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Author (down) Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Jorge Bernal; F. Javier Sanchez; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell
Title Navigation Path Retrieval from Videobronchoscopy using Bronchial Branches Type Conference Article
Year 2016 Publication 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Workshops Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9401 Issue Pages 62-70
Keywords Bronchoscopy navigation; Lumen center; Brochial branches; Navigation path; Videobronchoscopy
Abstract Bronchoscopy biopsy can be used to diagnose lung cancer without risking complications of other interventions like transthoracic needle aspiration. During bronchoscopy, the clinician has to navigate through the bronchial tree to the target lesion. A main drawback is the difficulty to check whether the exploration is following the correct path. The usual guidance using fluoroscopy implies repeated radiation of the clinician, while alternative systems (like electromagnetic navigation) require specific equipment that increases intervention costs. We propose to compute the navigated path using anatomical landmarks extracted from the sole analysis of videobronchoscopy images. Such landmarks allow matching the current exploration to the path previously planned on a CT to indicate clinician whether the planning is being correctly followed or not. We present a feasibility study of our landmark based CT-video matching using bronchoscopic videos simulated on a virtual bronchoscopy interactive interface.
Address Quebec; Canada; September 2016
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
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Area Expedition Conference MICCAIW
Notes IAM; MV; 600.060; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SGB2016 Serial 2885
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Author (down) Carles Sanchez; Debora Gil; Antoni Rosell; Albert Andaluz; F. Javier Sanchez
Title Segmentation of Tracheal Rings in Videobronchoscopy combining Geometry and Appearance Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue Pages 153--161
Keywords Video-bronchoscopy, tracheal ring segmentation, trachea geometric and appearance model
Abstract Videobronchoscopy is a medical imaging technique that allows interactive navigation inside the respiratory pathways and minimal invasive interventions. Tracheal procedures are ordinary interventions that require measurement of the percentage of obstructed pathway for injury (stenosis) assessment. Visual assessment of stenosis in videobronchoscopic sequences requires high expertise of trachea anatomy and is prone to human error. Accurate detection of tracheal rings is the basis for automated estimation of the size of stenosed trachea. Processing of videobronchoscopic images acquired at the operating room is a challenging task due to the wide range of artifacts and acquisition conditions. We present a model of the geometric-appearance of tracheal rings for its detection in videobronchoscopic videos. Experiments on sequences acquired at the operating room, show a performance close to inter-observer variability
Address Barcelona; February 2013
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Publisher SciTePress Place of Publication Portugal Editor Sebastiano Battiato and José Braz
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-989-8565-47-1 Medium
Area 800 Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes IAM;MV; 600.044; 600.047; 600.060; 605.203 Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ SGR2013 Serial 2123
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Author (down) Carles Sanchez; Antonio Esteban Lansaque; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell; Debora Gil
Title Towards a Videobronchoscopy Localization System from Airway Centre Tracking Type Conference Article
Year 2017 Publication 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 352-359
Keywords Video-bronchoscopy; Lung cancer diagnosis; Airway lumen detection; Region tracking; Guided bronchoscopy navigation
Abstract Bronchoscopists use fluoroscopy to guide flexible bronchoscopy to the lesion to be biopsied without any kind of incision. Being fluoroscopy an imaging technique based on X-rays, the risk of developmental problems and cancer is increased in those subjects exposed to its application, so minimizing radiation is crucial. Alternative guiding systems such as electromagnetic navigation require specific equipment, increase the cost of the clinical procedure and still require fluoroscopy. In this paper we propose an image based guiding system based on the extraction of airway centres from intra-operative videos. Such anatomical landmarks are matched to the airway centreline extracted from a pre-planned CT to indicate the best path to the nodule. We present a
feasibility study of our navigation system using simulated bronchoscopic videos and a multi-expert validation of landmarks extraction in 3 intra-operative ultrathin explorations.
Address Porto; Portugal; February 2017
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Area Expedition Conference VISAPP
Notes IAM; 600.096; 600.075; 600.145 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ SEB2017 Serial 2943
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Author (down) Carles Sanchez
Title Tracheal ring detection in bronchoscopy Type Report
Year 2011 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 168 Issue Pages
Keywords Bronchoscopy, tracheal ring, segmentation
Abstract Endoscopy is the process in which a camera is introduced inside a human.
Given that endoscopy provides realistic images (in contrast to other modalities) and allows non-invase minimal intervention procedures (which can aid in diagnosis and surgical interventions), its use has spreaded during last decades.
In this project we will focus on bronchoscopic procedures, during which the camera is introduced through the trachea in order to have a diagnostic of the patient. The diagnostic interventions are focused on: degree of stenosis (reduction in tracheal area), prosthesis or early diagnosis of tumors. In the first case, assessment of the luminal area and the calculation of the diameters of the tracheal rings are required. A main limitation is that all the process is done by hand,
which means that the doctor takes all the measurements and decisions just by looking at the screen. As far as we know there is no computational framework for helping the doctors in the diagnosis.
