We present a new multi-volume rendering technique (i.e., directional fusion) to integrate 3D anatomical structure from B-mode imaging with flow information from color Doppler imaging. In this technique, negative and p...
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We present a new multi-volume rendering technique (i.e., directional fusion) to integrate 3D anatomical structure from B-mode imaging with flow information from color Doppler imaging. In this technique, negative and positive flows are separated and independently rendered, and then these two rendered frames are merged with the rendered B-mode frame using alpha blending to generate a final 3D color Doppler image. Due to its independent rendering in separately handling negative and positive flows, this directional fusion method can preserve the directionality in the flow, unlike the conventional multi-volume rendering method where two directional flows are rendered together. To evaluate the feasibility of directional fusion, we have implemented the proposed rendering technique on a programmable ultrasound machine with four digital signal processors running at 450 MHz. For 128 times 128 times 128 B-mode and color Doppler volumes, the proposed method takes 141 ms, which corresponds to 7.1 volumes/s. In addition, we have evaluated the proposed directional fusion-based multi-volume technique on in vivo liver data acquired using a commercial ultrasound machine (i.e., EUB-8500, Hitachi Medical Corporation, Japan). The proposed fusion technique can clearly visualize the fused tissue structures and vascularity while preserving directionality in the flow. These preliminary results indicate that although it takes more computation due to the additional rendering pipeline, it can still be implemented in real time on modern ultrasound systems with 3D imaging capability while providing improved vascularity and tissue structure visualization
In this paper two methods are presented. A CNNUM-based method is shown to quantify the displacement of the normal interhemisperic bilateral symmetry line. The method uses a deformable open contouring technique. Anothe...
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In this paper two methods are presented. A CNNUM-based method is shown to quantify the displacement of the normal interhemisperic bilateral symmetry line. The method uses a deformable open contouring technique. Another method has been developed to detect bilateral asymmetries. These methods are implemented on the CNN-UM
A digital folk song search and retrieval system with a hand gesture based interface is presented. Tillarom is a comprehensive collection of original Hungarian folk songs recorded using different technologies such as p...
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A digital folk song search and retrieval system with a hand gesture based interface is presented. Tillarom is a comprehensive collection of original Hungarian folk songs recorded using different technologies such as phonographs and/or stereo DAT cassettes. This digital archive contains professional quality metadata records as well as MIDI recordings for presenting the different types of clustered folk songs. An AJAX based search and retrieval interface was developed that can be used together with optically recognized Kodály's hand signs to formulate queries through a web browser. The appearance based recognition of hand gestures utilizes contour analysis and SVM based classification. We evaluated the performance of the recognition of hand signs and investigated the main problems of their usage in our system. Copyright 2006 ACM.
The advantage of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided surgery, in which MR images taken during surgery are used to guide the surgery, has been recognized recently. However, there is a problem, due to long imaging t...
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Multi-volume rendering (MVR) has been used for better localization of tumors by integrating structural, e.g., Computed Tomography (CT), and physiological/functional 3D information, e.g., Positron Emission Tomography (...
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Arterial bleeding into a free space is known to cause local vibrations in tissue. To study the effectiveness of utilizing these tissue vibrations in localizing the site of arterial bleeding, we have developed an algor...
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Arterial bleeding into a free space is known to cause local vibrations in tissue. To study the effectiveness of utilizing these tissue vibrations in localizing the site of arterial bleeding, we have developed an algorithm for ultrasonically imaging these tissue vibrations. Simulation results indicate that our algorithm can correctly detect vibrations in the presence of pulsatile wall motion, blood flow and noise with the sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 99%. Preliminary results from an animal study indicate that our algorithm can detect vibrations from bleeding arteries as well as from organs such as liver and spleen.
Arterial bleeding into a free space is known to cause local vibrations in tissue. To study the effectiveness of utilizing these tissue vibrations in localizing the site of arterial bleeding, we have developed an algor...
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Arterial bleeding into a free space is known to cause local vibrations in tissue. To study the effectiveness of utilizing these tissue vibrations in localizing the site of arterial bleeding, we have developed an algorithm for ultrasonically imaging these tissue vibrations. Simulation results indicate that our algorithm can correctly detect vibrations in the presence of pulsatile wall motion, blood flow and noise with the sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 99%. Preliminary results from an animal study indicate that our algorithm can detect vibrations from bleeding arteries as well as from organs such as liver and spleen.
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