Table Of ContentAyman S. El-Baz · Luca Saba
Jasjit Suri Editors
Abdomen
and Thoracic
Imaging
An Engineering & Clinical Perspective
Abdomen and Thoracic Imaging
Ayman S. El-Baz (cid:129) Luca Saba (cid:129) Jasjit Suri
Editors
Abdomen and Thoracic
Imaging
An Engineering & Clinical Perspective
Editors
AymanS.El-Baz LucaSaba
DepartmentofBioengineering UniversityofCagliari
UniversityofLouisville Cagliari,Italy
Louisville,KY,USA
JasjitSuri
BiomedicalTechnologies,Inc
IdahoStateUniversity(Affiliated)
Roseville,CA,USA
ISBN978-1-4614-8497-4 ISBN978-1-4614-8498-1(eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-8498-1
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Ayman S. El-Baz would like to dedicate this
book to his wife, daughter, son, mother,
and father.
Luca Saba would like to dedicate this book
to his parents Giovanni Saba and Raffaela
Polla for their love.
Jasjit Suri would like to dedicate this book to
hischildrenHarmanSuriandNehaSuri, and
his loving wife Malvika.
Contents
1 Computer-AidedDiagnosisSystemsforAcuteRenalTransplant
Rejection:ChallengesandMethodologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
MahmoudMostapha,FahmiKhalifa,AmirAlansary,
AhmedSoliman,JasjitSuri,andAymanS.El-Baz
2 KidneyDetectionandSegmentationinContrast-Enhanced
Ultrasound3DImages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
RaphaelPrevost,BenoitMory,RemiCuingnet,
Jean-MichelCorreas,LaurentD.Cohen,andRobertoArdon
3 RenalCortexSegmentationonComputedTomography. . . . . . . . . 69
XinjianChen,DehuiXiang,WeiJu,HemingZhao,andJianhuaYao
4 DiffuseFattyLiverDisease:FromDiagnosistoQuantification. . . . 99
Lu´ısCurvo-Semedo,DanielRamosAndrade,CatarinaRuivo,
Cla´udiaPaulino,andFilipeCaseiro-Alves
5 MultimodalityApproachtoDetectionandCharacterization
ofHepaticHemangiomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
RajanT.GuptaandDanieleMarin
6 UltrasoundLiverSurfaceandTexturalCharacterization
fortheDetectionofLiverCirrhosis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
RicardoRibeiro,RuiT.Marinho,JasjitSuri,
andJ.MiguelSanches
7 MRImagingofHepatocellularCarcinoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
DongHoLeeandJeongMinLee
8 MagneticResonanceImagingofAdenocarcinoma
ofthePancreas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
RichardC.Semelka,LuzAdrianaEscobar,NajwaAlAnsari,
andCharlesThomasAlexanderSemelka
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9 QuantitativeEvaluationofLiverFunctionWithin
MRImaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
AkiraYamada
10 Diffusion-WeightedImagingoftheLiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
AliMuhi,TomoakiIchikawa,andUtarohMotosugi
11 Shape-BasedLiverSegmentationWithoutPrior
StatisticalModels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
AhmedAfifiandToshiyaNakaguchi
12 CTImagingCharacteristicsofHepatocellularCarcinoma. . . . . . . 317
MasahiroOkadaandTakamichiMurakami
13 ClinicalApplicationsofHepatobiliaryMRContrastAgents. . . . . . 347
AntoineWadihandSebastianFeuerlein
14 FastObjectDetectionUsingColorFeaturesforColonoscopy
QualityMeasurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
JayanthaMuthukudage,JungHwanOh,RuwanNawarathna,
WallapakTavanapong,JohnnyWong,andPietC.deGroen
15 ColonSurfaceRegistrationUsingRicciFlow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
WeiZeng,RuiShi,ZhengyuSu,andDavidXianfengGu
16 EfficientTopologicalCleaningforVisualColon
SurfaceFlattening. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 421
WeiZeng,RuiShi,ZhengyuSu,andDavidXianfengGu
17 TowardsSelf-ParameterizedActiveContoursforMedical
ImageSegmentationwithEmphasisonAbdomen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
EleftheriaA.Mylona,MichalisA.Savelonas,andDimitrisMaroulis
18 BridgingtheGapBetweenModelingofTumor
GrowthandClinicalImaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
BehnazAbdollahi,NealDunlap,andHermannB.Frieboes
19 EvaluationofMedicalImageRegistrationbyUsing
High-AccuracyImageMatchingTechniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
ZishengLiandTsuneyaKurihara
20 PreclinicalVisualizationofHypoxia,Proliferation
andGlucoseMetabolisminNon-smallCellLungCancer
andItsMetastasis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Xiao-FengLiandYuanyuanMa
21 ThermoacousticImagingwithVHFSignalGeneration:
ANewContrastMechanismforCancerImaging
OverLargeFieldsofView. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
MichaelRoggenbuck,JaredCatenacci,RyanWalker,
EricHanson,JiangHsieh,andS.K.Patch
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22 AutomatedProstateCancerLocalizationwithMultiparametric
MagneticResonanceImaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
YusufArtan,ImamSamilYetik,andMasoomA.Haider
23 Ultrasound-FluoroscopyRegistrationforIntraoperative
DynamicDosimetryinProstateBrachytherapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
EhsanDehghan,NathanaelKuo,AntonDeguet,YiLe,
ElwoodArmour,E.ClifBurdette,DannyY.Song,
GaborFichtinger,JerryL.Prince,andJunghoonLee
24 Multi-Atlas-BasedSegmentationofPelvicStructures
fromCTScansforPlanninginProstateCancerRadiotherapy. . . 623
OscarAcosta,JasonDowling,GaelDrean,AntoineSimon,
RenauddeCrevoisier,andPascalHaigron
25 PropagatingSegmentationofaSingleExample
toSimilarImages:DifferentialSegmentation
oftheProstatein3-DMRI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
EmmanouilMoschidisandJamesGraham
26 3DRegistrationofWhole-MountProstateHistology
ImagestoExVivoMagneticResonanceImages
UsingStrand-ShapedFiducials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
E.Gibson,M.Gaed,J.A.Go´mez,M.Moussa,C.Romagnoli,
S.Pautler,J.L.Chin,C.Crukley,G.S.Bauman,
A.Fenster,andA.D.Ward
27 AnatomicalLandmarkDetection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
DavidLiuandS.KevinZhou
AbouttheEditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
