Alignment-by-reconstruction for 3D ultrasound imaging

This paper addresses 3D reconstruction of human organs from a set of ultrasound images, assuming that the probe position and orientation is available. Unfortunately; pose measurement errors produce significant misalignments which degrade the performance of the reconstruction algorithms. This paper proposes a method for correcting these distortions by estimating the true position and orientation of the ultrasound probe. This is achieved by a joint computation of the 3D data and probe parameters using a MAP criterion. An evaluation of the proposed algorithm by Monte Carlo method is included in the paper.