Medical Imaging Systems Technology: Methods in Cardiovascular And Brain Systems

by Leondes, Cornelius T.

• ISBN13: 9789812569899
• ISBN10: 9812569898
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This scholarly set of well-harmonized volumes provides indispensable and complete coverage of the exciting and evolving subject of medical imaging systems. Leading experts on the international scene tackle the latest cutting-edge techniques and technologies in an in-depth but eminently clear and readable approach.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Geometrical and Structural Analysis of Vessel Systems in 3D Medical Image Datasets	1	(60)
Tobias Boskamp
Horst K. Hahn
Milo Hindennach
Stephan Zidowitz
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Steffen Oeltze
Bernhard Preim
Automatic Methods to Analyze and Quantify Cardiac Left Ventricle Parameters by Means of SPECT	61	(28)
Marco A. Gutierrez
Sergio S. Furuie
Marina S. Rebelo
Jose C. Meneghetti
Left Ventricular Boundary Segmentation from Echocardiography	89	(20)
Ning Lin
Weichuan Yu
James S. Duncan
Application of Ultrasound-Based Computational Fluid Dynamics to Modeling Blood Flow in the Carotid Bifurcation	109	(48)
Alexander D. Augst
Ben Ariff
Dean C. Barratt
Simon A. MCG. Thom
Alun D. Hughes
X. Yun Xu
PDEs-Based Segmentation of Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Theory and Applications	157	(26)
Alessandro Sarti
Cristiana Corsi
Claudio Lamberti
Logic Characterization and Classification of ECG signals	183	(24)
Adam Gacek
Witold Pedrycz
Techniques in Image Segmentation and 3D Visualization in Brain MRI and their Applications	207	(48)
Hyunwook Park
Min Jeong Kwon
Yeji Han
Techniques in Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure	255	(26)
F. Kruggel
Techniques in Automatic Cortical Gray Matter Segmentation of Three-Dimensional (3D) Brain Images	281	(26)
Roman Goldenberg
Ron Kimmel
Ehud Rivlin
Michael Rudzsky
Computer Techniques for the Automatic Segmentation of 3D MR Brain Images	307	(52)
Alan Wee-Chung Liew
Hong Yan
Techniques in the Enhancement of 3D Angiograms and their Applications	359	(38)
Karl Krissian
Gunnar Farneback
Index	397