Applications of Computer Vision in Medical Image Processing
Papers from the 1994 AAAI Spring Symposium
William M. Wells III, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-94-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Research Tracks in Computer Vision Applied to 3D Medical Images / 1
Nicholas Ayache, INRIA
Reconstructing 3-D Blood Vessel Shapes from Multiple X-Ray Images / 7
Henry A. Rowley and Takeo Kanade
Representing Spatial Knowledge Using the Intelligent Volumes Concept / 11
K. H. Hohne, A. Pommert, M. Reimer, Th. Schiemann, R. Schubert, U. Tiede
Arrangement: An Aspect-Graphlike Qualitative Relation for Medical Tomographic Images / 14
Hemant D. Tagare, Conrade C. Jaffe, James S. Duncan
Steps Toward the Automatic Labeling of 3D Medical Images / 18
Jean-Philippe Thirion
Matching 3-D Anatomical Surfaces with Non-Rigid Volumetric Deformations / 22
Richard Szeliski and Stephane Lavallee
Automated Registration for Enhanced Reality Visualization in Surgery / 26
E. Grimson, T. Lozano-Perez, W. Wells, G. Ettinger, S. White, and R. Kikinis
Retrospective Fusion of CT and MR Brain Images Using Mathematical Operators / 30
Petra A. van den Elsen
Medical Image Registration using Voxel Similarity Measures / 34
Derek L. G. Hill and David J Hawkes
Visual Echo Registration of Magnetic Resonance Images / 38
Esfandiar Bandari, Q. S. Xiang and James Little
A System for Multimodality Image Fusion of the Spine / 42
Paul F. Hemler, Thilaka Sumanaweera, Ramani Pichumani, Petra A. van den Elsen, Sandy Napel, John Drace, and John Adler
Recognition of Red Blood Cells Abnormalities Using a New Set of Closed Contour Features / 46
Ahmed R. Bashandy, Ahmed Darwish, Samir I. Shaheen
Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy by Computer Vision / 50
Samuel C. Lee, Vivian S. Lee, Elisa T. Lee
3-D Visualisation Using Knowledge-Based Image Fusion / 54
Tatjana Zrimec, John Hiller, Nicholas J. Mankovich, Geoff Parker, and Gary Duckwiler
Improving Subtraction Radiography via Automated 2D Image Registration / 58
G. J. Ettinger and G. G. Gordon
Fusion of information from Keratoscopic and Scheimpflug Images / 62
F. Silva, H. Araujo, E. Leite, J. Cunha-Vaz
Distributed Medical Modeling, Design Prototyping and Collaborative Visualization / 66
Chandrajit L. Bajaj
Analysis of Textural Features in Medical Images Using Medium-Cost Parallel Computers / 70
Meledath Damodaran
Automatic Segmentation of Lesions in Cranial CT Images / 72
W. Y. Yua, T. Myint, J. C. Jia, W. S. Gan
Eliminating Errors in Image Matching Caused by the Failure of Heuristics / 76
Gail Markovich and Michael Skolnick
Shape-Based Grayscale Interslice Image Interpolation / 80
William Barrett and Eric Bess
A Scalar Function Formulation for Optical Flow: Applications to X-ray Imaging / 84
Amir A. Amini
A Knowledge-Guided Algorithm for Brain Lesion Detection / 88
Yi Lu
Image Warping for Accurate Digital Subtraction Angiography / 92
Rajiv Gupta, Chukka Srinivas
Planning for Image-Guided Radiosurgery / 96
Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, John R. Adler, and Jean-Claude Latombe
Computer Assisted Spine Surgery / 102
P. Sautot, S. Lavallee, J. Troccaz, P. Cinquin, and P. Merloz
3D Laser Scanning for Image-Guided Neurosurgery / 106
L. Harmon, A. Vayda, E. Erlandson, J. Taren , D. Ross
Shape Analysis of Brain Structures Using Physical and Experimental Modes / 110
John Martin, Alex Pentland, and Ron Kikinis
Extracting ICC Surface from an MR Image / 114
T. Kapur
Deformable Models for Biomedical Data Analysis / 118
Demetri Terzopoulos
Segmentation of MR Brain Scans Using Atlas-Guided Deformable Contours / 122
Chun Ho Chang, Wenli Wang, Anand Rangarajan, I. George Zubal, and Gene Gindi
MR Physics-Based Snake Tracking and Dense Deformations from Tagged Cardiac Images / 126
Amir A. Amini, Rupert W. Curwen, R. Todd Constable, and John C. Gore
Model-Based Analysis of Cardiac Motion from Tagged MRI Data / 130
