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Image segmentation using local shape and gray-level appearance models

Author(s): Dieter Seghers D.D.S.; Dirk Loeckx; Frederik Maes; Paul Suetens

Toward fully automatic object detection and segmentation

Author(s): Hauke Schramm; Olivier Ecabert; Jochen Peters; Vasanth Philomin; Juergen Weese

Automatic generation of dynamic 3D models for medical segmentation tasks

Author(s): Lars Dornheim; Jana Dornheim; Klaus D. Tönnies

Oriented active shape models

Author(s): Jiamin Liu; Jayaram K. Udupa

Segmentation by surface-to-image registration

Author(s): Zhiyong Xie; Jose Tamez-Pena; Michael Gieseg; Serguei Liachenko; Shantanu Dhamija; Ping Chiao

Robust local intervertebral disc alignment for spinal MRI

Author(s): James G. Reisman; Jan Höppner; Szu-Hao Huang; Li Zhang; Shang-Hong Lai; Benjamin L. Odry; Carol L. Novak

Level set based vertebra segmentation for the evaluation of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Author(s): Sovira Tan; Jianhua Yao; Michael M. Ward M.D.; Lawrence Yao M.D.; Ronald M. Summers M.D.

Segmentation of hand radiographs using fast marching methods

Author(s): Hong Chen; Carol L. Novak

Knowledge-based segmentation of the heart from respiratory-gated CT datasets acquired without cardiac contrast-enhancement

Author(s): Joyoni Dey; Tin-Su Pan; David J. Choi M.D.; Mark Smyczynski M.D.; Hendrik Pretorius; Michael A. King

Automatic cardiac MRI myocardium segmentation using graphcut

Author(s): Gunnar Kedenburg; Chris A. Cocosco; Ullrich Köthe; Wiro J. Niessen; Evert-jan P. A. Vonken; Max A. Viergever

Anatomical-based segmentation with stenosis bridging and gap closing in atherosclerotic cardiac MSCT

Author(s): Reto D. Merges; Daniel Rinck; Michael Sühling; Olaf Dössel; Michael Scheuering

Quantifying changes in the bone microarchitecture using Minkowski-functionals and scaling vectors: a comparative study

Author(s): Christoph W. Raeth; Dirk Mueller; Thomas M. Link; Holger Boehm; Roberto Monetti

Variogram methods for texture classification of atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound images

Author(s): Oliver M. Jeromin; Marios S. Pattichis; Constantinos Pattichis; Efthyvoulos Kyriacou; Andrew Nicolaides

Optimizing texture measures quantifying bone structures as well as MR-sequences at 3 Tesla: an integrative statistical approach

Author(s): Christoph W. Raeth; Dirk Mueller; Ernst J. Rummeny; Thomas M. Link; Mika Vogel; Hartmut Koenig; Holger Boehm; Roberto Monetti

Analysis of parenchymal patterns using conspicuous spatial frequency features in mammograms applied to the BI-RADS density rating scheme

Author(s): Philip Perconti; Murray Loew

Mammographic density measured as changes in tissue structure caused by HRT

Author(s): Jakob Raundahl; Marco Loog; Mads Nielsen

Early detection of glaucoma using fully automated disparity analysis of optic nerve head (ONH) from stereo fundus images

Author(s): Archie Sharma; Enrique Corona; Sunanda Mitra; Brian S. Nutter

Automatic segmentation of vessels in breast MR sequences as a false positive elimination technique for automatic lesion detection and segmentation using the shape tensor

Author(s): Gerardo Hermosillo; Xuguang Jiang

A dorsolateral prefrontal cortex semi-automatic segmenter

Author(s): Ramsey Al-Hakim; James Fallon; Delphine Nain; John Melonakos; Allen Tannenbaum

Competitive segmentation of the hippocampus and the amygdala from MRI data: validation on young healthy controls and Alzheimer's disease patients

Author(s): Marie Chupin; Dominique Hasboun; Romain Mukuna-Bantumbakulu; Eric Bardinet; Sylvain Baillet; Serge Kinkingnéhun; Louis Lemieux; Bruno Dubois; Line Garnero

