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Denis Tran

Machine Vision Engineer at ClearVision Technologies Inc

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Proceedings Article | 10 March 2008 Paper

Adaptive spatial compounding for improving ultrasound images of the epidural space on human subjects

Denis Tran, King-Wei Hor, Allaudin Kamani, Vickie Lessoway, Robert Rohling

Proceedings Volume 6920, 69200I (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769216

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Speckle, Bone, Image registration, Human subjects, Signal to noise ratio, Reflectors, Algorithm development, Tissues, Image processing

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Administering epidural anesthesia can be a difficult procedure, especially for inexperienced physicians. The use of ultrasound imaging can help by showing the location of the key surrounding structures: the ligamentum flavum and the lamina of the vertebrae. The anatomical depiction of the interface between ligamentum flavum and epidural space is currently limited by speckle and anisotropic reflection. Previous work on phantoms showed that adaptive spatial compounding with non-rigid registration can improve the depiction of these features. This paper describes the development of an updated compounding algorithm and results from a clinical study. Average-based compounding may obscure anisotropic reflectors that only appear at certain beam angles, so a new median-based compounding technique is developed. In order to reduce the computational cost of the registration process, a linear prediction algorithm is used to reduce the search space for registration. The algorithms are tested on 20 human subjects. Comparisons are made among the reference image plus combinations of different compounding methods, warping and linear prediction. The gradient of the bone surfaces, the Laplacian of the ligamentum flavum, and the SNR and CNR are used to quantitatively assess the visibility of the features in the processed images. The results show a significant improvement in quality when median-based compounding with warping is used to align the set of beam-steered images and combine them. The improvement of the features makes detection of the epidural space easier.

Proceedings Article | 12 March 2007 Paper

Adaptive spatial compounding for improving ultrasound images of the epidural space

Denis Tran, Allaudin Kamani, Vickie Lessoway, Robert Rohling

Proceedings Volume 6513, 65130W (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.704225

KEYWORDS: Ultrasonography, Edge detection, Speckle, Bone, Image registration, Tissues, Sensors, Refraction, Visibility, Image quality

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Epidural anesthesia can be a difficult procedure, especially for inexperienced physicians. The use of ultrasound imaging can help by depicting the location of the epidural space to choose the needle trajectory appropriately. Anatomical features in the lower back are not always clearly visible because of speckle poor reflection from structures at certain angles, and shadows from bony surfaces. Spatial compounding has the potential to reduce speckle and emphasize structures by averaging a number of images taken at different isonation angles. However, the beam-steered images are not perfectly aligned due to non-constant speed of sound causing refraction errors. This means compounding can blur features. A non-rigid registration method, called warping, shifts each block of pixels of the beam-steered images in order to find the best alignment to the reference image without beam-steering. By applying warping, the features become sharper after compounding. To emphasize features further, edge detection is also applied to the individual images in order to select the best features for compounding. The warping and edge detection parameters are calculated in real-time for each acquired image. In order to reduce computational complexity, linear prediction of the warping vectors is used. The algorithm is tested on a phantom of the lower back with a linear probe. Qualitative comparisons are made among the original plus combinations of compounding, warping, edge detection and linear prediction. The linear gradient and Laplacian of a Gaussian are used to quantitatively assess the visibility of the bone boundaries and ligamentum flavum on the processed images. The results show a significant improvement in quality.

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