Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications

A Model Development Pipeline for Crohn’s Disease Severity Assessment from Magnetic Resonance Images.- Spatially Constrained Incoherent Motion (SCIM) Model Improves Quantitative Diffusion-Weighted MRI Analysis of Crohn’s Disease Patients.- Self Similarity Image Registration based on Reorientation of the Hessian.- Registration of Prone and Supine CT Colonography Datasets with Differing Endoluminal Distension.- Spatial Correspondence between Prone and Supine CT Colonography Images: Creating a Reference Standard.- Registration of Temporally Separated CT Colonography Cases.- A Classification-Enhanced Vote Accumulation Scheme for Detecting Colonic Polyps.- A Novel Computer Aided Detection (CADe) Scheme for Colonic Polyps Based on the Structure Decomposition.- Computer-aided Detection of Colorectal Lesions with Super-Resolution CT Colonography: Pilot Evaluation.- Computer-aided Detection of Non-polypoid Flat Lesions in CT Colonography: Observer Performance Study.- Application of Synthetic Sinogram based Low-Dose CT Simulation and Fold-preserving Electronic Cleansing Technique for CT Colonography.- Iterative Reconstruction for Ultra-Low-Dose Laxative-Free CT Colonography.- Global Colon Geometric Structure Analysis Based on Geodesics and Conformal Flattening.- Improved Colon Navigation for Efficient Polyp Detection in Virtual Colonoscopy.- Personalised Estimation of the Arterial Input Function for Improved Pharmacokinetic Modelling of Colorectal Cancer Using dceMRI.- Free-Form Registration Involving Disappearing Structures: Application to Brachytherapy MRI.- Contour-based TVUS-MR Image Registration for Mapping Small Endometrial Implants.- Rigid Registration of Untracked Freehand 2D Ultrasound Sweeps to 3D CT of Liver Tumours.- Multiphase Liver Registration from Geodesic Distance Maps and Biomechanical Modelling.- Fast Renal Cortex Localization by Combining Generalized Hough Transform and Active Appearance Models.- 3D Surface Reconstruction of Organs Using Patient-Specific Shape Priors in Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery.- Multi-atlas and Gaussian Mixture Modeling based Perirectal Fat Segmentation from CT Images.- Selective Search and Sequential Detection for Standard Plane Localization in Ultrasound.- Rib Detection in 3D MRI Using Dynamic Programming Based on Vesselness and Ridgeness.- Modeling and Simulation of Soft Tissue Deformation.- Adaptive Confidence Regions of Motion Predictions from Population Exemplar Models.- A Generic, Robust and Fully-automatic Workflow for 3D CT Liver Segmentation.- Tumor Subtype-Specific Parameter Optimization in a Hybrid Active Surface Model for Hepatic Tumor Segmentation of 3D Liver Ultrasonograms.- Continuous-Time Flow-limited Modeling by Convolution Area Property and Differentiation Product Rule in 4-Phase Liver Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT.- Use of Tracer Kinetic Model-driven Biomarkers for Monitoring Antiangiogenic Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in First-pass Perfusion CT.- A Statistical Shape Model for Multiple Organs based on Synthesized-based Learning.- A Survey of Cervix Segmentation Methods in Magnetic Resonance Images.