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	Author	Debora Gil
	Title	Geometric Differential Operators for Shape Modelling			Type	Book Whole
	Year	2004	Publication	PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	Medical imaging feeds research in many computer vision and image processing fields: image filtering, segmentation, shape recovery, registration, retrieval and pattern matching. Because of their low contrast changes and large variety of artifacts and noise, medical imaging processing techniques relying on an analysis of the geometry of image level sets rather than on intensity values result in more robust treatment. From the starting point of treatment of intravascular images, this PhD thesis ad- dresses the design of differential image operators based on geometric principles for a robust shape modelling and restoration. Among all fields applying shape recovery, we approach filtering and segmentation of image objects. For a successful use in real images, the segmentation process should go through three stages: noise removing, shape modelling and shape recovery. This PhD addresses all three topics, but for the sake of algorithms as automated as possible, techniques for image processing will be designed to satisfy three main principles: a) convergence of the iterative schemes to non-trivial states avoiding image degeneration to a constant image and representing smooth models of the originals; b) smooth asymptotic behav- ior ensuring stabilization of the iterative process; c) fixed parameter values ensuring equal (domain free) performance of the algorithms whatever initial images/shapes. Our geometric approach to the generic equations that model the different processes approached enables defining techniques satisfying all the former requirements. First, we introduce a new curvature-based geometric flow for image filtering achieving a good compromise between noise removing and resemblance to original images. Sec- ond, we describe a new family of diffusion operators that restrict their scope to image level curves and serve to restore smooth closed models from unconnected sets of points. Finally, we design a regularization of snake (distance) maps that ensures its smooth convergence towards any closed shape. Experiments show that performance of the techniques proposed overpasses that of state-of-the-art algorithms.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Ph.D. thesis
	Publisher	Ediciones Graficas Rey	Place of Publication	Barcelona (Spain)	Editor	Jordi Saludes i Closa;Petia Radeva
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	84-933652-0-3	Medium	prit
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM;			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GIL2004			Serial	1517
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	Author	Debora Gil; Carles Sanchez; Agnes Borras; Marta Diez-Ferrer; Antoni Rosell
	Title	Segmentation of Distal Airways using Structural Analysis			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2019	Publication	PloS one	Abbreviated Journal	Plos
	Volume	14	Issue	12	Pages
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	Abstract	Segmentation of airways in Computed Tomography (CT) scans is a must for accurate support of diagnosis and intervention of many pulmonary disorders. In particular, lung cancer diagnosis would benefit from segmentations reaching most distal airways. We present a method that combines descriptors of bronchi local appearance and graph global structural analysis to fine-tune thresholds on the descriptors adapted for each bronchial level. We have compared our method to the top performers of the EXACT09 challenge and to a commercial software for biopsy planning evaluated in an own-collected data-base of high resolution CT scans acquired under different breathing conditions. Results on EXACT09 data show that our method provides a high leakage reduction with minimum loss in airway detection. Results on our data-base show the reliability across varying breathing conditions and a competitive performance for biopsy planning compared to a commercial solution.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM; 600.139; 600.145			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ GSB2019			Serial	3357
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	Author	Jaume Garcia; Francesc Carreras; Sandra Pujades; Debora Gil
	Title	Regional motion patterns for the Left Ventricle function assessment			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2008	Publication	Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition ICPR 2008	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1-4
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	Abstract	Regional scores (e.g. strain, perfusion) of the Left Ventricle (LV) functionality are playing an increasing role in the diagnosis of cardiac diseases. A main limitation is the lack of normality models for complementary scores oriented to assessment of the LV integrity. This paper introduces an original framework based on a parametrization of the LV domain, which allows comparison across subjects of local physiological measures of different nature. We compute regional normality patterns in a feature space characterizing the LV function. We show the consistency of the model for the regional motion on healthy and hypokinetic pathological cases
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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		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GCP2008			Serial	1510
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	Author	Jaume Garcia; Debora Gil; A.Bajo; M.J.Ledesma-Carbayo; C.SantaMarta
