Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis

✍ Scribed by Bernard Ng, Matthew Toews, Stanley Durrleman, Yonggang Shi (auth.), Shuo Li, João Manuel R. S. Tavares (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics 14
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains thirteen contributions from invited experts of international recognition addressing important issues in shape analysis in medical image analysis, including techniques for image segmentation, registration, modelling and classification and applications in biology, as well as in cardiac, brain, spine, chest, lung and clinical practice.

This volume treats topics such as for example, anatomic and functional shape representation and matching; shape-based medical image segmentation; shape registration; statistical shape analysis; shape deformation; shape-based abnormity detection; shape tracking and longitudinal shape analysis; machine learning for shape modeling and analysis; shape-based computer-aided-diagnosis; shape-based medical navigation; benchmark and validation of shape representation, analysis and modeling algorithms.

This work will be of interest to researchers, students and manufacturers in the fields of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational vision, computer sciences, human motion, mathematics, medical imaging, medicine, pattern recognition and physics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Shape Analysis for Brain Structures....Pages 3-49
Shape Analysis in Molecular Imaging....Pages 51-93
Variational Shape Representation for Modeling, Elastic Registration and Segmentation....Pages 95-121
Image Computing Based on Bayesian Models (BM)....Pages 123-149
Shape-Constrained Deformable Models and Applications in Medical Imaging....Pages 151-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Accurate Pathology Segmentation in FLAIR MRI for Robust Shape Characterization....Pages 187-227
Groupwise Registration of Brain Images for Establishing Accurate Spatial Correspondence of Brain Structures....Pages 229-257
Modeling of Lung Nodules from LDCT of the Human Chest: Algorithms and Evaluation for CAD Systems....Pages 259-290
Analyzing the Shape and Motion of the Lungs and Heart in Dynamic Pulmonary Imaging....Pages 291-314
Epithelial Cell Segmentation via Shape Ranking....Pages 315-338
Computational Modeling of the Spine....Pages 339-371
Shape Constraints for the Left Ventricle Segmentation from Cardiac Cine MRI Based on Snake Models....Pages 373-412
An Optical Flow Approach to Assessment of Ventricular Shape Change Based on Echocardiography....Pages 413-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-442

✦ Subjects

Biomedical Engineering; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Imaging / Radiology