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MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Vascular Atlas Formation Using a Vessel-to-Image Affine Registration Method
We have developed a method for forming vascular atlases using vascular distance maps and a novel vascular model-to-image registration method. Our atlas formation process begins wit...
Dini Chillet, Julien Jomier, Derek Cool, Stephen R...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Vascular Attributes and Malignant Brain Tumors
Many diseases affect blood vessel morphology. This report analyzes vessel attributes (tortuosity, vessel density, radius, and terminal branch count) within 5 malignant gliomas as s...
Elizabeth Bullitt, Guido Gerig, Stephen R. Aylward...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Automated Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Multi-spectral MR Images
Abstract. An automated method for segmenting the outer boundary of abdominal aortic aneurysms in MR images is presented. The method is based on the well known Active Shape Models (...
Marleen de Bruijne, Bram van Ginneken, Lambertus W...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Drusen Detection in a Retinal Image Using Multi-level Analysis
This paper concerns a method to automatically detect drusen in a retinal image without human supervision or interaction. We use a multi-level approach, beginning with classificatio...
Lee Brandon, Adam Hoover
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
ImLib3D: An Efficient, Open Source, Medical Image Processing Framework in C++
ImLib3D is a C++ library for 3D medical image processing research. It provides a carefully designed, object-oriented, standards conforming C++ library, as well as a separate visual...
Fabrice Heitz, Jean-Paul Armspach, Marcel Bosc, To...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Virtual Remote Center of Motion Control for Needle Placement Robots
Allison M. Okamura, Emad Boctor, Gabor Fichtinger,...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
A New Brain Segmentation Framework
We present a new brain segmentation framework which we apply to T1-weighted magnetic resonance image segmentation. The innovation of the algorithm in comparison to the state-of-the...
Torsten Butz, Patric Hagmann, Eric Tardif, Reto Me...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
A Spatial-Stiffness Analysis of Fiducial Registration Accuracy
Abstract. We describe a new approach to predicting the maximum target registration error for fiducial registration. The approach is based on the analysis of a spatial stiffness mod...
Burton Ma, Randy E. Ellis
MICCAI
2003
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Mesh Topology Identification for Mass-Spring Models
In surgical simulations, the two most popular approaches to model soft tissues are Finite Element Method (FEM) and Mass-Spring System (MSS). Main advantages of FEM are accuracy and...
Gábor Székely, Gérald Bianchi...