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Author Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Mireia Burnat; Steven Jansen; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta edit   pdf
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  Title Structure-Preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2009 Publication 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5702 Issue Pages 427-434  
  Keywords non-linear smoothing; differential geometry; anatomical structures segmentation; cardiac magnetic resonance; computerized tomography.  
  Abstract Smoothing of biomedical images should preserve gray-level transitions between adjacent tissues, while restoring contours consistent with anatomical structures. Anisotropic diffusion operators are based on image appearance discontinuities (either local or contextual) and might fail at weak inter-tissue transitions. Meanwhile, the output of block-wise and morphological operations is prone to present a block structure due to the shape and size of the considered pixel neighborhood. In this contribution, we use differential geometry concepts to define a diffusion operator that restricts to image consistent level-sets. In this manner, the final state is a non-uniform intensity image presenting homogeneous inter-tissue transitions along anatomical structures, while smoothing intra-structure texture. Experiments on different types of medical images (magnetic resonance, computerized tomography) illustrate its benefit on a further process (such as segmentation) of images.  
  Address Münster, Germany  
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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 978-3-642-03766-5 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference CAIP  
  Notes IAM Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ GHB2009 Serial 1527  
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate edit   pdf
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  Title Exploring Arterial Dynamics and Structures in IntraVascular Ultrasound Sequences Type Book Whole
  Year (up) 2009 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death in developed countries. Most of them are caused by arterial (specially coronary) diseases, mainly caused by plaque accumulation. Such pathology narrows blood flow (stenosis) and affects artery bio- mechanical elastic properties (atherosclerosis). In the last decades, IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) has become a usual imaging technique for the diagnosis and follow up of arterial diseases. IVUS is a catheter-based imaging technique which shows a sequence of cross sections of the artery under study. Inspection of a single image gives information about the percentage of stenosis. Meanwhile, inspection of longitudinal views provides information about artery bio-mechanical properties, which can prevent a fatal outcome of the cardiovascular disease. On one hand, dynamics of arteries (due to heart pumping among others) is a major artifact for exploring tissue bio-mechanical properties. On the other one, manual stenosis measurements require a manual tracing of vessel borders, which is a time-consuming task and might suffer from inter-observer variations. This PhD thesis proposes several image processing tools for exploring vessel dy- namics and structures. We present a physics-based model to extract, analyze and correct vessel in-plane rigid dynamics and to retrieve cardiac phase. Furthermore, we introduce a deterministic-statistical method for automatic vessel borders detection. In particular, we address adventitia layer segmentation. An accurate validation pro- tocol to ensure reliable clinical applicability of the methods is a crucial step in any proposal of an algorithm. In this thesis we take special care in designing a valida- tion protocol for each approach proposed and we contribute to the in vivo dynamics validation with a quantitative and objective score to measure the amount of motion suppressed.  
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  Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Debora Gil  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-84-937261-6-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Her2009 Serial 1543  
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil;Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias;Petia Radeva; Enric Marti edit   pdf
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  Title Approaching Artery Rigid Dynamics in IVUS Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 2009 Publication IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Abbreviated Journal TMI  
  Volume 28 Issue 11 Pages 1670-1680  
  Keywords Fourier analysis; intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) dynamics; longitudinal motion; quality measures; tissue deformation.  
