First Year Progress Report Rapid, easy and reliable calibration for freehand 3D ultrasound
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This paper presents improvements to the plane-based technique for calibrating freehand3D ultrasound systems. The improvements are designed to make it easier for inexperiencedusers to perform plane-based calibration and to know that they have got a reliable result.In particular, we enable the calibration to be performed using water at room temperaturewhile producing a result that is valid for average soft tissue, and we show how it is possibleto provide feedback on the reliability of the calibration using a metric based on the curvatureof the calibration criterion function. We present comprehensive results showing that theseinnovations improve the precision of the calibration and offer useful feedback to the user.
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Rapid, easy and reliable calibration for freehand 3D ultrasound.
This paper presents improvements to the plane-based technique for calibrating freehand 3D ultrasound systems. The improvements are designed to make it easier for inexperienced users to perform plane-based calibration and to know that they have got a reliable result. In particular, we enable the calibration to be performed using water at room temperature while producing a result that is valid fo...
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