Medical Image Understanding and Analysis

Medical Image Understanding and Analysis
Author: María Valdés Hernández
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 955
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319609645

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, MIUA 2017, held in Edinburgh, UK, in July 2017. The 82 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on retinal imaging, ultrasound imaging, cardiovascular imaging, oncology imaging, mammography image analysis, image enhancement and alignment, modeling and segmentation of preclinical, body and histological imaging, feature detection and classification. The chapters 'Model-Based Correction of Segmentation Errors in Digitised Histological Images' and 'Unsupervised Superpixel-Based Segmentation of Histopathological Images with Consensus Clustering' are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis

Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis
Author: Shuo Li
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319038133

This book contains thirteen contributions from invited experts of international recognition addressing important issues in shape analysis in medical image analysis, including techniques for image segmentation, registration, modelling and classification and applications in biology, as well as in cardiac, brain, spine, chest, lung and clinical practice. This volume treats topics such as for example, anatomic and functional shape representation and matching; shape-based medical image segmentation; shape registration; statistical shape analysis; shape deformation; shape-based abnormity detection; shape tracking and longitudinal shape analysis; machine learning for shape modeling and analysis; shape-based computer-aided-diagnosis; shape-based medical navigation; benchmark and validation of shape representation, analysis and modeling algorithms. This work will be of interest to researchers, students and manufacturers in the fields of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational vision, computer sciences, human motion, mathematics, medical imaging, medicine, pattern recognition and physics.

Medical Image Registration

Medical Image Registration
Author: Joseph V. Hajnal
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2001-06-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1420042475

Image registration is the process of systematically placing separate images in a common frame of reference so that the information they contain can be optimally integrated or compared. This is becoming the central tool for image analysis, understanding, and visualization in both medical and scientific applications. Medical Image Registration provid

Geodesic Methods in Computer Vision and Graphics

Geodesic Methods in Computer Vision and Graphics
Author: Gabriel Peyré
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1601983964

Reviews the emerging field of geodesic methods and features the following: explanations of the mathematical foundations underlying these methods; discussion on the state of the art algorithms to compute shortest paths; review of several fields of application, including medical imaging segmentation, 3-D surface sampling and shape retrieval

Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces

Level Set Methods and Dynamic Implicit Surfaces
Author: Stanley Osher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387227466

Very hot area with a wide range of applications; Gives complete numerical analysis and recipes, which will enable readers to quickly apply the techniques to real problems; Includes two new techniques pioneered by Osher and Fedkiw; Osher and Fedkiw are internationally well-known researchers in this area

Medical Image Recognition, Segmentation and Parsing

Medical Image Recognition, Segmentation and Parsing
Author: S. Kevin Zhou
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0128026766

This book describes the technical problems and solutions for automatically recognizing and parsing a medical image into multiple objects, structures, or anatomies. It gives all the key methods, including state-of- the-art approaches based on machine learning, for recognizing or detecting, parsing or segmenting, a cohort of anatomical structures from a medical image. Written by top experts in Medical Imaging, this book is ideal for university researchers and industry practitioners in medical imaging who want a complete reference on key methods, algorithms and applications in medical image recognition, segmentation and parsing of multiple objects. Learn: - Research challenges and problems in medical image recognition, segmentation and parsing of multiple objects - Methods and theories for medical image recognition, segmentation and parsing of multiple objects - Efficient and effective machine learning solutions based on big datasets - Selected applications of medical image parsing using proven algorithms - Provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research on medical image recognition, segmentation, and parsing of multiple objects - Presents efficient and effective approaches based on machine learning paradigms to leverage the anatomical context in the medical images, best exemplified by large datasets - Includes algorithms for recognizing and parsing of known anatomies for practical applications

Information Theory Tools for Image Processing

Information Theory Tools for Image Processing
Author: Miquel Feixas
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 162705362X

Information Theory (IT) tools, widely used in many scientific fields such as engineering, physics, genetics, neuroscience, and many others, are also useful transversal tools in image processing. In this book, we present the basic concepts of IT and how they have been used in the image processing areas of registration, segmentation, video processing, and computational aesthetics. Some of the approaches presented, such as the application of mutual information to registration, are the state of the art in the field. All techniques presented in this book have been previously published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or international journals. We have stressed here their common aspects, and presented them in an unified way, so to make clear to the reader which problems IT tools can help to solve, which specific tools to use, and how to apply them. The IT basics are presented so as to be self-contained in the book. The intended audiences are students and practitioners of image processing and related areas such as computer graphics and visualization. In addition, students and practitioners of IT will be interested in knowing about these applications.

Tensor Voting

Tensor Voting
Author: Philippos Mordohai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031022424

This lecture presents research on a general framework for perceptual organization that was conducted mainly at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems of the University of Southern California. It is not written as a historical recount of the work, since the sequence of the presentation is not in chronological order. It aims at presenting an approach to a wide range of problems in computer vision and machine learning that is data-driven, local and requires a minimal number of assumptions. The tensor voting framework combines these properties and provides a unified perceptual organization methodology applicable in situations that may seem heterogeneous initially. We show how several problems can be posed as the organization of the inputs into salient perceptual structures, which are inferred via tensor voting. The work presented here extends the original tensor voting framework with the addition of boundary inference capabilities; a novel re-formulation of the framework applicable to high-dimensional spaces and the development of algorithms for computer vision and machine learning problems. We show complete analysis for some problems, while we briefly outline our approach for other applications and provide pointers to relevant sources.

Biomedical Image Processing

Biomedical Image Processing
Author: Thomas Martin Deserno
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642158161

In modern medicine, imaging is the most effective tool for diagnostics, treatment planning and therapy. Almost all modalities have went to directly digital acquisition techniques and processing of this image data have become an important option for health care in future. This book is written by a team of internationally recognized experts from all over the world. It provides a brief but complete overview on medical image processing and analysis highlighting recent advances that have been made in academics. Color figures are used extensively to illustrate the methods and help the reader to understand the complex topics.