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Chapter and Conference Paper
Estimation of Electrical Pathways Finding Minimal Cost Paths from Electro-Anatomical Map** of the Left Ventricle
The electrical activation of the heart is a complex physiological process that is essential for the understanding of several cardiac dysfunctions, such as ventricular tachycardia (VT). Nowadays, electro-anatom...
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Article
Performance assessment of isolation methods for geometrical cerebral aneurysm analysis
Geometrical aneurysm quantification is considered an important topic for the study of aneurysm formation, growth, risk of rupture and also in treatment planning. Usually, quantification involves aneurysm isola...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cardiac Microstructure Estimation from Multi-photon Confocal Microscopy Images
Construction of realistic models of the muscle fibers in myocardium is relevant for simulating the electro-mechanical behavior of the heart. Advances in microscopy imaging have improved the potential for visua...
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Chapter
Quantitative Analysis of Pyramidal Tracts in Brain Tumor Patients Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is an image modality that provides information about the nerve fiber tracts in the brain white matter. In this chapter, we describe the use of DTI to quantify the damage in fiber...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Anatomical Labeling of the Anterior Circulation of the Circle of Willis Using Maximum a Posteriori Classification
Automated anatomical labeling of the arteries forming the Circle of Willis is of great interest as facilitates inter-subject comparison required to discover geometric risk factors for the development of vascul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3D Modeling of Coronary Artery Bifurcations from CTA and Conventional Coronary Angiography
Coronary artery bifurcations are regions where the atherosclerotic plaque appears more frequently and where the percutaneous treatment is more challenging. To analyze these important vascular regions, in this ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of Anatomic Fiber Bundles for Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis
In this paper we deal with the problem of quantification of diffusion tensor (DT) data sets. A set of measures and a 2D tract map** technique are proposed to analyze the fiber structures in brain white matte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multimodal Evaluation for Medical Image Segmentation
This paper is a joint effort between five institutions that introduces several novel similarity measures and combines them to carry out a multimodal segmentation evaluation. The new similarity measures propose...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Skeleton Extraction of 2D Objects Using Shock Wavefront Detection
This paper proposes a method for computing the medial axis transform (MAT) or the skeleton of a general 2D shape using a technique with a high performance, based on a distance transform computation from the sh...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient Algorithm for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation from Brain MRI
We propose a novel method for the segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions in MRI. The method is based on a three-step approach: first a conventional k-NN classifier is applied to pre-classify gray matter ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
diSNei: A Collaborative Environment for Medical Images Analysis and Visualization
In this paper we describe our environment diSNei, a graphical tool for collaborative image analysis and visualization of models created out of slices of volume data; this application allows a number of users t...
