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CBMS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Content-Based and Metadata Retrieval in Medical Image Database
The need for systems that can stock, represent, and provide efficient retrieval facilities of images of particular interest is becoming very high in medicine. In this respect, a l...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, Lionel Brunie
CBMS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
How to Add Content-based Image Retrieval Capability in a PACS
This paper presents a new Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), called cbPACS which has content-based image retrieval resources. The cbPACS answers similarity queries...
Josiane M. Bueno, Fabio Jun Takada Chino, Agma J. ...
CBMS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Vision-based, real-time retinal image quality assessment
— Real-time medical image quality is a critical requirement in a number of healthcare environments, including ophthalmology where studies suffer loss of data due to unusable (ung...
Herbert Davis, Stephen R. Russell, Eduardo S. Barr...
CBMS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Speech-assisted radiology system for retrieval, reporting and annotation
We present a system capable of interpreting speech commands given by a radiologist in order to accurately diagnose a set of findings and impressions for medical images, such as M...
Tim Weninger, Daniel Greene, Jack Hart, William H....
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Neighbor-Constrained Segmentation with 3D Deformable Models
A novel method for the segmentation of multiple objects from 3D medical images using inter-object constraints is presented. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighbor...
Jing Yang, Lawrence H. Staib, James S. Duncan
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Knowledge-Driven Automated Extraction of the Human Cerebral Ventricular System from MR Images
This work presents an efficient and automated method to extract the human cerebral ventricular system from MRI driven by anatomic knowledge. The ventricular system is divided into ...
Yan Xia, Qingmao Hu, Aamer Aziz, Wieslaw Lucjan No...
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Tunnelling Descent: A New Algorithm for Active Contour Segmentation of Ultrasound Images
The presence of speckle in ultrasound images makes it hard to segment them using active contours. Speckle causes the energy function of the active contours to have many local minim...
Zhong Tao, C. Carl Jaffe, Hemant Tagare
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Ideal-Observer Performance under Signal and Background Uncertainty
We use the performance of the Bayesian ideal observer as a figure of merit for hardware optimization because this observer makes optimal use of signal-detection information. Due t...
Subok Park, Matthew A. Kupinski, Eric Clarkson, Ha...
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Visualization of Myocardial Motion Using MICSR Trinary Checkerboard Display
Abstract. Magnetic resonance tagging is used to quantify and visualize myocardial motion. The lack of tag persistence, however, is often a problem in visualizing motion throughout ...
Moriel NessAiver, Jerry L. Prince
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
CAD Tool for Burn Diagnosis
In this paper, a novel region growing algorithm for segmenting burn wounds in digital photographs of the skin is presented. This segmentation step has been developed as part of a C...
Begoña Acha, Carmen Serrano, José I....