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 a root mean square (RMS) distance error of 1.15mm and to an RMS angular error of 0.61°. The point reconstruction accuracy was evaluated to 0.9mm and the angular reconstruction accuracy to 1.79°.
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Baumann et al. "3-D Ultrasound Probe Calibration for Computer-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006. doi:10.1007/11889762_22Markdown
[Baumann et al. "3-D Ultrasound Probe Calibration for Computer-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006.](https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2006/baumann2006eccv-d/) doi:10.1007/11889762_22BibTeX
@inproceedings{baumann2006eccv-d,
title = {{3-D Ultrasound Probe Calibration for Computer-Guided Diagnosis and Therapy}},
author = {Baumann, Michael and Daanen, Vincent and Leroy, Antoine and Troccaz, Jocelyne},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
year = {2006},
pages = {248-259},
doi = {10.1007/11889762_22},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccv/2006/baumann2006eccv-d/}
}