Improved 3D live-wire method with application to 3D CT chest image analysis

Author(s): Kongkuo Lu; William E. Higgins

Automatic segmentation of pulmonary nodules on CT images by use of NCI lung image database consortium

Author(s): Rie Tachibana; Shoji Kido

Automatic segmentation of pulmonary fissures in x-ray CT images using anatomic guidance

Author(s): Soumik Ukil; Milan Sonka; Joseph M. Reinhardt

A pseudo wavelet-based method for accurate tagline tracing on tagged MR images of the tongue

Author(s): Xiaohui Yuan; Cengizhan Ozturk; Gloria Chi-Fishman

An improved method of wavelet image fusion for extended depth-of-field microscope imaging

Author(s): Samuel Cheng; Qiang Wu; Hyohoon Choi; Kenneth R. Castleman

Three-band MRI image fusion utilizing the wavelet-based method optimized with two quantitative fusion metrics

Author(s): Yufeng Zheng; Adel S. Elmaghraby; Hichem Frigui

Large-scale validation of non-rigid registration algorithms for atlas-based brain image segmentation

Author(s): Qian Wang; Emiliano D'Agostino; Dieter Seghers; Frederik Maes; Dirk Vandermeulen; Paul Suetens

Multi-modal inter-subject registration of mouse brain images

Author(s): Xia Li; Thomas E. Yankeelov; Glenn Rosen; John C. Gore; Benoit M. Dawant

Improved method for correction of systematic bias introduced by the sub-voxel image registration process in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Author(s): Dee H. Wu; Jasjit Suri; Vincent Magnotta; Tomasz Przebinda; Victor DeBrunner

Quantification of the migration and deformation of abdominal aortic aneurysm stent grafts

Author(s): Julian Mattes; Iris Steingruber; Michael Netzer; Karl Fritscher; Helmut Kopf; Werner Jaschke; Rainer Schubert M.D.

Deformable registration of abdominal CT images: tissue stiffness constraints using B-splines

Author(s): Jay B. West; Calvin R. Maurer, Jr.; John R. Dooley; Gustavo K. Rohde

Multi-modal 2D-3D non-rigid registration

Author(s): M. Prümmer; J. Hornegger; M. Pfister; A. Dörfler

Explicit rigid and similarity image registration

Author(s): Oskar Škrinjar; Muhammad Khan

On the alignment of shapes represented by Fourier descriptors

Author(s): Karl Sjöstrand; Anders Ericsson; Rasmus Larsen

Mjolnir: deformable image registration using feature diffusion

Author(s): Lotta M. Ellingsen; Jerry L. Prince

Non-rigid brain image registration using a statistical deformation model

Author(s): Jeroen Wouters; Emiliano D'Agostino; Frederik Maes; Dirk Vandermeulen; Paul Suetens

Nonrigid registration using regularization that accomodates local tissue rigidity

Author(s): Dan Ruan; Jeffrey A. Fessler; Michael Roberson; James Balter; Marc Kessler

Nonrigid registration using a rigidity constraint

Author(s): Marius Staring; Stefan Klein; Josien P. W. Pluim

Reconstruction of 4D-CT data sets acquired during free breathing for the analysis of respiratory motion

Author(s): Jan Ehrhardt; Rene Werner; Thorsten Frenzel; Dennis Säring; Wei Lu; Daniel Low; Heinz Handels

Globally optimal model-based matching of anatomical trees

Author(s): Michael W. Graham; William E. Higgins

A comparison of FFD-based nonrigid registration and AAMs applied to myocardial perfusion MRI

Author(s): Hildur Ólafsdóttir; Mikkel B. Stegmann; Bjarne K. Ersbøll; Henrik B. W. Larsson

Cardiac motion estimation by using high-dimensional features and K-means clustering method

Author(s): Estanislao Oubel; Alfred O. Hero; Alejandro F. Frangi

Registration of 2D cardiac images to real-time 3D ultrasound volumes for 3D stress echocardiography

Author(s): K. Y. Esther Leung; Marijn van Stralen; Marco M. Voormolen; Gerard van Burken; Attila Nemes; Folkert J. ten Cate; Marcel L. Geleijnse; Nico de Jong; Antonius F. W. van der Steen; Johan H. C. Reiber; Johan G. Bosch

