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MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Estimation for Brain Tumor Segmentation
Given models for healthy brains, tumor segmentation can be seen as a process of detecting abnormalities or outliers that are present with certain image intensity and geometric prop...
Marcel Prastawa, Elizabeth Bullitt, Sean Ho, Guido...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Modular 2-DOF Force-Sensing Instrument For Laparoscopic Surgery
Srinivas K. Prasad, Masaya Kitagawa, Gregory S. Fi...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Statistically Based Surface Evolution Method for Medical Image Segmentation: Presentation and Validation
Abstract. In this paper we present a new algorithm for 3D medical image segmentation. The algorithm is fast, relatively simple to implement, and semi-automatic. It is based on mini...
Eric Pichon, Allen Tannenbaum, Ron Kikinis
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
User-Aided Boundary Delineation through the Propagation of Implicit Representations
In this paper we introduce user-defined segmentation constraints within the level set methods. Snake-driven methods are powerful and widely explored techniques for object extractio...
Nikos Paragios
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Iterating Registration and Activation Detection to Overcome Activation Bias in fMRI Motion Estimates
Abstract. Most intensity-based fMRI registration methods do not account for the fact that the volumes being aligned may differ: one may have blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) con...
Jeff Orchard, M. Stella Atkins
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Minimum Cost Path Algorithm for Coronary Artery Central Axis Tracking in CT Images
The quality of cardiac images acquired with multi-detector CT scanners has improved significantly, to the point where minimally invasive examination of the coronary arteries became...
Marcel Breeuwer, Sílvia Delgado Olabarriaga...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Tool Localization in 3D Ultrasound Images
Paul M. Novotny, Jeremy W. Cannon, Robert D. Howe
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Soft Human Tissues through Aspiration Experiments
Mechanical models for soft human organs are necessary for a variety of medical applications, such as surgical planning, virtual reality surgery simulators, and for diagnostic purpo...
Alessandro Nava, Edoardo Mazza, Frederic Kleinerma...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A High Resolution Dynamic Heart Model Based on Averaged MRI Data
We are in the process of constructing a high resolution, high signal to noise ratio (SNR) dynamic MRI dataset for the human heart using methodology similar to that employed to cons...
John Moore, Maria Drangova, Marcin Wierzbicki, Ter...