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MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Exploratory Identification of Cardiac Noise in fMRI Images
A fast exploratory framework for extracting cardiac noise signals contained in rest-case fMRI images is presented. Highly autocorrelated, independent components of the input time ...
Lilla Zöllei, Lawrence P. Panych, W. Eric L. ...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Area-Preserving Mappings for the Visualization of Medical Structures
Abstract. In this note, we present a method for flattening anatomical surfaces such as branched vessels and intestinal tracts in an areapreserving way. This method is based on the ...
Lei Zhu, Steven Haker, Allen Tannenbaum
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Real-Time Synthesis of Bleeding for Virtual Hysteroscopy
In this paper we present a method for simulating bleeding in a virtual reality hysteroscopic simulator for surgical training. The simulated bleeding is required to be visually app...
János Zátonyi, Rupert Paget, G&aacut...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Correspondence Detection Using Wavelet-Based Attribute Vectors
Finding point correspondence in anatomical images is a key step in shape analysis and deformable registration. This paper proposes an automatic correspondence detection algorithm u...
Zhong Xue, Dinggang Shen, Christos Davatzikos
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Determining Epicardial Surface Motion Using Elastic Registration: Towards Virtual Reality Guidance of Minimally Invasive Cardiac
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Marcin Wierzbicki, Terry M. Peters
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Quantifying Evolving Processes in Multimodal 3D Medical Images
Quantitative measurements of changes in evolving brain pathology, such as multiple sclerosis lesions and brain tumors, are important for clinicians to perform pertinent diagnoses a...
Yuhang Wang, Tilmann Steinberg, Fillia Makedon, Ja...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multiresolution Biomedical Image Registration Using Generalized Information Measures
In addition to the widely-used Shannon mutual information, generalized information-theoretic similarity metrics have properties that make them conducive to biomedical image registr...
Mark P. Wachowiak, Renata Smolíkova, Terry ...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical Atlas-Based Detection of Abnormalities in Brain Perfusion: Comparing Models and Estimating Detection Performance
Abstract. When developing statistical models of normal brain perfusion, two questions are of crucial interest: How well does an atlas describe normality and how sensitive is it at ...
Torbjørn Vik, Fabrice Heitz, Jean-Paul Arms...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Caudate Shape Discrimination in Schizophrenia Using Template-Free Non-parametric Tests
This paper describes shape analysis of the caudate nucleus structure in a large schizophrenia study (30 controls, 60 schizophrenics). Although analysis of the caudate has not drawn...
Y. Sampath K. Vetsa, Martin Styner, Stephen M. Piz...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Progression Detection of Glaucoma from Polarimetric Images
Detecting glaucoma progression is crucial for assessing the effectivity of the treatment. This paper describes three methods for detecting progression related changes in polarimetr...
Koen Vermeer, N. J. Reus, Frans Vos, Hans Lemij, A...