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Fadi Dornaika, & Bogdan Raducanu. (2008). Detecting and Tracking of 3D Face Pose for Human-Robot Interaction. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (1716–1721).
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Fadi Dornaika, & Bogdan Raducanu. (2008). Constructing Panoramic Views Through Facial Gaze Tracking. In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, (969–972).
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Oriol Ramos Terrades, Ernest Valveny, & Salvatore Tabbone. (2008). On the Combination of Ridgelets Descriptors for Symbol Recognition. In Graphics Recognition: Recent Advances and New Oportunities, W. Lius, J. Llados, J.M. Ogier, LNCS 5046:104–113.
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Debora Gil, Jaume Garcia, Mariano Vazquez, Ruth Aris, & Guilleaume Houzeaux. (2008). Patient-Sensitive Anatomic and Functional 3D Model of the Left Ventricle Function. In 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanichs (WCCM8).
Abstract: Early diagnosis and accurate treatment of Left Ventricle (LV) dysfunction significantly increases the patient survival. Impairment of LV contractility due to cardiovascular diseases is reflected in its motion patterns. Recent advances in medical imaging, such as Magnetic Resonance (MR), have encouraged research on 3D simulation and modelling of the LV dynamics. Most of the existing 3D models [1] consider just the gross anatomy of the LV and restore a truncated ellipse which deforms along the cardiac cycle. The contraction mechanics of any muscle strongly depends on the spatial orientation of its muscular fibers since the motion that the muscle undergoes mainly takes place along the fibers. It follows that such simplified models do not allow evaluation of the heart electro-mechanical function and coupling, which has recently risen as the key point for understanding the LV functionality [2]. In order to thoroughly understand the LV mechanics it is necessary to consider the complete anatomy of the LV given by the orientation of the myocardial fibres in 3D space as described by Torrent Guasp [3].
We propose developing a 3D patient-sensitive model of the LV integrating, for the first time, the ven- tricular band anatomy (fibers orientation), the LV gross anatomy and its functionality. Such model will represent the LV function as a natural consequence of its own ventricular band anatomy. This might be decisive in restoring a proper LV contraction in patients undergoing pace marker treatment.
The LV function is defined as soon as the propagation of the contractile electromechanical pulse has been modelled. In our experiments we have used the wave equation for the propagation of the electric pulse. The electromechanical wave moves on the myocardial surface and should have a conductivity tensor oriented along the muscular fibers. Thus, whatever mathematical model for electric pulse propa- gation [4] we consider, the complete anatomy of the LV should be extracted.
The LV gross anatomy is obtained by processing multi slice MR images recorded for each patient. Information about the myocardial fibers distribution can only be extracted by Diffusion Tensor Imag- ing (DTI), which can not provide in vivo information for each patient. As a first approach, we have
Figure 1: Scheme for the Left Ventricle Patient-Sensitive Model.
computed an average model of fibers from several DTI studies of canine hearts. This rough anatomy is the input for our electro-mechanical propagation model simulating LV dynamics. The average fiber orientation is updated until the simulated LV motion agrees with the experimental evidence provided by the LV motion observed in tagged MR (TMR) sequences. Experimental LV motion is recovered by applying image processing, differential geometry and interpolation techniques to 2D TMR slices [5]. The pipeline in figure 1 outlines the interaction between simulations and experimental data leading to our patient-tailored model.
Keywords: Left Ventricle, Electromechanical Models, Image Processing, Magnetic Resonance.
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Agata Lapedriza, Santiago Segui, David Masip, & Jordi Vitria. (2008). A Sparse Bayesian Approach for Joint Feature Selection and Classifier Learning. Pattern Analysis and Applications, Special Issue: Non–Parametric Distance–Based Classification Techniques and Their Applications,, 299–308.
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Bogdan Raducanu, & Jordi Vitria. (2008). Online Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis for Incremental Subspace Learning and Recognition. Pattern Analysis and Applications. Special Issue: Non–Parametric Distance–Based Classification Techniques and Their Applications, 259–268.
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Javier Varona, Jordi Gonzalez, Ignasi Rius, & Juan J. Villanueva. (2008). Importance of Detection for Video Surveillance Applications. Optical Engineering, vol. 47(8), 087201/1–9.
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F. Pla, Petia Radeva, & Jordi Vitria. (2008). Non-parametric distance-based classification techniques and their applications. Pattern Analysis and Applications, Special Issue: Non–Parametric Distance–Based Classification Techniques and Their Applications, 223–225.
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Angel Sappa, Fadi Dornaika, Daniel Ponsa, David Geronimo, & Antonio Lopez. (2008). An Efficient Approach to Onboard Stereo Vision System Pose Estimation. TITS - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 9(3), 476–490.
Abstract: This paper presents an efficient technique for estimating the pose of an onboard stereo vision system relative to the environment’s dominant surface area, which is supposed to be the road surface. Unlike previous approaches, it can be used either for urban or highway scenarios since it is not based on a specific visual traffic feature extraction but on 3-D raw data points. The whole process is performed in the Euclidean space and consists of two stages. Initially, a compact 2-D representation of the original 3-D data points is computed. Then, a RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC) based least-squares approach is used to fit a plane to the road. Fast RANSAC fitting is obtained by selecting points according to a probability function that takes into account the density of points at a given depth. Finally, stereo camera height and pitch angle are computed related to the fitted road plane. The proposed technique is intended to be used in driverassistance systems for applications such as vehicle or pedestrian detection. Experimental results on urban environments, which are the most challenging scenarios (i.e., flat/uphill/downhill driving, speed bumps, and car’s accelerations), are presented. These results are validated with manually annotated ground truth. Additionally, comparisons with previous works are presented to show the improvements in the central processing unit processing time, as well as in the accuracy of the obtained results.
Keywords: Camera extrinsic parameter estimation, ground plane estimation, onboard stereo vision system
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E. Provenzi, Carlo Gatta, M. Fierro, & A. Rizzi. (2008). A Spatially Variant White-Patch and Gray-World Method for Color Image Enhancement Driven by Local Constant. TPAMI - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1757–1770.
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Jordi Gonzalez, & Thomas B. Moeslund. (2008). Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences.
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Juan J. Villanueva. (2008). Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing,.
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Robert Benavente, Maria Vanrell, & Ramon Baldrich. (2008). Parametric Fuzzy Sets for Automatic Color Naming. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2582–2593.
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Paramveer S. Dhillon, Francisco Javier Orozco, & Jordi Gonzalez. (2008). Real-Time Monocular Face Tracking Using and Active Camera.
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Bogdan Raducanu, & Jordi Vitria. (2008). Face Recognition by Artificial Vision Systems: A Cognitive Perspective. IJPRAI - International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 899–913.
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