Information Processing in Medical Imaging

This volume presents the proceedings of IPMI '91, with sections on image formation and reconstruction, priors in tomographic reconstruction, multi-modal registration, segmentation, anatomical models, factor analysis, rule based systems and learning, image quality and interaction.

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Colour plates.- Surgical probe design for a coincidence imaging system without a collimator.- Voxel based Monte Carlo calculations of nuclear medicine images and applied variance reduction techniques.- SPECT scatter correction in non-homogeneous media.- Cone beam single photon emission computed tomography using two orbits.- Spline-based regularisation for discrete FBP reconstruction.- Reconstruction of 3-D branching structures.- Preliminary examination of the use of case specific medical information as "prior" in Bayesian reconstruction.- On reconstruction and segmentation of piecewise continuous images.- Incorporation of anatomical MR data for improved functional imaging with PET.- Bayesian reconstruction of functional images using registered anatomical images as priors.- Interactive 3D patient image registration.- Marker guided registration of electromagnetic dipole data with tomographic images.- An anatomical-based 3D registration system of multimodality and atlas data in neurosurgery.- Registration of brain images by a multi-resolution sequential method.- Automating segmentation of dual-echo MR head data.- Automatic detection of brain contours in MRI data sets.- Towards automated analysis in 3D cardiac MR imaging.- Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance images using mean field annealing.- A stochastic model for automated detection of calcifications in digital mammograms.- Scale space: Its natural operators and differential invariants.- Scale and segmentation of grey-level images using maximum gradient paths.- Using uncertainty to link 3D edge detection and local surface modelling.- Boundary estimation in ultrasound images.- Topological classification in digital space.- Shape-based interpolation using a chamfer distance.- Thin-Plate splines and the atlas problem forbiomedical images.- Non-rigid motion models for tracking the left-ventricular wall.- Model-based recognition of multiple deformable objects using a game-theoretic framework.- Extraction of background distributions from abnormal data sets: Application to radiolabelled leucocyte imaging.- A quantitative comparison of current methods of factor analysis of dynamic structures (FADS) in renal dynamic studies.- Confirmatory aspects in factor analysis of image sequences.- Trainable models for the interpretation of echocardiogram images.- KIDS : A distributed expert system for biomedical image interpretation.- Learning of uncertain classification rules in biomedical images: The case of colposcopic images.- A fuzzy model for the processing and recognition of MR pathological images.- Linear discriminants and image quality.- Edge-affected context for adaptive contrast enhancement.- Incremental volume rendereing algorithm for interactive 3D ultrasound imaging.- Compression of sequences of 3D-volume surface projections.