Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The present book contains extended versions of papers presented in the Conference VIPIMAGE 2007 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image. This ECCOMAS thematic conference was on computational vision and medical image processing.
Synopsis
Computational methodologies of signal processing and imaging analysis, namely considering 2D and 3D images, are commonly used in different applications of the human society. For example, Computational Vision systems are progressively used for surveillance tasks, traf?c analysis, recognition process, inspection p- poses, human-machine interfaces, 3D vision and deformation analysis. One of the main characteristics of the Computational Vision domain is its int- multidisciplinary. In fact, in this domain, methodologies of several more fundam- tal sciences, such as Informatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Psychology, Mechanics and Physics are usually used. Besides this inter-multidisciplinary characteristic, one of the main reasons that contributes for the continually effort done in this domain of the human knowledge is the number of applications in the medical area. For instance, it is possible to consider the use of statistical or physical procedures on medical images in order to model the represented structures. This modeling can have different goals, for example: shape reconstruction, segmentation, registration, behavior interpretation and simulation, motion and deformation analysis, virtual reality, computer-assisted therapy or tissue characterization. The main objective of the ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VIPimage) is to promote a comprehensive forum for discussion on the recent advances in the related ?elds trying to id- tify widespread areas of potential collaboration between researchers of different sciences.
Table of Contents
Preface; Modeling Cardiovascular Anatomy from Patient-Specific Imaging Data, by Chandrajit Bajaj, Samrat Goswamij; Geodesic Methods for Shape and Surface Processing, by Gabriel Peyré, Laurent Cohen; Robust Shape Estimation with Deformable Models, by Jorge S. Marques, Jacinto C. Nascimento, Arnaldo J. Abrantes, Margarida Silveira; Digital Geometry and its Applications to Medical Imaging, by Reneta P. Barneva, Valentin E. Brimkov; Multimodality in Brain Imaging: Methodologic Aspects and Applications, by Sónia I. Gonçalves; Research Steps towards Human Sequence Evaluation, by Jordi Gonz