Bone segmentation applying rigid bone position and triple shadow check method based on RF data.

Noninvasive 3D reconstruction of a bone requires very accurate 2D navigated scans of bone. The use of brightness-mode ultrasound seems to be promising, if some 2D scans of bone are obtained in a fully automatic manner. This paper presents a rapid and fully automatic method for segmenting bone in a standard 2D ultrasound image (B-mode image).