	Title	Influence of the temporal resolution on the quantification of displacement fields in cardiac magnetic resonance tagged images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2008	Publication	Proc. Computers in Cardiology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	35	Issue		Pages	785-788
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	Abstract	It is difficult to acquire tagged cardiac MR images with a high temporal and spatial resolution using clinical MR scanners. However, if such images are used for quantifying scores based on motion, it is essential a resolution as high as possible. This paper explores the influence of the temporal resolution of a tagged series on the quantification of myocardial dynamic parameters. To such purpose we have designed a SPAMM (Spatial Modulation of Magnetization) sequence allowing acquisition of sequences at simple and double temporal resolution. Sequences are processed to compute myocardial motion by an automatic technique based on the tracking of the harmonic phase of tagged images (the Harmonic Phase Flow, HPF). The results have been compared to manual tracking of myocardial tags. The error in displacement fields for double resolution sequences reduces 17%.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Alan Murray
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GGB2008			Serial	1508
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	Author	Jaume Garcia; Debora Gil; Joel Barajas; Francesc Carreras; Sandra Pujades; Petia Radeva
	Title	Characterization of ventricular torsion in healthy subjects using Gabor filters and a variational framework			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Proc. Computers in Cardiology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	877-880
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	Abstract	In this work, we present a fully automated method for tissue deformation estimation in tagged magnetic resonance images (TMRI). Gabor filter banks, tuned independently for each left ventricle level, provide optimally filtered complex images which phase remains constant along the cardiac cycle. This fact can be thought as the brightness constancy condition required by classical optical flow (OF) methods. Pairs of these filtered sequences, together with a variational formulation are used in a second step to obtain dense continuous deformation maps that we call Harmonic Phase Flow. This method has been used to determine reference values of ventricular torsion (VT) in a set of 8 healthy volunteers. The results encourage the use of VT as a useful parameter for ventricular function assessment in clinical routine.
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	Notes	IAM;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GGB2006a			Serial	1509
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	Author	Debora Gil; Oriol Rodriguez; Josepa Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	Statistical descriptors of the Myocardial perfusion in angiographic images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Proc. Computers in Cardiology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	677-680
	Keywords	Anisotropic processing; intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); vessel border segmentation; vessel structure classification.
	Abstract	Restoration of coronary flow after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction does not always correlate with adequate myocardial perfusion. Recently, coronary angiography has been used to assess microcirculation integrity (Myocardial BlushAnalysis, MBA). Although MBA correlates with patient prognosis there are few image processing methods addressing objective perfusion quantification. The goal of this work is to develop statistical descriptors of the myocardial dyeing pattern allowing objective assessment of myocardial perfusion. Experiments on healthy right coronary arteries show that our approach allows reliable measurements without any specific image acquisition protocol.
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	Notes	IAM;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GRR2006			Serial	1528
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; E.N.Nofrerias
	Title	Anisotropic processing of image structures for adventitia detection in intravascular ultrasound images			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2004	Publication	Proc. Computers in Cardiology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	31	Issue		Pages	229-232
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	Abstract	The adventitia layer appears as a weak edge in IVUS images with a non-uniform grey level, which difficulties its detection. In order to enhance edges, we apply an anisotropic filter that homogenizes the grey level along the image significant structures (ridges, valleys and edges). A standard edge detector applied to the filtered image yields a set of candidate points prone to be unconnected. The final model is obtained by interpolating the former line segments along the tangent direction to the level curves of the filtered image with an anisotropic contour closing technique based on functional extension principles
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	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication	Chicago (USA)	Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM; MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HGR2004			Serial	1555
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Albert Teis
	Title	How Do Conservation Laws Define a Motion Suppression Score in In-Vivo Ivus Sequences?			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2007	Publication	Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	2231-2234
	Keywords	validation standards; IVUS motion compensation; conservation laws.
