1. 1 Ultrasound Video Processing for Quantitative Analysis of Fetal Movements by means of organ tracking

2. 2 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Block diagram of the experimental system. (a) The routine system is used for recording the US movies on a videocassate. (b) The recorded videocassate is passed to the experimental system for off-line digital image processing.

3. 3 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky The GUI

4. 4 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Noise filtering Flow Diagram of the Processing Algorithm Templates generation Frame i+1 Templates localization Templates classification Frame i Coordinates & angle

5. 5 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Filtering periodic noise

6. 6 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Filtering speckle noise

7. 7 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Generating rotated copies Optimal Adaptive Correlator Interpolation of the correlator main output peak and localization of its maximum Target coordinates and angle Flow diagram of the tracking algorithm

8. 8 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Fetus head tracking in US video: an example

9. 9 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Baby head tracking in video: an example

10. 10 Ultrasound Image Processing for Quantitative analysis of Fetal Movements – Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky Publications 1.Leonid P. Yaroslavsky, Ben-Zion Shaick Transform Oriented Image Processing Technology for Quantitative Analysis of Fetal Movements in Ultrasound Image Sequences. In: Signal Processing IX. Theories and Applications, Proceedings of Eusipco- 98, Rhodes, Greece, 8-11 Sept., 1998, ed. By S. Theodorisdis, I. Pitas, A. Stouraitis, N. Kalouptsidis, Typorama Editions, 1998, p. 1745-1748 2.B.Z. Shaick, L. Ridel, L. Yaroslavsky, A hybrid transform method for image denoising, EUSIPCO2000, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 5-8, 2000 3.Ben-Zion Shaick, L. Yaroslavsky, Object Localization Using Linear Adaptive Filters, 6th Fall Workshop, Vision, Modeling And Visualization 2001 (Vmv01), November 21-23, 2001, Stuttgart, Germany, November 21-23, 2001, pp. 11-17 4.Ben-Zion Shaick and Leonid Yaroslavsky, Image reduction for object recognition, VIP2002, 4th EURASIP - IEEE Region 8 International Symposium on Video / Image Processing and Multimedia Communication, 16-19 June 2002, Zadar, Croatia.