Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 17th International Conference, IPMI 2001 Davis, CA, USA, June 18–22, 2001 Proceedings

On the Difficulty of Detecting Tumors in Mammograms....Pages 1-11
Objective Comparison of Quantitative Imaging Modalities Without the Use of a Gold Standard....Pages 12-23
Theory for Estimating Human-Observer Templates in Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Experiments....Pages 24-35
The Active Elastic Model....Pages 36-49
A Minimum Description Length Approach to Statistical Shape Modelling....Pages 50-63
Multi-scale 3-D Deformable Model Segmentation Based on Medial Description....Pages 64-77
Automatic 3D ASM Construction via Atlas-Based Landmarking and Volumetric Elastic Registration....Pages 78-91
A Regularization Scheme for Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 92-105
Distributed Anatomical Brain Connectivity Derived from Diffusion Tensor Imaging....Pages 106-120
Study of Connectivity in the Brain Using the Full Diffusion Tensor from MRI....Pages 121-133
Incorporating Image Processing in a Clinical Decision support system....Pages 134-140
Automated Estimation of Brain Volume in Multiple Sclerosis with BICCR....Pages 141-147
Automatic Image Registration for MR and Ultrasound Cardiac Images....Pages 148-154
Estimating Sparse Deformation Fields Using Multiscale Bayesian Priors and 3-D Ultrasound....Pages 155-161
Automatic Registration of Mammograms Based on Linear Structures....Pages 162-168
Tracking Brain Deformations in Time-Sequences of 3D US Images....Pages 169-175
Robust Multimodal Image Registration Using Local Frequency Representations....Pages 176-182
Steps Toward a Stereo-Camera-Guided Biomechanical Model for Brain Shift Compensation....Pages 183-189
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Functional Images Using the Fixed Effect Model....Pages 190-196
Spatio-Temporal Covariance Model for Medical Images Sequences: Application to Functional MRI Data....Pages 197-203
Microvascular Dynamics in the Nailfolds of Scleroderma Patients Studied Using Na-Fluorescein dye....Pages 204-210
Time Curve Analysis Techniques for Dynamic Contrast MRI Studies....Pages 211-217
Detecting Functionally Coherent Networks in fMRI Data of the Human Brain Using Replicator Dynamics....Pages 218-224
Smoothness Prior Information in Principal Component Analysis of Dynamic Image Data....Pages 225-231
Estimation of Baseline Drifts in fMRI....Pages 232-238
Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure....Pages 239-245
Motion Correction Algorithms of the Brain Mapping Community Create Spurious Functional Activations....Pages 246-258
Estimability of Spatio-Temporal Activation in fMRI....Pages 259-271
A New Approach to the MEG/EEG Inverse Problem for the Recovery of Cortical Phase-Synchrony....Pages 272-285
Neural Field Dynamics on the Folded Three-Dimensional Cortical Sheet and Its Forward EEG and MEG....Pages 286-299
A Unified Feature Registration Method for Brain Mapping....Pages 300-314
Cooperation between Local and Global Approaches to Register Brain Images....Pages 315-328
Landmark and Intensity-Based, Consistent Thin-Plate Spline Image Registration....Pages 329-343
Validation of Non-rigid Registration Using Finite Element Methods....Pages 344-357
A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing the Euclidean Distance Transform in Arbitrary Dimensions....Pages 358-364
An Elliptic Operator for Constructing Conformal Metrics in Geometric Deformable Models....Pages 365-371
Using a Linear Diagnostic Function and Non-rigid Registration to Search for Morphological Differences Between Populations: An Example Involving the Male and Female Corpus Callosum....Pages 372-379
Shape Constrained Deformable Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 380-387
Stenosis Detection Using a New Shape Space for Second Order 3D-Variations....Pages 388-394
Graph-Based Topology Correction for Brain Cortex Segmentation....Pages 395-401
Intuitive, Localized Analysis of Shape Variability....Pages 402-408
A Sequential 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Medical Applications....Pages 409-415
An Adaptive Level Set Method for Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 416-422
Partial Volume Segmentation of Cerebral MRI Scans with Mixture Model Clustering....Pages 423-430
Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing and Segmentation of 4-D Medical Images via Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis....Pages 431-437
Spatio-Temporal Segmentation of Active Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Serial MRI Data....Pages 438-445
Time-Continuous Segmentation of Cardiac Image Sequences Using Active Appearance Motion Models....Pages 446-452
Feature Enhancement in Low Quality Images with Application to Echocardiography....Pages 453-460
3D Vascular Segmentation Using MRA Statistics and Velocity Field Information in PC-MRA....Pages 461-467
Markov Random Field Models for Segmentation of PET Images....Pages 468-474
Statistical Study on Cortical Sulci of Human Brains....Pages 475-487
Detecting Sisease-Specific Patterns of Brain Structure Using Cortical Pattern Matching and a Population-Based Probabilistic Brain Atlas....Pages 488-501
Medial Models Incorporating Object Variability for 3D Shape Analysis....Pages 502-516
Deformation Analysis for Shape Based Classification....Pages 517-530