Direct surface extraction from 3D freehand ultrasound images

Surface extraction from ultrasound data is challenging for a number of reasons, including noise and artifacts in the images and non-uniform data sampling. This thesis presents a new technique for the extraction of surfaces from freehand 3D ultrasound data. Most available 3D medical visualization...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Youwei
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14294