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Title Abdomen and thoracic imaging : an engineering & clinical perspective / Ayman S. El-Baz, Luca Saba, Jasjit Suri, editors
Published New York : Springer, [2013]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (769 pages)
Contents Computer-aided diagnosis systems for acute renal transplant rejection : challenges and methodologies /Mahmoud Mostapha [and others] -- Kidney detection and segmentation in contrast-enhanced ultrasound 3D images /Raphael Prevost [and others] -- Renal cortex segmentation on computed tomography /Xinjian Chen [and others] -- Diffuse fatty liver disease : from diagnosis to quantification /Luis Curvo-Semedo [and others] -- Multimodality approach to detection and characterization of hepatic hemangiomas /Rajan T. Gupta and Daniele Marin -- Ultrasound liver surface and textural characterization for the detection of liver cirrhosis /Ricardo Ribeiro [and others] -- MR imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma /Dong Ho Lee and Jeong Min Lee -- Magnetic resonance imaging of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas / Richard C. Semelka [and others] -- Quantitative evaluation of liver function within MR imaging /Akira Yamada -- Diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver /Ali Muhi, Tomoaki Ichikawa, and Utorah Motosugi -- Shape-based liver segmentation without prior statistical models /Ahmed Afifi and Toshiya Nakaguchi -- CT imaging characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma /Masahiro Okada and Takamichi Murakami -- Clinical applications of hepatobiliary MR contrast agents /Antoine Wadih and Sebastian Feuerlein -- Fast object detection using color features for colonoscopy quality measurements /Jayantha Muthukudage [and others] -- Colon surface registration using ricci flow /Wei Zeng [and others] -- Efficient topological cleaning for visual colon surface flattening /Wei Zeng -- Towards self-parameterized active contours for medical image segmentation with emphasis on abdomen /Eleftheria A. Mylona, Michalis A. Savelonas, and Dimitris Maroulis -- Bridging the gap between modeling of tumor growth and clinical imaging /Behnaz Abdollahi, Neal Dunlap and Hermann B. Frieboes -- Evaluation of medical image registration by using high-accuracy image matching techniques /Zisheng Li and Tsuneya Kurihara -- Preclinical visualization of hypoxia, proliferation and glucose metabolism in non-small cell lung cancer and its metastasis /Xiao-Feng Li and Yuanyuan Ma -- Thermoacoustic imaging with VHF signal generation : a new contrast mechanism for cancer imaging over large fields of view /Michael Roggenbuck [and others] -- Automated prostate cancer localization with multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging /Yusuf Artan, Imam Samil Yetik and Masoom A. Haider -- Ultrasound-fluoroscopy registration for intraoperative dynamic dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy /Ehsan Dehghan [and others] -- Multi-atlas-based segmentation of pelvic structures from CT scans for planning in prostate cancer radiotherapy /Oscar Acosta [and others] -- Propagating segmentation of a single example to similar images : differential segmentation of the prostate in 3-D MRI /Emmanouil Moschidis and James Graham -- 3D registration of whole-mount prostate histology image to ex vivo magnetic resonance images using strand-shaped fiducials /E. Gibson --Anatomical landmark detection /David Liu and S. Kevin Zhou
Summary This book will cover all the imaging techniques, potential for applying such imaging clinically, and offer present and future applications as applied to the abdomen and thoracic imaging with the most world renowned scientists in these fields. The main aim of this book is to help advance scientific research within the broad field of abdominal imaging. This book focuses on major trends and challenges in this area, and it presents work aimed to identify new techniques and their use in medical imaging analysis for abdominal imaging.?
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 5, 2014)
Subject Abdomen -- Imaging
Chest -- Imaging
Abdomen.
Diagnostic imaging.
Abdomen -- pathology
Thorax -- pathology
Diagnostic Imaging -- methods
Abdomen
Diagnostic Imaging
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Médecine.
Abdomen
Abdomen -- Imaging
Chest -- Imaging
Diagnostic imaging
Form Electronic book
Author El-Baz, Ayman S., editor
Saba, Luca, editor
Suri, Jasjit S., editor
ISBN 9781461484981
1461484987
1461484979
9781461484974