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    Similarity Metrics for Intensity-Based Registration Using Breast Density Maps

    Intensity-based registration algorithms have been widely used in medical image applications. This type of registration algorithms uses an object function to compute a transformation and optimizes a measure of ...

    Eloy García, Arnau Oliver, Yago Diez, Oliver Diaz in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2017)

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    Feasibility of Depth Sensors to Study Breast Deformation During Mammography Procedures

    Virtual clinical trials (VCT) currently represent key tools for breast imaging optimisation, especially in two-dimensional planar mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. Voxelised breast models are a cru...

    Oliver Díaz, Arnau Oliver, Sergi Ganau, Eloy García, Joan Martí in Breast Imaging (2016)

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    Comparison of Methods for Current-to-Prior Registration of Breast DCE-MRI

    The use of prior studies to complement the information in Breast Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) can help to reduce the currently high false positive ratios. Registration is a fu...

    Yago Diez, Albert Gubern-Mérida, Lei Wang, Susanne Diekmann, Joan Martí in Breast Imaging (2014)

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    SIFT Texture Description for Understanding Breast Ultrasound Images

    Texture is a powerful cue for describing structures that show a high degree of similarity in their image intensity patterns. This paper describes the use of Self-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT), both as low...

    Joan Massich, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Melcior Sentís, Sergi Ganau, Elsa Pérez in Breast Imaging (2014)

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    Feasibility Study of Lesion Detection Using Deformable Part Models in Breast Ultrasound Images

    Detection of lesions in ultrasound imaging typically requires human analysis due to their complexity. Hence, computerized lesion detection methods could be used to help radiologists in this process due to the ...

    Gerard Pons, Robert Martí, Sergi Ganau in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2013)

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    Automatic Seed Placement for Breast Lesion Segmentation on US Images

    Breast lesion boundaries have been mostly extracted by using conventional approaches as a previous step in the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems. Among these, region growing is a frequently used ...

    Joan Massich, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Melcior Sentís, Sergi Ganau, Elsa Pérez in Breast Imaging (2012)

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    Simultaneous Lesion Segmentation and Bias Correction in Breast Ultrasound Images

    Ultrasound (US) B-mode images often show intensity inhomogeneities caused by an ultrasonic beam attenuation within the body. Due to this artifact, the conventional segmentation approaches based on intensity or...

    Gerard Pons, Joan Martí, Robert Martí in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2011)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Digital Mammography

    10th International Workshop, IWDM 2010, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings

    Joan Martí, Arnau Oliver, Jordi Freixenet in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2010)

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    Lesion Segmentation in Breast Sonography

    Sonography is gaining popularity as an adjunct screening technique for assessing abnormalities in the breast. This is particularly true in cases where the subject has dense breast tissue, wherein widespread te...

    Joan Massich, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Elsa Pérez, Robert Martí in Digital Mammography (2010)

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    Multi-Scale Image Analysis Applied to Radioastronomical Interferometric Data

    Multi-Scale image analysis is specially suited to detect objects in deep wide field radio astronomical images obtained through interferometric aperture synthesis techniques. These images are usually complex an...

    Marta Peracaula, Joan Martí, Jordi Freixenet in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2009)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

    Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part II

    Joan Martí, José Miguel Benedí in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

    Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

    Joan Martí, José Miguel Benedí in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007)

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    Optimally Discriminant Moments for Speckle Detection in Real B-Scan Images

    Detection of speckle in ultrasound (US) images has been regarded as an important research topic in US imaging, mainly focusing on two specific applications: improving signal to noise ratio by removing speckle ...

    Robert Martí, Joan Martí, Jordi Freixenet in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2007)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    On the Detection of Regions-of-Interest in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

    Multivariate imaging technologies such as Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) have recently gained an important attention as it improves tumour detection. Modelling of contrast media...

    David Raba, Marta Peracaula, Robert Martí in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2007)

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    False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection Using Two-Dimensional PCA

    In this paper we present a novel method for reducing false positives in breast mass detection. Our approach is based on using the Two-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis (2DPCA) algorithm, recently propos...

    Arnau Oliver, Xavier Lladó, Joan Martí in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2007)

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    False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection Using Local Binary Patterns

    In this paper we propose a new approach for false positive reduction in the field of mammographic mass detection. The goal is to distinguish between the true recognized masses and the ones which actually are n...

    Arnau Oliver, Xavier Lladó, Jordi Freixenet in Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assis… (2007)

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    Breast Segmentation with Pectoral Muscle Suppression on Digital Mammograms

    Previous works on breast tissue identification and abnormalities detection notice that the feature extraction process is affected if the region processed is not well focused. Thereby, it is important to split ...

    David Raba, Arnau Oliver, Joan Martí in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2005)

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    A Learning Framework for Object Recognition on Image Understanding

    In this paper an object learning system for image understanding is proposed. The knowledge acquisition system is designed as a supervised learning task, which emphasises the role of the user as teacher of the ...

    Xavier Muñoz, Anna Bosch, Joan Martí in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2005)

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    Colour Texture Segmentation by Region-Boundary Cooperation

    A colour texture segmentation method which unifies region and boundary information is presented in this paper. The fusion of several approaches which integrate both information sources allows us to exploit the...

    Jordi Freixenet, Xavier Muñoz, Joan Martí, Xavier Lladó in Computer Vision - ECCV 2004 (2004)

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    Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features

    In this paper we propose a supervised method for the segmentation of masses in mammographic images. The algorithm starts with a selected pixel inside the mass, which has been manually selected by an expert rad...

    Joan Martí, Jordi Freixenet, Xavier Muñoz in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (2003)