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MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Biomechanical Model of the Human Tongue and Its Clinical Implications
Many surgical technics act on the upper airway in general, and on the tongue in particular. For example, tongue is one of the anatomical structures involved in the case of Pierre R...
Yohan Payan, Georges Bettega, Bernard Raphaël
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Virtual Reality Vitrectomy Simulator
In this study, a virtual reality vitrectomy simulator is being developed to assist Ophthalmolgy residents in correcting retinal detachments. To simulate this type of surgery, a thr...
Paul F. Neumann, Lewis L. Sadler, Jon Gieser
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Building Biomechanical Models Based on Medical Image Data: An Assessment of Model Accuracy
The goals of this work were to (i) establish a method for building subject-specific biomechanical models from medical image data, (ii) construct a subject-specific model of the elb...
Wendy M. Murray, Allison S. Arnold, Silvia Salinas...
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Fast Technique for Motion Correction in DSA Using a Feature-Based, Irregular Grid
In clinical practice, Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is a powerful technique for the visualization of blood vessels in the human body. However, due to patient motion the dia...
Erik H. W. Meijering, Karel J. Zuiderveld, Max A. ...
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Object-Based Volumetric Deformable Atlas for the Improved Localization of Neuroanatomy in MR Images
We present a hierarchical object
Tim McInerney, Ron Kikinis
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Vascular Shape Segmentation and Structure Extraction Using a Shape-Based Region-Growing Model
A new, practical, and efficient approach is proposed for 3D vascular segmentation and bifurcation structure extraction. The method uses a combination of mathematical morphology, re...
Yoshitaka Masutani, Thomas Schiemann, Karl Heinz H...
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Brain Segmentation Using Histogram Scale-Space Analysis and Mathematical Morphology
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a robust fully non-supervised method dedicated to the segmentation of the brain in T1-weighted MR images. The first step consists in the analysi...
Jean-Francois Mangin, Olivier Coulon, Vincent Frou...
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Segmentation of Bone in Clinical Knee MRI Using Texture-Based Geodesic Active Contours
This paper presents a method for automatic segmentation of the tibia and femur in clinical magnetic resonance images of knees. Texture information is incorporated into an active co...
Liana M. Lorigo, Olivier D. Faugeras, W. Eric L. G...
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
3D/2D Registration via Skeletal Near Projective Invariance in Tubular Objects
Alan Liu, Elizabeth Bullitt, Stephen M. Pizer
MICCAI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-modal Volume Registration Using Joint Intensity Distributions
Abstract. The registration of multimodal medical images is an important tool in surgical applications, since different scan modalities highlight complementary anatomical structures...
Michael E. Leventon, W. Eric L. Grimson