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Ultrasound imaging is the most popular medical imaging modality for point-of-care bedside imaging. However, 2D ultrasound imaging provides only limited views of the organ of interest, making diagnosis challenging. To overcome this, 3D ultrasound imaging was developed, which uses 2D ultrasound images and their orientation/position to reconstruct 3D volumes. The accurate position estimation of the ultrasound probe at low cost has always stood as a challenging task in 3D reconstruction. In this study, we propose a novel approach of using a mechanical track for ultrasound scanning, which restricts the probe motion to a linear plane, simplifying the acquisition and hence the reconstruction process. We also present an end-to-end pipeline for 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction and demonstrate its efficacy with an in-vitro tube phantom study and an ex-vivo bone experiment. The comparison between a sensorless freehand and the proposed mechanical track based acquisition is available online (
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Jerald, A., Madhavanunni, A.N., Malamal, G., Gopalakrishnan, P.H., Panicker, M.R. (2024). A Simplified 3D Ultrasound Freehand Imaging Framework Using 1D Linear Probe and Low-Cost Mechanical Track. In: Kaur, H., Jakhetiya, V., Goyal, P., Khanna, P., Raman, B., Kumar, S. (eds) Computer Vision and Image Processing. CVIP 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2009. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58181-6_18
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