Simulation, Image Processing, and Ultrasound Systems for Assisted Diagnosis and Navigation: International Workshops, POCUS 2018, BIVPCS 2018, CuRIOUS [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the International Workshop on Point-of-Care Ultrasound, POCUS 2018, the International Workshop on Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations, BIVPCS 2017, the International Workshop on Correction of Brainshift with Intra-Operative Ultrasound, CuRIOUS 2018, and the International Workshop on Computational Precision Medicine, CPM 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.

The 10 full papers presented at POCUS 2018, the 4 full papers presented at BIVPCS 2018, the 8 full papers presented at CuRIOUS 2018, and the 2 full papers presented at CPM 2018 were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers feature research from complementary fields such as ultrasound image systems applications as well as signal and image processing, mechanics, computational vision, mathematics, physics, informatics, computer graphics, bio-medical-practice, psychology and industry. They discuss intra-operative ultrasound-guided brain tumor resection as well as pancreatic cancer survival prediction.

Robust Photoacoustic Beamforming using Dense Convolutional Neural Networks.- A Training Tool for Ultrasound-guided Central Line Insertion with Webcam-based Position Tracking.- GLUENet: Ultrasound Elastography Using Convolutional Neural Network.- CUST: CNN for Ultrasound thermal image reconstruction using Sparse Time-of-flight information.- Quality Assessment of Fetal Head Ultrasound Images Based on Faster R-CNN.- Recent Advances in Point-of-Care Ultrasound using the ImFusion Suite for Real-Time Image Analysis.- Markerless Inside-Out Tracking for 3D Ultrasound Compounding.- Ultrasound-based Detection of Lung Abnormalities using Single Shot Detection Convolutional Neural Networks.- Quantitative Echocardiography: Real-time Quality Estimation and View Classificatlck