Detection and Measurement of Fetal Abdominal Contour in Ultrasound Images via Local Phase Information and Iterative Randomized Hough Transform

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1261-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiming Wang ◽  
Jing Qin ◽  
Lei Zhu ◽  
Dong Ni ◽  
Yim-Pan Chui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hough Transform ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Local Phase ◽  
Phase Information ◽  
Randomized Hough Transform

scholarly journals A Preprocess Method of External Disturbance Suppression for Carotid Wall Motion Estimation Using Local Phase and Orientation of B-Mode Ultrasound Sequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Qinghui Zhang ◽  
Junqiu Li ◽  
Zhenping Qiang ◽  
Libo He
Keyword(s):  
Motion Estimation ◽  
Wall Motion ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
External Disturbance ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Local Phase ◽  
Registration Method ◽  
Anisotropic Diffusion Filter ◽  
Disturbance Suppression

Estimating the motions of the common carotid artery wall plays a very important role in early diagnosis of the carotid atherosclerotic disease. However, the disturbances caused by either the instability of the probe operator or the breathing of subjects degrade the estimation accuracy of arterial wall motion when performing speckle tracking on the B-mode ultrasound images. In this paper, we propose a global registration method to suppress external disturbances before motion estimation. The local vector images, transformed from B-mode images, were used for registration. To take advantage of both the structural information from the local phase and the geometric information from the local orientation, we proposed a confidence coefficient to combine them two. Furthermore, we altered the speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion filter to improve the performance of disturbance suppression. We compared this method with schemes of extracting wall displacement directly from B-mode or phase images. The results show that this scheme can effectively suppress the disturbances and significantly improve the estimation accuracy.

Coarse-To-Fine 3D Randomized Hough Transform for Dim Target Detection

2014 ◽  
Vol 519-520 ◽  
pp. 1040-1045
Author(s):  
Ling Fan
Keyword(s):  
Target Detection ◽  
Hough Transform ◽  
Constant Velocity ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Randomized Hough Transform ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Memory Complexity ◽  
Coarse To Fine

This paper makes some improvements on Roberts representation for straight line in space and proposes a coarse-to-fine three-dimensional (3D) Randomized Hough Transform (RHT) for the detection of dim targets. Using range, bearing and elevation information of the received echoes, 3D RHT can detect constant velocity target in space. In addition, this paper applies a coarse-to-fine strategy to the 3D RHT, which aims to solve both the computational and memory complexity problems. The validity of the coarse-to-fine 3D RHT is verified by simulations. In comparison with the 2D case, which only uses the range-bearing information, the coarse-to-fine 3D RHT has a better practical value in dim target detection.

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