Delineating Bone Surfaces in B-Mode Images Constrained by Physics of Ultrasound Propagation

F Ozdemir, C Tanner, O Goksel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02001, 2020 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02001, 2020arxiv.org
Bone surface delineation in ultrasound is of interest due to its potential in diagnosis, surgical
planning, and post-operative follow-up in orthopedics, as well as the potential of using
bones as anatomical landmarks in surgical navigation. We herein propose a method to
encode the physics of ultrasound propagation into a factor graph formulation for the purpose
of bone surface delineation. In this graph structure, unary node potentials encode the local
likelihood for being a soft tissue or acoustic-shadow (behind bone surface) region, both …
Bone surface delineation in ultrasound is of interest due to its potential in diagnosis, surgical planning, and post-operative follow-up in orthopedics, as well as the potential of using bones as anatomical landmarks in surgical navigation. We herein propose a method to encode the physics of ultrasound propagation into a factor graph formulation for the purpose of bone surface delineation. In this graph structure, unary node potentials encode the local likelihood for being a soft tissue or acoustic-shadow (behind bone surface) region, both learned through image descriptors. Pair-wise edge potentials encode ultrasound propagation constraints of bone surfaces given their large acoustic-impedance difference. We evaluate the proposed method in comparison with four earlier approaches, on in-vivo ultrasound images collected from dorsal and volar views of the forearm. The proposed method achieves an average root-mean-square error and symmetric Hausdorff distance of 0.28mm and 1.78mm, respectively. It detects 99.9% of the annotated bone surfaces with a mean scanline error (distance to annotations) of 0.39mm.
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