Title
A Learning-Based Approach for Fast and Robust Vessel Tracking in Long Ultrasound Sequences.
Abstract
We propose a learning-based method for robust tracking in long ultrasound sequences for image guidance applications. The framework is based on a scale-adaptive block-matching and temporal realignment driven by the image appearance learned from an initial training phase. The latter is introduced to avoid error accumulation over long sequences. The vessel tracking performance is assessed on long 2D ultrasound sequences of the liver of 9 volunteers under free breathing. We achieve a mean tracking accuracy of 0.96 mm. Without learning, the error increases significantly (2.19 mm, p<0.001).
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40811-3_65
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
tracking,block-matching,learning,real-time,ultrasound
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Breathing,Artificial intelligence,Ultrasound
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8149
Pt 1
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.68
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valeria De Luca1535.03
Michael Tschannen214313.58
Gábor Székely31697193.47
Christine Tanner45711.77