Shape Analysis in Medical Image Analysis (eBook)

Preface.- Part I: Methods and Models.- 1. Shape Analysis for Brain Structures: A Review, by Bernard Ng, Matthew Toews, Stanley Durrleman, Yonggang Shi.- 2. Shape Analysis in Molecular Imaging, by Fei Gao, Pengcheng Shi.- 3. Variational Shape Representation for Modeling, Elastic Registration and Segmentation, by Amal A. Farag, Ahmed Shalaby, Aly A. Farag.- 4. Image Computing Based on Bayesian Models, by Zhong Xue, Stephen Wong.- 5. Shape-Constrained Deformable Models and Applications in Medical Imaging, by Jürgen Weese, Irina Waechter-Stehle, Lyubomir Zagorchev, Jochen Peters.- Part II: Application Cases.- 6. Accurate Pathology Segmentation in FLAIR MRI for Robust Shape Characterization, by April Khademi, Alan R. Moody, Anastasios Venetsanopoulos.- 7. Groupwise Registration of Brain Images, by Zhenyu Tang, Yong Fan.- 8. Modeling of Lung Nodules from LDCT of the Human Chest: Algorithms and Evaluation for CAD Systems, by Amal A. Farag, James Graham, Salwa Elshazly, Mohamed Al-Mogy, Aly Farag.- 9. Analyzing the Shape and Motion of the Lung and Heart in Dynamic Pulmonary Imaging, by Jianming Liang, Tim McInerney, Demetri Terzopoulos.- 10. Epithelial Cell Segmentation via Shape Ranking, by Alberto Santamaria-Pang, Yuchi Huang, Jens Rittscher.- 11. Computational Modeling of the Spine, by T. Klinder, S. Kadoury, C. Lorenz.- 12. Shape Constraints for the Left Ventricle Segmentation from Cardiac Cine MRI Based on Snake Models, by Yuanquan Wang, Yuwei Wu, Yunde Jia.- 13. An Optical Flow Approach to Assessment of Ventricular Shape Change Based on Echocardiography, by Amir A. Amini, Nirmanmoh Bhatia, Rita Longaker, Motaz Alshaher, Marcus Stoddard and Vahid Tavakoli.