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ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Texture Based Heart Localization and Segmentation in 4-D Cardiac Images
In this paper we present a dynamic texture based motion segmentation approach to address the challenging problem of heart localization and segmentation in 4D Spatio-temporal cardi...
Junzhou Huang, Xiaolei Huang, Dimitris N. Metaxas,...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction of Total Knee Replacement from X-Rays
In total knee replacement surgery, also known as total knee arthroplasty, prosthetics are implanted in the knee joint as treatment for progressive diseases such as arthritis or tr...
Kush R. Varshney, Nikos Paragios, Alain Kulski, Re...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Statistically-Constrained Deformable Registration of Mr Brain Images
Statistical models of deformations (SMD) capture the variability of deformations of a group of sample images, and they are often used to constrain deformable registration, thereby...
Zhong Xue, Dinggang Shen
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Signal and Anatomical Constraints in Adaptive Filtering of Fmri Data
An adaptive filtering method for fMRI data is presented. The method is related to bilateral filtering, but with a range filter that takes into account local similarities in sig...
Magnus Borga, Joakim Rydell
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Interpolation Artifacts in Biomedical Image Registration
We identify a cause for interpolation artifacts in objective functions by observing that the energy of interpolated and translated 2 sequences oscillates with respect to the trans...
Gustavo K. Rohde, Dennis M. Healy Jr., Carlos A. B...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Segmentation of the Right Heart Using an Optimized Shells and Spheres Algorithm
We have developed a novel framework for medical image analysis, known as Shells and Spheres. This framework utilizes spherical operators of variable radius centered at each image ...
Aaron Cois, Ken J. Rockot, John M. Galeotti, Rober...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Segmentation of the Prostate in MR Images by Atlas Matching
Prostate cancer treatment by radiation therapy requires an accurate localisation of the prostate. For the treatment planning, primarily computed tomography (CT) images are used, b...
Stefan Klein, Uulke A. van der Heide, Bas W. Raaym...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Mapping of Brain Surface Meshes onto a Unit Sphere
Complex shapes - such as the surface of the human brain may be represented and analyzed in frequency space by a spherical harmonics transformation. A key step of the processing ch...
Frithjof Kruggel
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
C-Arm Distortion Correction Using Patient CT as a Fiducial
X-ray imaging is an extensively used intra-operative imaging modality because of its low cost and portability. These images have to be corrected for geometric distortion in order ...
Gouthami Chintalapani, Russell H. Taylor
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Filtering Approach to Retinal Vessel Segmentation
We propose a novel vessel enhancement filter for retinal images. The filter can be used as a preprocessing step in applications such as vessel segmentation/visualization, and pa...
Chang-Hua Wu, Gady Agam, Peter Stanchev