Ultrasound For Kidney Stone Detection. Ultrasound can be efficient in visualizing clear uric acid stones and obstructions caused by any type of kidney stones. To remove the noises median filtering is used.
Looking at the ability of ultrasound alone to detect at least 1 stone. If you do in fact have an obstruction caused by a kidney stone you will need to receive treatment for this most likely in the hospital setting. Renal ultrasound detects over 95 of kidney stones.
The ultrasound kidney images are preprocessed to remove labels and change from rgb to gray images.
Most scientist agree on the fact that ultrasound simply is not sufficient enough to detect very small kidney stones. If present it then counts the number of calculi in each kidney and measures the largest on each side. Sometimes kidney stones pass on their own and do not require medical attention. Most scientist agree on the fact that ultrasound simply is not sufficient enough to detect very small kidney stones.