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MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Better Comprehension of Similarity Measures Used in Medical Image Registration
While intensity-based similarity measures are increasingly used for medical image registration, they often rely on implicit assumptions regarding the physics of imaging. The motiva...
Alexis Roche, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas ...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A 3d Puzzle for Learning Anatomy
We present a new metaphor for learning anatomy - the 3d puzzle. With this metaphor students learn anatomic relations by assembling a geometric model themselves. For this purpose, a...
Bernhard Preim, Felix Ritter, Oliver Deussen
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding the "Demon's Algorithm": 3D Non-rigid Registration by Gradient Descent
The “Demons Algorithm” in increasingly used for non-rigid registration of 3D medical images. However, if it is fast and usually accurate, the algorithm is based on intuitive id...
Xavier Pennec, Pascal Cachier, Nicholas Ayache
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
3D Cardiac Deformation from Ultrasound Images
The quantitative estimation of regional cardiac deformation from 3D image sequences has important clinical implications for the assessment of viability in the heart wall. Such esti...
Xenophon Papademetris, Albert J. Sinusas, Donald P...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Quantitative Comparison of Sinc-Approximating Kernels for Medical Image Interpolation
Interpolation is required in many medical image processing operations. From sampling theory, it follows that the ideal interpolation kernel is the sinc function, which is of infin...
Erik H. W. Meijering, Wiro J. Niessen, Josien P. W...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive Medical Image Segmentation with United Snakes
Abstract. Snakes have become a standard image analysis technique with several variants now in common use. We have developed a software package called “United Snakes”. It unifi...
Jianming Liang, Tim McInerney, Demetri Terzopoulos
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Passive Positioning and Supporting Device for Surgical Robots and Instrumentation
A. Grey Lerner, Dan Stoianovici, Louis L. Whitcomb...
MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Locating Motion Artifacts in Parametric fMRI Analysis
A. J. Lacey, Neil A. Thacker, E. Burton, Alan Jack...