Main description:

This book covers the complete spectrum of deformable models, its evolution as an imagery field and its use in many biomedical engineering and clinical application disciplines. It includes level sets, PDEs, curve and surface evolution and their applications in biomedical fields covering both static and motion imagery.

Contents:

Simulating Bacterial Biofilms.- Distance Transform Algorithms And Their Implementation And Evaluation.- Level Set Techniques For Structural Inversion In Medical Imaging.- Shape And Texture-Based Deformable Models For Facial Image Analysis.- Detection Of The Breast Contour In Mammograms By Using Active Contour Models.- Statistical deformable models for cardiac Segmentation and Functional Analysis In Gated-Spect Studies.- Level Set Formulation For Dual Snake Models.- Accurate Tracking Of Monotonically Advancing Fronts.- Toward Consistently Behaving Deformable Models For Improved Automation In Image Segmentation.- Application Of Deformable Models For The Detection Of Acute Renal Rejection.- Physically And Statistically Based Deformable Models For Medical Image Analysis.- Deformable Organisms For Medical Image Analysis.- Pde-Based Three Dimensional Path Planning For Virtual Endoscopy.- Object Tracking In Image Sequence Combining Hausdorff Distance, Non-Extensive Entropy In Level Set Formulation.- Deformable Model-Based Image Registration.