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STUNet-Fusion: Spatiotemporal Needle-Tip Localization in Ultrasound Video via Multi-Channel Motion Fusion
arXiv:2609.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Needle-tip localization in ultrasound remains challenging because the needle may appear weak, discontinuous, or partially invisible, while imaging artif
arXiv:2609.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Needle-tip localization in ultrasound remains challenging because the needle may appear weak, discontinuous, or partially invisible, while imaging artifacts and anatomical structures can produce similar responses. To address this problem, we propose STUNet-Fusion, a spatiotemporal framework for needle-tip localization in ultrasound videos. The proposed method formulates the input as a tri-channel spatio-temporal fusion tensor, comprising grayscale appearance, grid-based motion feature, and raw frame difference. A shared ResNet-34 encoder extracts spatial features, ConvLSTM integrates temporal dependencies, and a U-Net decoder reconstructs a dense probability heatmap. The final coordinates are extracted via a soft-argmax operation to achieve sub-pixel localization accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that this spatiotemporal fusion strategy significantly improves localization robustness compared to conventional baselines.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-17