Robust Real-Time Needle Tracking in 2-D Ultrasound Images Using Statistical Filtering.
Kim MathiassenDiego Dall'AlbaRiccardo MuradorePaolo FioriniOle Jakob EllePublished in: IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol. (2017)
Keyphrases
- real time
- video images
- partial occlusion
- video rate
- live video
- image database
- real time face tracking
- image data
- text localization and recognition
- cluttered background
- image filtering
- input image
- edge detection
- beating heart
- image retrieval
- image features
- real time tracking
- cluttered environments
- lighting conditions
- image registration
- three dimensional
- deformable objects
- robust tracking
- geometric distortions
- object recognition
- surgical instruments
- accurate localization
- ultrasound probe
- moving target
- accurate registration
- ultrasound images
- visual tracking
- image matching
- mean shift
- image segmentation