Publications
Beam Steering Approach for Speckle Characterization and Out-of-Plane Motion Estimation in Real Tissue.
Procedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. 781–784.
Rivaz2007.pdf (902.82 KB)
(2007). 
CIS-UltraCal: an open-source ultrasound calibration toolkit.
Medical Imaging 2005: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5750, 516-523.
Kon2005.pdf (200.67 KB)
(2005). 
CISUS: an integrated 3D ultrasound system for IGT using a modular tracking API.
(Galloway, Jr., R. L., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2004: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 5367, 247-256.
Boctor2004a.pdf (536.92 KB)
(2004). 
Development of a Robotically-Assisted 3-D Ultrasound System for Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors.
6th World Congress of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA).
(2004). A dual-armed robotic system for intraoperative ultrasound guided hepatic ablative therapy: a prospective study.
Procedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA ’04. 3, 2517–2522.
Boctor2004c.pdf (629.71 KB)
(2004). 
Multi-modality fusion of CT and 3D ultrasound and tracked strain images for breast irradiation planning.
SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 7265,
Foroughi2009.pdf (1.01 MB)
(2009). 
New approaches to calibration and segmentation in interventional ultrasound.
Procedings 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro ISBI 2007. 1060–1063.
Fichtinger2007.pdf (319.26 KB)
(2007). 
A novel closed form solution for ultrasound calibration.
Procedings IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Nano to Macro. 527–530.
Boctor2004.pdf (189.73 KB)
(2004). 
P6D-2 Ultrasound Bone Segmentation Using Dynamic Programming.
Procedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. 2523–2526.
Foroughi2007.pdf (573.97 KB)
(2007). 
Rapid calibration method for registration and 3D tracking of ultrasound images using spatial localizer.
Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5035, 521-532.
Boctor2003.pdf (288.98 KB)
(2003). 
Robot-assisted 3D strain imaging for monitoring thermal ablation of liver.
Annual congress of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. 240-241.
DeOliveira2005a.pdf (35.9 KB)
(2005). 
Robotically assisted ablative treatment guided by freehand 3D ultrasound.
Conference of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS). 503-508.
Boctor2004e.pdf (669.44 KB)
(2004). 
Robotically assisted intraoperative ultrasound with application to ablative therapy of liver cancer.
(Galloway, Jr., R. L., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2003: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 5029, 281-291.
Boctor2003c.pdf (341.78 KB)
(2003). 
A robust meshing and calibration approach for sensorless freehand 3D ultrasound.
Medical Imaging 2007: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 6513, 651318.
Rivaz2007a.pdf (451.04 KB)
(2007). 
Speckle Characterization And Out-Of-Plane Motion Estimation In Tissue.
Sixth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity.
(2007). Toward Real-Time 2d Ultrasound Elastography Using Global Optimization Of A Regularized Displacement Field.
Sixth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity.
(2007). Tracked 3D ultrasound in radio-frequency liver ablation.
(Walker, W. F., & Insana M. F., Ed.).Medical Imaging 2003: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing. 5035, 174-182.
Boctor2003a.pdf (236.57 KB)
(2003). 
Ultrasound Elastography: a Dynamic Programming Approach.
Workshop to the 10th MICCAI Conference.
(2007). Ultrasound self-calibration.
Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display. 6141, 61412N.
Boctor2006.pdf (429.17 KB)
(2006). 
Ultrasound Self-Calibration and Real-Time Quality Control for Interventions.
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium.
(2005). Ultrasound Speckle Detection Using Low Order Moments.
Procedings IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. 2092–2095.
Rivaz2006.pdf (545.61 KB)
(2006). 
Ablation monitoring with elastography: 2D in-vivo and 3D ex-vivo studies.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 11, 458–466.
Rivaz2008b_0.pdf (7.26 MB)
(2008). 
Bootstrapped ultrasound calibration.
Studies in health technology and informatics. 119, 61–66.
(2006). Immediate Ultrasound Calibration from Three Poses and Minimal Image Processing.
Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 3217, 446-454.
Viswanathan2004.pdf (526.25 KB)
(2004). 
Real-time quality control of tracked ultrasound.
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention (MICCAI). 8, 621–630.
Boctor2005.pdf (693.27 KB)
(2005). 