Semi-automatic abdominal aortic aneurysms geometry assessment based on 3D ultrasound

Laurence Rouet (1) , Roberto Ardon (1) , Jean-Michel Rouet (1) , Benoît Mory (1) , Cecile Dufour (1) , Anne Long (2)

1 Medisys - MedisysResearch Lab
2 Vascular Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims

This paper presents a new approach for improving the surveillance of the size of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Use of 3D ultrasound imaging combined with semi-automatic quantification provides automatic selection of the optimal plane for diameter measurement. Quantification parameters are defined to characterize the aneurysm with more accuracy. Volume imaging also provides 3D visualization of the AAA geometry and CT-like multi-planar reconstructions. Multiple volume registrations are proposed to overcome limited field of view issues. Quantification results show good correlation with 2D reference measurements and obtained Pearson correlation coefficients are significant for 30 patients. (c) 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.

Domaines: Imagerie médicale; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Laurence Rouet, Roberto Ardon, Jean-Michel Rouet, Benoît Mory, Cecile Dufour, et al.. Semi-automatic abdominal aortic aneurysms geometry assessment based on 3D ultrasound. IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Oct 2010, San Diego, CA, United States. pp.201-204, ⟨10.1109/ULTSYM.2010.5935590⟩. ⟨hal-00642750⟩