An Automatic Femoral Nerve Block

Segmentation & Tracking for

Ultrasound Imaging
Guided By,
Mrs. Sharmi.B, M.E.,
Assistant Professor,
Department of ECE.
Presented By,
Ratheesha.R,
Reg No: 961015403002.

Abstract

To create an assistant for ultrasound guided femoral

nerve block.

This work presents a novel real-time method for

identifying and reconstructing the femoral artery , and
registering a model of the surrounding anatomy to the
ultrasound images is presented.

Registration of this model is achieved by landmark

registration using the centre points from the artery
tracking and the femoral artery centre line of the model.

Image Segmentation

Image segmentation is the process of dividing

an image into multiple parts. This is typically
used to identify objects or other relevant
information in digital images.
There are many different ways to perform
image segmentation, including:
Thresholding methods
Color-based Segmentation
Transform methods
Texture methods

Ultrasound Imaging Segmentation

Ultrasound imaging or ultra sonography is

an important diagnosis method in medical
analysis.
It is important to segment out cavities,
different types of tissues and organs in the
ultrasound image for effective and correct
diagnosis.
of medical ultrasound images :

Main application fields

Cardiology
Breast cancer
Vascular imaging
Prostate cancer
Obstetrics
Liver, kidney, thyroid

Existing System

Stage 1: Gradient Descent Optimization

Stage 2: Image Reconstruction in Ultrasound Modulated
optical Tomography
Stage 3: Cavity Boundary Extraction from ultrasound
Images.
Stage 4: Vessel segmentation and tracking for ultrasound
Images
Step 5: Extraction and Visualization of Medical Images

Disadvantages

Cross section of vessels in 2D ultrasound have been

reported.
A single image can only be segmented.

SSES

Proposed System

A real time automatic vessel detection, tracking and

vessel registration method using only one Kalman
filter resulting in a simpler method.
To achieve real time bone segmentation.

Proposed System Architecture

Explanation

Shape model
The shape model defines the shape of the segmentation and in-

corporates knowledge about the anatomy .

Appearance model

The appearance model defines how the input image effect the
state, and incorporates knowledge about how the structure of
interest appears in the ultrasound image.

State

The state in the kalman filter describes the segmentation for

the current image frame and includes the position,

orientation and deformation of the shape.

Predicted state
The first step is prediction, which uses the current state to predict

the state for the next frame .

Measurement
The measurement step that performs measurements on the

current image using the predicted state , shape model and

appearance model.
Update
The final step updates the state using the predicted state

measurements and shape model.

Outputs

Add explanation

Conclusion and Future work

This project investigates model based segmentation

methods and GPU acceleration for fast ,robust and
automatic image segmentation with in the field of
image guided surgery.
A tracking method for the cross section of blood
vessels in 2D ultrasound is also proposed using the
same filtered method.
The proposed tracking method is initialized
automatically in real time using a GPU.

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