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MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Medially Based Meshing with Finite Element Analysis of Prostate Deformation
The finite element method (FEM) is well suited for use in the non-rigid registration of magnetic resonance spectroscopy images (MRSI) with intraoperative ultrasound images of the p...
Jessica R. Crouch, Stephen M. Pizer, Edward L. Cha...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical Shape Modeling of Unfolded Retinotopic Maps for a Visual Areas Probabilistic Atlas
Abstract. This paper proposes a statistical model of functional landmarks delimiting low level visual areas which are highly variable across individuals. Low level visual areas are...
Isabelle Corouge, Michel Dojat, Christian Barillot
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Needle Steering and Model-Based Trajectory Planning
Needle insertion for percutaneous therapies is formulated as a trajectory planning and control problem. A new concept of needle steering is developed and a Needle Manipulation Jaco...
Simon P. DiMaio, S. E. Salcudean
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Tissue-Based Affine Registration of Brain Images to form a Vascular Density Atlas
Anatomic tissue atlases of the brain are widely used within the medical world and are important for identifying tissue and structural aberrations and inconsistencies within an indi...
Derek Cool, Dini Chillet, Jisung Kim, Jean-Philipp...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Visualization of Neural DTI Vector Fields Using Line Integral Convolution
Abstract. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides voxel-wise information related to the local diffusion anisotropy. Recent research efforts have centered around the use of this inf...
Sean C. L. Deoni, B. K. Rutt, Terry M. Peters
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Vascular Atlas Formation Using a Vessel-to-Image Affine Registration Method
We have developed a method for forming vascular atlases using vascular distance maps and a novel vascular model-to-image registration method. Our atlas formation process begins wit...
Dini Chillet, Julien Jomier, Derek Cool, Stephen R...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Vascular Attributes and Malignant Brain Tumors
Many diseases affect blood vessel morphology. This report analyzes vessel attributes (tortuosity, vessel density, radius, and terminal branch count) within 5 malignant gliomas as s...
Elizabeth Bullitt, Guido Gerig, Stephen R. Aylward...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Multi-spectral MR Images
Abstract. An automated method for segmenting the outer boundary of abdominal aortic aneurysms in MR images is presented. The method is based on the well known Active Shape Models (...
Marleen de Bruijne, Bram van Ginneken, Lambertus W...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Drusen Detection in a Retinal Image Using Multi-level Analysis
This paper concerns a method to automatically detect drusen in a retinal image without human supervision or interaction. We use a multi-level approach, beginning with classificatio...
Lee Brandon, Adam Hoover
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
ImLib3D: An Efficient, Open Source, Medical Image Processing Framework in C++
ImLib3D is a C++ library for 3D medical image processing research. It provides a carefully designed, object-oriented, standards conforming C++ library, as well as a separate visual...
Fabrice Heitz, Jean-Paul Armspach, Marcel Bosc, To...