Information Processing in Medical Imaging: Proceedings of the 8th conference, Brussels, 29 August – 2 September 1983

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Digital Methods for Change Detection in Medical Images....Pages 1-16
An Approach to Endocardial Boundary Detection from Sequential Real Time Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Images: Status of the Algorithm and its Validation.....Pages 17-29
Analysis of Dynamic Radionuclide Studies Using Factor Analysis — a new approach....Pages 30-45
Decontamination of Crosstalk in First-Pass Radionuclide Angiocardiography....Pages 46-62
Coded Aperture Tomography Revisited....Pages 63-93
Resolution Limits in Full — and Limited-Angle Tomography....Pages 94-105
New Directions in Coded-Aperture Imaging....Pages 106-129
Preprocessing of Spect Data as a Precursor for Attenuation Correction....Pages 130-150
The Application of Variable Median Window Filtering to Computerised Tomography....Pages 151-168
Art vs. Convolution Algorithms for ECT....Pages 169-184
A Generalized Weighted Backprojection Algorithm for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography....Pages 185-201
Application of Linear Classifiers to the Recognition of the Temporal Behaviour of the Heart....Pages 202-222
A Comparative Review of Methods of Obtaining Amplitude/Phase and Related Images for Gated Cardiac Studies....Pages 223-237
Rapid Automatic Functional Imaging of the Heart and the Application of Time Images....Pages 238-249
The Normal Heart: Patterns for Various Functional Images Obtained from Radionuclide Gated Equilibrium Studies....Pages 250-265
Fourier Filtering Cardiac Time Activity Curves: Sharp Cutoff Filters....Pages 266-281
Data Processing in Nuclear Ventriculography: Assessing Cardiac Function from Noisy Data....Pages 282-298
The Definition of a Single Measure of Regional Wall Motion Abnormality in Scintigraphic Ventriculography....Pages 299-305
Image Analysis -Topological Methods....Pages 306-342
Some Applications of Hierarchical Image Processing Algorithms....Pages 343-369
Acousto-Optic Deconvolution System for Real-Time Echography....Pages 370-391
A Bayesean Algorithm for Resolution Recovery in Clinical Nuclear Medicine....Pages 392-407
Discriminant Analysis of Exercise Renograms....Pages 408-420
A Stochastic Interpretation of Thallium Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy....Pages 421-431
A New Approach for Testing the Significance of Differences Between ROC Curves Measured from Correlated Data....Pages 432-445
Imaging Spatial Distributions of Resistivity Using Applied Potential Tomography — APT....Pages 446-462
An Uncollimated Compton Profile Method for Determination of Osteoporotic Changes in Vertebral Bone Density and Composition....Pages 463-476
Automated Tissue Characterization with NMR Imaging....Pages 477-493
Zonal Parametric Imaging....Pages 494-512
Interactive 3D Display of Medical Images....Pages 513-526
Can We Predict Visual Performance Using a Model of the Human Eye?....Pages 527-543
Unified Analysis of Medical Imaging System SNR Characteristics....Pages 544-559
Back Matter....Pages 561-580