Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2009

Kingston University

Preface

Objectives

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Contents

Invited Talk 1

The Frontier between Radiology and Image Processing

Prof Andrew Todd-Pokropek, University College, London

Podium Session 1: Medical imaging

Session Chair: Prof. Jamshid Dehmeshki

Super Resolution in MRI: How far can we go?

H.J. Coward and G.J. Barker

Enhanced Motion Correction in Long TR phMRI through Dual Modified Temporal Cluster Analysis

J. McGonigle, M. Mirmehdi, R. Holmes, R. Tyacke, A. Malizia

Reconstruction of Clinical dPET Data using Empirical Mode Decomposition Temporal Regularisation

A. McLennan, M. Brady and M. Kelly

Temporal compounding and its Effect on Clinical Measurements of Cardiac Ultrasound Data

A. Perperidis, D. Cusack, N. McDicken, T. MacGillivray and T. Anderson

Podium Session 2: Vascular image analysis I

Session Chair Dr. Jim Graham

Coronary Artery Tracking from Dynamic Cardiac CT Sequences

D.P. Zhang, O. Pedro, K. Mori, P. Edwards and D. Rueckert

Segmentation and Deformation Analysis of the Aorta in Gated CTA sequences in a MDL Framework

E. Schwartz, G. Langs, J. Holfeld, R. Gottardi, C. Loewe, P. Peloschek and M. Czerny

Automatic Detection, Segmentation and Quantification of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm using Computed Tomography Angiography

J. Dehmeshki, H. Amin, Kingston University and M Ebadian-Dehkordi, A Jouannic, and S Qanadli

Detection of Capillary Vessels in Optical Coherence Tomography Based on a Probabilistic Kernel

E. Dittrich, R. Neji,, T. Schmoll, S. Schriefl, C. Ahlers, R.A. Leitgeb, G. Langs

Invited Talk 2

Making Sense of Cortical Folding

Prof. A.C.F. Colchester

Podium Session 3: Clinical challenges 

Session Chair: Dr. Neil Thacker

Intraobserver and Interobserver Variability of Ascending Aorta Diameter mMasurements as Assessed with ECG-gated MDCT: Automatic Versus Manual Measurements

T. Lu, E. Rizzo, P.M. Marques-Vidal, J. Dehmeshki, L.K. Von Segesser and S.D. Qanadli

Early Prediction of Responses/Benefits from Anticancer Treatment using DCE-MRI and Pharmaco-kinetic Modelling

M. Bruynooghe, C. Farges and C. de Bazelaire

Imaging of Tumour Blood Flow and Necrosis using Stable Xenon CT: can Angiogenesis and Necrosis be Quantified In Vivo?

M. Crocker, M.C. Papadopoulos and B.A. Bell

Intra-Cranial Tumour Boundary Delineation using a Novel MR-DTI Segmentation Technique

T. Jones, B.A. Bell and T.R. Barrick 

Podium Session 4: Vascular image analysis II

Session Chair:  Dr. William Crum

Automatic Generation of a Geometric Model for Representing the Left Ventricle of the Human Heart

S. Schäfer, C.M. Hentschke and K. Tönnies

Comparing Appearance and Edge Information for Myocardial Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in 3D Echocardiography using Graph Cuts

M. Verhoek, K. Rajpoot, A. Blake and J.A. Noble

Initial Results of an Automatic Blood-Vessel Segmentation Procedure in Digital Fundus Photographs via Multiscale Line Operators and Global Threshold Selection

D.J.J. Farnell

Podium Session 5: Modelling

Session Chair: Dr. Ali Hojjat

Evaluating Different Structures for Predicting Skeletal Maturity using Statistical Appearance Models

S.A. Adeshina, T.F. Cootes and J.E. Adams

Construction of a Dynamic 4D Probabilistic Atlas for the Developing Brain

M. Murgasova, P. Aljabar, L. Srinivasan, D. Edwards, J. Hajnal and D. Rueckert

Robust Estimation of Pharmacokinetic Modelling Parameters for the Analysis of Colorectal Tumours

L. N. Tanner, N. P. Hughes, N. Joshi, M. Brady, M. Anderson and F.V. Gleeson

Scoring of Breast Tissue Microarrays using Ordinal Regression: Local Patches vs. Nuclei Segmentation

T. Amaral, M. Sciarabba, S. McKenna, K. Robertson, and A. Thompson

Invited Talk 3

Computer-aided Diagnosis in Radiology

Dr. Hiro Yoshida

Podium Session 6: Segmentation and classification

Session Chair: Dr. Xianghua Xie

Detecting Early Response to Therapy in Liver Cancer Treatment: 3D Metastases Segmentation using Graph-cuts with a Modified Prior

T. Szilágyi, M. Verhoek and J.A. Noble

A Quality-of-fit Function for Evaluating Deformable Model-based Segmentations of Anatomical Structures in Medical Data

K. Engel and K. Tönnies

Mid-level Shape Priors for Supervised Contouring

T. Shepherd and D.C. Alexander

Automatic Classification of In Vivo Distal Lung Images for Computer-Aided Diagnosis

