Utility of image enhancement methods in three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction

M. Belohlavek; J. F. Greenleaf; D. A. Foley; J. B. Seward

doi:10.1109/ULTSYM.1991.234309

Utility of image enhancement methods in three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction

M. Belohlavek, J. F. Greenleaf, D. A. Foley, J. B. Seward

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A computer algorithm utilizing image enhancement methods to simplify the extraction of three-dimensional (3-D) volumes from ultrasound images has been developed. The contrast of the image was increased by using histogram sliding and stretching and adaptive histogram equalization to facilitate interactive thresholding. Artifacts were removed while anatomic details were preserved through the use of mathematical morphologic filtering. Median filtering helped to remove remaining noise and smooth edges. Binary masks defining the object borders were created from the enhanced images and used to extract the object from the original data set so that original backscatter texture was preserved. The method is demonstrated with images acquired in vitro and in vivo.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	234309
Pages (from-to)	1219-1222
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ULTSYM.1991.234309
State	Published - 1991
Event	1991 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. ULTSYM 1991 - Orlando, United States Duration: Dec 8 1991 → Dec 11 1991

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