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Author Gerard Lacey; Fernando Vilariño edit   pdf
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  Title Endoscopy system with motion sensors Type Patent
  Year 2011 Publication US 2011/0032347 A1 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract An endoscopy system (1) comprises an endoscope (2) with a camera (3) at its tip. The endoscope extends through an endoscope guide (4) for guiding movement of the endoscope and for measurement of its movement as it enters the body. The guide (4) comprises a generally conical body (5) having a through passage (105) through which the endoscope (2) extends. A motion sensor comprises an optical transmitter (7) and a detector (8) mounted alongside the passage (105) to measure the insertion-withdrawal linear motion and also rotation of the endoscope by the endoscopist's hand. The system (1) also comprises a flexure controller (10) having wheels operated by the endoscopist. The camera (3), the motion sensor (7/8), and the flexure controller (10) are all connected to a processor (11) which feeds a display.  
  Address Jacobson Holman PPLC; 400 Seventh Street, N.W. Suite 600; Whashington DC 20004 DC  
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  Call Number IAM @ iam @ LaV2011 Serial 1703  
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Author Maria Salamo; Sergio Escalera edit  doi
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  Title Increasing Retrieval Quality in Conversational Recommenders Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Abbreviated Journal TKDE  
  Volume 99 Issue (up) Pages 1-1  
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  Abstract IF JCR CCIA 2.286 2009 24/103
JCR Impact Factor 2010: 1.851
A major task of research in conversational recommender systems is personalization. Critiquing is a common and powerful form of feedback, where a user can express her feature preferences by applying a series of directional critiques over the recommendations instead of providing specific preference values. Incremental Critiquing is a conversational recommender system that uses critiquing as a feedback to efficiently personalize products. The expectation is that in each cycle the system retrieves the products that best satisfy the user’s soft product preferences from a minimal information input. In this paper, we present a novel technique that increases retrieval quality based on a combination of compatibility and similarity scores. Under the hypothesis that a user learns Turing the recommendation process, we propose two novel exponential reinforcement learning approaches for compatibility that take into account both the instant at which the user makes a critique and the number of satisfied critiques. Moreover, we consider that the impact of features on the similarity differs according to the preferences manifested by the user. We propose a global weighting approach that uses a common weight for nearest cases in order to focus on groups of relevant products. We show that our methodology significantly improves recommendation efficiency in four data sets of different sizes in terms of session length in comparison with state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, our recommender shows higher robustness against noisy user data when compared to classical approaches
 
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  Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor  
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  ISSN 1041-4347 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes MILAB; HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ SaE2011 Serial 1713  
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Author Olivier Penacchio; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  url
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  Title What is the best criterion for an efficient design of retinal photoreceptor mosaics? Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 40 Issue (up) Pages 197  
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  Abstract The proportions of L, M and S photoreceptors in the primate retina are arguably determined by evolutionary pressure and the statistics of the visual environment. Two information theory-based approaches have been recently proposed for explaining the asymmetrical spatial densities of photoreceptors in humans. In the first approach Garrigan et al (2010 PLoS ONE 6 e1000677), a model for computing the information transmitted by cone arrays which considers the differential blurring produced by the long-wavelength accommodation of the eye’s lens is proposed. Their results explain the sparsity of S-cones but the optimum depends weakly on the L:M cone ratio. In the second approach (Penacchio et al, 2010 Perception 39 ECVP Supplement, 101), we show that human cone arrays make the visual representation scale-invariant, allowing the total entropy of the signal to be preserved while decreasing individual neurons’ entropy in further retinotopic representations. This criterion provides a thorough description of the distribution of L:M cone ratios and does not depend on differential blurring of the signal by the lens. Here, we investigate the similarities and differences of both approaches when applied to the same database. Our results support a 2-criteria optimization in the space of cone ratios whose components are arguably important and mostly unrelated.