This project will consist of analysing bronchoscopic videos in order to extract useful information for the diagnostic of the degree of stenosis. In particular we will focus on segmentation of the tracheal rings. As a result of this project several strategies (for detecting tracheal rings) had been implemented in order to compare their performance.
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Corporate Author Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil, F.Javier Sanchez
Language english Summary Language english Original Title
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Notes IAM;MV Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ San2011 Serial 1841
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Author (down) Carles Sanchez
Title Tracheal Structure Characterization using Geometric and Appearance Models for Efficient Assessment of Stenosis in Videobronchoscopy Type Book Whole
Year 2014 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Recent advances in endoscopic devices have increased their use for minimal invasive diagnostic and intervention procedures. Among all endoscopic modalities, bronchoscopy is one of the most frequent with around 261 millions of procedures per year. Although the use of bronchoscopy is spread among clinical facilities it presents some drawbacks, being the visual inspection for the assessment of anatomical measurements the most prevalent of them. In
particular, inaccuracies in the estimation of the degree of stenosis (the percentage of obstructed airway) decreases its diagnostic yield and might lead to erroneous treatments. An objective computation of tracheal stenosis in bronchoscopy videos would constitute a breakthrough for this non-invasive technique and a reduction in treatment cost.
This thesis settles the first steps towards on-line reliable extraction of anatomical information from videobronchoscopy for computation of objective measures. In particular, we focus on the computation of the degree of stenosis, which is obtained by comparing the area delimited by a healthy tracheal ring and the stenosed lumen. Reliable extraction of airway structures in interventional videobronchoscopy is a challenging task. This is mainly due to the large variety of acquisition conditions (positions and illumination), devices (different digitalizations) and in videos acquired at the operating room the unpredicted presence of surgical devices (such as probe ends). This thesis contributes to on-line stenosis assessment in several ways. We
propose a parametric strategy for the extraction of lumen and tracheal rings regions based on the characterization of their geometry and appearance that guide a deformable model. The geometric and appearance characterization is based on a physical model describing the way bronchoscopy images are obtained and includes local and global descriptions. In order to ensure a systematic applicability we present a statistical framework to select the optimal
parameters of our method. Experiments perform on the first public annotated database, show that the performance of our method is comparable to the one provided by clinicians and its computation time allows for a on-line implementation in the operating room.
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Corporate Author Thesis Ph.D. thesis
Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor F. Javier Sanchez;Debora Gil;Jorge Bernal
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-84-940902-9-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM; 600.075 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ San2014 Serial 2575
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Author (down) Carles Onielfa; Carles Casacuberta; Sergio Escalera
Title Influence in Social Networks Through Visual Analysis of Image Memes Type Conference Article
Year 2022 Publication Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Abbreviated Journal
Volume 356 Issue Pages 71-80
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Abstract Memes evolve and mutate through their diffusion in social media. They have the potential to propagate ideas and, by extension, products. Many studies have focused on memes, but none so far, to our knowledge, on the users that post them, their relationships, and the reach of their influence. In this article, we define a meme influence graph together with suitable metrics to visualize and quantify influence between users who post memes, and we also describe a process to implement our definitions using a new approach to meme detection based on text-to-image area ratio and contrast. After applying our method to a set of users of the social media platform Instagram, we conclude that our metrics add information to already existing user characteristics.
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Notes HuPBA; no menciona Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ OCE2022 Serial 3799
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Providing Automatic Multilingual Text Generation to Artificial Cognitive Systems Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Address
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FRG2008 Serial 1021
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Semantic Annotation of Complex Human Scenes for Multimedia Surveillance Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication AI* Artificial Intelligence and Human–Oriented Computing. 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4733 Issue Pages 698–709
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Address Roma (Italy)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference AI
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FBR2007a Serial 920
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Natural Language Descriptions of Human Behavior from Video Sequences Type Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 30th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4667 Issue Pages 279–292
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Address
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference KI
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FBR2007b Serial 921
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Interpretation of Complex Situations in a Semantic-based Surveillance Framework Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Signal Processing: Image Communication, Special Issue on Semantic Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services Abbreviated Journal
Volume 23 Issue 7 Pages 554-569
Keywords Cognitive vision system; Situation analysis; Applied ontologies
Abstract The integration of cognitive capabilities in computer vision systems requires both to enable high semantic expressiveness and to deal with high computational costs as large amounts of data are involved in the analysis. This contribution describes a cognitive vision system conceived to automatically provide high-level interpretations of complex real-time situations in outdoor and indoor scenarios, and to eventually maintain communication with casual end users in multiple languages. The main contributions are: (i) the design of an integrative multilevel architecture for cognitive surveillance purposes; (ii) the proposal of a coherent taxonomy of knowledge to guide the process of interpretation, which leads to the conception of a situation-based ontology; (iii) the use of situational analysis for content detection and a progressive interpretation of semantically rich scenes, by managing incomplete or uncertain knowledge, and (iv) the use of such an ontological background to enable multilingual capabilities and advanced end-user interfaces. Experimental results are provided to show the feasibility of the proposed approach.