Real-time registration by tracking for MR-guided cardiac interventions

Author(s): Desmond Chung; Janakan Satkunasingham; Graham Wright; Perry Radau

A homomorphic filtering framework for DT-MRI

Author(s): Carlos-Alberto Castaño-Moraga; Carl-Fredrik Westin; Juan Ruiz-Alzola

Theoretical framework for analyzing MR imaging of dynamic objects using filters and downsamplers

Author(s): Harsh K. Agarwal; Jerry L. Prince

A novel strategy for segmentation of magnetic resonance (MR) images corrupted by intensity inhomogeneity artifacts

Author(s): Weijie Chen; Maryellen L. Giger

Apparent diffusion profile estimation from high angular resolution diffusion images

Author(s): Maxime Descoteaux; Elaine Angelino; Shaun Fitzgibbons; Rachid Deriche

Restoration of 3D medical images with total variation scheme on wavelet domains (TVW)

Author(s): Arnaud Ogier; Pierre Hellier; Christian Barillot

A pixelwise inpainting-based refinement scheme for quantizing calcification in the lumbar aorta on 2D lateral x-ray images

Author(s): Lars A. Conrad-Hansen; Marleen de Bruijne; François Lauze; Laszlo B. Tanko; Mads Nielsen

Sparse modeling of landmark and texture variability using the orthomax criterion

Author(s): Mikkel B. Stegmann; Karl Sjöstrand; Rasmus Larsen

A representation and classification scheme for tree-like structures in medical images: an application on branching pattern analysis of ductal trees in x-ray galactograms

Author(s): Vasileios Megalooikonomou; Despina Kontos; Joseph Danglemaier; Ailar Javadi; Predrag R. Bakic; Andrew D. A. Maidment

Three-dimensional analysis of alveolar bone resorption by image processing of 3-D dental CT images

Author(s): Jiro Nagao; Takayuki Kitasaka; Kensaku Mori; Yasuhito Suenaga; Shohzoh Yamada D.D.S.; Munetaka Naitoh D.D.S.

Optimal landmark distributions for statistical shape model construction

Author(s): Tobias Heimann; Ivo Wolf; Hans-Peter Meinzer

An ISO-surface folding analysis method applied to premature neonatal brain development

Author(s): Claudia E. Rodriguez-Carranza; Francois Rousseau; Bistra Iordanova; Orit Glenn M.D.; Daniel Vigneron; James Barkovich; Colin Studholme

Image-based metrology of porous tissue engineering scaffolds

Author(s): Srinivasan Rajagopalan; Richard A. Robb

Automated planning of MRI neuro scans

Author(s): Stewart Young; Daniel Bystrov; Thomas Netsch; Rene Bergmans; Arianne van Muiswinkel; Fredy Visser; Rudolf Sprigorum; Jürgen Gieseke

A classification framework for content-based extraction of biomedical objects from hierarchically decomposed images

Author(s): Christian Thies; Marcel Schmidt Borreda; Thomas Seidl; Thomas M. Lehmann

A pattern recognition approach to enhancing structures in 3D CT data

Author(s): Eva van Rikxoort; Bram van Ginneken

Blood detection in wireless capsule endoscopy using expectation maximization clustering

Author(s): Sae Hwang; JungHwan Oh; Jay Cox; Shou Jiang Tang M.D.; Harry F. Tibbals M.D.

Functional feature subspace mapping of fMRI data in the spectral domain

Author(s): Lei Yang; Jie Tian; Jin Hu; Jiangang Liu

Analysis of first-pass myocardial perfusion MRI using independent component analysis

Author(s): Julien Milles; Rob J. van der Geest; Michael Jerosch-Herold; Johan H. C. Reiber; Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt

Author(s): Dave Tahmoush; Hanan Samet

Probabilistic nodule filtering in thoracic CT scans

Author(s): Changhua Wu; Gady Agam

Development of a computerized scheme for detection of very subtle lung nodules located in opaque areas on chest radiographs

Author(s): Junji Shiraishi; Qiang Li; Kunio Doi

Computerized detection of pulmonary nodules using a combination of 3D global and local shape information based on helical CT images

Author(s): Xiangwei Zhang; Jonathan Stockel; Matthias Wolf; Pascal Cathier; Geoffrey McLennan; Eric A. Hoffman; Milan Sonka M.D.

