TY - GEN
T1 - A Kinect-based scan path planning method for ultrasound imaging
AU - Wu, Bowen
AU - Zhang, Qiangzhi
AU - Ye, Pengfei
AU - Huang, Qinghua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In hospitals, the doctors at sonography department often need to examine many patients every day. To alleviate the working burden, an automatic examination using some machines is needed. In this paper, by using the depth data captured by Kinect, the 3-D scene could be reconstructed with Visualization Toolkit, then the scan path could be automatically acquired with our method based on the 3-D scene. At last, the 3-D translation device, based on the scan path, is adopted to control the movement of ultrasound probe to scan the tissue surface. And the experimental results show that the method is available for planning an appropriate scan path and making the ultrasound probe touch the tissue surface accurately in the mechanical scanning.
AB - In hospitals, the doctors at sonography department often need to examine many patients every day. To alleviate the working burden, an automatic examination using some machines is needed. In this paper, by using the depth data captured by Kinect, the 3-D scene could be reconstructed with Visualization Toolkit, then the scan path could be automatically acquired with our method based on the 3-D scene. At last, the 3-D translation device, based on the scan path, is adopted to control the movement of ultrasound probe to scan the tissue surface. And the experimental results show that the method is available for planning an appropriate scan path and making the ultrasound probe touch the tissue surface accurately in the mechanical scanning.
KW - Kinect
KW - Mechanical scanning
KW - Path planning
KW - Ultrasound imaging
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942508687&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BMEI.2014.7002836
DO - 10.1109/BMEI.2014.7002836
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84942508687
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 7th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2014
SP - 556
EP - 561
BT - Proceedings - 2014 7th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 7th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2014
Y2 - 14 October 2014 through 16 October 2014
ER -