Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Recent Trends (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences Book 19)

This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 – ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009. This conference was the second ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational vision and medical image processing. It covered topics related to image processing and analysis, medical imaging and computational modelling and simulation, considering their multidisciplinary nature. The book collects the state-of-the-art research, methods and new trends on the subject of computational vision and medical image processing contributing to the development of these knowledge areas. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Automatic Segmentation of the Optic Radiation Using DTI in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Glaucoma....Pages 1-15 Real Time Colour Based Player Tracking in Indoor Sports....Pages 17-35 Visualization of the Dynamics of the Female Pelvic Floor Reflex and Steady State Function....Pages 37-74 Population Exposure and Impact Assessment: Benefits of Modeling Urban Land Use in Very High Spatial and Thematic Detail....Pages 75-89 Dynamic Radiography Imaging as a Tool in the Design and Validation of a Novel Intelligent Amputee Socket....Pages 91-112 A Discrete Level Set Approach for Texture Analysis of Microscopic Liver Images....Pages 113-123 Deformable and Functional Models....Pages 125-143 Medical-GiD: From Medical Images to Simulations, 4D MRI Flow Analysis....Pages 145-160 KM and KHM Clustering Techniques for Colour Image Quantisation....Pages 161-174 Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-ray Images....Pages 175-190 Noisy Medical Image Edge Detection Algorithm Based on a Morphological Gradient Using Uninorms....Pages 191-207 Leveraging Graphics Hardware for an Automatic Classification of Bone Tissue....Pages 209-228 A Novel Template-Based Approach to the Segmentation of the Hippocampal Region....Pages 229-246 Model-Based Segmentation and Fusion of 3D Computed Tomography and 3D Ultrasound of the Eye for Radiotherapy Planning....Pages 247-263 Flow of a Blood Analogue Solution Through Microfabricated Hyperbolic Contractions....Pages 265-279 Molecular Imaging of Hypoxia Using Genetic Biosensors....Pages 281-295 Microscale Flow Dynamics of Red Blood Cells in Microchannels: An Experimental and Numerical Analysis....Pages 297-309 Two Approaches for Automatic Nuclei Cell Counting in Low Resolution Fluorescence Images....Pages 311-326 Cerebral Aneurysms: A Patient-Specific and Image-Based Management Pipeline....Pages 327-349 Annotation This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 €“ ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009. This conference was the second ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational vision and medical image processing. It covered topics related to image processing and analysis, medical imaging and computational modelling and simulation, considering their multidisciplinary nature.The book collects the state-of-the-art research, methods and new trends on the subject of computational vision and medical image processing contributing to the development of these knowledge areas This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009. This conference was the second ECCOMAS thematic conference on computational vision and medical image processing. It covered topics related to image processing and analysis, medical imaging and computational modelling and simulation, considering their multidisciplinary nature. This book collects the state-of-the