Extraction of quantitative three-dimensional information from ultrasonic volumetric images of cirrhotic liver

The cirrhotic liver has many fibrotic tissue structures known as nodule str uctures. Understanding this characteristic in diseased tissue is important for quantitative diagnosis. In this paper, we present a technique to extrac t quantitative three-dimensional information from a cirrhotic liver. Consec utive two-dimensional images acquired by fan like scanning were processed u sing constant false alarm rate (CFAR). The 2D professed images are accumula ted to obtain 3D information. The nodular structure is clear in the constru cted images.