Title
A Log-Euclidean and Total Variation based Variational Framework for Computational Sonography.
Abstract
We propose a spatial compounding technique and variational framework to improve 3D ultrasound image quality by compositing multiple ultrasound volumes acquired from different probe orientations. In the composite volume, instead of intensity values, we estimate a tensor at every voxel. The resultant tensor image encapsulates the directional information of the underlying imaging data and can be used to generate ultrasound volumes from arbitrary, potentially unseen, probe positions. Extending the work of Hennersperger et al.,(1) we introduce a log-Euclidean framework to ensure that the tensors are positive-definite, eventually ensuring non-negative images. Additionally, we regularise the underpinning ill-posed variational problem while preserving edge information by relying on a total variation penalisation of the tensor field in the log domain. We present results on in vivo human data to show the efficacy of the approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2292501
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Ultrasound,Computational Sonography,Image Registration,Compounding,Compositing,Tensor Imaging,Total Variation,Inverse Problem
Conference
10574
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jyotirmoy Banerjee1554.19
Premal A. Patel2612.56
Fred Ushakov300.34
Donald Peebles420.75
Jan Deprest512320.45
Sébastien Ourselin62499237.61
David J. Hawkes74262470.26
Tom Vercauteren81956108.68