@inproceedings{b3d08462acce41de989f1e716d27ee35,
title = "Full motion tracking in ultrasound using image speckle information and visual servoing",
abstract = "This paper presents a new visual servoing method that is able to stabilize a moving area of soft tissue within an ultrasound B-mode imaging plane. The approach consists of moving the probe in order to minimize the relative position between a target imaging plane and the ultrasound plane observed by the probe of the moving tissue target. The problem is decoupled into motion out-of-plane and motion within plane. For the former, a new original method based on the speckle information contained in the images is developed. For the latter, an image region tracker is used to provide the in-plane motion. A visual servoing control scheme is then developed to perform the tracking robotic task. The method is validated on simulated motions of a probe on a static ultrasound volume acquired from a phantom.",
keywords = "Medical robotics, Speckle correlation, Ultrasound, Visual servoing",
author = "Alexandre Krupa and Gabor Fichtinger and Hager, {Gregory D.}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363688",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1424406021",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages = "2458--2464",
booktitle = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07",
note = "2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07 ; Conference date: 10-04-2007 Through 14-04-2007",
}