ProbeSight: Video Cameras on an Ultrasound Probe for Computer Vision of the Patient’s Exterior
Workshop Paper, Image Guided Therapy Workshop, October, 2011
Abstract
Medical ultrasound typically deals with the interior of the patient, with the exterior left to that original medical imaging modality, direct human vision. For the human operator scanning the patient, the view of the external anatomy is essential for correctly locating the ultrasound probe on the body and making sense of the resulting ultrasound images in their proper anatomical context. We are now interested in giving vision to the transducer, by mounting video cameras directly onto the ultrasound probe. This could eventually lead to automated analysis of the ultrasound data within its anatomical context, as derived from an ultrasound probe with its own visual input about the patient’s exterior.
BibTeX
@workshop{Galeotti-2011-7398,author = {John Galeotti and Jihang Wang and Samantha J. Horvath and Mel Siegel and George D. Stetten},
title = {ProbeSight: Video Cameras on an Ultrasound Probe for Computer Vision of the Patient's Exterior},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Image Guided Therapy Workshop},
year = {2011},
month = {October},
}
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