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Similarity registration problems for 2D/3D ultrasound calibration

  • Francisco Vasconcelos*
  • , Donald Peebles
  • , Sebastien Ourselin
  • , Danail Stoyanov
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • UCL University College London

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Abstract

We propose a minimal solution for the similarity registration (rigid pose and scale) between two sets of 3D lines, and also between a set of co-planar points and a set of 3D lines. The first problem is solved up to 8 discrete solutions with a minimum of 2 line-line correspondences, while the second is solved up to 4 discrete solutions using 4 point-line correspondences. We use these algorithms to perform the extrinsic calibration between a pose tracking sensor and a 2D/3D ultrasound (US) curvilinear probe using a tracked needle as calibration target. The needle is tracked as a 3D line, and is scanned by the ultrasound as either a 3D line (3D US) or as a 2D point (2D US). Since the scale factor that converts US scan units to metric coordinates is unknown, the calibration is formulated as a similarity registration problem. We present results with both synthetic and real data and show that the minimum solutions outperform the correspondent non-minimal linear formulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - 14th European Conference, ECCV 2016, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages171-187
Number of pages17
Volume9910 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783319464657
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 17 Sept 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9910 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Calibration
  • Medical imaging
  • Similarity registration
  • Ultrasound

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