Abstract
This paper presents a commercial real-time ultrasound simulator. An ultrasound volume is constructed from real ultrasound images in an off-line pre-process. Then simulated images are generated by slicing the volume in real-time. Such images can be computed very rapidly, induding a post-processing enhancement. In most cases these synthetic images are indistinguishable from real ultrasound images. This method needs to deal with the fact that an ultrasound image has view-dependent features and an acquisitiqn-parameter-dependent character. This fact is two-fold: firstly, the pre-processed volume dataset includes some unwanted view-dependent features which should be removed. Secondly, the generated simulated image from a given arbitrary direction should be enhanced to include the appropriate view dependent features. The paper describes the concepts of the ultrasound simulator, the real-time imaging algorithm and the off-line formation of the ultrasound volume dataset.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 263-274 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Real-Time Imaging |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 1998 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering