's liver. Results are compared to an independent gold-standard. These showed our method to be accurate to 1.43mm using the phantom images and 1.56mm using the liver data, which is slightly better than the traditional point-based calibration method (1.7mm in our experiments).

Item Type: Book Section
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 06 Jan 2023 11:32
Last Modified: 19 May 2023 09:42
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90449
DOI: 10.1117/12.770174

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