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In this paper we address the problem of bone segmentation in MRI images of children, in the region of the pelvis. To cope with the complex structure of the bones in this region and their changing topology during growth, we propose a method relying on 3D bone templates. These models are built from 3D CT images. For a given MRI volume, the closest template is chosen and registered on the MRI data. This...
In the context of vessel tree structures segmentation with implicit deformable models, we propose to exploit convolution surfaces to introduce a novel variational formulation, robust to bifurcations, tangential vessels and aneurysms. Vessels are represented by an implicit function resulting from the convolution of the centerlines of the vessels, modeled as a second implicit function, with localized...
This article presents a novel photoreceptor detection algorithm applied to in-vivo Adaptive Optics (AO) images of the retina obtained from an advanced ophthalmic diagnosis device. Our algorithm is based on a recursive construction of thresholded connected components when the seeds of the recursions are the regional maxima of the image. This algorithm results in a labeling of the AO image which is...
Evaluating myocardial viability is an important prognostic factor in the follow-up of infarctions. Delayed Enhancement magnetic resonance (DE-MR) imaging allows precise delineation of the infarct transmural extent. Visual interpretation is the most commonly used method to assess the myocardial infarction (MI) transmural extent. This study proposes to automate the segmentation of the (DE) images prior...
This paper proposes an automated method for the segmentation of eight retinal layers in high resolution OCT images. It has been evaluated based on comparison with manual segmentation performed by five different experts. The method has been successfully applied on a database of 72 images. Quantitative measures are then derived as an aid to ophthalmic diagnosis. A good agreement with measures derived...
Recent improvements of fetal MRI acquisitions now allow three-dimensional segmentation of fetal structures, to extract bio-metrical measures for pregnancy follow-up. Automation of the segmentation process remains a difficult challenge, given the complexity of the fetal organs and their spatial organization. As a starting point, we propose in this paper a fully automated segmentation method to localize...
Routine evaluation of the regional ventricular function in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) remains mostly based on visual analysis of cine loops and subsequent interobserver variability remains a potential drawback for diagnosis and follow-up of coronary artery disease (CAD). In this paper we propose a method that ensures automated assessment of normalized mean contraction times and radial endocardial...
A statistical variational framework is proposed for the fetus and uterus segmentation in ultrasound images. The Rayleigh and exponential distributions are used to model the pixel intensity. An energy is derived to perform an optimal partition of the 3D data into two classes corresponding to these two distributions, in a Bayesian MAP framework. Some numerical difficulties are raised by the combination...
An automated, level-set based, segmentation framework is proposed in this work for computation of tumoral volumes on mice brain bearing gliomal tumors. Tl and T2 weighted MRI images were acquired to monitor tumor growth, at different time points. We developed an original multi-phase and multi-channel segmentation method, based on the level set framework of Chan and Vese, to facilitate the estimation...
We propose a new Bayesian, stochastic tracking algorithm for the segmentation of blood vessels from 3D medical image data. Inspired by the recent developments in particle filtering, it relies on a constrained, medial-based geometric model and on an original sampling scheme for the selection of tracking hypotheses. A key property of this new sampling scheme is the ability to take into account a distribution...
Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been gaining interest over the last two decades. Current fast MRI sequences provide imaging data of the whole uterus in less than 20 seconds, avoiding fetal motion related artifacts without any maternal or fetal sedation. MRI has proved to be a useful adjunct to echographic screening for prenatal diagnosis. However, MRI volumetric data is still mainly interpreted...
In this paper we present an automatic approach to segment cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images. A preprocessing step that consists in filtering the image using connected operators (area opening and closing filters) is applied in order to homogenize the cavity and solve the problems due to the papillary muscles. Thereby the GVF snake algorithm is applied with one point clicked in the cavity as initialization...
Complex multimedia medical information is being increasingly used to enable diagnosis. Despite the recognized potential of emerging exploitation of such medical information, known electronic patient record applications do not offer the possibility to make use of them. In order to examine the interest of handling complementary medical information, this work focuses on the integration into the electronic...
As well as words in text processing, image regions are polysemic and need some disambiguation. If the set of representations of two different objects are close or intersecting, a region that is in the intersection will be recognized as being possibly both objects. We propose here a way to disambiguate regions using some knowledge on relative spatial positions between these regions. Given a segmented...
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