Adaptive Volume Construction from Ultrasound Images of a Human Heart

Reis, Gerd; Bertram, Martin; Lengen, Rolf H. van; Hagen, Hans

Adaptive Volume Construction from Ultrasound Images of a Human Heart

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Date

2004

Authors

Reis, Gerd
Bertram, Martin
Lengen, Rolf H. van
Hagen, Hans

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present a volume modelling approach based on sequences of two-dimensional ultrasound images. Though generally applicable to arbitrary freehand ultrasound, our method is designed for the reconstruction of timevarying volumes from ultrasound images of a human heart. Since the reliability of the reconstructed data depends very much on the spatial density of ultrasound images, we apply a hierarchical modelling approach. The volume produced for each time step is represented as adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) data such that regions of low reliability in the reconstructed volume can be recognized by their coarse resolution.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/VisSym04/321-330
,
booktitle = {Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {Oliver Deussen and Charles Hansen and Daniel Keim and Dietmar Saupe
},
title = {{Adaptive Volume Construction from Ultrasound Images of a Human Heart
}},
author = {Reis, Gerd and 
Bertram, Martin and 
Lengen, Rolf H. van and 
Hagen, Hans
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-905673-07-X
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/VisSym04/321-330
}
}