Abstract. Heart isolation (separating the heart from the proximity tissues, e.g., lung, liver, and rib cage) is a prerequisite to clearly visualize the coronary arteries in 3D. Suc...
Yefeng Zheng, Fernando Vega Higuera, Shaohua Kevin...
Segmentation of medical images is challenging due to poor image contrast and artifacts that result in missing or diffuse organ/tissue boundaries. Consequently, this task involves ...
Abstract. Extraction of bone contours from x-ray images is an important first step in computer analysis of medical images. It is more complex than the segmentation of CT and MR im...
Ying Chen, Xianhe Ee, Wee Kheng Leow, Tet Sen Howe
This paper presents a Bayesian multi-scale three dimensional deformable template approach based on a medial representation for the segmentation and shape characterization of anatom...
Sarang C. Joshi, Stephen M. Pizer, P. Thomas Fletc...
Abstract--This work provides a model for tubular structures, and devises an algorithm to automatically extract tubular anatomical structures from medical imagery. Our model fits ma...
Vandana Mohan, Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Allen Tannen...