  Abstract Tissue biomechanical properties (like strain and stress) are playing an increasing role in diagnosis and long-term treatment of intravascular coronary diseases. Their assessment strongly relies on estimation of vessel wall deformation. Since intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) sequences allow visualizing vessel morphology and reflect its dynamics, this technique represents a useful tool for evaluation of tissue mechanical properties. Image misalignment introduced by vessel-catheter motion is a major artifact for a proper tracking of tissue deformation. In this work, we focus on compensating and assessing IVUS rigid in-plane motion due to heart beating. Motion parameters are computed by considering both the vessel geometry and its appearance in the image. Continuum mechanics laws serve to introduce a novel score measuring motion reduction in in vivo sequences. Synthetic experiments validate the proposed score as measure of motion parameters accuracy; whereas results in in vivo pullbacks show the reliability of the presented methodologies in clinical cases.  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0278-0062 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes IAM; MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ HGF2009 Serial 1545  
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Author Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Marc Vivet; Carme Julia edit  openurl
  Title Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos en la asignatura de Gráficos por Computador en Ingeniería Informática. Balance de cuatro años de experiencia Type Miscellaneous
  Year (up) 2009 Publication 15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica Abbreviated Journal  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Barcelona, Spain Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume 1 Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 978-84-692-2758-9 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference JENUI  
  Notes IAM;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ MGV2009 Serial 1596  
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Author Enric Marti; Debora Gil; Marc Vivet; Carme Julia edit  openurl
  Title Uso de recursos virtuales en Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Una experiencia en la asignatura de Gráficos por Computador Type Miscellaneous
  Year (up) 2009 Publication 15th Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informatica Abbreviated Journal  
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  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Lleida Editor  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Octava Jornada sobre Aprendizaje Cooperativo Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference JENUI  
  Notes IAM;ADAS Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ MRG2009b Serial 1597  
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Author Enric Marti; Jaume Rocarias; Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Jaume Garcia; Carme Julia; Marc Vivet edit   pdf
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  Title Uso de recursos virtuales en Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos. Una experiencia en la asignatura de Gráficos por Computador Type Miscellaneous
  Year (up) 2009 Publication I Congreso de Docencia Universitaria Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos; Project Based Learning; Aprendizaje Cooperativo; Recursos Virtuales para el Aprendizaje Cooperativo; Moodle  
  Abstract Presentamos una experiencia en Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos (ABP) realizada los últimos cuatro años en Gráficos por Computador 2, asignatura de Ingeniería Informática, de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (ETSE) de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). Utilizamos un entorno Moodle adaptado por nosotros llamado Caronte para poder gestionar la documentación generada en ABP. Primero se presenta la asignatura, basada en dos itinerarios para cursarla: ABP y TPPE (Teoría, Problemas, Prácticas, Examen). El alumno debe escoger uno de ellos. Ambos itinerarios generan una cantidad importante de documentación (entregas de trabajos y prácticas, correcciones, ejercicios, etc.) a gestionar. En la comunicación presentamos los espacios electrónicos Moodle de ambos itinerarios. Finalmente, mostramos los resultados de encuestas realizadas a los alumnos para finalmente exponer las conclusiones de la experiencia en ABP y el uso de Moodle, así como plantear mejoras y temas de discusión.  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Vigo (Spain) Editor  
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  Notes IAM;ADAS; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ MRG2009a Serial 1602  
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Author Ferran Poveda edit   pdf
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  Title Visualització i interpretació tridimensional de l’arquitectura de les fibres musculars del miocardi Type Report
  Year (up) 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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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes IAM; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Pov2009 Serial 1625  
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Author Misael Rosales; Petia Radeva;Oriol Rodriguez-Leon; Debora Gil edit   pdf
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  Title Modelling of image-catheter motion for 3-D IVUS Type Journal Article
  Year (up) 2009 Publication Medical image analysis Abbreviated Journal MIA  
  Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 91-104  
  Keywords Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); Motion estimation; Motion decomposition; Fourier  
  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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  Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ RRR2009 Serial 1646  
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Author Jorge Bernal edit   pdf
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  Title Use of Projection and Back-projection Methods in Bidimensional Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction Type Report
  Year (up) 2009 Publication CVC Tecnical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 141 Issue Pages  
  Keywords Projection, Back-projection, CT scan, Euclidean geometry, Radon transform  
  Abstract One of the biggest drawbacks related to the use of CT scanners is the cost (in memory and in time) associated. In this project many methods to simulate their functioning, but in a more feasible way (taking an industrial point of view), will be studied.
The main group of techniques that are being used are the one entitled as ’back-projection’. The concept behind is to simulate the X ray emission in CT scans by lines that cross with the image we want to reconstruct.
In the first part of this document euclidean geometry is used to face the tasks of projec- tion and back-projection. After analysing the results achieved it has been proved that this approach does not lead to a fully perfect reconstruction (and also has some other problems related to running time and memory cost). Because of this in the second part of the document ’Filtered Back-projection’ method is introduced in order to improve the results.
Filtered Back-projection methods rely on mathematical transforms (Fourier, Radon) in order to provide more accurate results that can be obtained in much less time. The main cause of this better results is the use of a filtering process before the back-projection in order to avoid high frequency-caused errors.
As a result of this project two different implementations (one for each approach) had been implemented in order to compare their performance.
 
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Barcelona, Spain Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes MV; Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ Ber2009 Serial 1693  
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Author Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Fernando Azpiroz; Juan Malagelada; Fosca de Iorio; Anna Accarino edit   pdf
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  Title Cascade analysis for intestinal contraction detection Type Patent
  Year (up) 2009 Publication US 2009/0284589 A1 Abbreviated Journal USPO  
  Volume Issue Pages 1-25  
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  Abstract A method and system cascade analysisi for intestinal contraction detection is provided by extracting from image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of turbid liquids in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including a field of view obstructed by turbid media, and more particulary, to extraction of image data obstructed by turbid media.  
