Presentation 2021-08-27
A Study of a Pose Estimation Method of Ultrasound Probe Using RNN
Kanta Miura, Koichi Ito, Takafumi Aoki, Jun Ohmiya, Satoshi Kondo,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we propose an ultrasound (US) probe pose estimation method using deep learning for 3D US image reconstruction. The proposed method employs a novel neural network consisting of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a recurrent neural network (RNN). The features extracted from the US image sequence using CNN are input to RNN to estimate the relative and absolute pose of the US probe. We create an US image sequence dataset with ground-truth probe position measured by a motion capture system to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed method. Through a set of experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed method exhibits the efficient performance on probe pose estimation and 3D US image reconstruction compared with the conventional method.
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Keyword(in English) ultrasound / volume reconstruction / RNN / CNN / pose estimation
Paper # MI2021-22
Date of Issue 2021-08-20 (MI)

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Committee MI
Conference Date 2021/8/27(1days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Medical imaging
Chair Hidekata Hontani(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Hideaki Haneishi(Chiba Univ.) / Takayuki Kitasaka(Aichi Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Hideaki Haneishi(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Takayuki Kitasaka(Univ. of Hyogo)
Assistant Hotaka Takizawa(Tsukuba Univ.) / Yoshito Otake(NAIST)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Medical Imaging
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Study of a Pose Estimation Method of Ultrasound Probe Using RNN
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) ultrasound
Keyword(2) volume reconstruction
Keyword(3) RNN
Keyword(4) CNN
Keyword(5) pose estimation
1st Author's Name Kanta Miura
1st Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Koichi Ito
2nd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Takafumi Aoki
3rd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
4th Author's Name Jun Ohmiya
4th Author's Affiliation KONICA MINOLTA, INC.(KONICA MINOLTA)
5th Author's Name Satoshi Kondo
5th Author's Affiliation KONICA MINOLTA, INC.(KONICA MINOLTA)
Date 2021-08-27
Paper # MI2021-22
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) MI-164
Page pp.pp.2-7(MI),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-08-20 (MI)