A novel robust template matching method to track and follow body targets for NIUTS
Norihiro Koizumi, Takakazu Funamoto, Joonho Seo, Dongjung Lee, Hiroyuki Tsukihara, Akira Nomiya, Takashi Azuma, Kiyoshi Yoshinaka, Naohiko Sugita, Yukio Homma, Yoichiro Matsumoto, Mamoru Mitsuishi · 2014
The authors have developed a bed-type non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system (NIUTS) that compensates for movement by tracking and following the area to be treated by stereo ultrasound imaging while irradiating high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) onto the affected area. In this paper, we propose a novel robust template matching method to track and follow body targets, which include tumors and stones for the NIUTS. The proposed novel robust template matching method could be applied to a motion tracking of the real human kidney based on the ultrasound images, which is the first successful report as far as I know. This robust visual servoing method could be a great tool to treat the tumors and stones precisely and safely.