Medical Imaging and Informatics

Coverage in this proceedings volume includes medical image segmentation and registration, medical informatics, PET, fMRI, ultrasound and thermal imaging, 3D reconstruction and visualization. It also examines relevant legal, ethical and social issues.

This series constitutes a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Medical Imaging and Informatics (MIMI2007), held during August 1416, in Beijing, China. The conference, the second of its kind, was funded by the European Commission (EC) under the Asia IT&C programme and was co-organized by Middlesex University, UK and Capital University of Medical Sciences, China. The aim of the conference was to initiate links between Asia and Europe and to exchange research results and ideas in the field of medical imaging. A wide range of topics were covered during the conference that attracted an audience from 18 countries/regions (Canada, China, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Libya, Macao, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the USA). From about 110 submitted papers, 50 papers were selected for oral presentations, and 20 for posters. Six key-note speeches were delivered during the conference presenting the state of the art of medical informatics. Two workshops were also organized covering the topics of Legal, Ethical and Social Issues in Medical Imaging and Informatics and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD), respectively.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refeered post-conference proceedings of the Second Interational Conference on Medical Imaging and Informatics, MIMI 2007, held in Beijing, China, in August 2007.

The 40 revised full papers presented together with 4 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical image segmentation and registration, medical informatics, PET, fMRI, ultrasound and thermal imaging, 3D reconstruction and visualization. The volume is rounded off by 4 papers from 2 workshops on legal, ethical and social issues in medical imaging and informatics, as well as on computer-aided diagnosis (CAD).

Inhalt
Keynote Speeches.- Complexity Aspects of Image Classification.- The Open Three Consortium: An Open-Source Initiative at the Service of Healthcare and Inclusion.- Extending the Radiological Workplace Across the Borders.- From Frame to Framless Stereotactic OperationClinical Application of 2011 Cases.- Medical Image Segmentation and Registration.- Medical Image Segmentation Based on the Bayesian Level Set Method.- A Worm Model Based on Artificial Life for Automatic Segmentation of Medical Images.- An Iterative Reconstruction for Poly-energetic X-ray Computed Tomography.- Application of Tikhonov Regularization to Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Brain MRI Images.- A Simple Enhancement Algorithm for MR Head Images.- A Novel Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Artificial Ant Colonies.- Characteristics Preserving of Ultrasound Medical Images Based on Kernel Principal Component Analysis.- Robust Automatic Segmentation of Cell Nucleus Using Multi-scale Space Level Set Method.- Principal Geodesic Analysis for the Study of Nonlinear Minimum Description Length.- Medical Informatics.- Learning a FrequencyBased Weighting for Medical Image Classification.- Greek-English Cross Language Retrieval of Medical Information.- Interest Point Based Medical Image Retrieval.- Texture Analysis Using Modified Computational Model of Grating Cells in Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval.- A New Solution to Changes of Business Entities in Hospital Information Systems.- A Software Client for Wi-Fi Based Real-Time Location Tracking of Patients.- Significance of Region of Interest Applied on MRI and CT Images in Teleradiology-Telemedicine.- PET, fMRI, Ultrasound and Thermal Imaging.- Gender Effect on Functional Networks in Resting Brain.- Transferring Whole Blood Time Activity Curve toPlasma in Rodents Using Blood-Cell-Two-Compartment Model.- Prototype System for Semantic Retrieval of Neurological PET Images.- Evaluation of Reference Tissue Model for Serotonin Transporters Using [123I] ADAM Tracer.- A Fast Approach to Segmentation of PET Brain Images for Extraction of Features.- New Doppler-Based Imaging Method in Echocardiography with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation.- Comparison of Chang's with Sorenson's Attenuation Correction Method by Varying Linear Attenuation Coefficient Values in Tc-99m SPECT Imaging.- An Improved Median Filtering System and Its Application of Calcified Lesions' Detection in Digital Mammograms.- Bandwidth of the Ultrasound Doppler Signal with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation in the Left Ventricle.- 3D Reconstruction and Visualization.- Applications of the Visible Korean Human.- Preliminary Application of the First Digital Chinese Human.- 3D Head Reconstruction and Color Visualization of Chinese Visible Human.- A Fast Method to Segment the Liver According to Couinaud's Classification.- The Application of Watersnakes Algorithm in Segmentation of the Hippocampus from Brain MR Image.- Spiral MRI Reconstruction Using Least Square Quantization Table.- A Hybrid Method for Automatic and Highly Precise VHD Background Removal.- Analytic Modeling and Simulating of the Cornea with Finite Element Method.- An Improved Hybrid Projection Function for Eye Precision Location.- Spectropolarimetric Imaging for Skin Characteristics Analysis.- Image-Based Augmented Reality Model for Image-Guided Surgical Simulation.- Workshops.- What ELSE? Regulation and Compliance in Medical Imaging and Medical Informatics.- CAD on Brain, Fundus, and Breast Images.- CAD on Liver Using CT and MRI.- Stroke Suite: Cad Systems for AcuteIschemic Stroke, Hemorrhagic Stroke, and Stroke in ER.