600.746 (also 520.746): Medical Image Analysis Seminar

Professors:  Russell Taylor, Jerry Prince

Spring 2002 Information

This weekly seminar will focus on research issues in medical image analysis, including image segmentation, registration, statistical modeling, and applications.  It will also include selected topics relating to medical image acquisition, especially where they relate to analysis. The purpose of the course is to provide the participants with a thorough background in current research in these areas, as well as to promote greater awareness and interaction between multiple research groups within the University.

The format of the course is informal.  It will meet weekly for approximately 1 hour.  Students will read selected papers.  All students will be assumed to have read these papers by the time the paper is scheduled for discussion.  But individual students will be assigned on a rotating basis to lead the discussion on particular papers or sections of papers.

suggested paper list

Papers download:

1. M. Kass, A. Witkin and D. Terzopoulos, "Snakes, Active Contour Models," International Journal of Computer Vision, 1987, pp.321-331 

2. P Besl and N McKay, "A method for the registration of 3-D shapes," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 239-256, Feb, 1992. (pdf)

3. B Horn and B Schunck, "Determining optical flow," Artificial Intelligence, vol. 17, pp. 185-203, 1981

4. T. F. Cootes, A. Hill, C. J. Taylor, and J. Haslam, “Use of active shape models for locating structures in medical images,” Imag. Vis. Computing J., vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 355–366, 1994. (ps.gz)

5. R. Malladi, J. A. Sethian, and B. C. Vemuri, “Shape modeling with front propagation: a level set approach,” IEEE Trans. Patt. Anal. Mach. Intell., vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 158–175, 1995. (pdf)

6. Wells, W.M., P. Viola, H. Atsumi, S. Nakajima, and R. Kikinis, "Multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutual information", Med Image Analysis, 1996. 1(1): p. 35-51. (pdf)

7.  F. Maes, A. Collignon, D. Vandermeulen, G. Marchal, P. Suetens, "Multi-modality image registration by maximization of mutual information", Proceedings of MMBIA 1996.  p. 14-22. (pdf)

8. M. I. Miller, G. E. Christensen, Y. Amit, and U. Grenander, “Mathematical text-book of deformable neuroanatomies,” Proc. Ntl Academy of Science, vol. 90, pp. 11944–11948, 1993. (pdf)

9. Xu and J.L. Prince, ``Snakes, Shapes, and Gradient Vector Flow,''  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 7(3):359-369, March 1998. (ps (4.1MB), .ps.gz (0.9MB))

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