	Abstract	Evaluation of arterial tissue biomechanics for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases is an active research field in the biomedical imaging processing area. IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is a unique tool for such assessment since it reflects tissue morphology and deformation. A proper quantification and visualization of both properties is hindered by vessel structures misalignments introduced by cardiac dynamics. This has encouraged development of IVUS motion compensation techniques. However, there is a lack of an objective evaluation of motion reduction ensuring a reliable clinical application This work reports a novel score, the Conservation of Density Rate (CDR), for validation of motion compensation in in-vivo pullbacks. Synthetic experiments validate the proposed score as measure of motion parameters accuracy; while results in in vivo pullbacks show its reliability in clinical cases.
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HTG2007			Serial	1550
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; David Rotger; Debora Gil
	Title	Image-based ECG sampling of IVUS sequences			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2008	Publication	Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. IUS 2008	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	1330-1333
	Keywords	Longitudinal Motion; Image-based ECG-gating; Fourier analysis
	Abstract	Longitudinal motion artifacts in IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) sequences hinders a properly 3D reconstruction and vessel measurements. Most of current techniques base on the ECG signal to obtain a gated pullback without the longitudinal artifact by using a specific hardware or the ECG signal itself. The potential of IVUS images processing for phase retrieval still remains little explored. In this paper, we present a fast forward image-based algorithm to approach ECG sampling. Inspired on the fact that maximum and minimum lumen areas are related to end-systole and end-diastole, our cardiac phase retrieval is based on the analysis of tissue density of mass along the sequence. The comparison between automatic and manual phase retrieval (0.07 ± 0.07 mm. of error) encourages a deep validation contrasting with ECG signals.
	Address	Beijing (China)
	Corporate Author				Thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor
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	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HRG2008			Serial	1553
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Petia Radeva; Antonio Tovar; Debora Gil
	Title	Vessel structures alignment by spectral analysis of ivus sequences			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Proc. of CVII, MICCAI Workshop	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	39-36
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	Abstract	Three-dimensional intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) allows to visualize and obtain volumetric measurements of coronary lesions through an exploration of the cross sections and longitudinal views of arteries. However, the visualization and subsequent morpho-geometric measurements in IVUS longitudinal cuts are subject to distortion caused by periodic image/vessel motion around the IVUS catheter. Usually, to overcome the image motion artifact ECG-gating and image-gated approaches are proposed, leading to slowing the pullback acquisition or disregarding part of IVUS data. In this paper, we argue that the image motion is due to 3-D vessel geometry as well as cardiac dynamics, and propose a dynamic model based on the tracking of an elliptical vessel approximation to recover the rigid transformation and align IVUS images without loosing any IVUS data. We report an extensive validation with synthetic simulated data and in vivo IVUS sequences of 30 patients achieving an average reduction of the image artifact of 97% in synthetic data and 79% in real-data. Our study shows that IVUS alignment improves longitudinal analysis of the IVUS data and is a necessary step towards accurate reconstruction and volumetric measurements of 3-D IVUS.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication	Copenhaguen (Denmark),	Editor
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	Series Editor		Series Title	1st International Wokshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII’06)	Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	IAM; MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HRT2006			Serial	1552
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Josefina Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	Reducing cardiac motion in IVUS sequences			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2006	Publication	Proceeding of Computers in Cardiology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	33	Issue		Pages	685-688
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	Abstract	Cardiac vessel displacement is a main artifact in IVUS sequences. It hinders visualization of the main structures in an appropriate orientation and alignment and affects extracting vessel measurements. In this paper, we present a novel approach for image sequence alignment based on spectral analysis, which removes rigid dynamics, preserving at the same time the vessel geometry. First, we suppress the translation by taking, for each frame, the center of mass of the image as origin of coordinates. In polar coordinates with such point as origin, the rotation appears as a horizontal displacement. The translation induces a phase shift in the Fourier coefficients of two consecutive polar images. We estimate the phase by adjusting a regression plane to the phases of the principal frequencies. Experiments show that the presented strategy suppress cardiac motion regardless of the acquisition device. 1.