[This work was partially funded by projects TIN2010-21771-C02-1 and Consolider-Ingenio 2010-CSD2007-00018 from the Spanish MICINN. CAP was funded by grant RYC-2007-00484]
 
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ PeP2011a Serial 1719  
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Author C. Alejandro Parraga; Olivier Penacchio; Maria Vanrell edit  openurl
  Title Retinal Filtering Matches Natural Image Statistics at Low Luminance Levels Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER  
  Volume 40 Issue (up) Pages 96  
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  Abstract The assumption that the retina’s main objective is to provide a minimum entropy representation to higher visual areas (ie efficient coding principle) allows to predict retinal filtering in space–time and colour (Atick, 1992 Network 3 213–251). This is achieved by considering the power spectra of natural images (which is proportional to 1/f2) and the suppression of retinal and image noise. However, most studies consider images within a limited range of lighting conditions (eg near noon) whereas the visual system’s spatial filtering depends on light intensity and the spatiochromatic properties of natural scenes depend of the time of the day. Here, we explore whether the dependence of visual spatial filtering on luminance match the changes in power spectrum of natural scenes at different times of the day. Using human cone-activation based naturalistic stimuli (from the Barcelona Calibrated Images Database), we show that for a range of luminance levels, the shape of the retinal CSF reflects the slope of the power spectrum at low spatial frequencies. Accordingly, the retina implements the filtering which best decorrelates the input signal at every luminance level. This result is in line with the body of work that places efficient coding as a guiding neural principle.  
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  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PPV2011 Serial 1720  
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Author Farhan Riaz; Fernando Vilariño; Mario Dinis-Ribeiro; Miguel Coimbraln edit   pdf
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  Title Identifying Potentially Cancerous Tissues in Chromoendoscopy Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 709-716  
  Keywords Endoscopy, Computer Assisted Diagnosis, Gradient.  
  Abstract The dynamics of image acquisition conditions for gastroenterology imaging scenarios pose novel challenges for automatic computer assisted decision systems. Such systems should have the ability to mimic the tissue characterization of the physicians. In this paper, our objective is to compare some feature extraction methods to classify a Chromoendoscopy image into two different classes: Normal and Potentially cancerous. Results show that LoG filters generally give best classification accuracy among the other feature extraction methods considered.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Editor J. Vitria, J.M. Sanches, and M. Hernandez  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium  
  Area 800 Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MV;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RVD2011; IAM @ iam @ RVD2011 Serial 1726  
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Author Jordi Vitria; Joao Sanchez; Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez edit  isbn
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  Title Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Type Book Whole
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages  
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  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin Editor J. Vitrià; J. Sanchez; M. Raposo; M. Hernandez  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-2125 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ VSR2011 Serial 1730  
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Author Mario Rojas; David Masip; Jordi Vitria edit  doi
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  Title Automatic Detection of Facial Feature Points via HOGs and Geometric Prior Models Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 371-378  
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  Abstract Most applications dealing with problems involving the face require a robust estimation of the facial salient points. Nevertheless, this estimation is not usually an automated preprocessing step in applications dealing with facial expression recognition. In this paper we present a simple method to detect facial salient points in the face. It is based on a prior Point Distribution Model and a robust object descriptor. The model learns the distribution of the points from the training data, as well as the amount of variation in location each point exhibits. Using this model, we reduce the search areas to look for each point. In addition, we also exploit the global consistency of the points constellation, increasing the detection accuracy. The method was tested on two separate data sets and the results, in some cases, outperform the state of the art.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RMV2011a Serial 1731  
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Author Jon Almazan; Ernest Valveny; Alicia Fornes edit  doi
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  Title Deforming the Blurred Shape Model for Shape Description and Recognition Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 1-8  
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  Abstract This paper presents a new model for the description and recognition of distorted shapes, where the image is represented by a pixel density distribution based on the Blurred Shape Model combined with a non-linear image deformation model. This leads to an adaptive structure able to capture elastic deformations in shapes. This method has been evaluated using thee different datasets where deformations are present, showing the robustness and good performance of the new model. Moreover, we show that incorporating deformation and flexibility, the new model outperforms the BSM approach when classifying shapes with high variability of appearance.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Berlin Editor Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
