Medical Imaging and Informatics: 2nd International Conference, MIMI 2007, Beijing, China, August 14-16, 2007 Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter....Pages -
Complexity Aspects of Image Classification....Pages 1-4
The Open Three Consortium: An Open-Source Initiative at the Service of Healthcare and Inclusion....Pages 5-11
Extending the Radiological Workplace Across the Borders....Pages 12-17
From Frame to Framless Stereotactic Operation—Clinical Application of 2011 Cases....Pages 18-24
Medical Image Segmentation Based on the Bayesian Level Set Method....Pages 25-34
A Worm Model Based on Artificial Life for Automatic Segmentation of Medical Images....Pages 35-43
An Iterative Reconstruction for Poly-energetic X-ray Computed Tomography....Pages 44-50
Application of Tikhonov Regularization to Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Brain MRI Images....Pages 51-56
A Simple Enhancement Algorithm for MR Head Images....Pages 57-62
A Novel Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Artificial Ant Colonies....Pages 63-71
Characteristics Preserving of Ultrasound Medical Images Based on Kernel Principal Component Analysis....Pages 72-79
Robust Automatic Segmentation of Cell Nucleus Using Multi-scale Space Level Set Method....Pages 80-88
Principal Geodesic Analysis for the Study of Nonlinear Minimum Description Length....Pages 89-98
Learning a Frequency–Based Weighting for Medical Image Classification....Pages 99-108
Greek-English Cross Language Retrieval of Medical Information....Pages 109-117
Interest Point Based Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 118-124
Texture Analysis Using Modified Computational Model of Grating Cells in Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 125-132
A New Solution to Changes of Business Entities in Hospital Information Systems....Pages 133-140
A Software Client for Wi-Fi Based Real-Time Location Tracking of Patients....Pages 141-150
Significance of Region of Interest Applied on MRI and CT Images in Teleradiology-Telemedicine....Pages 151-159
Gender Effect on Functional Networks in Resting Brain....Pages 160-168
Transferring Whole Blood Time Activity Curve to Plasma in Rodents Using Blood-Cell-Two-Compartment Model....Pages 169-178
Prototype System for Semantic Retrieval of Neurological PET Images....Pages 179-188
Evaluation of Reference Tissue Model for Serotonin Transporters Using [ 123 I] ADAM Tracer....Pages 189-196
A Fast Approach to Segmentation of PET Brain Images for Extraction of Features....Pages 197-206
New Doppler-Based Imaging Method in Echocardiography with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation....Pages 207-215
Comparison of Chang’s with Sorenson’s Attenuation Correction Method by Varying Linear Attenuation Coefficient Values in Tc-99m SPECT Imaging....Pages 216-222
An Improved Median Filtering System and Its Application of Calcified Lesions’ Detection in Digital Mammograms....Pages 223-232
Bandwidth of the Ultrasound Doppler Signal with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation in the Left Ventricle....Pages 233-242
Applications of the Visible Korean Human....Pages 243-251
Preliminary Application of the First Digital Chinese Human....Pages 252-261
3D Head Reconstruction and Color Visualization of Chinese Visible Human....Pages 262-269
A Fast Method to Segment the Liver According to Couinaud’s Classification....Pages 270-276
The Application of Watersnakes Algorithm in Segmentation of the Hippocampus from Brain MR Image....Pages 277-286
Spiral MRI Reconstruction Using Least Square Quantization Table....Pages 287-293
A Hybrid Method for Automatic and Highly Precise VHD Background Removal....Pages 294-303
Analytic Modeling and Simulating of the Cornea with Finite Element Method....Pages 304-311
An Improved Hybrid Projection Function for Eye Precision Location....Pages 312-321
Spectropolarimetric Imaging for Skin Characteristics Analysis....Pages 322-329
Image-Based Augmented Reality Model for Image-Guided Surgical Simulation....Pages 330-339
What ELSE? Regulation and Compliance in Medical Imaging and Medical Informatics....Pages 340-357
CAD on Brain, Fundus, and Breast Images....Pages 358-366
CAD on Liver Using CT and MRI....Pages 367-376
Stroke Suite: Cad Systems for Acute Ischemic Stroke, Hemorrhagic Stroke, and Stroke in ER....Pages 377-386
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