Identifying Visible Tissue in Intraoperative Ultrasound Images during Brain Surgery: A Method and Application

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01190v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 23:06:14 GMT
• Title: Identifying Visible Tissue in Intraoperative Ultrasound Images during Brain Surgery: A Method and Application
• Authors: Alistair Weld, Luke Dixon, Giulio Anichini, Michael Dyck, Alex Ranne, Sophie Camp, Stamatia Giannarou
• Abstract summary: Intraoperative ultrasound scanning is a demanding visuotactile task. It requires operators to simultaneously localise the ultrasound perspective and manually perform slight adjustments to the pose of the probe. We propose a method for the identification of the visible tissue, which enables the analysis of ultrasound probe and tissue contact.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Intraoperative ultrasound scanning is a demanding visuotactile task. It requires operators to simultaneously localise the ultrasound perspective and manually perform slight adjustments to the pose of the probe, making sure not to apply excessive force or breaking contact with the tissue, whilst also characterising the visible tissue. In this paper, we propose a method for the identification of the visible tissue, which enables the analysis of ultrasound probe and tissue contact via the detection of acoustic shadow and construction of confidence maps of the perceptual salience. Detailed validation with both in vivo and phantom data is performed. First, we show that our technique is capable of achieving state of the art acoustic shadow scan line classification - with an average binary classification accuracy on unseen data of 0.87. Second, we show that our framework for constructing confidence maps is able to produce an ideal response to a probe's pose that is being oriented in and out of optimality - achieving an average RMSE across five scans of 0.174. The performance evaluation justifies the potential clinical value of the method which can be used both to assist clinical training and optimise robot-assisted ultrasound tissue scanning.

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