Developments in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision

Preface.- On the evaluation of automated MRI brain segmentations: technical and conceptual tools, by Elisabetta Binaghi, Valentina Pedoia, Desiree Lattanzi, Emanuele Monti, Sergio Balbi, Renzo Minotto.- Analysis of the retinal nerve fiber layer texture related to the thickness measured by optical coherence tomography, by J. Odstrcilik, R. Kolar, R.P. Tornow, A. Budai, J. Jan, P. Mackova, M. Vodakova.- Continuum mechanics meets echocardiographic imaging: investigation on the principal strain lines in human left ventricle, by A. Evangelista, S. Gabriele, P. Nardinocchi, P. Piras, P.E. Puddu, L. Teresi, C. Torromeo, V. Varano.- A GPU accelerated algorithm for blood detection in wireless capsule endoscopy images, by Sunil Kumar, Isabel N. Figueiredo, Carlos Graça, Gabriel Falcão.- Automated image mining in fMRI Reports: a meta-research study, by N. Gonçalves, G. Vranou, R. Vigário.- Visual pattern recognition framework based on the best rank tensor decomposition, by B. Cyganek.- Tracking red blood cells flowing through a microchannel with a hyperbolic contraction: an automatic method, by B. Taboada, F. C. Monteiro, R. Lima.- A 3D computed tomography based tool for orthopedic surgery planning, by João Ribeiro, Victor Alves, Sara Silva, Jaime Campos.- Preoperative planning of surgical treatment with the use of 3D visualization and finite element method, by Wolanski Wojciech, Gzik-Zroska Bozena, Kawlewska Edyta, Gzik Marek, Dzielicki Józef, Larysz Dawid, Rudnik Adam.- Pretreatment and reconstruction of three-dimensional images applied in a locking reconstruction plate for a structural analysis with FEA, by João Paulo O. Freitas, Edson A. Capello de Sousa, Cesar R. Foschini, Rogerio R. Santos, Sheila C. Rahal.- Tortuosity influence on the trabecular bone elasticity and mechanical competence, by Waldir Leite Roque, Angel Alberich-Bayarri.- Influence of beam hardening artifact in bone interface contact evaluation by 3D X-ray microtomography, by I. Lima, M.Marquezan, M. M. G. Souza, E. F. Sant'Anna, R. T. Lopes.- Anisotropy estimation of trabecular bone in gray-scale: comparison between cone beam and micro computed tomography data, by Rodrigo Moreno, Magnus Borga, Eva Klintström, Torkel Brismar, Örjan Smedby.- Fractured bone identification from CT images, fragment separation and fracture zone detection, by Félix Paulano, Juan J. Jiménez, Rubén Pulido.- On evolutionary integral models for image restoration, by E. Cuesta, A. Durán, M. Kirane.- Colour image quantisation using KM and KHM clustering techniques with outlier-based initialization, by Henryk Palus, Mariusz Frackiewicz.- A study of a firefly meta-heuristics for multithreshold image segmentation, by H. Erdmann, G. Wachs-Lopes, C. Gallão, M. P. Ribeiro, P. S. Rodrigues.- Visual-inertial 2D feature tracking based on an affine photometric model, by Dominik Aufderheide, Gerard Edwards and Werner Krybus.- Inferring heading direction from silhouettes, by Amina Bensebaa, Slimane Larabi, Neil M. Robertson.- A fast and accurate algorithm for detecting and tracking moving hand gestures, by Walter C. S. S. Simões, Ricardo da S. Barboza, Vicente F. de Lucena Jr., Rafael D. Lins.- Hand gesture recognition system based in computer vision and machine learning, by Paulo Trigueiros, Fernando Ribeiro, Luís Paulo Reis.- 3D Scanning using RGBD imaging devices: a survey, by Eduardo E. Hitomi, Jorge V. L. Silva, Guilherme C. S. Ruppert.