This two-volume set on Deformable Models: Biomedical and Clinical Applications & Theory and Biomaterial Applications provides a wide cross-section of the methods and algorithms of variational and PDE methods in biomedical image analysis. The chapters are written by well-known researchers in this field, and the presentation style goes beyond an intricate abstraction of the theory into real application of the methods and description of the algorithms that were implemented. As such these chapters will serve the main goal of the editors of these two volumes in bringing down to earth the latest in variational and PDE methods in modeling of soft tissues.

Overall, the thirty-one chapters in the two volumes provide an elegant crosssection of the theory and application of variational and PDE approaches in medical image analysis. Graduate students and researchers at various levels of familiarity with these techniques will find the two volumes very useful for understanding the theory and algorithmic implementations. In addition, the various case studies provided demonstrate the power of these techniques in clinical applications.

Researchers at various levels will find these chapters useful to understand the theory, algorithms, and implementation of many of these approaches.

Each Chapter has a Pseudo Code - a method to help biomedical engineers know how to program (write) their own techniques

Klappentext

This two-volume set on Deformable Models: Biomedical and Clinical Applications & Theory and Biomaterial Applications provides a wide cross-section of the methods and algorithms of variational and PDE methods in biomedical image analysis. The chapters are written by well-known researchers in this field, and the presentation style goes beyond an intricate abstraction of the theory into real application of the methods and description of the algorithms that were implemented. As such these chapters will serve the main goal of the editors of these two volumes in bringing down to earth the latest in variational and PDE methods in modeling of soft tissues.

Overall, the thirty-one chapters in the two volumes provide an elegant crosssection of the theory and application of variational and PDE approaches in medical image analysis. Graduate students and researchers at various levels of familiarity with these techniques will find the two volumes very useful for understanding the theory and algorithmic implementations. In addition, the various case studies provided demonstrate the power of these techniques in clinical applications.

Researchers at various levels will find these chapters useful to understand the theory, algorithms, and implementation of many of these approaches.

Inhalt

Level Set Methods in Medical Imaging: Approaches and Applications.- Breast Boundary Estimation Using Active Deformable Models.- Application of Deformable Models in Ultrasound Breast Imaging.- Inertial snake for contour detection in Ultrasonography images.- MGRF Controlled Deformable Models with Shape Constraints: Applications to Quantify Kidney Function after Implants.- Deformable Models and Level Set for Medical Imagery.- Level Set for Medical Imagery.- Deformable Models for 3-D Ultrasound Prostate Imaging.- Application of 3-D Deformable Models for Bioinformatics Imaging.- PDE and Level set approaches in 4D for analysis of brain surface in dyslexia.- Deformable Models for CT.- Deformable Models in Orthopedics.- Level Set in Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Deformable Models used in Pathology Imaging.- Future of Deformable Models: Critical Issues.