C. Petitjean, C. Desir, M. Salauen, L. Thiberville and L. Heutte

A Comparison of Two Random-Sampling Approaches to Spectral Clustering in Tissue Classification

W.R. Crum

Poster Session 1

Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in SPECT by an Active Surface

C.M. Hentschke, K. Engel, S. Schäfer, and K.D. Tönnies

Validation Study on Automatic Methods for the Registration of Carotid Multi-Contrast MR Images

L. Biasiolli, J.A. Noble and M.D. Robson

Combining Active Surfaces and Fuzzy Labels for Cortical Functional Activation Mapping

K. Engel, K. Tönnies and A. Brechmann

Simultaneous Reconstruction and Registration Algorithm for Limited View Transmission Tomography using a Bivariate Gaussian Approximation to the Joint Histogram

D. Van de Sompel, A. McLennan, and M. Brady

Spatio-Temporal Image Registration for Respiratory Motion Correction in PET

W. Bai and M. Brady

An Error Analysis of Probabilistic Fibre Tracking Methods: Average Curves Optimization

N. Ratnarajah, A. Simmons, O. Davydov and A. Hojjat

A Robust Method for the Estimation of 4D Pharmacokinetic Parameters in dceMRI Data in Colorectal Cancer Patients

D. Morofke, M. Anderson, F.V. Gleeson and M. Brady

Non-rigid Elastic Registration of Retinal Images using Local Window Mutual Information

P.A. Legg, P.L. Rosin, D. Marshall and J.E. Morgan

Extraction of Tumor Vascularisation in Fluorescent Confocal Microscopy

P. Wang, C. Kelly and M. Brady

A Histogram Approach for the Screening of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

M.A.A. Hizazi, F. Coenen and Y. Zheng

Enhanced 3D Visualisation of Skin Disorders for Tele-dermatology

A.R. Farooq, J. Sun, M.L. Smith, L. N. Smith, R. Warr and S. Cotton

Local Spatial Frequency Image Properties and Radiological Decisions

M.W. Pietrzyk, D.J. Manning, T. Donovan and A. Dix

Comparative Analysis of Automatic Exudate Detections with Traditional and Machine Learning Methods

A. Sopharak, B. Uyyanonvara, S. Barman and T.J. Williamson

Segmentation of Human Upper Airway Using a Level Set Based Deformable Model

S.Y. Yeo, X. Xie, I. Sazonov and P. Nithiarasu

Speckle Reduction with Attenuation Compensation for Skin OCT Images Enhancement

M.-R. Nasiri-Avanaki and A. Hojjat

A Registration Framework for Preoperative CT to Intraoperative White Light Images

M. Gooroochurn, M. Ovinis, D. Kerr, K. Bouazza-Marouf and M. Vloeberghs

Poster Session 2

Segmentation of Human Zygotes in Hoffman Modulation Contrast Images

A. Giusti, G. Corani, L. Gambardella, C. Magli and L. Gianaroli

Detection of Linear Structures in 3D Breast Tomosynthesis Images

E.M. Hadley, P.R. Bakic, A.D.A. Maidment and R. Zwiggelaar

Detection and Quantitative Measurement of Neuronal Outgrowth in Fluorescence Microscopy Images

W. Yu, H.K. Lee, S. Hariharan, W. Bu and S. Ahmed

Local Phase Significance Estimated with Uncertainties to Detect Fibrotic Regions from In Vivo Pancreatic Cancer Images

A.T. Szilagyi, M. Brady, T. Brunner and N.B. Joshi

Simulation of User Interaction for Performance Evaluation of Interactive Image Segmentation Methods

E. Moschidis and J. Graham

Feasibility Evaluation of Thoracic CT Automatic Segmentation for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Treatment

M. Chen, E. Helm, N.B. Joshi, M. Brady and F. Gleeson

Classification Performance related to Intrinsic Dimensionality in Mammographic Image Analysis

H. Strange and R. Zwiggelaar

Correcting Distorted Histology Slices for 3D Reconstruction

X. Qiu, T. Pridmore and A. Pitiot

An Evaluation of Photo-consistency for Intra-operative Registration in an Image Enhanced Surgical Navigation (IESN) System

G. Gonzalez and R.J. Lapeer

Automated Lipid Droplets Recognition in Human Steatotic Liver: Some Preliminary Results

M. Sciarabba, M. Vertemati, C. Moscheni, M. Cossa and L. Vizzotto

Accelerated Generation of Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs using Parallel Processing

O. Dorgham, M. Fisher and S. Laycock

Non-invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology Imaging: Boundary Element Formulation for the Forward and Inverse Model

Y. Ruan, S. Arridge, M. Sermesant, P.P. Chinchapatnam, K.S. Rhode and R. Razavi

Automatic Assessment of Iron Deposits in MR Brain Images

M.C. Valdés Hernández, P.A Armitage and J.M. Wardlaw

Nerve Fibre Extraction in Confocal Corneal Microscopy Images for Human Diabetic Neuropathy Detection using Gabor Filters

M.A. Dabbah, J. Graham, M.A. Tavakoli, I.N. Petropoulos and R.A. Malik

Geometric Quantification of Tendon Second Harmonic Images

A.K. Harvey, M.S. Thompson, Z. Cui and M. Brady