Automated detection of ureter abnormalities on multi-detector row CT urography

Author(s): Lubomir Hadjiiski; Berkman Sahiner; Elaine M. Caoili; Richard H. Cohan; Heang-Ping Chan

Biplane correlation imaging for lung nodule detection: initial human subject results

Author(s): Nariman Majdi Nasab; Ehsan Samei; James T. Dobbins III

Increasing sensitivity of masses cued on both views by CAD

Author(s): Bin Zheng; Glen Maitz; Joseph K. Leader; David Gur

Reconstruction-independent 3D CAD for mass detection in digital breast tomosynthesis using fuzzy particles

Author(s): G. Peters; S. Muller; S. Bernard; R. Iordache; I. Bloch

Micro-calcification detection in digital tomosynthesis mammography

Author(s): Frederick W. Wheeler; A. G. Amitha Perera; Bernhard E. Claus; Serge L. Muller; Gero Peters; John P. Kaufhold

Computer-aided detection of breast masses on mammograms: bilateral analysis for false positive reduction

Author(s): Yi-Ta Wu; Lubomir M. Hadjiiski; Jun Wei; Chuan Zhou; Berkman Sahiner; Heang-Ping Chan

Digital bowel cleansing for computer-aided detection of polyps in fecal-tagging CT colonography

Author(s): Wenli Cai; Janne Näppi; Micheal E. Zalis; Gordon J. Harris; Hiroyuki Yoshida

Quantitative analysis of two-phase 3D+time aortic MR images

Author(s): Fei Zhao; Honghai Zhang; Nicholas E. Walker M.D.; Fuxing Yang; Mark E. Olszewski; Andreas Wahle; Thomas Scholz M.D.; Milan Sonka M.D.

Two-view information fusion for improvement of computer-aided detection (CAD) of breast masses on mammograms

Author(s): Jun Wei; Berkman Sahiner; Lubomir M. Hadjiiski; Heang-Ping Chan; Mark A. Helvie M.D.; Marilyn A. Roubidoux; Chuan Zhou; Jun Ge; Yiheng Zhang

Comparison of breast ductal branching pattern classification using x-ray galactograms and MR autogalactograms

Author(s): Predrag R. Bakic; Mark A. Rosen; Andrew D. A. Maidment

Validation of elastic registration algorithms based on adaptive irregular grids for medical applications

Author(s): Astrid Franz; Ingwer C. Carlsen; Steffen Renisch; Hans-Aloys Wischmann

A strategy based on maximum spanning trees to stitch together microscope images

Author(s): Philippe Thévenaz; David Lambiel; Michael A. Unser

Weighted medical image registration with automatic mask generation

Author(s): Hanno Schumacher; Astrid Franz; Bernd Fischer

Dedicated registration for DCE MRI mammography

Author(s): Steffen Renisch; Thomas Bülow; Ingwer C. Carlsen; Astrid Franz

A linear programming based algorithm for determining corresponding point tuples in multiple vascular images

Author(s): Vikas Singh; Jinhui Xu; Kenneth R. Hoffmann; Peter B. Noël; Alan M. Walczak

Non-rigid registration for fusion of carotid vascular ultrasound and MRI volumetric datasets

Author(s): R. C. Chan; S. Sokka; D. Hinton; D. Hinton; R. Manzke; A. Hanekamp; V. Y. Reddy; M. R. Kaazempur-Mofrad; V. Rasche

Evaluation of similarity measures for 3D/2D image registration

Author(s): Darko Škerl; Boštjan Likar; Franjo Pernuš

Deformable registration using scale space keypoints

Author(s): Mehdi Moradi; Purang Abolmaesoumi; Parvin Mousavi

Automatic sub-volume registration by probabilistic random search

Author(s): Jingfeng Han; Min Qiao; Joachim Hornegger; Torsten Kuwert; Werner Bautz; Wolfgang Römer

Physics-based constraints for correction of geometric distortions in gradient echo EP images via nonrigid registration