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FBR2008 Serial 954
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Exploiting Natural Language Generation in Scene Interpretation Type Book Chapter
Year 2009 Publication Human–Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue Pages 71–93
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Publisher Elsevier Science and Tech Place of Publication Editor
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FBR2009 Serial 1212
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Determining the Best Suited Semantic Events for Cognitive Surveillance Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Expert Systems with Applications Abbreviated Journal EXSY
Volume 38 Issue 4 Pages 4068–4079
Keywords Cognitive surveillance; Event modeling; Content-based video retrieval; Ontologies; Advanced user interfaces
Abstract State-of-the-art systems on cognitive surveillance identify and describe complex events in selected domains, thus providing end-users with tools to easily access the contents of massive video footage. Nevertheless, as the complexity of events increases in semantics and the types of indoor/outdoor scenarios diversify, it becomes difficult to assess which events describe better the scene, and how to model them at a pixel level to fulfill natural language requests. We present an ontology-based methodology that guides the identification, step-by-step modeling, and generalization of the most relevant events to a specific domain. Our approach considers three steps: (1) end-users provide textual evidence from surveilled video sequences; (2) transcriptions are analyzed top-down to build the knowledge bases for event description; and (3) the obtained models are used to generalize event detection to different image sequences from the surveillance domain. This framework produces user-oriented knowledge that improves on existing advanced interfaces for video indexing and retrieval, by determining the best suited events for video understanding according to end-users. We have conducted experiments with outdoor and indoor scenes showing thefts, chases, and vandalism, demonstrating the feasibility and generalization of this proposal.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FBR2011a Serial 1722
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Augmenting Video Surveillance Footage with Virtual Agents for Incremental Event Evaluation Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Pattern Recognition Letters Abbreviated Journal PRL
Volume 32 Issue 6 Pages 878–889
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Abstract The fields of segmentation, tracking and behavior analysis demand for challenging video resources to test, in a scalable manner, complex scenarios like crowded environments or scenes with high semantics. Nevertheless, existing public databases cannot scale the presence of appearing agents, which would be useful to study long-term occlusions and crowds. Moreover, creating these resources is expensive and often too particularized to specific needs. We propose an augmented reality framework to increase the complexity of image sequences in terms of occlusions and crowds, in a scalable and controllable manner. Existing datasets can be increased with augmented sequences containing virtual agents. Such sequences are automatically annotated, thus facilitating evaluation in terms of segmentation, tracking, and behavior recognition. In order to easily specify the desired contents, we propose a natural language interface to convert input sentences into virtual agent behaviors. Experimental tests and validation in indoor, street, and soccer environments are provided to show the feasibility of the proposed approach in terms of robustness, scalability, and semantics.
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
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Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ FBR2011b Serial 1723
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Pau Baiget; Jordi Gonzalez
Title Cognitive-Guided Semantic Exploitation in Video Surveillance Interfaces Type Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication First International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences. BMVC 2008, Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 53–60
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Address Leeds (UK)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 978-84-935251-9-4 Medium
Area Expedition Conference THEMIS’
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FBG2008 Serial 1010
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Author (down) Carles Fernandez; Jordi Gonzalez; Xavier Roca
Title Automatic Learning of Background Semantics in Generic Surveilled Scenes Type Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication 11th European Conference on Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6313 Issue II Pages 678–692
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Abstract Advanced surveillance systems for behavior recognition in outdoor traffic scenes depend strongly on the particular configuration of the scenario. Scene-independent trajectory analysis techniques statistically infer semantics in locations where motion occurs, and such inferences are typically limited to abnormality. Thus, it is interesting to design contributions that automatically categorize more specific semantic regions. State-of-the-art approaches for unsupervised scene labeling exploit trajectory data to segment areas like sources, sinks, or waiting zones. Our method, in addition, incorporates scene-independent knowledge to assign more meaningful labels like crosswalks, sidewalks, or parking spaces. First, a spatiotemporal scene model is obtained from trajectory analysis. Subsequently, a so-called GI-MRF inference process reinforces spatial coherence, and incorporates taxonomy-guided smoothness constraints. Our method achieves automatic and effective labeling of conceptual regions in urban scenarios, and is robust to tracking errors. Experimental validation on 5 surveillance databases has been conducted to assess the generality and accuracy of the segmentations. The resulting scene models are used for model-based behavior analysis.
Address Crete (Greece)
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-15551-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference ECCV
Notes ISE Approved no
Call Number ISE @ ise @ FGR2010 Serial 1439
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