Multivariate Gaussian NeRF for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction
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| author | Valera, Patris Wysocki, Magdalena Duelmer, Felix Azampour, Mohammad Farid Herz, Sebastian Wörz, Stefan Navab, Nassir |
| author_facet | Valera, Patris Wysocki, Magdalena Duelmer, Felix Azampour, Mohammad Farid Herz, Sebastian Wörz, Stefan Navab, Nassir |
| contents | Wide Field-of-View (WFoV) reconstruction enhances 3D ultrasound imaging by providing valuable anatomical context for segmentation models and visualization. Clinical ultrasound volumes are predominantly acquired using convex probes, which generate expanding, diverging acoustic beams to maximize anatomical coverage. Stitching these sweeps together traditionally introduces significant compounding artifacts and aliasing due to depth-dependent resolution changes. Here, we introduce Ultra-Wide-NeRF, a Multivariate 3D Gaussian (MVG) NeRF-based method for WFoV ultrasound reconstruction. By explicitly modeling the complex beam geometry using distance-dependent convex volumetric sampling and anisotropic 3D Gaussians, our method inherently mitigates these compounding artifacts and provides anti-aliasing. Beyond simply reconstructing a static 3D grid, our NeRF-based approach yields a continuous neural representation of the tissue, enabling the synthesis of high-fidelity novel views from arbitrary virtual trajectories. We validate Ultra-Wide-NeRF for intracardiac echocardiography on phantom and porcine datasets, demonstrating that our method expands the spatial context important in intraoperative navigation. Code will be open-sourced upon publication. |
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| spellingShingle | Multivariate Gaussian NeRF for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction Valera, Patris Wysocki, Magdalena Duelmer, Felix Azampour, Mohammad Farid Herz, Sebastian Wörz, Stefan Navab, Nassir Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Wide Field-of-View (WFoV) reconstruction enhances 3D ultrasound imaging by providing valuable anatomical context for segmentation models and visualization. Clinical ultrasound volumes are predominantly acquired using convex probes, which generate expanding, diverging acoustic beams to maximize anatomical coverage. Stitching these sweeps together traditionally introduces significant compounding artifacts and aliasing due to depth-dependent resolution changes. Here, we introduce Ultra-Wide-NeRF, a Multivariate 3D Gaussian (MVG) NeRF-based method for WFoV ultrasound reconstruction. By explicitly modeling the complex beam geometry using distance-dependent convex volumetric sampling and anisotropic 3D Gaussians, our method inherently mitigates these compounding artifacts and provides anti-aliasing. Beyond simply reconstructing a static 3D grid, our NeRF-based approach yields a continuous neural representation of the tissue, enabling the synthesis of high-fidelity novel views from arbitrary virtual trajectories. We validate Ultra-Wide-NeRF for intracardiac echocardiography on phantom and porcine datasets, demonstrating that our method expands the spatial context important in intraoperative navigation. Code will be open-sourced upon publication. |
| title | Multivariate Gaussian NeRF for Wide Field-of-View Ultrasound Reconstruction |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24187 |