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  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes DAG; Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AVF2011 Serial 1732  
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Author Maria Vanrell; Naila Murray; Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Xavier Otazu; Ramon Baldrich edit   pdf
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  Title Perception Based Representations for Computational Colour Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 3rd International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6626 Issue (up) Pages 16-30  
  Keywords colour perception, induction, naming, psychophysical data, saliency, segmentation  
  Abstract The perceived colour of a stimulus is dependent on multiple factors stemming out either from the context of the stimulus or idiosyncrasies of the observer. The complexity involved in combining these multiple effects is the main reason for the gap between classical calibrated colour spaces from colour science and colour representations used in computer vision, where colour is just one more visual cue immersed in a digital image where surfaces, shadows and illuminants interact seemingly out of control. With the aim to advance a few steps towards bridging this gap we present some results on computational representations of colour for computer vision. They have been developed by introducing perceptual considerations derived from the interaction of the colour of a point with its context. We show some techniques to represent the colour of a point influenced by assimilation and contrast effects due to the image surround and we show some results on how colour saliency can be derived in real images. We outline a model for automatic assignment of colour names to image points directly trained on psychophysical data. We show how colour segments can be perceptually grouped in the image by imposing shading coherence in the colour space.  
  Address Milan, Italy  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor Raimondo Schettini, Shoji Tominaga, Alain Trémeau  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20403-6 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CCIW  
  Notes CIC Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ VMB2011 Serial 1733  
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Author Michal Drozdzal; Santiago Segui; Carolina Malagelada; Fernando Azpiroz; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva edit  openurl
  Title Interactive Labeling of WCE Images Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 143-150  
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  Abstract A high quality labeled training set is necessary for any supervised machine learning algorithm. Labeling of the data can be a very expensive process, specially while dealing with data of high variability and complexity. A good example of such data are the videos from Wireless Capsule Endoscopy. Building a representative WCE data set means many videos to be labeled by an expert. The problem that occurs is the data diversity, in the space of the features, from different WCE studies. That means that when new data arrives it is highly probable that it will not be represented in the training set, thus getting a high probability of performing an error when applying machine learning schemes. In this paper an interactive labeling scheme that allows reducing expert effort in the labeling process is presented. It is shown that the number of human interventions can be significantly reduced. The proposed system allows the annotation of informative/non-informative frames of the WCE video with less than 100 clicks  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor Vitria, Jordi; Sanches, João Miguel Raposo; Hernández, Mario  
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  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MILAB;OR;MV Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DSM2011 Serial 1734  
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Author Pierluigi Casale; Oriol Pujol; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title Human Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data using a Wearable Device Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 289-296  
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  Abstract Activity Recognition is an emerging field of research, born from the larger fields of ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing and multimedia. Recently, recognizing everyday life activities becomes one of the challenges for pervasive computing. In our work, we developed a novel wearable system easy to use and comfortable to bring. Our wearable system is based on a new set of 20 computationally efficient features and the Random Forest classifier. We obtain very encouraging results with classification accuracy of human activities recognition of up to 94%.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor Vitria, Jordi; Sanches, João Miguel Raposo; Hernández, Mario  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPR2011a Serial 1735  
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Author Lluis Pere de las Heras; Gemma Sanchez edit  doi
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  Title And-Or Graph Grammar for Architectural Floorplan Representation, Learning and Recognition. A Semantic, Structural and Hierarchical Model Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 17-24  