Author(s): Yong Li; Ning Xu; J. Michael Fitzpatrick; Victoria L. Morgan; David R. Pickens; Benoit M. Dawant

An ITK framework for deterministic global optimization for medical image registration

Author(s): Florence Dru; Mark P. Wachowiak; Terry M. Peters

Optical flow based interpolation of temporal image sequences

Author(s): Jan Ehrhardt; Dennis Säring; Heinz Handels

Modeling lung motion using consistent image registration in four-dimensional computed tomography for radiation therapy

Author(s): Wei Lu; Joo Hyun Song; Gary E. Christensen; Parag J. Parikh; Jeffrey D. Bradley; Daniel A. Low

Enhancing skeletal features in digitally reconstructed radiographs

Author(s): Dongshan Fu; Gopinath Kuduvalli

Fully automatic hybrid registration method based on point feature detection without user intervention

Author(s): Bang-Bon Koo; Jong-Min Lee; June-Sic Kim; In-Young Kim; Jun-Soo Kwon; Sun I. Kim

A variational approach to spatially dependent non-rigid registration

Author(s): Florian Jäger; Jingfeng Han; Joachim Hornegger; Torsten Kuwert

A practical salient region feature based 3D multi-modality registration method for medical images

Author(s): Dieter A. Hahn; Gabriele Wolz; Yiyong Sun; Joachim Hornegger; Frank Sauer; Torsten Kuwert; Chenyang Xu

A framework for parameter optimization in mutual information (MI)-based registration algorithms

Author(s): Girish Gopalakrishnan; S. V. Bharath Kumar; Rakesh Mullick; Ajay Narayanan; Srikanth Suryanarayanan

Seed based registration for intraoperative brachytherapy dosimetry: a comparison of methods

Author(s): Yi Su; Brian J. Davis M.D.; Michael G. Herman; Richard A. Robb

Image registration using shape-constrained mutual information and genetic algorithms

Author(s): Xiaohui Yuan; Gloria Chi-Fishman

Automatic lung nodule matching for the follow-up in temporal chest CT scans

Author(s): Helen Hong; Jeongjin Lee; Yeong Gil Shin

Distance transform for automatic dermatologic images composition

Author(s): C. Grana; G. Pellacani M.D.; S. Seidenari M.D.; R. Cucchiara

Registration and 3D visualization of large microscopy images

Author(s): Kishore Mosaliganti; Tony Pan; Richard Sharp; Randall Ridgway; Srivathsan Iyengar; Alexandra Gulacy; Pamela Wenzel; Alain de Bruin; Raghu Machiraju; Kun Huang; Gustavo Leone; Joel Saltz

Registration of knee joint surfaces for the in vivo study of joint injuries based on magnetic resonance imaging

Author(s): Rita W. T. Cheng; Ayman F. Habib; Richard Frayne; Janet L. Ronsky

Elastic registration using 3D ChainMail: application to virtual colonoscopy

Author(s): Carlos R. Castro-Pareja; Barry Daly; Raj Shekhar

Automated feature-based alignment for 3D volume reconstruction of CLSM imagery

Author(s): Sang-Chul Lee; Peter Bajcsy

Automatic 3D image registration using voxel similarity measurements based on a genetic algorithm

Author(s): Wei Huang; John M. Sullivan, Jr.; Praveen Kulkarni; Murali Murugavel

Improved 2D/3D registration robustness using local spatial information

Author(s): Elena De Momi; Kort Eckman; Branislav Jaramaz; Anthony DiGioia

Vessel-based registration with application to nodule detection in thoracic CT scans

Author(s): Changhua Wu; Gady Agam

Mathematical properties of information theoretic image similarity measures

Author(s): Oskar Škrinjar

Fast surface alignment for cardiac spatio-temporal modeling: application to ischemic cardiac shape modeling

Author(s): Heng Huang; Li Shen; Rong Zhang; Fillia Makedon; Bruce Hettleman; Justin Pearlman

Iterative deformable FEM model for nonrigid PET/MRI breast image coregistration

Author(s): Mehmet Z. Unlu; Andrzej Krol; Alphonso Magri; David H. Feiglin; James A. Mandel; Edward D. Lipson; Ioana L. Coman; Wei Lee; Gwen Tillapaugh-Fay

Temporal registration of 2D x-ray mammogram using triangular B-splines finite element method (TBFEM)

Author(s): Kexiang Wang; Ying He; Hong Qin; Paul R. Fisher; Wei Zhao

Establishing multi-modality datasets with the incorporation of 3D histopathology for soft tissue classification

Author(s): Jessica de Ryk; Jacqueline Thiesse; Joseph M. Reinhardt; Eric A. Hoffman; Geoffrey McLennan M.D.

