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CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-modal Image Registration by Quantitative-Qualitative Measure of Mutual Information (Q-MI)
Abstract. This paper presents a novel measure of image similarity, called quantitative-qualitative measure of mutual information (Q-MI), for multi-modal image registration. Convent...
Hongxia Luan, Feihu Qi, Dinggang Shen
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Fast 3D Brain Segmentation Using Dual-Front Active Contours with Optional User-Interaction
Abstract. Important attributes of 3D brain segmentation algorithms include robustness, accuracy, computational efficiency, and facilitation of user interaction, yet few algorithms ...
Hua Li, Anthony J. Yezzi, Laurent D. Cohen
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Local or Global Minima: Flexible Dual-Front Active Contours
Most variational active contour models are designed to find the “desirable” local minima of data-dependent energy functionals with the hope of avoiding undesirable configurat...
Hua Li, Anthony J. Yezzi
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Segmenting Brain Tumors with Conditional Random Fields and Support Vector Machines
Abstract. Markov Random Fields (MRFs) are a popular and wellmotivated model for many medical image processing tasks such as segmentation. Discriminative Random Fields (DRFs), a dis...
Chi-Hoon Lee, Mark Schmidt, Albert Murtha, Aalo Bi...
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Hybrid Framework for Image Segmentation Using Probabilistic Integration of Heterogeneous Constraints
In this paper we present a new framework for image segmentation using probabilistic multinets. We apply this framework to integration of regionbased and contour-based segmentation ...
Rui Huang, Vladimir Pavlovic, Dimitris N. Metaxas
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analyzing Anatomical Structures: Leveraging Multiple Sources of Knowledge
Analysis of medical images, especially the extraction of anatomical structures, is a critical component of many medical applications: surgical planning and navigation, and populati...
W. Eric L. Grimson, Polina Golland
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Distance-Intensity for Image Registration
In this paper, a novel one-element voxel attribute, namely distance-intensity (DI), is defined for associating spatial information with image intensity for registration tasks. For...
Rui Gan, Albert C. S. Chung
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
3D Statistical Shape Models to Embed Spatial Relationship Information
Abstract. This paper presents the creation of 3D statistical shape models of the knee bones and their use to embed information into a segmentation system for MRIs of the knee. We p...
Jurgen Fripp, Pierrick Bourgeat, Andrea J. U. Mewe...
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Registration of 3D Angiographic and X-Ray Images Using Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling
Abstract. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) reconstructions and 3D Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) are the modalities of choice for diagnosis of vascular diseases. However...
Charles Florin, James Williams, Ali Khamene, Nikos...
CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Segmentation of 3D CT Volume Images Using a Single 2D Atlas
Segmentation of medical images is an important first step in the analysis of medical images. A lot of research has been performed on the segmentation of complex CT/MR images using...
Feng Ding, Wee Kheng Leow, Shih-Chang Wang