Computer vision and mathematical methods in medical and biomedical image analysis : ECCV 2004 workshops CVAMIA and MMBIA, Prague, Czech Republic, May 15, 2004 ; revised selected papers

Medical imaging and medical image analysisare rapidly developing. While m- ical imaging has already become a standard of modern medical care, medical image analysis is still mostly performed visually and qualitatively. The ev- increasing volume of acquired data makes it impossible to utilize them in full. Equally important, the visual approaches to medical image analysis are known to su?er from a lack of reproducibility. A signi?cant researche?ort is devoted to developing algorithms for processing the wealth of data available and extracting the relevant information in a computerized and quantitative fashion. Medical imaging and image analysis are interdisciplinary areas combining electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering; computer science; mathem- ics; physics; statistics; biology; medicine; and other ?elds. Medical imaging and computer vision, interestingly enough, have developed and continue developing somewhat independently. Nevertheless, bringing them together promises to b- e?t both of these ?elds. We were enthusiastic when the organizers of the 2004 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) allowed us to organize a satellite workshop devoted to medical image analysis. Front Matter....Pages - Ultrasound Stimulated Vibro-acoustography....Pages 1-10 CT from an Unmodified Standard Fluoroscopy Machine Using a Non-reproducible Path....Pages 11-23 Three-Dimensional Object Reconstruction from Compton Scattered Gamma-Ray Data....Pages 24-34 Cone-Beam Image Reconstruction by Moving Frames....Pages 35-47 AQUATICS Reconstruction Software: The Design of a Diagnostic Tool Based on Computer Vision Algorithms....Pages 48-63 Towards Automatic Selection of the Regularization Parameters in Emission Tomgraphy by Fourier Synthesis....Pages 64-74 Extraction of Myocardial Contractility Patterns from Short-Axes MR Images Using Independent Component Analysis....Pages 75-86 Principal Geodesic Analysis on Symmetric Spaces: Statistics of Diffusion Tensors....Pages 87-98 Symmetric Geodesic Shape Averaging and Shape Interpolation....Pages 99-110 Smoothing Impulsive Noise Using Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering....Pages 111-122 Level Set and Region Based Surface Propagation for Diffusion Tensor MRI Segmentation....Pages 123-134 The Beltrami Flow over Triangulated Manifolds....Pages 135-144 Hierarchical Analysis of Low-Contrast Temporal Images with Linear Scale Space....Pages 145-156 Segmentation of Medical Images with a Shape and Motion Model: A Bayesian Perspective....Pages 157-168 A Multi-scale Geometric Flow for Segmenting Vasculature in MRI....Pages 169-180 A 2D Fourier Approach to Deformable Model Segmentation of 3D Medical Images....Pages 181-192 Automatic Rib Segmentation in CT Data....Pages 193-204 Efficient Initialization for Constrained Active Surfaces, Applications in 3D Medical Images....Pages 205-217 An Information Fusion Method for the Automatic Delineation of the Bone-Soft Tissues Interface in Ultrasound Images....Pages 218-229 Multi-label Image Segmentation for Medical Applications Based on Graph-Theoretic Electrical Potentials....Pages 230-245 Three-Dimensional Mass Reconstruction in Mammography....Pages 246-256 Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms with a Non-parametric Appearance Model....Pages 257-268 Probabilistic Spatial-Temporal Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions....Pages 269-280 Segmenting Cell Images: A Deterministic Relaxation Approach....Pages 281-291 TIGER – A New Model for Spatio-temporal Realignment of FMRI Data....Pages 292-303 Robust Registration of 3-D Ultrasound Images Based on Gabor Filter and Mean-Shift Method....Pages 304-316 Deformable Image Registration by Adaptive Gaussian Forces....Pages 317-328 Statistical Imaging for Modeling and Identification of Bacterial Types....Pages 329-340 Assessment of Intrathoracic Airway Trees: Methods and In Vivo Validation....Pages 341-352 Computer-Aided Measurement of Solid Breast Tumor Features on Ultrasound Images....Pages 353-364 Can a Continuity Heuristic Be Used to Resolve the Inclination Ambiguity of Polarized Light Imaging?....Pages 365-375 Applications of Image Registration in Human Genome Research....Pages 376-384 Fast Marching 3D Reconstruction of Interphase Chromosomes....Pages 385-394 Robust Extraction of the Optic Nerve Head in Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 395-407 Scale-Space Diagnostic Criterion for Microscopic Image Analysis....Pages 408-416 Image Registration Neural System for the Analysis of Fundus Topology....Pages 417-422 Robust Identification of Object Elasticity....Pages 423-435 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of the international workshop Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2004, and Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, MMBIA 2004, both held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2004 as part of EECV 2004.

The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on image acquision techniques, image reconstruction, mathematical methods, medical image segmentation, image registration, and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of the international workshop Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis, CVAMIA 2004, and Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, MMBIA 2004, both held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2004 as part of EECV 2004. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on image acquision techniques, image reconstruction, mathematical methods, medical image segmentation, image registration, and applications It is well known that changes in the elasticity of soft tissues are often related to pathology.