Initial comparison of registration and fusion of SPECT-CmT mammotomography images

Author(s): Esther Dura; Priti Madhav; Spencer J. Cutler; Timothy G. Turkington; Martin P. Tornai

Motion correction via nonrigid coregistration of dynamic MR mammography series

Author(s): Andrzej Krol; Alphonso Magri; Mehmet Unlu; David Feiglin; Edward Lipson; James Mandel; Gwen Tillapaugh-Fay; Wei Lee; Ioana Coman; Nikolaus M. Szeverenyi

Alignment of full and partial CT thoracic scans using bony structures

Author(s): Marios A. Gavrielides; Nicholas Petrick; Kyle J. Myers

Image registration of proximal femur with substantial bone changes: application in 3D visualization of bone loss of astronauts after long-duration spaceflight

Author(s): Wenjun Li; Miki Sode; Isra Saeed; Thomas Lang

Supporting registration decisions during 3D medical volume reconstructions

Author(s): Peter Bajcsy; Sang-Chul Lee; David Clutter

An automatic segmentation method for multispectral microscopic cervical cell images

Author(s): Hongbo Zhang; Libo Zeng; Hengyu Ke; Junfeng Lei; Xianze Xu; Hong Zheng; Qiongshui Wu; DianCheng Wang; Yunfei Zhang

Characterization of the optic disc in retinal imagery using a probabilistic approach

Author(s): Kenneth W. Tobin, Jr.; Edward Chaum M.D.; V. P. Govindasamy; Thomas P. Karnowski; Omer Sezer

Automatic segmentation method which divides a cerebral artery tree in time-of-flight MR-angiography into artery segments

Author(s): Akihiro Takemura; Masayuki Suzuki; Hajime Harauchi; Yusuke Okumura; Tokuo Umeda

SIBS: a powerful concept for automatic segmentation of electron tomograms

Author(s): Alexandros A. Linaroudis; Reiner Hegerl

Generalized expectation-maximization segmentation of brain MR images

Author(s): Arnaud A. Devalkeneer; Pierre A. Robe; Jacques G. Verly; Christophe L. M. Phillips

Texture-based instrument segmentation in 3D ultrasound images

Author(s): Marius George Linguraru; Robert D. Howe

Vasculature segmentation for radio frequency ablation of non-resectable hepatic tumors

Author(s): Paul F. Hemler; Evan S. McCreedy; Ruida Cheng; Brad Wood; Matthew J. McAuliffe

kNN-based multi-spectral MRI brain tissue classification: manual training versus automated atlas-based training

Author(s): Henri A. Vrooman; Chris A. Cocosco; Rik Stokking; M. Arfan Ikram; Meike W. Vernooij; Monique M. Breteler; Wiro J. Niessen

Fully automated analysis of multi-resolution four-channel micro-array genotyping data

Author(s): Mohsen Abbaspour; Rafeef Abugharbieh; Mohua Podder; Scott J. Tebbutt

Iterative live wire and live snake: new user-steered 3D image segmentation paradigms

Author(s): Andre Souza; Jayaram K. Udupa; George Grevera; Yi Sun; Dewey Odhner; Neeti Suri; Mitchell D. Schnall

Automatic LV volume measurement in low dose multi-phase CT by shape tracking

Author(s): Jens von Berg; Philipp Begemann; Felix Stahmer; Gerhard Adam; Cristian Lorenz

Fast shape-directed landmark-based deep gray matter segmentation for quantification of iron deposition

Author(s): Ahmet Ekin; Radu Jasinschi; Jeroen van der Grond; Mark A. van Buchem; Arianne van Muiswinkel

