Image Analysis and Recognition: 9th International Conference, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Multi-stage Visible Wavelength and Near Infrared Iris Segmentation Framework....Pages 1-10
Two Unconstrained Biometric Databases....Pages 11-19
Multibiometric System Using Level Set Method and Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 20-29
Explicit Integration of Identity Information from Skin Regions to Improve Face Recognition....Pages 30-37
Hand-Geometry Based Recognition System....Pages 38-45
Local Gradient Increasing Pattern (LGIP) for Facial Representation and Gender Recognition....Pages 46-53
Quality-Based Fingerprint Segmentation....Pages 54-63
A New Multi-camera Based Facial Expression Analysis Concept....Pages 64-71
Entropy in Biometric Face Template Analysis....Pages 72-79
Combining Face with Face-Part Detectors under Gaussian Assumption....Pages 80-89
Generalized Local Discriminant Embedding for Face Recognition....Pages 90-97
Depth Information in Human Gait Analysis: An Experimental Study on Gender Recognition....Pages 98-105
A Depth Camera Based Fall Recognition System for the Elderly....Pages 106-113
Heuristic and Voxel-Based Signature for Hand Posture Recognition Using a Range Camera....Pages 114-121
A Compound Eigenspace for Recognizing Directed Human Activities....Pages 122-129
Hand Detection and Tracking Using the Skeleton of the Blob for Medical Rehabilitation Applications....Pages 130-137
Denoising 3D Medical Images Using a Second Order Variational Model and Wavelet Shrinkage....Pages 138-145
Robust Impulse-Noise Filtering for Biomedical Images Using Numerical Interpolation....Pages 146-155
Segmenting Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Using a Spatially Constrained K-Nearest Neighbour Approach....Pages 156-163
A Segmentation Model and Application to Endoscopic Images....Pages 164-171
Dental X-Ray Image Segmentation and Object Detection Based on Phase Congruency....Pages 172-179
Automatic Lane Detection in Chromatography Images....Pages 180-187
Segmentation and Detection of Colorectal Polyps Using Local Polynomial Approximation....Pages 188-197
Hemoglobin and Melanin Quantification on Skin Images....Pages 198-205
Lung Tumor Segmentation Using Electric Flow Lines for Graph Cuts....Pages 206-213
Segmentation and Analysis of the Oral and Nasal Cavities from MR Time Sequences....Pages 214-221
Automatic Internal Segmentation of Caudate Nucleus for Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder....Pages 222-229
Automated Segmentation of Brain Tumor Using Optimal Texture Features and Support Vector Machine Classifier....Pages 230-239
Class-Specific Mahalanobis Distance Metric Learning for Biological Image Classification....Pages 240-248
Supervised Content Based Image Retrieval Using Radiology Reports....Pages 249-258
Computer Aided Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI Brain Images....Pages 259-267
Separability Analysis of Color Classes on Dermoscopic Images....Pages 268-277
Pedicle Detection in Planar Radiographs Based on Image Descriptors....Pages 278-285
Function-Valued Mappings, Total Variation and Compressed Sensing for diffusion MRI....Pages 286-295
Structure from Motion Based Approaches to 3D Reconstruction in Minimal Invasive Laparoscopy....Pages 296-303
Non-rigid Diffeomorphic Image Registration of Medical Images Using Polynomial Expansion....Pages 304-312
An Illumination Model of the Trachea Appearance in Videobronchoscopy Images....Pages 313-320
Adaptive Windowing for Optimal Visualization of Medical Images Based on a Structural Fidelity Measure....Pages 321-330
Descriptive Image Feature for Object Detection in Medical Images....Pages 331-338
3D Retinal Vascular Network from Optical Coherence Tomography Data....Pages 339-346
The Significance of the Vessel Registration for a Reliable Computation of Arteriovenous Ratio....Pages 347-354
Fast Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using a Deformable Contour Model....Pages 355-362
Detection of Retinal Vascular Bifurcations by Rotation- and Scale-Invariant COSFIRE Filters....Pages 363-371
Detection of Neovascularization for Screening of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 372-379
Ensemble Classification System Applied for Retinal Vessel Segmentation on Child Images Containing Various Vessel Profiles....Pages 380-389
Automatic Cup-to-Disc Ratio Estimation Using Active Contours and Color Clustering in Fundus Images for Glaucoma Diagnosis....Pages 390-399
Detection of Peri-Papillary Atrophy and RNFL Defect from Retinal Images....Pages 400-407
Automatic Photoreceptor Detection in In-Vivo Adaptive Optics Retinal Images: Statistical Validation....Pages 408-415
Automatic Detection of Optic Disc from Retinal Fundus Images Using Dynamic Programming....Pages 416-423
Automatic Localization of the Optic Disc in Retinal Images Based on the Entropy of Vascular Directions....Pages 424-431
Automatic Assessment of Leishmania Infection Indexes on In Vitro Macrophage Cell Cultures....Pages 432-439
Analysis of Whole Slide Images of Equine Tendinopathy....Pages 440-447
Curvelet-Based Texture Description to Classify Intact and Damaged Boar Spermatozoa....Pages 448-455
Comparison of Methods for Splitting of Touching and Overlapping Macrophages in Fluorescent Micrographs....Pages 456-464
Segmentation of Muscle Fibres in Fluorescence Microscopy Images....Pages 465-472
Generation of Synthetic Image Datasets for Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 473-482
Cervical Cell Classification Based Exclusively on Nucleus Features....Pages 483-490
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