TY - GEN
T1 - A portable measuring system for cross-sectional ultrasound images using spatial compounding and edge sharpening
AU - Tsubai, Masayoshi
AU - Fukumoto, Kiyotaka
AU - Fukuda, Osamu
AU - Muraki, Satoshi
AU - Ueno, Naohiro
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper proposes a compensation for a blurred image caused by misregistration in spatial compounding. The edge sharpening based on morphological operations is applied to the compounded image. A portable measuring system of a cross-sectional ultrasound image is designed for measuring body composition. The system is developed for non-medical applications, for example, measurement of the volume of muscle and subcutaneous fat in lower extremities, upper extremities and abdomen for health care and sports science. A number of partially overlapping images that have been obtained from multiple angles are combined into a single compounded image. In experiment on human abdomen, the image quality was improved in speckle suppression and edge enhancement by using ensemble averaging and morphological edge sharpening. Resulting wide fleld-of-view image was sufficiently deblurred without emphasizing noise.
AB - This paper proposes a compensation for a blurred image caused by misregistration in spatial compounding. The edge sharpening based on morphological operations is applied to the compounded image. A portable measuring system of a cross-sectional ultrasound image is designed for measuring body composition. The system is developed for non-medical applications, for example, measurement of the volume of muscle and subcutaneous fat in lower extremities, upper extremities and abdomen for health care and sports science. A number of partially overlapping images that have been obtained from multiple angles are combined into a single compounded image. In experiment on human abdomen, the image quality was improved in speckle suppression and edge enhancement by using ensemble averaging and morphological edge sharpening. Resulting wide fleld-of-view image was sufficiently deblurred without emphasizing noise.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352748
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352748
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 18002414
AN - SCOPUS:57649170941
SN - 1424407885
SN - 9781424407880
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 2150
EP - 2154
BT - 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'07
T2 - 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'07
Y2 - 23 August 2007 through 26 August 2007
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