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	Notes	IAM; MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HGM2006a			Serial	1554
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	Author	Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
	Title	On the usefulness of supervised learning for vessel border detection in IntraVascular Imaging			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Proceeding of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	67-74
	Keywords	classification; vessel border modelling; IVUS
	Abstract	IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) imaging is a useful tool in diagnosis of cardiac diseases since sequences completely show the morphology of coronary vessels. Vessel borders detection, especially the external adventitia layer, plays a central role in morphological measures and, thus, their segmentation feeds development of medical imaging techniques. Deterministic approaches fail to yield optimal results due to the large amount of IVUS artifacts and vessel borders descriptors. We propose using classification techniques to learn the set of descriptors and parameters that best detect vessel borders. Statistical hypothesis test on the error between automated detections and manually traced borders by 4 experts show that our detections keep within inter-observer variability.
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	Publisher	IOS Press	Place of Publication	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	IAM;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ HGR2005c			Serial	1549
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	Author	Gloria Fernandez Esparrach; Jorge Bernal; Cristina Rodriguez de Miguel; Debora Gil; Fernando Vilariño; Henry Cordova; Cristina Sanchez Montes; I.Araujo ; Maria Lopez Ceron; J.Llach; F. Javier Sanchez
	Title	Colonic polyps are correctly identified by a computer vision method using wm-dova energy maps			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2015	Publication	Proceedings of 23 United European- UEG Week 2015	Abbreviated Journal
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	UEG
	Notes	MV; IAM; 600.075;SIAI			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ FBR2015			Serial	2732
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	Author	Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Jordi Saludes; Josefina Mauri
	Title	Automatic Segmentation of Artery Wall in Coronary IVUS Images: a Probabilistic Approach			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2000	Publication	Proceedings of CIC’2000	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
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	Abstract	Intravascular ultrasound images represent a unique tool to analyze the morphology of arteries and vessels (plaques, restenosis, etc). The poor quality of these images makes unsupervised segmentation based on traditional segmentation algorithms (such as edge or ridge/valley detection) fail to achieve the expected results. In this paper we present a probabilistic flexible template to separate different regions in the image. In particular, we use elliptic templates to model and detect the shape of the vessel inner wall in IVUS images. We present the results of successful segmentation obtained from patients undergoing stent treatment. A physician team has validated these results.
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	Publisher		Place of Publication	Cambridge, Massachussets	Editor
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	CIC
	Notes	IAM;MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ GRS2000			Serial	1538
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	Author	Cristina Cañero; Petia Radeva; Oriol Pujol; Ricardo Toledo; Debora Gil; J. Saludes; Juan J. Villanueva; B. Garcia del Blanco; J. Mauri; E. Fernandez-Nofrerias; J.A. Gomez-Hospital; E. Iraculis; J. Comin; C. Quiles; F. Jara; A. Cequier; E. Esplugas
	Title	Optimal Stent Implantation: Three-dimensional Evaluation of the Mutual Position of Stent and Vessel via Intracoronary Ecography			Type	Conference Article
	Year	1999	Publication	Proceedings of International Conference on Computer in Cardiology (CIC´99)	Abbreviated Journal
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	Abstract	We present a new automatic technique to visualize and quantify the mutual position between the stent and the vessel wall by considering their three-dimensional reconstruction. Two deformable generalized cylinders adapt to the image features in all IVUS planes corresponding to the vessel wall and the stent in order to reconstruct the boundaries of the stent and the vessel in space. The image features that characterize the stent and the vessel wall are determined in terms of edge and ridge image detectors taking into account the gray level of the image pixels. We show that the 30 reconstruction by deformable cylinders is accurate and robust due to the spatial data coherence in the considered volumetric IVUS image. The main clinic utility of the stent and vessel reconstruction by deformable’ cylinders consists of its possibility to visualize and to assess the optimal stent introduction.
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	Notes	MILAB; RV; IAM; ADAS; HuPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ CRP1999a			Serial	1491
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