The estimation of soft tissue deformation from 3D image sequences is an important problem in a number of fields such as diagnosis of heart disease and image guided surgery. In thi...
Xenophon Papademetris, Pengcheng Shi, Donald P. Di...
The quantitative estimation of regional cardiac deformation from 3D image sequences has important clinical implications for the assessment of viability in the heart wall. Such esti...
Xenophon Papademetris, Albert J. Sinusas, Donald P...
Abstract— This paper reports a novel method for fully automated segmentation that is based on description of shape and its variation using point distribution models (PDM’s). An...
The segmentation of the heart's left ventricle (LV) chamber in several medical imaging modalities, e.g. Ultrasound (US) and Magnetic Resonance (MRI), is important from a clin...
We present an energy based automatic image segmentation algorithm that uses a novel active contour scheme, called the stochastic active contour scheme (STACS). The algorithm overc...