Search Results - "2013 IEEE International Conference on Medical Imaging Physics and Engineering"

3D pulmonary ventilation based on 4D-CT and Deformation Image Registration by Shu-xu, Zhang, Rui-hao, Wang, Ling-hong, Zhou, Hui, Yu, Guo-quan, Zhang, Bing, Qi, Sheng-qu, Lin

“…BACKGROUND: Existing methods for quantification of lung ventilation require a tracer gas and specialized imaging such as single photon emission computed…”
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A primal dual proximal point method of Chambolle-Pock algorithm for total variation image reconstruction by Yuchao Tang, Yong Cai, Xiang Wang, Jigen Peng

“…Total variation (TV) minimization problems are widely used for solving incomplete data problems in computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction. The present…”
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A texture feature analysis for diagnosis of pulmonary nodules using LIDC-IDRI database by Fangfang Han, Guopeng Zhang, Huafeng Wang, Bowen Song, Hongbing Lu, Dazhe Zhao, Hong Zhao, Zhengrong Liang

“…This paper evaluated the performance of two-dimensional (2D) and 3D texture features from CT images on pulmonary nodules diagnosis using the large database…”
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A study on the positioning accuracy of patient positioning based on Optical Positioning System for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Compared with conventional method by Jie Zhang, Yun Ge, Ying Chen, Xiangning Chen

“…Purpose: The positioning accuracy of cancer center is an important factor for radiotherapy effect. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of…”
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Research and development of medical image fusion by Wang Yang, Jin-Ren Liu

“…Medical image fusion is a kind of new technology including medical image treatment and diagnosis. It can be applied to a wide variety of medical fields such as…”
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Reduction of impulse noise in MRI images using block-based adaptive median filter by Li Lin, Xu Meng, Xiao Liang

“…A block-based adaptive median filter, which aims to purify impulse noise from an MRI image, is discussed in the paper. The proposed filter blocks the image…”
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A Web abdominal anatomical structure database system by Jiafeng Li, Baochun He, Huiyan Jiang, Benqiang Yang, Libo Zhang, Qiang Tong, Aoshuang Dong

“…Abdominal anatomical structure database is a necessary precondition for medical image computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, a Web database system based on…”
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Survey on brain tumor segmentation methods by Hongzhe Yang, Lihui Zhao, Songyuan Tang, Yongtian Wang

“…The segmentation of brain tumor using Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) plays an important role in the medical image process. This paper presents a comprehensive…”
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Denoising low dose CT images via 3D total variation using CUDA by Baolin Mao, Dayu Xiao, Xin Xiong, Xiaozhao Chen, Wei Zhang, Yan Kang

“…The purpose of this paper is to improve the quality of low dose Computed Tomography (CT) images. Low dose artifacts are the Gaussian noises superimposed on the…”
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A comparison of two novel similarity measures based on mutual information in 2D/3D image registration by Lei Wang, Xin Gao, Ran Zhang, Wei Xia

“…In image-guided intervention, 2D/3D medical image registration is crucial to assist the clinician to locate precisely the lesions of the patient, which…”
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Preliminary fMRI research of the human brain activation under stereoscopic vision by Liu Jiajia, Wang Fei, Hong Wei, Gao Song

“…Binocular disparity is of vital importance in stereoscopic vision. It determines the depth magnitude and effects the impression formation when human watch…”
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3D display technology in medical imaging field by Yue Zhao, Yongtao Wei, Xiaoyu Cui, Luxuan Qu, Lin Liu, Yusong Wang

“…3D display can reflect the image depth information and make the image present stereoscopic sensation to improve the medical imaging effect and diagnosis…”
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The shape analysis of ventricular septum based on medical images by Yaonan Zhang, Yu Xu, Jiangyuan Zhu, Tingting Sun

“…In order to make a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, the edge of ventricular endometrial and skeleton line of ventricular septum are extracted by using…”
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An improved 2D-3D medical image registration algorithm based on modified mutual information and expanded Powell method by Yang Lei, Yan Zhang

“…An accurate two-dimensional-three-dimensional (2D-3D) image registration method is introduced in this paper, which is used in image-guided surgery to detect…”
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Image contrast enhancement based on histogram similarity by Lei Zeng, Jian Chen, Li Tong, Bin Yan, Xijian Ping

“…Many images suffer from poor contrast. It is necessary to enhance the contrast of images. Image enhancement improves an image appearance by increasing…”
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The observation of hip joint cartilage of elderly people based on EPIC Micro-CT by Li Xiaofei, Fan Fan, Niu Haijun, Fan Yubo

“…The objective of this study was to observe the age-related changes of sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG) content and surface roughness of hip joint cartilage of…”
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Interactive image segmentation by improved maximal similarity based region merging by Chen Jian, Yan Bin, Jiang Hua, Zeng Lei, Tong Li

“…In medical image processing, interactive image segmentation is an important part, because it can obtain accurate segment results with less human effort…”
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Review: K-space trajectory development by Yanchun Zhu, Song Gao, Liuquan Cheng, Shanglian Bao

“…Many of the recent technological developments in MRI had been focused on improving imaging speed, resolution, and signal-to-noise (SNR). These parameters were…”
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Feature extraction and analysis on X-ray image of Xinjiang Kazak Esophageal cancer by using gray-level histograms by Fang Yang, Hamit, Murat, Kutluk, Abdugheni, Chuanbo Yan, Li Li, Weikang Yuan, Dewei Kong

“…Image feature extraction technology has been widely used in medical field, but there is no related research on image feature extraction of high morbidity of…”
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A software development of DICOM image processing based on QT, VTK and ITK by Sun Mengmeng, Wu Shuicai

“…To display and process images in different DICOM formats, this article introduces a new method of integrating ITK, VTK and QT to process the images in DICOM…”
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