Ultrasound Video Processing for Quantitative

Analysis of Fetal Movements by means of organ

tracking

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 The routine system The image processing system Block diagram of
Video cassette
the experimental
Objects system. (a) The
routine system is
Frame grabber used for recording
Programs
library
the US movies on a
US Storage device videocassate. (b)
System
with VCR
The recorded
videocassate is
COMPUTER
passed to the
experimental system
Video cassette Interactive for off-line digital
graphical image processing.
user
Analyzed Movements interface
movie Parameters

(a) (b)

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 The GUI

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 Flow Diagram of the Processing Algorithm

Frame
i+1 Noise filtering

Templates Frame i Templates

localization generation

Templates
classification

Coordinates & angle

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 Filtering periodic noise

Original image Av. power spectrum along rows

Difference image

Filtered image "Filtered" power spectrum

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 Filtering speckle noise

(a) (b)
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 Flow diagram of the tracking algorithm

Generating
rotated
copies

Target image
Frame (i)
Optimal Adaptive
Correlator

Interpolation of the correlator

main output peak and
localization of its maximum
Scene image
Frame (i+1)
Target coordinates and angle

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 Fetus head tracking in US video: an example

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 Baby head tracking in video: an example

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 Publications
1. Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Ben-Zion Shaick Transform Oriented Image Processing
Technology for Quantitative Analysis of Fetal Movements in Ultrasound Image
Sequences. In: Signal Processing IX. Theories and Applications, Proceedings of Eusipco-
98, Rhodes, Greece, 8-11 Sept., 1998, ed. By S. Theodorisdis, I. Pitas, A. Stouraitis, N.
Kalouptsidis, Typorama Editions, 1998, p. 1745-1748
2. B.Z. Shaick, L. Ridel, L. Yaroslavsky, A hybrid transform method for image denoising,
EUSIPCO2000, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 5-8, 2000
3. Ben-Zion Shaick, L. Yaroslavsky, Object Localization Using Linear Adaptive Filters, 6th
Fall Workshop, Vision, Modeling And Visualization 2001 (Vmv01), November 21-23,
2001, Stuttgart, Germany, November 21-23, 2001, pp. 11-17
4. Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky, Image reduction for object recognition,
VIP2002, 4th EURASIP - IEEE Region 8 International Symposium on Video / Image
Processing and Multimedia Communication, 16-19 June 2002, Zadar, Croatia.

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