Electrode Localization in 3D Ultrasound Images Using 3D Phase Grouping and Randomized Hough Transform
Wu Qiu, Mingyue Ding, Ming Yuchi · 2010
A method to locate the axis of radio frequency ablation electrode(RFAE) in 3D Ultrasound(US) image is presented based on 3D phase-grouping in this paper. Firstly, all voxels in 3D US images are categorized into different groups which are called Line Support Region(LSR) according to the outer products of adjacent orientation vectors. And then, the RFAE axis is extracted with 3D Randomized Hough transform in the maximal LSR, instead of least squares fitting method, Finally, the endpoint of the RFAE axis is determined by searching along the axis with the probability distribution of voxels. The proposed method was tested in synthetic and 3D US agar phantom datas, the results are promising.