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ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Quantification and Visualization of Localized and Intuitive Shape Variability Using a Novel Medial-Based Shape Representation
Quantification and visualization of anatomical shape variability in different populations is essential for diagnosis and tracking progression of diseases. We present a new 3D med...
Ghassan Hamarneh, Aaron D. Ward, Richard Frank
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multiview Registration of Cardiac Tagging Mri Images
This paper introduces a new method based on k-Nearest Neighbors Graphs (KNNG) for bringing into alignment multiple views of the same scene acquired at two different time points. T...
Estanislao Oubel, Mathieu De Craene, Mattia Gazzol...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Joint Registration and Segmentation Approach to Skull Stripping
Extraction of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem from structural magnetic resonances images (MRIs) is an important initial step in neuroimaging. We present an automated algo...
Aaron Carass, M. Bryan Wheeler, Jennifer Cuzzocreo...
ISBI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Real-Time Block Flow Tracking of Atrial Septal Defect Motion in 4d Cardiac Ultrasound
Real-time cardiac ultrasound allows monitoring the heart motion during intracardiac beating heart procedures. Our application assists atrial septal defect (ASD) closure techniques...
Marius George Linguraru, Alexandre Kabla, Nikolay ...