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MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Shape-Based Averaging for Combination of Multiple Segmentations
Combination of multiple segmentations has recently been introduced as an effective method to obtain segmentations that are more accurate than any of the individual input segmentati...
Torsten Rohlfing, Calvin R. Maurer Jr.
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Hand-Held Probe for Vibro-Elastography
Vibro-elastography is a new medical imaging method that identifies the mechanical properties of tissue by measuring tissue motion in response to a multi-frequency external vibratio...
Hassan Rivaz, Robert Rohling
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Respiratory Signal Extraction for 4D CT Imaging of the Thorax from Cone-Beam CT Projections
Current methods of four-dimensional (4D) CT imaging of the thorax synchronise the acquisition with a respiratory signal to restrospectively sort acquired data. The quality of the 4...
Simon Rit, David Sarrut, Chantal Ginestet
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Nonrigid Shape Correspondence Using Landmark Sliding, Insertion and Deletion
The growing usage of statistical shape analysis in medical imaging calls for effective methods for highly accurate shape correspondence. This paper presents a novel landmark-based ...
Theodor Richardson, Song Wang
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Respiratory Motion Correction in Emission Tomography Image Reconstruction
In Emission Tomography imaging, respiratory motion causes artifacts in lungs and cardiac reconstructed images, which lead to misinterpretations and imprecise diagnosis. Solutions l...
Mauricio Reyes, Grégoire Malandain, Pierre ...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal Embedding for Shape Indexing in Medical Image Databases
Fast retrieval using organ shapes is crucial in medical image databases since shape is a clinically prominent feature. In this paper, we propose that 2-D shapes in medical image da...
Xiaoning Qian, Hemant Tagare
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Model-Based Parameter Recovery from Uncalibrated Optical Images
We propose a novel method for quantitative interpretation of uncalibrated optical images which is derived explicitly from an analysis of the image formation model. Parameters chara...
Stephen J. Preece, I. B. Styles, S. D. Cotton, Ela...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Synthetic Ground Truth for Validation of Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation
Validation and method of comparison for segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) presenting pathology is a challenging task due to the lack of reliable ground truth. We prop...
Marcel Prastawa, Elizabeth Bullitt, Guido Gerig
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Unifying Approach to Registration, Segmentation, and Intensity Correction
We present a statistical framework that combines the registration of an atlas with the segmentation of magnetic resonance images. We use an Expectation Maximization-based algorithm...
Kilian M. Pohl, John W. Fisher III, James J. Levit...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Approach to High Angular Resolution Diffusion Tractography
Abstract. This paper describes a new framework for white matter tractography in high angular resolution diffusion data. A direction-dependent local cost is defined based on the dif...
Eric Pichon, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Allen Tannenbaum