2013 Summer Project Week:Ultrasound Needle Detection

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  No needle.

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  First Needle Inserted

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  Second Needle Inserted

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  Third Needle Inserted

Key Investigators

• BWH: Alireza Mehrtash, Daniel Kostro, Matthew Toews, William Wells, Tina Kapur
• Queen's University: Tamas Ungi

Objective

The goal of this project is to a develop a needle detection method in tracked ultrasound.

Approach, Plan

• Set-up the hardware/software of a tracked ultrasound system using NDI Aurora, BK ultrasound, 3D Slicer and Plus Library.
• Perform all the prerequisite calibration and
• Develop code for tracked ultrasound feature extraction and needle detection.
  • 3D reconstruction of needle.
  • Online visualization and needle navigation
• Embed to a Slicer module
• Test the method on our gynecologic phantom, using BK transabdominal probe and gynecologic brachytherapy needles.

Progress

TBD

Delivery Mechanism

• Code and slicer module
• A writeup of developments/results for future publications.

References

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