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MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Automatic Detection of Calcified Coronary Plaques in Computed Tomography Data Sets
The detection of calcified plaques is an essential step in the assessment of coronary heart diseases. However, manual plaque segmentation is subjected to intra- and inter-observer ...
Stefan C. Saur, Hatem Alkadhi, Lotus Desbiolles, G...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Level Set Based Surface Capturing in 3D Medical Images
Brain aneurysm rupture has been reported to be directly related to the size of aneurysms. The current method used to determine aneurysm size is to manually measure the width of th...
Bin Dong, Aichi Chien, Yu Mao, Jian Ye, Stanle...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Weights and Topology: A Study of the Effects of Graph Construction on 3D Image Segmentation
Abstract. Graph-based algorithms have become increasingly popular for medical image segmentation. The fundamental process for each of these algorithms is to use the image content t...
Leo Grady, Marie-Pierre Jolly
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Streamline Flows for White Matter Fibre Pathway Segmentation in Diffusion MRI
We introduce a fibre tract segmentation algorithm based on the geometric coherence of fibre orientations as indicated by a streamline flow model. The inference of local flow approx...
Peter Savadjiev, Jennifer S. W. Campbell, G. Bru...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
MRI Bone Segmentation Using Deformable Models and Shape Priors
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of automatically segmenting bone structures in low resolution clinical MRI datasets. The novel aspect of the proposed method is the combi...
Jérôme Schmid, Nadia Magnenat-Thalman...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm Using a Phantom
This paper evaluates the performance of a level set algorithm for segmenting the endocardium in short-axis ultrasound images. The evaluation is carried out using an anthropomorphic...
Yong Yue, Hemant D. Tagare, Ernest L. Madsen, G...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Classification of Suspected Liver Metastases Using fMRI Images: A Machine Learning Approach
Abstract. This paper presents a machine-learning approach to the interactive classification of suspected liver metastases in fMRI images. The method uses fMRI-based statistical mod...
Moti Freiman, Yifat Edrei, Yehonatan Sela, Yitz...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Bayesian Approach for Liver Analysis: Algorithm and Validation Study
Abstract. We present a new method for the simultaneous, nearly automatic segmentation of liver contours, vessels, and metastatic lesions from abdominal CTA scans. The method repeat...
Moti Freiman, Ofer Eliassaf, Yoav Taieb, Leo Jo...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Discriminative Model-Constrained Graph Cuts Approach to Fully Automated Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3-D MRI
In this paper we present a fully automated approach to the segmentation of pediatric brain tumors in multi-spectral 3-D magnetic resonance images. It is a top-down segmentation app...
Michael Wels, Gustavo Carneiro, Alexander Aplas,...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
MR Brain Tissue Classification Using an Edge-Preserving Spatially Variant Bayesian Mixture Model
In this paper, a spatially constrained mixture model for the segmentation of MR brain images is presented. The novelty of this work is a new, edge preserving, smoothness prior whic...
Giorgos Sfikas, Christophoros Nikou, Nikolas P. ...