Handbook of Research on Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Imaging and Biomedical Applications

Themis P. Exarchos, Themis P. Exarchos, Athanasios Papadopoulos, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis160566314X, 978-1-60566-314-2

”This book includes state-of-the-art methodologies that introduce biomedical imaging in decision support systems and their applications in clinical practice”–Provided by publisher

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Table of contents :
Title
……Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board……Page 4
List of Contributors……Page 5
Table of Contents……Page 8
Detailed Table of Contents……Page 14
Preface……Page 27
About the Editors……Page 29
Computational Methods and Tools for Decision Support in Biomedicine: An Overview of Algorithmic Challenges……Page 30
Integrating Imaging and Clinical Data for Decision Support……Page 47
Analysis and Quantification of Motion within the Cardiovascular System: Implications for the Mechanical Strain of Cardiovascular Structures……Page 63
New Developments in Intracoronary Ultrasound Processing……Page 77
Diagnostic Support Systems and Computational Intelligence: Differential Diagnosis of Hepatic Lesions from Computed Tomography Images……Page 89
Significance Estimation in fMRI from Random Matrices……Page 105
Optimal Diffusion Encoding Strategies for Fiber Mapping in Diffusion MRI……Page 119
Segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images……Page 137
Image Registration Algorithms for Applications in Oncology……Page 155
Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Breast Imaging: Trends and Challenges……Page 171
Assessment of Stroke by Analysing Carotid Plaque Morphology……Page 189
Quantitative Analysis of Hysteroscopy Imaging in Gynaecological Cancer……Page 210
Combining Geometry and Image in Biomedical Systems: The RT TPS Case……Page 226
Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry using Quantitative 3-D Nuclear Medical Imaging……Page 242
Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Fiber Tractography……Page 258
Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for Facial Expression Recognition……Page 276
Developments and Advances in Biomedical Functional Infrared Imaging……Page 292
DNA Microarrays: Analysis and Interpretation……Page 307
Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for the Segmentation of cDNA Microarray Images……Page 323
Recent Advances in Automated Chromosome Image Analysis……Page 336
Machine Learning in Morphological Segmentation……Page 349
Pit Pattern Classification Using Multichannel Features and Multiclassification……Page 364
Automatic Identification and Elastic Properties of Deformed Objects Using their Microscopic Images……Page 380
Nonlinear Ultrasound Radiation-Force Elastography……Page 402
Dynamic Contrast Enhancement: Analysis’s Models and Methodologies……Page 421
Automatic Correspondence Methods towards Point-Based Medical Image Registration: An Evaluation Study……Page 436
Anomaly Detection in Medical Image Analysis……Page 455
Evaluation of Medical Image Compression……Page 476
Advanced ROI Coding Techniques for Medical Imaging……Page 489
Segmentation Methods in Ultrasound Images……Page 502
Compilation of References……Page 517
About the Contributors……Page 576
Index……Page 593