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The recent availability of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography offers a convenient, low-cost alternative for detection and diagnosis of heart pathologies. However, a complete description of the heart can be obtained only by combining the information provided by different acoustic windows. We present a new method for compounding 3D ultrasound scans acquired from different views. The method uses multiscale information about local structure definition and orientation to weight the contributions of the images. We propose to use image phase to obtain these image characteristics while keeping invariance to image contrast. The monogenic signal provides a convenient, integrated approach for this purpose. We have evaluated our algorithm on synthetic images and heart scans from volunteers, showing it provides a significant improvement in image quality when compared to traditional compounding methods.
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Grau, V., Noble, J.A. (2005). Adaptive Multiscale Ultrasound Compounding Using Phase Information. In: Duncan, J.S., Gerig, G. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2005. MICCAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3749. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11566465_73
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