Information Processing in Medical Imaging: Proceedings of the 9th Conference, Washington D.C., 10-14 June 1985

ISBN-13: 9789401083928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 568 str.

Stephen L. Bacharach

Opis

Proceedings of the 9th Conference, Washington D.C., 10-14 June 1985 Sponsored by the Clinical Center and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Spis treści

From Medical Images to the Biometrics of Form.- Human Visual Signal Detection and Identification Performance.- An Image Description for Object Definition, Based on Extremal Regions in the Stack.- Some Aspects of MR Image Processing and Display: Simulation Studies, Multiresolution Segmentation and Adaptive Histogram Equalization.- Tissue Type Identification by MRI Using Pyramidal Segmentation and Intrinsic Parameters.- Simulation Techniques for Evaluating Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- The Development of a Command Language and Meta-Language in Nuclear Medicine Processing Systems, Using Forth.- Prolog for Symbolic Image Analysis.- Recent Developments in Applied Potential Tomography-APT.- The Design and Performance of a Digital Ionographic Imaging System.- Application of Information Processing Techniques to Ophthalmic Imaging.- Visualization of the Oxygenation State of Brain and Muscle in Newborn Infants by Near Infra-Red Transillumination.- The Use of Set Theory and Cluster Analysis to Investigate the Constraint Problem in Factor Analysis in Dynamic Structures (FADS).- Factor Analysis: Its Place in the Evaluation of Ventricular Regional Wall Motion Abnormalities.- Adaptive Frequency-Domain Filtering of Dynamic Scintigraphies.- Application of the Fourier Descriptors Method for Plane Closed Curves to the Analysis of Sequences of Left Ventricular Contours in Cardiac Radionuclide Angiographies.- Thyroid Tomography Using a Seven Pinhole Collimator.- Strategies for Informative Displays of Blood Vessels Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data.- Pulsatile Blood Flow Measurements with the Aid of 3-D Reconstructions from Dynamic Angiographic Recordings.- Correlation Methods for Tomographic Images Using Two and Three Dimensional Techniques.- A New Approach to Double Tracer Studies.- Some Maximum Likelihood Methods Useful for the Regional Analysis of Dynamic Pet Data on Brain Glucose Metabolism.- The Development and Assessment of a Computer Aid for Use in the Diagnosis of Cerebral Disease.- An Editor for the Acquisition of Medical Expert Knowledge: Function and Use shown by an Automatic Knowledge-based System for the Analysis of Heart Scintigrams.- Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization Using a Diagnostic Expert System.- Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Vessels from Digital Subtracted Angiograms: A Knowledge-Based Approach.- Utilization of Non-Negativity Constraints in Reconstruction of Emission Tomograms.- Image Reconstruction in Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography.- Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Vascular Beds.- A Systematic Approach to the Design of Diagnostic Systems for Nuclear Medicine.- Spect Imaging Required for Radioimmunotherapy Dosimetry Investigations: Importance of Collimation in Development of Mathematical Models to Correct for Recovery Coefficient (RC) Dependence on Object Size, Photon Energy and Background.- Methodology for Predicting the Performance of Different PET Camera Designs.- A Technique for Scattered Event Compensation in a PET System Using TOF Information.- Analysis and Display of Medical Images Obtained with the Hidac Positron Camera.- A Colorful Alternative to Digital Subtraction.- Image Data Compression Techniques Applicable to Image Networks.- Design Criteria for a Data Base Management System for a PACS at Georgetown University Hospital.- Design Considerations for a Neuroradiologic Picture Archival and Image Processing Workstation.- Participants.- Proceedings of previous IPMI conferences.