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Author (down) Ferran Poveda; Jaume Garcia; Enric Marti; Debora Gil
Title Validation of the myocardial architecture in DT-MRI tractography Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Medical Image Computing in Catalunya: Graduate Student Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 29-30
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Abstract Deep understanding of myocardial structure may help to link form and funcion of the heart unraveling crucial knowledge for medical and surgical clinical procedures and studies. In this work we introduce two visualization techniques based on DT-MRI streamlining able to decipher interesting properties of the architectural organization of the heart.
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Publisher Place of Publication Girona (Spain) Editor
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAT
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PGM2010 Serial 1626
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil;Enric Marti
Title Multi-resolution DT-MRI cardiac tractography Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication Statistical Atlases And Computational Models Of The Heart: Imaging and Modelling Challenges Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7746 Issue Pages 270-277
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Abstract Even using objective measures from DT-MRI no consensus about myocardial architecture has been achieved so far. Streamlining provides good reconstructions at low level of detail, but falls short to give global abstract interpretations. In this paper, we present a multi-resolution methodology that is able to produce simplified representations of cardiac architecture. Our approach produces a reduced set of tracts that are representative of the main geometric features of myocardial anatomical structure. Experiments show that fiber geometry is preserved along reductions, which validates the simplified model for interpretation of cardiac architecture.
Address Nice, France
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-36960-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference STACOM
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PGM2012 Serial 1986
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil; Enric Marti; Albert Andaluz; Manel Ballester;Francesc Carreras Costa
Title Helical structure of the cardiac ventricular anatomy assessed by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging multi-resolution tractography Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Revista Española de Cardiología Abbreviated Journal REC
Volume 66 Issue 10 Pages 782-790
Keywords Heart;Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging;Diffusion tractography;Helical heart;Myocardial ventricular band.
Abstract Deep understanding of myocardial structure linking morphology and function of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for medical and surgical clinical procedures and studies. Several conceptual models of myocardial fiber organization have been proposed but the lack of an automatic and objective methodology prevented an agreement. We sought to deepen in this knowledge through advanced computer graphic representations of the myocardial fiber architecture by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI).
We performed automatic tractography reconstruction of unsegmented DT-MRI canine heart datasets coming from the public database of the Johns Hopkins University. Full scale tractographies have been build with 200 seeds and are composed by streamlines computed on the vectorial field of primary eigenvectors given at the diffusion tensor volumes. Also, we introduced a novel multi-scale visualization technique in order to obtain a simplified tractography. This methodology allowed to keep the main geometric features of the fiber tracts, making easier to decipher the main properties of the architectural organization of the heart.
On the analysis of the output from our tractographic representations we found exact correlation with low-level details of myocardial architecture, but also with the more abstract conceptualization of a continuous helical ventricular myocardial fiber array.
Objective analysis of myocardial architecture by an automated method, including the entire myocardium and using several 3D levels of complexity, reveals a continuous helical myocardial fiber arrangement of both right and left ventricles, supporting the anatomical model of the helical ventricular myocardial band described by Torrent-Guasp.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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Notes IAM; 600.044; 600.060 Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PGM2013 Serial 2194
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda; Debora Gil ;Albert Andaluz ;Enric Marti
Title Multiscale Tractography for Representing Heart Muscular Architecture Type Conference Article
Year 2011 Publication In MICCAI 2011 Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Deep understanding of myocardial structure of the heart would unravel crucial knowledge for clinical and medical procedures. Although the muscular architecture of the heart has been debated by countless researchers, the controversy is still alive. Diffusion Tensor MRI, DT-MRI, is a unique imaging technique for computational validation of the muscular structure of the heart. By the complex arrangement of myocites, existing techniques can not provide comprehensive descriptions of the global muscular architecture. In this paper we introduce a multiresolution reconstruction technique based on DT-MRI streamlining for simplified global myocardial model generation. Our reconstructions can restore the most complex myocardial structures and indicate a global helical organization
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Language English Summary Language english Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CDRMI
