3-D Ultrasound Probe Calibration for Computer-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy

Abstract. With the emergence of swept-volume ultrasound (US) probes, precise and almost real-time US volume imaging has become available. This offers many new opportunities for computer guided diagnosis and therapy, 3-D images containing significantly more information than 2-D slices. However, computer guidance often requires knowledge about the exact position of US voxels relative to a tracking reference, which can only be achieved through probe calibration. In this paper we present a 3-D US probe calibration system based on a membrane phantom. The calibration matrix is retrieved by detection of a membrane plane in a dozen of US acquisitions of the phantom. Plane detection is robustly performed with the 2-D Hough transformation. The feature extraction process is fully automated, calibration requires about 20 minutes and the calibration system can be used in a clinical context. The precision of the system was evaluated to

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECCV
• Authors: Michael Baumann, Vincent Daanen, Antoine Leroy, Jocelyne Troccaz
• Keywords: 3-d Us Probe, Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, Probe Calibration, Real-time Us Volume