  Address  
  Corporate Author US Patent Office Thesis  
  Publisher US Patent Office Place of Publication Editor  
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  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes MILAB; OR; MV;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ RVV2009 Serial 1700  
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Author Fernando Vilariño; Panagiota Spyridonos; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Fernando Azpiroz; Juan Malagelada edit   pdf
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  Title Device, system and method for measurement and analysis of contractile activity Type Patent
  Year (up) 2009 Publication US 2009/0202117 A1 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract A method and system for determining intestinal dysfunction condition are provided by classifying and analyzing image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of contractile activity in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including contractile activity, and more particularly to measurement and analysis of contractile activity of the GI tract based on image intensity of in vivo image data.  
  Address Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN ISBN Medium  
  Area 800 Expedition Conference  
  Notes MV;OR;MILAB;SIAI Approved no  
  Call Number IAM @ iam @ VSR2009 Serial 1704  
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Author S. Chanda; Umapada Pal; Oriol Ramos Terrades edit  doi
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  Title Word-Wise Thai and Roman Script Identification Type Journal
  Year (up) 2009 Publication ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing Abbreviated Journal TALIP  
  Volume 8 Issue 3 Pages 1-21  
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  Abstract In some Thai documents, a single text line of a printed document page may contain words of both Thai and Roman scripts. For the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of such a document page it is better to identify, at first, Thai and Roman script portions and then to use individual OCR systems of the respective scripts on these identified portions. In this article, an SVM-based method is proposed for identification of word-wise printed Roman and Thai scripts from a single line of a document page. Here, at first, the document is segmented into lines and then lines are segmented into character groups (words). In the proposed scheme, we identify the script of a character group combining different character features obtained from structural shape, profile behavior, component overlapping information, topological properties, and water reservoir concept, etc. Based on the experiment on 10,000 data (words) we obtained 99.62% script identification accuracy from the proposed scheme.  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1530-0226 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ CPR2009f Serial 1869  
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Author D. Perez; L. Tarazon; N. Serrano; F.M. Castro; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Juan edit  doi
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  Title The GERMANA Database Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2009 Publication 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 301-305  
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  Abstract A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. GERMANA is the result of digitising and annotating a 764-page Spanish manuscript from 1891, in which most pages only contain nearly calligraphed text written on ruled sheets of well-separated lines. To our knowledge, it is the first publicly available database for handwriting research, mostly written in Spanish and comparable in size to standard databases. Due to its sequential book structure, it is also well-suited for realistic assessment of interactive handwriting recognition systems. To provide baseline results for reference in future studies, empirical results are also reported, using standard techniques and tools for preprocessing, feature extraction, HMM-based image modelling, and language modelling.  
  Address Barcelona; Spain  
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  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1520-5363 ISBN 978-1-4244-4500-4 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICDAR  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PTS2009 Serial 1870  
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Author L.Tarazon; D. Perez; N. Serrano; V. Alabau; Oriol Ramos Terrades; A. Sanchis; A. Juan edit  doi
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  Title Confidence Measures for Error Correction in Interactive Transcription of Handwritten Text Type Conference Article
  Year (up) 2009 Publication 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 5716 Issue Pages 567-574  
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  Abstract An effective approach to transcribe old text documents is to follow an interactive-predictive paradigm in which both, the system is guided by the human supervisor, and the supervisor is assisted by the system to complete the transcription task as efficiently as possible. In this paper, we focus on a particular system prototype called GIDOC, which can be seen as a first attempt to provide user-friendly, integrated support for interactive-predictive page layout analysis, text line detection and handwritten text transcription. More specifically, we focus on the handwriting recognition part of GIDOC, for which we propose the use of confidence measures to guide the human supervisor in locating possible system errors and deciding how to proceed. Empirical results are reported on two datasets showing that a word error rate not larger than a 10% can be achieved by only checking the 32% of words that are recognised with less confidence.  
  Address Vietri sul Mare, Italy  
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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 978-3-642-04145-7 Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference ICIAP  
  Notes DAG Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ TPS2009 Serial 1871  
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Author Hany Salah Eldeen edit  openurl
  Title Colour Naming in Context through a Perceptual Model Type Report
  Year (up) 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 130 Issue Pages  
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  Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis  
  Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor  
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  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ Eld2009 Serial 2389  
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