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IROS
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Motion planning for active cannulas
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz
TMI
2008
116views more  TMI 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic PET Reconstruction Using Wavelet Regularization With Adapted Basis Functions
Tomographic reconstruction from positron emission tomography (PET) data is an ill-posed problem that requires regularization. An attractive approach is to impose an 1-regularizatio...
J. Verhaeghe, Dimitri Van De Ville, I. Khalidov, Y...
ICIP
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Corridor scissors: a semi-automatic segmentation tool employing minimum-cost circular paths
We present a new semi-automatic segmentation tool, which is motivated by the Intelligent Scissors algorithm [1], but which uses a modified concept of user-interaction. This new in...
Dirk Farin, Magnus Pfeffer, Peter H. N. de With, W...
COMPGEOM
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Searching for the Kernel of a Polygon - A Competitive Strategy
We present a competitive strategy for walking into the kernel of an initially unknown star-shaped polygon. From an arbitrary start point, s, within the polygon, our strategy find...
Christian Icking, Rolf Klein
IEEEMSP
2002
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
An optimal shape encoding scheme using skeleton decomposition
—This paper presents an operational rate-distortion (ORD) optimal approach for skeleton-based boundary encoding. The boundary information is first decomposed into skeleton and di...
Haohong Wang, Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos K. Katsag...