This paper describes a fast image mapping system that integrates endoscopic image mosaics with three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound images for assisting intrauterine laser photocoagulation treatment. Endoscopic laser photocoagulation treatment has a good survival rate and a low complication rate for twins. However, the small field of view and lack of surrounding information makes the identificati...

Citation: Schroeder R, de Mooij K, Groen L, Dik P, Kuijper C, Klijn A and de Jong T (2017) Static and Dynamic Ultrasound Imaging to Visualize the Bladder, Bladder Neck, Urethra, and Pelvic Floor in Children with Daytime Incontinence. Front. Pediatr. 5:247. doi: 10.3389/fped.2017.00247 Static and Dynamic Ultrasound Imaging to Visualize the Bladder, Bladder Neck, Urethra, and Pelvic Floor in Chil...

The orientation of cardiac fibers affects the anatomical, mechanical, and electrophysiological properties of the heart. Although echocardiography is the most common imaging modality in clinical cardiac examination, it can only provide the cardiac geometry or motion information without cardiac fiber orientations. If the patient's cardiac fiber orientations can be mapped to his/her echocardiograp...

Ultrasound imaging is common in agricultural settings for both veterinary purposes and to estimate the size of various cuts of meat in live animals. In these settings, Ultrasound image segmentation is difficult not only due to large amounts of noise, shadows, and distortions common to ultrasound images, but also because of the lack of cooperation from the animals being scanned. We present an al...

A robot system for positioning an ultrasound probe has been developed [1]. Ultrasound visual servoing can be used to help ultrasound technicians position the ultrasound probe. The feasibility of visual servoing for motion in the plane of the ultrasound probe in one dimension has been addressed here. Tracking of the carotid artery for a long period of time has been demonstrated in real-time. Two...

Ultrasound images of a patient presenting to the emergency department with expressive aphasia who was found to have carotid dissection. The first image is a standard two dimensional image that depicts the internal carotid with a visible flap within the lumen. The second image is a color Doppler image showing turbulent flow within the true lumen and visible flow within the false lumen. The case ...

This paper discusses some useful image processing techniques for an ultrasound image using adaptive morphological operations. They are defined in such a way that the used structuring element is a function of local image to respond its characteristics. The defined mathematical morphology has almost the same mathematical structure and properties as the conventional one. Besides, the former has an...

We present a fast GPU-based method for simulation of ultrasound images from volumetric CT scans and their visualization. The method uses a ray-based model of the ultrasound to generate view-dependent ultrasonic effects such as occlusions, large-scale reflections and attenuation combined with speckle patterns derived from pre-processing the CT image using a wave-based model of ultrasound propaga...