Automated brain segmentation using neural networks

Author(s): Stephanie Powell; Vincent Magnotta; Hans Johnson; Nancy Andreasen

Modeling shape variability for full heart segmentation in cardiac computed-tomography images

Author(s): Olivier Ecabert; Jochen Peters; Jürgen Weese

Comparison of color clustering algorithms for segmentation of dermatological images

Author(s): Rudy Melli; Costantino Grana; Rita Cucchiara

MATLAB-ITK interface for medical image filtering, segmentation, and registration

Author(s): Vincent Chu; Ghassan Hamarneh

An adipose segmentation and quantification scheme for the intra abdominal region on minipigs

Author(s): Rasmus Engholm; Aleksandr Dubinskiy; Rasmus Larsen; Lars G. Hanson; Berit Østergaard Christoffersen

Computerized method for automated measurement of thickness of cerebral cortex for 3-D MR images

Author(s): Hidetaka Arimura; Takashi Yoshiura; Seiji Kumazawa; Hiroshi Koga; Shuji Sakai; Futoshi Mihara; Hiroshi Honda; Masafumi Ohki; Fukai Toyofuku; Yoshiharu Higashida

A two-stage method for lesion segmentation on digital mammograms

Author(s): Yading Yuan; Maryellen L. Giger; Kenji Suzuki; Hui Li; Andrew R. Jamieson

Automatic determination of the imaging plane in lumbar MRI

Author(s): Tsurumaki Masaki; Yongbum Lee; Du-Yih Tsai; Masaru Sekiya; Kiyoko Kazama

White matter fiber tractography based on a directional diffusion field in diffusion tensor MRI

Author(s): S. Kumazawa; T. Yoshiura M.D.; H. Arimura; F. Mihara M.D.; H. Honda M.D.; Y. Higashida; F. Toyofuku

Fuzzy c-mean clustering on kinetic parameter estimation with generalized linear least square algorithm in SPECT

Author(s): Hon-Chit Choi; Lingfeng Wen; Stefan Eberl; Dagan Feng

Segmentation of ground glass opacities by asymmetric multi-phase deformable model

Author(s): Yongseok Yoo; Hackjoon Shim; Il Dong Yun; Kyung Won Lee M.D.; Sang Uk Lee

Semi-automatic knee cartilage segmentation

Author(s): Erik B. Dam; Jenny Folkesson; Paola C. Pettersen M.D.; Claus Christiansen M.D.

Fast and robust extraction of centerlines in 3D tubular structures using a scattered-snakelet approach

Author(s): Christoph Spuhler; Matthias Harders; Gábor Székely

Analysis of brain images using the 3D-CSC segmentation method

Author(s): Lutz Priese; Frank Schmitt; Patrick Sturm; Haojun Wang; Ralf Matern; Ralph Wickenhöfer

3D echocardiographic segmentation using the mean-shift algorithm and an active surface model

Author(s): Nazario Felix-Gonzalez; Raquel Valdes-Cristerna

Level sets and shape models for segmentation of cardiac perfusion MRI

Author(s): Lucas Lorenzo; Robert S. MacLeod; Ross T. Whitaker; Ganesh Adluru; Edward V. R. DiBella

Detection of joint space narrowing in hand radiographs

Author(s): Joost A. Kauffman; Cornelis H. Slump; Hein J. Bernelot Moens

Vesselness propagation: a fast interactive vessel segmentation method

Author(s): Wenli Cai; Frank Dachille; Gordon J. Harris; Hiroyuki Yoshida

Chroma analysis for quantitative immunohistochemistry using active learning

Author(s): Nilesh Patel; Aiyesha Ma; Rajal Shah; Ishwar Sethi

Probabilistic minimal path for automated esophagus segmentation

Author(s): Mikael Rousson; Ying Bai; Chenyang Xu; Frank Sauer

Variational segmentation framework in prolate spheroidal coordinates for 3D real-time echocardiography

Author(s): Bruno Vallet; Elsa D. Angelini; Andrew F. Laine

A new general method of 3D model generation for active shape image segmentation

Author(s): Seong-Jae Lim; Jayaram K. Udupa; Andre Souza; Yong-Yeon Jeong; Yo-Sung Ho; Drew A. Torigian

