title: Bone surface reconstruction using localized freehand ultrasound imaging.
abstract: We propose a bone surface reconstruction method using localized ultrasound imagery. A set of bone contours is first extracted from a series of freehand 2D B-mode localized images, using an automatic segmentation method. This set is then used to reconstruct the bone surface with a tensor product B-splines approximation. Results of the partial surface reconstruction are shown for real bones and for a phantom physical model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes, UMR-CNRS 6168, Marseille, France. lucero.lopez@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lucero
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lopez-Perez
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lemaitre
authors.forename: Agung
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alfiansyah
authors.forename: Marc-Emmanuel
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bellemare
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001331:Automation; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D002968:Clavicle / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014465:Ultrasonics; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*