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Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision

  • Includes recent advances in theoretical foundations of medical image processing
  • Highlights healthcare challenges from research to clinical practice
  • Treats the role of numerical simulation in the clinical practice
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCVB, volume 19)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. On the Evaluation of Automated MRI Brain Segmentations: Technical and Conceptual Tools

    • Elisabetta Binaghi, Valentina Pedoia, Desiree Lattanzi, Emanuele Monti, Sergio Balbi, Renzo Minotto
    Pages 1-17
  3. Analysis of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Texture Related to the Thickness Measured by Optical Coherence Tomography

    • J. Odstrcilik, R. Kolar, R. P. Tornow, A. Budai, J. Jan, P. Mackova et al.
    Pages 19-40
  4. Continuum Mechanics Meets Echocardiographic Imaging: Investigation on the Principal Strain Lines in Human Left Ventricle

    • A. Evangelista, S. Gabriele, P. Nardinocchi, P. Piras, P. E. Puddu, L. Teresi et al.
    Pages 41-54
  5. A GPU Accelerated Algorithm for Blood Detection inWireless Capsule Endoscopy Images

    • Sunil Kumar, Isabel N. Figueiredo, Carlos Graca, Gabriel Falcao
    Pages 55-71
  6. Automated Image Mining in fMRI Reports: a Meta-research Study

    • N. Gonçalves, G. Vranou, R. Vigário
    Pages 73-88
  7. A 3D Computed Tomography Based Tool for Orthopedic Surgery Planning

    • João Ribeiro, Victor Alves, Sara Silva, Jaime Campos
    Pages 121-137
  8. Preoperative Planning of Surgical Treatment with the Use of 3D Visualization and Finite Element Method

    • Wojciech Wolański, Bożena Gzik-Zroska, Edyta Kawlewska, Marek Gzik, Dawid Larysz, Józef Dzielicki et al.
    Pages 139-163
  9. Pretreatment and Reconstruction of Three-dimensional Images Applied in a Locking Reconstruction Plate for a Structural Analysis with FEA

    • João Paulo O. Freitas, Edson A. Capello de Sousa, Cesar R. Foschini, Rogerio R. Santos, Sheila C. Rahal
    Pages 165-172
  10. Tortuosity Influence on the Trabecular Bone Elasticity and Mechanical Competence

    • Waldir Leite Roque, Angel Alberich-Bayarri
    Pages 173-191
  11. Influence of Beam Hardening Artifact in Bone Interface Contact Evaluation by 3D X-ray Microtomography

    • I. Lima, M. Marquezan, M. M. G. Souza, E. F. Sant’Anna, R. T. Lopes
    Pages 193-206
  12. Anisotropy Estimation of Trabecular Bone in Gray-Scale: Comparison Between Cone Beam and Micro Computed Tomography Data

    • Rodrigo Moreno, Magnus Borga, Eva Klintström, Torkel Brismar, Örjan Smedby
    Pages 207-220
  13. Fractured Bone Identification from CT Images, Fragment Separation and Fracture Zone Detection

    • Félix Paulano, Juan J. Jiménez, Rubén Pulido
    Pages 221-239
  14. On Evolutionary Integral Models for Image Restoration

    • E. Cuesta, A. Durán, M. Kirane
    Pages 241-260
  15. A Study of a Firefly Meta-Heuristics for Multithreshold Image Segmentation

    • H. Erdmann, G. Wachs-Lopes, C. Gallão, M. P. Ribeiro, P. S. Rodrigues
    Pages 279-295
  16. Visual-Inertial 2D Feature Tracking based on an Affine Photometric Model

    • Dominik Aufderheide, Gerard Edwards, Werner Krybus
    Pages 297-317
  17. Inferring Heading Direction from Silhouettes

    • Amina Bensebaa, Slimane Larabi, Neil M. Robertson
    Pages 319-334

About this book

This book presents novel and advanced topics in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision in order to solidify knowledge in the related fields and define their key stakeholders. It contains extended versions of selected papers presented in VipIMAGE 2013 – IV International ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, which took place in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 14-16 October 2013.

 The twenty-two chapters were written by invited experts of international recognition and address important issues in medical image processing and computational vision, including: 3D vision, 3D visualization, colour quantisation, continuum mechanics, data fusion, data mining, face recognition, GPU parallelisation, image acquisition and reconstruction, image and video analysis, image clustering, image registration, image restoring, image segmentation, machine learning, modelling and simulation, object detection, object recognition, object tracking, optical flow, pattern recognition, pose estimation, and texture analysis.

 Different applications are addressed and described throughout the book, comprising: biomechanical studies, bio-structure modelling and simulation, bone characterization, cell tracking, computer-aided diagnosis, dental imaging, face recognition, hand gestures detection and recognition, human motion analysis, human-computer interaction, image and video understanding, image processing, image segmentation, object and scene reconstruction, object recognition and tracking, remote robot control, and surgery planning.

 This volume is of use to researchers, students, practitioners and manufacturers from several multidisciplinary fields, such as artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biology, biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational vision, computer graphics, computer science, computer vision, human motion, imagiology, machine learning, machine vision, mathematics, medical image, medicine, patternrecognition, and physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of mechanical engineering, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Manuel R. S. Tavares

  • Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Renato Natal Jorge

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