Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 16th International Conference, IPMI’99 Visegrád, Hungary, June 28 – July 2, 1999 Proceedings

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Analytical Study of Bioelasticity Ultrasound Systems....Pages 1-14
MEG Source Imaging Using Multipolar Expansions....Pages 15-28
Binary Tomography for Triplane Cardiography....Pages 29-41
Real Time 3D Brain Shift Compensation....Pages 42-55
Computer Assisted Human Follicle Analysis for Fertility Prospects with 3D Ultrasound....Pages 56-69
Volume Measurement in Sequential Freehand 3-D Ultrasound....Pages 70-83
Automated Identification and Measurement of Objects via Populations of Medial Primitives, with Application to Real Time 3D Echocardiography....Pages 84-97
Continuous Time Dynamic PET Imaging Using List Mode Data....Pages 98-111
Hybrid Geometric Active Models for Shape Recovery in Medical Images....Pages 112-125
Co-dimension 2 Geodesic Active Contours for MRA Segmentation....Pages 126-139
An Adaptive Fuzzy Segmentation Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 140-153
Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Evolving Processes in 3D Medical Images: Application to Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 154-167
Registration of Cortical Anatomical Structures via Robust 3D Point Matching....Pages 168-181
Hierarchical Matching of Cortical Features for Deformable Brain Image Registration....Pages 182-195
Using Local Geometry to Build 3D Sulcal Models....Pages 196-209
ANIMAL+INSECT: Improved Cortical Structure Segmentation....Pages 210-223
Consistent Linear-Elastic Transformations for Image Matching....Pages 224-237
Non-linear Registration with the Variable Viscosity Fluid Algorithm....Pages 238-251
Approximating Thin-Plate Splines for Elastic Registration: Integration of Landmark Errors and Orientation Attributes....Pages 252-265
A Hierarchical Feature Based Deformation Model Applied to 4D Cardiac SPECT Data....Pages 266-279
Local Orientation Distribution as a Function of Spatial Scale for Detection of Masses in Mammograms....Pages 280-293
Physiologically Oriented Models of the Hemodynamic Response in Functional MRI....Pages 294-307
3D Graph Description of the Intracerebral Vasculature from Segmented MRA and Tests of Accuracy by Comparison with X-ray Angiograms....Pages 308-321
A Unified Framework for Atlas Matching Using Active Appearance Models....Pages 322-333
An Integral Method for the Analysis of Wall Motion in Gated Myocardial SPECT Studies....Pages 334-339
Enhanced Artery Visualization in Blood Pool MRA: Results in the Peripheral Vasculature....Pages 340-345
Four-Dimensional LV Tissue Tracking from Tagged MRI with a 4D B-Spline Model....Pages 346-351
Recovery of Soft Tissue Object Deformation from 3D Image Sequences Using Biomechanical Models....Pages 352-357
Forward Deformation of PET Volumes Using Non-uniform Elastic Material Constraints....Pages 358-363
Brain Morphometry by Distance Measurement in a Non-Euclidean, Curvilinear Space....Pages 364-369
Learning Shape Models from Examples Using Automatic Shape Clustering and Procrustes Analysis....Pages 370-375
A Framework for Automated Landmark Generation for Automated 3D Statistical Model Construction....Pages 376-381
Statistical Shape Analysis Using Fixed Topology Skeletons: Corpus Callosum Study....Pages 382-387
Model Generation from Multiple Volumes Using Constrained Elastic SurfaceNets....Pages 388-393
An Intelligent Interactive Segmentation Method for the Joint Space in Osteoarthritic Ankles....Pages 394-399
Anatomical Modeling with Fuzzy Implicit Surfaces: Application to Automated Localization of the Heart and Lungs in Thoracic MR Images....Pages 400-405
Detection of the Central Mass of Spiculated Lesions — Signature Normalisation and Model Data Aspects....Pages 406-411
Noise Estimation and Measures for Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications....Pages 412-417
Measuring the Spatial Homogeneity in Corneal Endotheliums by Means of a Randomization Test....Pages 418-423
The Assessment of Chronic Liver Diseases by Sonography....Pages 424-429
Automatic Computation of Brain and Cerebellum Volumes in Normal Subjects and Chronic Alcoholics....Pages 430-435
Reconstruction from Slow Rotation Dynamic SPECT Using a Factor Model....Pages 436-441
Spectral Factor Analysis for Multi-isotope Imaging in Nuclear Medicine....Pages 442-447
Structural Group Analysis of Functional Maps....Pages 448-453
Incorporating an Image Distortion Model in Non-rigid Alignment of EPI with Conventional MRI....Pages 454-459
The Distribution of Target Registration Error in Rigid-Body, Point-Based Registration....Pages 460-465
A Fast Mutual Information Method for Multi-modal Registration....Pages 466-471
Voxel Similarity Measures for 3D Serial MR Brain Image Registration....Pages 472-477
Radial Basis Function Interpolation for Freehand 3D Ultrasound....Pages 478-483
Nonlinear Smoothing of MR Images Using Approximate Entropy — A Local Measure of Signal Intensity Irregularity....Pages 484-489
New Variants of a Method of MRI Scale Normalization....Pages 490-495
Method for Estimating the Intensity Mapping between MRI Images....Pages 496-501
Back Matter....Pages 503-508