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PGA2011 Serial 1681
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda; Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Francesc Carreras; Manel Ballester
Title Helical Structure of Ventricular Anatomy by Diffusion Tensor Cardiac MR Tractography Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication Journal of American College of Cardiology Abbreviated Journal JACC
Volume 5 Issue 7 Pages 754-755
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Abstract It is widely accepted that myocardial fiber architecture plays a critical role in myocardial contractility and relaxation (1). However, there is a lack of consensus about the distribution of the myocardial fibers and their spatial arrangement in the left and right ventricles. An understanding of the cardiac architecture should benefit the ventricular functional assessment, left ventricular reconstructive surgery planning, or resynchronization therapy in heart failure. Researchers have proposed several conceptual models to describe the architecture of the heart, ranging from gross dissection to histological presentation. The cardiac mesh model (2) proposes that the myocytes are arranged longitudinally and radially change their angulation along the myocardial depth. By contrast, the helical ventricular myocardial model states that the ventricular myocardium is a continuous anatomical helical layout of myocardial fibers (1
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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ISSN 1936-878X ISBN Medium
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ PMG2012 Serial 1985
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda
Title Visualització i interpretació tridimensional de l’arquitectura de les fibres musculars del miocardi Type Report
Year 2009 Publication Master en Tecnologies Multimedia Abbreviated Journal
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain) Editor
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Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ Pov2009 Serial 1625
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Author (down) Ferran Poveda
Title Computer Graphics and Vision Techniques for the Study of the Muscular Fiber Architecture of the Myocardium Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil;Enric Marti
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ Pov2013 Serial 2417
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Jose Manuel Alvarez; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Vision-based road detection via on-line video registration Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1135–1140
Keywords video alignment; road detection
Abstract TB6.2
Road segmentation is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. Significant efforts have been made in order to solve this task using vision-based techniques. The major challenge is to deal with lighting variations and the presence of objects on the road surface. In this paper, we propose a new road detection method to infer the areas of the image depicting road surfaces without performing any image segmentation. The idea is to previously segment manually or semi-automatically the road region in a traffic-free reference video record on a first drive. And then to transfer these regions to the frames of a second video sequence acquired later in a second drive through the same road, in an on-line manner. This is possible because we are able to automatically align the two videos in time and space, that is, to synchronize them and warp each frame of the first video to its corresponding frame in the second one. The geometric transform can thus transfer the road region to the present frame on-line. In order to reduce the different lighting conditions which are present in outdoor scenarios, our approach incorporates a shadowless feature space which represents an image in an illuminant-invariant feature space. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic background subtraction algorithm which removes the regions containing vehicles in the observed frames which are within the transferred road region.
Address Madeira Island (Portugal)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ITSC
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DAS2010 Serial 1424
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Joint spatio-temporal alignment of sequences Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Abbreviated Journal TMM
Volume 15 Issue 6 Pages 1377-1387
Keywords video alignment
Abstract Video alignment is important in different areas of computer vision such as wide baseline matching, action recognition, change detection, video copy detection and frame dropping prevention. Current video alignment methods usually deal with a relatively simple case of fixed or rigidly attached cameras or simultaneous acquisition. Therefore, in this paper we propose a joint video alignment for bringing two video sequences into a spatio-temporal alignment. Specifically, the novelty of the paper is to formulate the video alignment to fold the spatial and temporal alignment into a single alignment framework. This simultaneously satisfies a frame-correspondence and frame-alignment similarity; exploiting the knowledge among neighbor frames by a standard pairwise Markov random field (MRF). This new formulation is able to handle the alignment of sequences recorded at different times by independent moving cameras that follows a similar trajectory, and also generalizes the particular cases that of fixed geometric transformation and/or linear temporal mapping. We conduct experiments on different scenarios such as sequences recorded simultaneously or by moving cameras to validate the robustness of the proposed approach. The proposed method provides the highest video alignment accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art methods on sequences recorded from vehicles driving along the same track at different times.
