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MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Augmented Vessels for Pre-operative Preparation in Endovascular Treatments
Three-dimensional rotational angiography is a very useful tool for accessing abnormal vascular structures related to a variety of vascular diseases. Quantitative study of the abnor...
Wilbur C. K. Wong, Albert C. S. Chung, Simon C. H....
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
On Normalized Convolution to Measure Curvature Features for Automatic Polyp Detection
Early removal of polyps has proven to decrease the incidence of colon cancer. We aim to increase the sensitivity of the screening by automatic detection of polyps. It requires accu...
Cees van Wijk, Roel Truyen, Rogier E. van Gelder, ...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Parallel Optimization Approaches for Medical Image Registration
Optimization of a similarity metric is an essential component in most medical image registration approaches based on image intensities. The increasing availability of parallel comp...
Mark P. Wachowiak, Terry M. Peters
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Liver Motion Due to Needle Pressure, Cardiac, and Respiratory Motion During the TIPS Procedure
TIPS (Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt) is an effective treatment for portal hypertension. However, during the procedure, respiration, needle pressure, and possibly ot...
Vijay Venkatraman, Mark H. Van Horn, Susan Weeks, ...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Border Detection on Short Axis Echocardiographic Views Using a Region Based Ellipse-Driven Framework
In this paper, we propose a robust technique that integrates spatial and temporal information for consistent recovery of the endocardium. To account for the low image quality we in...
Maxime Taron, Nikos Paragios, Marie-Pierre Jolly
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Shape-Enhanced Surgical Visualizations and Medical Illustrations with Multi-flash Imaging
Kar-Han Tan, James Kobler, Paul H. Dietz, Ramesh R...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A Semi-automatic Endocardial Border Detection Method for 4D Ultrasound Data
We propose a semi-automatic endocardial border detection method for 3D+T cardiac ultrasound data based on pattern matching and dynamic programming, operating on 2D slices of the 3D...
Boudewijn J. Krenning, Charles T. Lancée, G...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
An Uncertainty-Driven Hybrid of Intensity-Based and Feature-Based Registration with Application to Retinal and Lung CT Images
Abstract. A new hybrid of feature-based and intensity-based registration is presented. The algorithm reflects a new understanding of the role of alignment error in the generation o...
Charles V. Stewart, Ying-Lin Lee, Chia-Ling Tsai
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Non-rigid Atlas to Subject Registration with Pathologies for Conformal Brain Radiotherapy
Warping a digital atlas toward a patient image allows the simultaneous segmentation of several structures. This may be of great interest for cerebral images, since the brain contai...
Radu Stefanescu, Olivier Commowick, Grégoir...
MICCAI
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Image Registration by Hierarchical Matching of Local Spatial Intensity Histograms
We previously presented a HAMMER image registration algorithm that demonstrated high accuracy in superposition of images from different individual brains. However, the HAMMER regis...
Dinggang Shen