A fast algorithm for body extraction in CT volumes

Author(s): Grégoire Guétat; Jonathan Stoeckel; Matthias Wolf; Arun Krishnan

Investigation on an EM framework for partial volume image segmentation

Author(s): Daria Eremina; Xiang Li; Wei Zhu; Jing Wang; Zhengrong Liang

Shortest path adjusted similarity metrics for resolving boundary perturbations in scaffold images for tissue engineering

Author(s): Srinivasan Rajagopalan; Richard Robb

Intelligent data splitting for volume data

Author(s): Hong Shen; Ernst Bartsch

Single click volumetric segmentation of abdominal organs in computed tomography images

Author(s): Brian W. Whitney; Nathan J. Backman; Jacob D. Furst; Daniela S. Raicu

Fully automatic segmentation of left ventricular myocardium in real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Author(s): Vivek Walimbe; Vladimir Zagrodsky; Raj Shekhar

Pre-operative segmentation of neck CT datasets for the planning of neck dissections

Author(s): Jeanette Cordes; Jana Dornheim; Bernhard Preim; Ilka Hertel; Gero Strauss

Brain extraction using geodesic active contours

Author(s): Albert Huang; Rafeef Abugharbieh; Roger Tam; Anthony Traboulsee

Unsupervised definition of the tibia-femoral joint regions of the human knee and its applications to cartilage analysis

Author(s): José G. Tamez-Peña; Monica Barbu-McInnis; Saara Totterman

Evaluation of binning strategies for tissue classification in computed tomography images

Author(s): Stefanie Handrick; Bahare Naimipour; Daniela Raicu; Jacob Furst

Interactive lesion segmentation on dynamic contrast enhanced breast MRI using a Markov model

Author(s): Qiu Wu; Marcos Salganicoff; Arun Krishnan; Donald S. Fussell; Mia K. Markey

Automatic tracking of neuro vascular tree paths

Author(s): S. Suryanarayanan; A. Gopinath; Y. Mallya; K. S. Shriram; M. Joshi

Robust optic disk detection in retinal images using vessel structure and radon transform

Author(s): Ke Huang; Michelle Yan

Prior-shape-based segmentation of various objects in ultrasound images after speckle-reduction using level-set based curvature evolution

Author(s): Joyoni Dey; Dennis A. Tighe M.D.; Gopal Vijayaraghavan M.D.; Vikramjit Mitra; Peder Pedersen

Automatic pulmonary vessel segmentation in 3D computed tomographic pulmonary angiographic (CTPA) images

Author(s): Chuan Zhou; Heang-Ping Chan; Lubomir M. Hadjiiski; Smita Patel; Philip N. Cascade; Berkman Sahiner; Jun Wei; Jun Ge; Ella A. Kazerooni

Automated segmentation of three-dimensional MR brain images

Author(s): Jonggeun Park; Byungjun Baek; Choong-Il Ahn; Kyo Bum Ku; Dong Kyun Jeong; Chulhee Lee

Unsupervised clustering of dynamic PET images on the projection domain

Author(s): Mustafa E. Kamasak; Bulent Bayraktar

Content analysis of uterine cervix images: initial steps toward content based indexing and retrieval of cervigrams

Author(s): Shiri Gordon; Gali Zimmerman; Rodney Long; Sameer Antani; Jose Jeronimo M.D.; Hayit Greenspan

Topological analysis of 3D cell nuclei using finite element template-based spherical mapping

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3D reconstruction of the coronary tree from two x-ray angiographic views

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Highly automated computer-aided diagnosis of neurological disorders using functional brain imaging

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ICA domain filtering for reduction of noise in x-ray images

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Robust estimation of the noise variance from background MR data

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Retinal image enhancement based on the human visual system

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Contrast enhancement of soft tissues in computed tomography images

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Adaptive conductance filtering for spatially varying noise in PET images

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Enhanced techniques for asymmetry quantification in brain imagery

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Automatic textural feature selection on echocardiographic images

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Investigation of temporal radiographic texture analysis for the detection of periprosthetic osteolysis

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