Dimitri Metaxas and Jinah Park
The Biometrics of Landmarks and Edgels: A New Geometry of Prior Knowledge for Medical Image Understanding / 134
Fred L. Bookstein and William D. K. Green
Simulation of Endoscopy / 138
Bernhard Geiger and Ron Kikinis
Vascular Models: From Raw Data to Geometric Models / 141
Allen R. Sanderson, Elaine Cohen, Thomas C. Henderson and Dennis L. Parker
Front Propagation: A Framework for Topology Independent Shape Modeling and Recovery / 145
R. Malladi, J. A. Sethian, and B. C. Vemuri
Analysis of Atherosclerotic Plaque Geometry and Wall Motion in Carotid Arteries Using 4D B-mode Ultrasound and High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Angiography / 149
S. Meairs, M. Daffertshofer, W. Neff, H. Wohrle, U. Schminke, A Schwartz, and M. Hennerici
A 3D Deformable Magnetic Resonance Textbook Based on Elasticity / 153
Gary E. Christensen, Michael I. Miller, and Michael Vannier
Stereoscopic Reconstruction of Retina Images Based on Angiographic and Laser-Scan Ophthalmoscopic Images / 157
Helder J Araujo, Rufino Silva, Jose F. Abreu, and Jose G. Cunha-Vaz
A Methodology for Detecting Vessels in X-Ray Mammogram Images / 161
Nick Cerneaz and Mike Brady
Shape-Based Tracking and Analysis of Myocardial Function from 4D Images / 165
J. S. Duncan, P. Shi, A. Amini, T. Constable, and A. Sinusas
3D Diagnostic Imaging of Blood Vessels using an X-Ray Rotational Angiographic System / 169
Noboru Niki, Yoshiki Kawata and Tatsuo Kumazaki
Analysis of the Blood Flow in the Aortic Arc / 173
Gian Andrea Rollandi and Alessandro Veri
Geometric Image Analysis Using Multiscale Statistical Features / 177
James M. Coggins and Elizabeth Graves
Automatic 3D Image Registration for Medical Change Detection Applications / 182
G. J. Ettinger, W. E. L. Grimson and T. Lozano-Perez
Scale and Statistics in Variable Conductance Diffusion / 186
Terry S. Yoo
Extraction of the Zero-Crossing of the Curvature Derivative in Volumic 3D Medical Images: a Multi-Scale Approach / 191
Olivier Monga, Richard Lengagne and Rachid Deriche
A 3-D Morphological Algorithm for Automated Labelling of the Cortex in Magnetic Resonance Brain Images / 195
Stephanie Sandor and Richard Leahy
In-Vivo Intensity Correction and Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Image Data / 199
W. M. Wells III, W. E. L. Grimson, R. Kikinis and F. A. Jolesz
Correction and Quantification of Geometric Distortion in MRI / 203
Thilaka S. Sumanaweera, Gary H. Glover, Samuel M. Song, John R. Adler, and Sandy Napel
The Effects of Magnetic Resonance Image Inhomogeneities on Automated Tissue Classification / 207
Stephen Aylward, James Coggins, Ted Cizadlo and Nancy Andreasen
Semiautomatic Model-Based Segmentation of the Brain from Magnetic Resonance Images / 211
John C. Goble, John W. Snell and William T. Katz
Using a Pattern Recognition Technique to Constrain the Acquisition and Reconstruction of MR Images / 215
Yue Cao and David N. Levin
Enhanced Motion Visualisation and Characterisation in Ultrasound Imaging: Work in Progress / 219
D. H. Cooper, J. Graham
Computer Generated Visual Assistance to a Surgical Operation: the Retroperitoneoscopy / 223
Eric Bainville, Philippe Chaffanjon, Philippe Cinquin
The Wrapper Algorithm for Surface Extraction in Volumetric Data / 227
Andre Gueziec and Robert Hummel
Visualization of Volumetric Structures from MR Images of the Brain / 231
B. Parvin, W. Johnston and D. Robertson
VISLAN: Combining Intra-Operative Video and Pre-Operative Images for Surgical Guidance / 235
A. C. F Colchester, R. L. Evans, J. Zhao, D. J. Hawkes, C. Studholme, D. L. G. Hill, P. Roberts, M. Stephens, N. Maitland, A. J. Strong, M. J. Gleeson, D. G. Thomas, and T. C. S. Cox
Enhanced Reality For Neurosurgical Guidance / 239
P. L. Gleason, R. Kikinis, W. Wells, W. Lorensen, M. S. , H. Cline, G. Ettinger, Peter McL. Black, E. Alexander III, F. Jolesz
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