151. Automatic Extraction of Central Tendon of Rectus Femoris (CT-RF) in Ultrasound Images Using a New Intensity-Compensated Free-Form Deformation-Based Tracking Algorithm With Local Shape Refinement
- Author
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Yongjin Zhou, Shing-Chow Chan, H. C. Wu, Xiguang Wei, Yongping Zheng, and Jinyong Zhang
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Computer science ,02 engineering and technology ,Deformation (meteorology) ,Tracking (particle physics) ,Quadriceps Muscle ,Tendons ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health Information Management ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ,Humans ,Computer vision ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Ultrasonography ,business.industry ,Ultrasound ,030229 sport sciences ,musculoskeletal system ,Computer Science Applications ,Intensity (physics) ,Tendon ,Visualization ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Ultrasonic sensor ,Free-form deformation ,Female ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Algorithm ,Algorithms ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Ultrasonography is an important diagnostic imaging technique for visualization of tendons, which provides useful health diagnostic and fundamental information in neuromuscular studies of human motion systems. Conventional ultrasonic-based tendon studies, however, are highly dependent on subjective experience of operators due to various impairments of ultrasound images. Dynamic changes of muscle and tendon deformation in a sequence can hardly be manually processed. Consequently, there is an urgent need for automatic analysis of tendon behavior. This paper proposes an automatic ultrasonic tendon tracking algorithm to extract the shape deformation of central tendon of rectus femoris (CT-RF) from ultrasonic image sequences. The tracking problem is complicated by the highly deformable tendon, time-varying brightness, and the inconspicuousness of the target. To address this difficult tracking problem, we proposed a new intensity-compensated free-form deformation (IC-FFD)-based tracking algorithm with local shape refinement (LSR). Experimental results and comparison show that the proposed IC-FFD-LSR algorithm outperforms IC-FFD and conventional methods such as MI-FFD in CT-RF tracking.
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- 2016