Handbook of biomedical image analysis. / v. 1

1. A Basic Model for IVUS Image Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misael Rosales and Petia Radeva 2. Quantitative Functional Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography: Principles and Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Koon-Pong Wong 3. Advances in Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Physical Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Rakesh Sharma, and Avdhesh Sharma 4. Recent Advances in the Level Set Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 David Chopp 5. Shape From Shading Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Xiaoping Shen and Lin Yang 6. Wavelets in Medical Image Processing: Denoising, Segmentation, and Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Yinpeng Jin, Elsa Angelini, and Andrew Laine 7. Improving the Initialization, Convergence, and Memory Utilization for Deformable Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Gilson A. Giraldi, Paulo S. Rodrigues, Leandro S. Marturelli, and Rodrigo L. S. Silva 8. Level Set Segmentation of Biological Volume Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 David Breen, Ross Whitaker, Ken Museth, and Leonid Zhukov 9. Advanced Segmentation Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Aly A. Farag, Mohamed N. Ahmed, Ayman El-Baz, and Hossam Hassan 10. A Region-Aided Color Geometric Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 Xianghua Xie and Majid Mirmehdi xvii xviii Preface 11. Co-Volume Level Set Method in Subjective Surface Based Medical Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 Karol Mikula, Alessandro Sarti, and Fiorella Sgallari The Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633