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Automatic Needle Segmentation in 3D Ultrasound Data Using a Hough Transform Approach

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Automatic Needle Segmentation in 3D Ultrasound Data Using a Hough Transform Approach
Segmentation in ultrasound data is a very challenging field of research in medical image processing. This article presents a method for automatic segmentation of biopsy needles and straight objects in noisy 3D image data. It uses a Hough-based segmentation approach, which has been exemplary adapted for the application on prostate biopsy data. An evaluation was performed on in-vivo 3D US data and shows promising results. Angular segmentation accuracy was evaluated with a mean of 2.1 degrees, which is comparable to human observers.
Philipp Hartmann, Matthias Baumhauer, Jens Rasswei
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where BILDMED
Authors Philipp Hartmann, Matthias Baumhauer, Jens Rassweiler, Hans-Peter Meinzer
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