BookAyman S. El-Baz, Luca Saba, Jasjit Suri, editors.
Summary: Covers novel, state-of-the-art strategies in engineering and clinical analysis. Explores approaches for analyzing abdominal imaging, including lung, mediastinum, pleura, liver, kidney and gallbladder. Offers present and future applications as applied to the abdomen and thoracic imaging with the most world-renowned scientists in these fields.
Contents:
1. Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems for Acute Renal Transplant Rejection: Challenges and Methodologies / Mahmoud Mostapha, Fahmi Khalifa, Amir Alansary, Ahmed Soliman, Jasjit Suri, and Ayman S. El-Baz
2. Kidney Detection and Segmentation in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound 3D Images / Raphael Prevost, Benoit Mory, Remi Cuingnet, Jean-Michel Correas, Laurent D. Cohen, and Roberto Ardon
3. Renal Cortex Segmentation on Computed Tomography / Xinjian Chen, Dehui Xiang, Wei Ju, Heming Zhao, and Jianhua Yao
4. Diffuse Fatty Liver Disease: From Diagnosis to Quantification / Luís Curvo-Semedo, Daniel Ramos Andrade, Catarina Ruivo, Cláudia Paulino, and Filipe Caseiro-Alves
5. Multimodality Approach to Detection and Characterization of Hepatic Hemangiomas / Rajan T. Gupta and Daniele Marin
6. Ultrasound Liver Surface and Textural Characterization for the Detection of Liver Cirrhosis / Ricardo Ribeiro, Rui T. Marinho, Jasjit Suri, and J. Miguel Sanches
7. MR Imaging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma / Dong Ho Lee and Jeong Min Lee
8. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas / Richard C. Semelka, Luz Adriana Escobar, Najwa Al Ansari, and Charles Thomas Alexander Semelka
9. Quantitative Evaluation of Liver Function Within MR Imaging / Akira Yamada
10. Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Liver / Ali Muhi, Tomoaki Ichikawa, and Utaroh Motosugi
11. Shape-Based Liver Segmentation Without Prior Statistical Models / Ahmed Afifi and Toshiya Nakaguchi
12. CT Imaging Characteristics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma / Masahiro Okada and Takamichi Murakami
13. Clinical Applications of Hepatobiliary MR Contrast Agents / Antoine Wadih and Sebastian Feuerlein
14. Fast Object Detection Using Color Features for Colonoscopy Quality Measurements / Jayantha Muthukudage, JungHwan Oh, Ruwan Nawarathna, Wallapak Tavanapong, Johnny Wong, and Piet C. de Groen
15. Colon Surface Registration Using Ricci Flow / Wei Zeng, Rui Shi, Zhengyu Su, and David Xianfeng Gu
16. Efficient Topological Cleaning for Visual Colon Surface Flattening / Wei Zeng, Rui Shi, Zhengyu Su, and David Xianfeng Gu
17. Towards Self-Parameterized Active Contours for Medical Image Segmentation with Emphasis on Abdomen / Eleftheria A. Mylona, Michalis A. Savelonas, and Dimitris Maroulis
18. Bridging the Gap Between Modeling of Tumor Growth and Clinical Imaging / Behnaz Abdollahi, Neal Dunlap, and Hermann B. Frieboes
19. Evaluation of Medical Image Registration by Using High-Accuracy Image Matching Techniques / Zisheng Li and Tsuneya Kurihara
20. Preclinical Visualization of Hypoxia, Proliferation and Glucose Metabolism in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer and Its Metastasis / Xiao-Feng Li and Yuanyuan Ma
21. Thermoacoustic Imaging with VHF Signal Generation: A New Contrast Mechanism for Cancer Imaging Over Large Fields of View / Michael Roggenbuck, Jared Catenacci, Ryan Walker, Eric Hanson, Jiang Hsieh, and S.K. Patch
22. Automated Prostate Cancer Localization with Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Yusuf Artan, Imam Samil Yetik, and Masoom A. Haider
23. Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy Registration for Intraoperative Dynamic Dosimetry in Prostate Brachytherapy / Ehsan Dehghan, Nathanael Kuo, Anton Deguet, Yi Le, Elwood Armour, E. Clif Burdette, Danny Y. Song, Gabor Fichtinger, Jerry L. Prince, and Junghoon Lee
24. Multi-Atlas-Based Segmentation of Pelvic Structures from CT Scans for Planning in Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy / Oscar Acosta, Jason Dowling, Gael Drean, Antoine Simon, Renaud de Crevoisier, and Pascal Haigron
25. Propagating Segmentation of a Single Example to Similar Images: Differential Segmentation of the Prostate in 3-D MRI / Emmanouil Moschidis and James Graham
26. 3D Registration of Whole-Mount Prostate Histology Images to Ex Vivo Magnetic Resonance Images Using Strand-Shaped Fiducials / E. Gibson, M. Gaed, J.A. Gómez, M. Moussa, C. Romagnoli, S. Pautler, J.L. Chin, C. Crukley, G.S. Bauman, A. Fenster, and A.D. Ward
27. Anatomical Landmark Detection / David Liu and S. Kevin Zhou.