Three-dimensional registration of freehand-tracked ultrasound to CT Images of the Talocrural Joint

A rigid surface–volume registration scheme is presented in this study to register computed tomography (CT) and free-hand tracked ultrasound (US) images of the talocrural joint. Prior to registration, bone surfaces expected to be visible in US are extracted from the CT volume and bone contours in 2D US data are enhanced based on monogenic signal...

Simulation of scanner- and patient-specific low-dose CT imaging from existing CT images

Purpose: <br/>Simulating low-­dose Computed Tomography (CT) facilitates in-­silico studies into the required dose for a diagnostic task. Conventionally, low-­‐dose CT images are created by adding noise to the projection data. However, in practice the raw data is often simply not available. This paper presents a new method for simulating patient-...

Constrained Registration of the Wrist Joint

Comparing wrist shapes of different individuals requires alignment of these wrists into the same pose. Unconstrained registration of the carpal bones results in anatomically nonfeasible wrists. In this paper, we propose to constrain the registration using the shapes of adjacent bones, by keeping the width of the gap between adjacent bones...