Extraction of Quantitative Three-Dimensional Information from Ultrasonic Volumetric Images of Cirrhotic Liver
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 39 (5S)
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.39.3266
Abstract
The cirrhotic liver has many fibrotic tissue structures known as nodule structures. Understanding this characteristic in diseased tissue is important for quantitative diagnosis. In this paper, we present a technique to extract quantitative three-dimensional information from a cirrhotic liver. Consecutive two-dimensional images acquired by fan like scanning were processed using constant false alarm rate (CFAR). The 2D processed images are accumulated to obtain 3D information. The nodular structure is clear in the constructed images.Keywords
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