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Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis

  • Presents innovative, cloud-based medical image analysis benchmarks

  • Highlights both the basic paradigm of Evaluation-as-a-Service and its application

  • Appeals to medical imaging researchers as well as developers and users of benchmarks on huge amounts of data

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Evaluation-as-a-Service

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. VISCERAL: Evaluation-as-a-Service for Medical Imaging

      • Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller
      Pages 3-13Open Access
    3. Using the Cloud as a Platform for Evaluation and Data Preparation

      • Ivan Eggel, Roger Schaer, Henning Müller
      Pages 15-30Open Access
  3. VISCERAL Datasets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Ethical and Privacy Aspects of Using Medical Image Data

      • Katharina Grünberg, Andras Jakab, Georg Langs, Tomàs Salas Fernandez, Marianne Winterstein, Marc-André Weber et al.
      Pages 33-43Open Access
    3. Annotating Medical Image Data

      • Katharina Grünberg, Oscar Jimenez-del-Toro, Andras Jakab, Georg Langs, Tomàs Salas Fernandez, Marianne Winterstein et al.
      Pages 45-67Open Access
    4. Datasets Created in VISCERAL

      • Markus Krenn, Katharina Grünberg, Oscar Jimenez-del-Toro, András Jakab, Tomàs Salas Fernandez, Marianne Winterstein et al.
      Pages 69-84Open Access
  4. VISCERAL Benchmarks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. Evaluation Metrics for Medical Organ Segmentation and Lesion Detection

      • Abdel Aziz Taha, Allan Hanbury
      Pages 87-105Open Access
    3. VISCERAL Anatomy Benchmarks for Organ Segmentation and Landmark Localization: Tasks and Results

      • Orcun Goksel, Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez
      Pages 107-125Open Access
    4. Retrieval of Medical Cases for Diagnostic Decisions: VISCERAL Retrieval Benchmark

      • Oscar Jimenez-del-Toro, Henning Müller, Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez, Georg Langs, Allan Hanbury
      Pages 127-141Open Access
  5. VISCERAL Anatomy Participant Reports

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Automatic Atlas-Free Multiorgan Segmentation of Contrast-Enhanced CT Scans

      • Assaf B. Spanier, Leo Joskowicz
      Pages 145-164Open Access
    3. Automatic Multiorgan Segmentation Using Hierarchically Registered Probabilistic Atlases

      • Razmig Kéchichian, Sébastien Valette, Michel Desvignes
      Pages 185-201Open Access
    4. Multiatlas Segmentation Using Robust Feature-Based Registration

      • Frida Fejne, Matilda Landgren, Jennifer Alvén, Johannes Ulén, Johan Fredriksson, Viktor Larsson et al.
      Pages 203-218Open Access
  6. VISCERAL Retrieval Participant Reports

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. Combining Radiology Images and Clinical Metadata for Multimodal Medical Case-Based Retrieval

      • Oscar Jimenez-del-Toro, Pol Cirujeda, Henning Müller
      Pages 221-236Open Access
    3. Text- and Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval in the VISCERAL Retrieval Benchmark

      • Fan Zhang, Yang Song, Weidong Cai, Adrien Depeursinge, Henning Müller
      Pages 237-249Open Access

About this book

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.

This book presents the VISCERAL project benchmarks for analysis and retrieval of 3D medical images (CT and MRI) on a large scale, which used an innovative cloud-based evaluation approach where the image data were stored centrally on a cloud infrastructure and participants placed their programs in virtual machines on the cloud. The book presents the points of view of both the organizers of the VISCERAL benchmarks and the participants.




The book is divided into five parts. Part I presents the cloud-based benchmarking and Evaluation-as-a-Service paradigm that the VISCERAL benchmarks used. Part II focuses on the datasets of medical images annotated with ground truth created in VISCERAL that continue to be available for research. It also covers the practical aspects of obtaining permission to use medical data and manually annotating 3D medical images efficiently and effectively. The VISCERAL benchmarks are described in Part III, including a presentation and analysis of metrics used in evaluation of medical image analysis and search. Lastly, Parts IV and V present reports by some of the participants in the VISCERAL benchmarks, with Part IV devoted to the anatomy benchmarks and Part V to the retrieval benchmark.





This book has two main audiences: the datasets as well as the segmentation and retrieval results are of most interest to medical imaging researchers, while eScience and computational science experts benefit from the insights into using the Evaluation-as-a-Service paradigm for evaluation and benchmarking on huge amounts of data.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Allan Hanbury

  • University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland

    Henning Müller

  • Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Georg Langs

About the editors

Allan Hanbury is Senior Researcher at the TU Wien, Austria, and was the coordinator of the EU-funded VISCERAL project on evaluation of algorithms on big data. His research interests include data science, information retrieval, multimodal information retrieval, and the evaluation of information retrieval systems and algorithms.

Henning Müller is professor in computer sciences at the HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland and in medicine at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on medical information retrieval, the organization of data science challenges and multimodal data analysis for big data and the underlying computing infrastructures.

Georg Langs is the Head of the Computational Imaging Research Lab (CIR) at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and is also affiliated with the Medical Vision Group at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His main research interests are in neuroimaging, machine learning and medical image analysis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cloud-Based Benchmarking of Medical Image Analysis

  • Editors: Allan Hanbury, Henning Müller, Georg Langs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49644-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • License: CC BY-NC

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49642-9Published: 24 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84207-3Published: 28 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49644-3Published: 16 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, System Performance and Evaluation

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