Advances in ultrasound system development have led to a substantial improvement of image quality. Nevertheless, ultrasound attenuation and shadowing artifacts cannot be entirely avoided and continue to challenge medical image computing algorithms. In this thesis a confidence measure is introduced that emphasizes uncertainty in attenuated and/or shadow regions in ultrasound images. The measure was introduced into various ultrasound image processing applications including: 3D freehand reconstruction, shadow detection, mono- and multimodal registration, tissue classification, and bone detection.
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Advances in ultrasound system development have led to a substantial improvement of image quality. Nevertheless, ultrasound attenuation and shadowing artifacts cannot be entirely avoided and continue to challenge medical image computing algorithms. In this thesis a confidence measure is introduced that emphasizes uncertainty in attenuated and/or shadow regions in ultrasound images. The measure was introduced into various ultrasound image processing applications including: 3D freehand reconstructi...
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