Real-time ultrasound imaging simulation

Dror Aiger, Daniel Cohen-Or

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)263-274
Number of pages12
JournalReal-Time Imaging
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 1998
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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