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ISSN 1520-9210 ISBN Medium
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DSL2013; ADAS @ adas @ Serial 2228
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; G.D. Evangelidis; Joan Serrat
Title Night-time outdoor surveillance by mobile cameras Type Conference Article
Year 2012 Publication 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue Pages 365-371
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Abstract This paper addresses the problem of video surveillance by mobile cameras. We present a method that allows online change detection in night-time outdoor surveillance. Because of the camera movement, background frames are not available and must be “localized” in former sequences and registered with the current frames. To this end, we propose a Frame Localization And Registration (FLAR) approach that solves the problem efficiently. Frames of former sequences define a database which is queried by current frames in turn. To quickly retrieve nearest neighbors, database is indexed through a visual dictionary method based on the SURF descriptor. Furthermore, the frame localization is benefited by a temporal filter that exploits the temporal coherence of videos. Next, the recently proposed ECC alignment scheme is used to spatially register the synchronized frames. Finally, change detection methods apply to aligned frames in order to mark suspicious areas. Experiments with real night sequences recorded by in-vehicle cameras demonstrate the performance of the proposed method and verify its efficiency and effectiveness against other methods.
Address Algarve, Portugal
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Area Expedition Conference ICPRAM
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DES2012 Serial 2035
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Video Alignment for Difference-spotting Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication Proceedings of the ECCV workshop on Multi–camera and Multi–modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2 2008), Marseille (France) Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords video alignment
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DPS2008 Serial 1079
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Video alignment for automotive applications Type Miscellaneous
Year 2009 Publication BMVA one–day technical meeting on vision for automotive applications Abbreviated Journal
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Keywords video alignment
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Address London, UK
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DPS2009 Serial 1271
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Vehicle geolocalization based on video synchronization Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1511–1516
Keywords video alignment
Abstract TC8.6
This paper proposes a novel method for estimating the geospatial localization of a vehicle. I uses as input a georeferenced video sequence recorded by a forward-facing camera attached to the windscreen. The core of the proposed method is an on-line video synchronization which finds out the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence to the one recorded at each time by the camera on a second drive through the same track. Once found the corresponding frame in the georeferenced video sequence, we transfer its geospatial information of this frame. The key advantages of this method are: 1) the increase of the update rate and the geospatial accuracy with regard to a standard low-cost GPS and 2) the ability to localize a vehicle even when a GPS is not available or is not reliable enough, like in certain urban areas. Experimental results for an urban environments are presented, showing an average of relative accuracy of 1.5 meters.
Address Madeira Island (Portugal)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2153-0009 ISBN 978-1-4244-7657-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ITSC
Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number ADAS @ adas @ DPS2010 Serial 1423
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Author (down) Ferran Diego; Daniel Ponsa; Joan Serrat; Antonio Lopez
Title Video Alignment for Change Detection Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP
Volume 20 Issue 7 Pages 1858-1869
Keywords video alignment
Abstract In this work, we address the problem of aligning two video sequences. Such alignment refers to synchronization, i.e., the establishment of temporal correspondence between frames of the first and second video, followed by spatial registration of all the temporally corresponding frames. Video synchronization and alignment have been attempted before, but most often in the relatively simple cases of fixed or rigidly attached cameras and simultaneous acquisition. In addition, restrictive assumptions have been applied, including linear time correspondence or the knowledge of the complete trajectories of corresponding scene points; to some extent, these assumptions limit the practical applicability of any solutions developed. We intend to solve the more general problem of aligning video sequences recorded by independently moving cameras that follow similar trajectories, based only on the fusion of image intensity and GPS information. The novelty of our approach is to pose the synchronization as a MAP inference problem on a Bayesian network including the observations from these two sensor types, which have been proved complementary. Alignment results are presented in the context of videos recorded from vehicles driving along the same track at different times, for different road types. In addition, we explore two applications of the proposed video alignment method, both based on change detection between aligned videos. One is the detection of vehicles, which could be of use in ADAS. The other is online difference spotting videos of surveillance rounds.
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Notes ADAS; IF Approved no
Call Number DPS 2011; ADAS @ adas @ dps2011 Serial 1705
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Author (down) Ferran Diego
Title Alignment of Videos Recorded from Moving Vehicles Type Report
Year 2007 Publication CVC Technical Report #111 Abbreviated Journal
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Address CVC (UAB)
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Notes ADAS Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DiS2007 Serial 825
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