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  Abstract This paper presents a syntactic model for architectural floor plan interpretation. A stochastic image grammar over an And-Or graph is inferred to represent the hierarchical, structural and semantic relations between elements of all possible floor plans. This grammar is augmented with three different probabilistic models, learnt from a training set, to account the frequency of that relations. Then, a Bottom-Up/Top-Down parser with a pruning strategy has been used for floor plan recognition. For a given input, the parser generates the most probable parse graph for that document. This graph not only contains the structural and semantic relations of its elements, but also its hierarchical composition, that allows to interpret the floor plan at different levels of abstraction.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ HeS2011 Serial 1736  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; David Aldavert; Dimosthenis Karatzas; Ricardo Toledo; Josep Llados edit  doi
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  Title Interactive Trademark Image Retrieval by Fusing Semantic and Visual Content. Advances in Information Retrieval Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6611 Issue (up) Pages 314-325  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose an efficient queried-by-example retrieval system which is able to retrieve trademark images by similarity from patent and trademark offices' digital libraries. Logo images are described by both their semantic content, by means of the Vienna codes, and their visual contents, by using shape and color as visual cues. The trademark descriptors are then indexed by a locality-sensitive hashing data structure aiming to perform approximate k-NN search in high dimensional spaces in sub-linear time. The resulting ranked lists are combined by using the Condorcet method and a relevance feedback step helps to iteratively revise the query and refine the obtained results. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of this system on a realistic and large dataset.  
  Address Dublin, Ireland  
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  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Berlin Editor P. Clough; C. Foley; C. Gurrin; G.J.F. Jones; W. Kraaij; H. Lee; V. Murdoch  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN 978-3-642-20160-8 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ECIR  
  Notes DAG; RV;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RAK2011 Serial 1737  
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Author Anjan Dutta; Josep Llados; Umapada Pal edit  doi
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  Title A Bag-of-Paths Based Serialized Subgraph Matching for Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6669 Issue (up) Pages 620-627  
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  Abstract In this paper we propose an error tolerant subgraph matching algorithm based on bag-of-paths for solving the problem of symbol spotting in line drawings. Bag-of-paths is a factorized representation of graphs where the factorization is done by considering all the acyclic paths between each pair of connected nodes. Similar paths within the whole collection of documents are clustered and organized in a lookup table for efficient indexing. The lookup table contains the index key of each cluster and the corresponding list of locations as a single entry. The mean path of each of the clusters serves as the index key for each table entry. The spotting method is then formulated by a spatial voting scheme to the list of locations of the paths that are decided in terms of search of similar paths that compose the query symbol. Efficient indexing of common substructures helps to reduce the computational burden of usual graph based methods. The proposed method can also be seen as a way to serialize graphs which allows to reduce the complexity of the subgraph isomorphism. We have encoded the paths in terms of both attributed strings and turning functions, and presented a comparative results between them within the symbol spotting framework. Experimentations for matching different shape silhouettes are also reported and the method has been proved to work in noisy environment also.  
  Address Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain  
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  Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Berlin Editor Jordi Vitria; Joao Miguel Raposo; Mario Hernandez  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-21256-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference IbPRIA  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DLP2011a Serial 1738  
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Author Francesco Ciompi; Oriol Pujol; Carlo Gatta; Xavier Carrillo; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva edit  doi
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  Title A Holistic Approach for the Detection of Media-Adventitia Border in IVUS Type Conference Article
  Year 2011 Publication 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6893 Issue (up) Pages 401-408  
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  Abstract In this paper we present a methodology for the automatic detection of media-adventitia border (MAb) in Intravascular Ultrasound. A robust computation of the MAb is achieved through a holistic approach where the position of the MAb with respect to other tissues of the vessel is used. A learned quality measure assures that the resulting MAb is optimal with respect to all other tissues. The mean distance error computed through a set of 140 images is 0.2164 (±0.1326) mm.  
  Address Toronto, Canada  
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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 978-3-642-23625-9 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference MICCAI  
  Notes MILAB;HuPBA Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPG2011 Serial 1739  
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