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MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
An Approach for the Automatic Cephalometric Landmark Detection Using Mathematical Morphology and Active Appearance Models
Cephalometric analysis of lateral radiographs of the head is an important diagnosis tool in orthodontics. Based on manually locating specific landmarks, it is a tedious, time-consu...
Mariano Alcañiz Raya, Sylvia Rueda
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic Segmentation of Jaw Tissues in CT Using Active Appearance Models and Semi-automatic Landmarking
Preoperative planning systems are commonly used for oral implant surgery. One of the objectives is to determine if the quantity and quality of bone is sufficient to sustain an impl...
José Antonio Gil, Mariano Alcañiz Ra...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
A General Framework for Image Segmentation Using Ordered Spatial Dependency
The segmentation problem appears in most medical imaging applications. Many research groups are pushing toward a whole body segmentation based on atlases. With a similar objective,...
Mikaël Rousson, Chenyang Xu
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Transformation Model and Constraints Cause Bias in Statistics on Deformation Fields
This work investigates the effects of nonrigid transformation model and deformation constraints on the results of deformation-based morphometry (DBM) studies. We evaluate three pop...
Torsten Rohlfing
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Open-Curve Shape Correspondence Without Endpoint Correspondence
Abstract. Shape correspondence is the foundation for accurate statistical shape analysis; this is usually accomplished by identifying a set of sparsely sampled and well-corresponde...
Theodor Richardson, Song Wang
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Boosting and Nonparametric Based Tracking of Tagged MRI Cardiac Boundaries
Abstract. In this paper we present an accurate cardiac boundary tracking method for 2D tagged MRI time sequences. This method naturally integrates the motion and the static local a...
Zhen Qian, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Leon Axel
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Logarithm Odds Maps for Shape Representation
The concept of the Logarithm of the Odds (LogOdds) is frequently used in areas such as artificial neural networks, economics, and biology. Here, we utilize LogOdds for a shape repr...
Kilian M. Pohl, John W. Fisher III, Martha Elizabe...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Towards a Statistical Atlas of Cardiac Fiber Structure
We propose here a framework to build a statistical atlas of diffusion tensors of canine hearts. The anatomical images of seven hearts are first non-rigidly registered in the same r...
Jean-Marc Peyrat, Maxime Sermesant, Xavier Pennec,...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
A New Closed-Form Information Metric for Shape Analysis
Shape matching plays a prominent role in the analysis of medical and biological structures. Recently, a unifying framework was introduced for shape matching that uses mixture-model...
Adrian Peter, Anand Rangarajan
MICCAI
2006
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Anatomically Informed Convolution Kernels for the Projection of fMRI Data on the Cortical Surface
Abstract. We present here a method that aims at producing representations of functional brain data on the cortical surface from functional MRI volumes. Such representations are req...
Grégory Operto, Jean-Luc Anton, Olivier Cou...