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MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Fiber Tract-Oriented Statistics for Quantitative Diffusion Tensor MRI Analysis
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has become the major modality to study properties of white matter and the geometry of fiber tracts of the human brain. Clinical studies mostly focus ...
Isabelle Corouge, P. Thomas Fletcher, Sarang C. Jo...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Physiological System Identification with the Kalman Filter in Diffuse Optical Tomography
Abstract. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a noninvasive imaging technology that is sensitive to local concentration changes in oxyand deoxyhemoglobin. When applied to functiona...
Solomon Gilbert Diamond, Theodore J. Huppert, Vill...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Automated Approach to Connectivity-Based Partitioning of Brain Structures
Abstract. We present an automated approach to the problem of connectivity-based partitioning of brain structures using diffusion imaging. White-matter fibres connect different area...
Philip A. Cook, Hui Zhang 0005, Brian B. Avants, P...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Incorporating Statistical Measures of Anatomical Variability in Atlas-to-Subject Registration for Conformal Brain Radiotherapy
Deforming a digital atlas towards a patient image allows the simultaneous segmentation of several structures. Such an intersubject registration is difficult as the deformations to ...
Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache, Olivie...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Bone Enhancement Filtering: Application to Sinus Bone Segmentation and Simulation of Pituitary Surgery
We present a novel multi-scale bone enhancement measure that can be used to drive a geometric flow to segment bone structures. This measure has the essential properties to be incor...
Maxime Descoteaux, Michel A. Audette, Kiyoyuki Chi...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Anatomically Constrained Surface Parameterization for Cortical Localization
Abstract. We present here a method that aims at defining a surfacebased coordinate system on the cortical surface. Such a system is needed for both cortical localization and inters...
Cédric Clouchoux, Olivier Coulon, Denis Riv...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Method to Evaluate Human Spatial Coordination Interfaces for Computer-Assisted Surgery
Computer assistance for breast conserving surgery requires a guidance method to assist a surgeon in locating tumor margin accurately. A wide array of guidance methods can be consid...
Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Jian-Xiong Wang, Donald B...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Use of Unwrapped Phase in MR Image Segmentation: A Preliminary Study
This paper considers the problem of tissue classification in 3D MRI. More specifically, a new set of texture features, based on phase information, is used to perform the segmentati...
Pierrick Bourgeat, Jurgen Fripp, Andrew L. Janke, ...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cross Validation of Experts Versus Registration Methods for Target Localization in Deep Brain Stimulation
In the last five years, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has become the most popular and effective surgical technique for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). The Subthalami...
Claudio Pollo, F. Javier Sánchez Castro, Je...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cross Entropy: A New Solver for Markov Random Field Modeling and Applications to Medical Image Segmentation
This paper introduces a novel solver, namely cross entropy (CE), into the MRF theory for medical image segmentation. The solver, which is based on the theory of rare event simulati...
Jue Wu, Albert C. S. Chung