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TMI
1998
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Speckle Reduction and Contrast Enhancement of Echocardiograms via Multiscale Nonlinear Processing
Abstract— This paper presents an algorithm for speckle reduction and contrast enhancement of echocardiographic images. Within a framework of multiscale wavelet analysis, we apply...
Xuli Zong, Andrew Laine, Edward A. Geiser
TMI
1998
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A Harmonic Decomposition Reconstruction Algorithm for Spatially-Varying Focal Length Collimators
—Spatially varying focal length fan-beam collimators can be used in single photon emission computed tomography to improve detection efficiency and to reduce reconstruction artif...
Jiangsheng You, Zhengrong Liang, Shanglian Bao
TMI
1998
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A Vision-Based Technique for Objective Assessment of Burn Scars
—In this paper a method for the objective assessment of burn scars is proposed. The quantitative measures developed in this research provide an objective way to calculate elastic...
Leonid V. Tsap, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar, ...
TMI
1998
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Rician Distribution Parameters
— The problem of parameter estimation from Rician distributed data (e.g., magnitude Magnetic Resonance images) is addressed. The properties of conventional estimation methods are...
Jan Sijbers, Arnold Jan den Dekker, Paul Scheunder...
TMI
1998
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Segmentation of Intrathoracic Airway Trees: A Fuzzy Logic Approach
Wonkyu Park, Eric A. Hoffman, Milan Sonka
TMI
1998
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Geodesic Deformable Models for Medical Image Analysis
—In this paper implicit representations of deformable models for medical image enhancement and segmentation are considered. The advantage of implicit models over classical explic...
Wiro J. Niessen, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Max A. V...
TMI
1998
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Sampling on Concentric Circles
— Two forms of a sampling theorem for concentric circles are established for a bandlimited two-dimensional (2-D) function. The location of the samples is prescribed either on equ...
Nikolaos E. Myridis, Christodoulos Chamzas
TMI
1998
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Dynamic Imaging and Tracer Kinetic Modeling for Emission Tomography Using Rotating Detectors
— When performing dynamic studies using emission tomography the tracer distribution changes during acquisition of a single set of projections. This is particularly true for some ...
Chi-Hoi Lau, David Dagan Feng, Brian F. Hutton, Da...
TMI
1998
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Automated Seeded Lesion Segmentation on Digital Mammograms
Abstract—Segmenting lesions is a vital step in many computerized mass-detection schemes for digital (or digitized) mammograms. We have developed two novel lesion segmentation tec...
Matthew A. Kupinski, Maryellen L. Giger