PT Chapter AU Fernando Vilariño Panagiota Spyridonos Jordi Vitria C. Malagelada Petia Radeva TI Linear Radial Patterns Characterization for Automatic Detection of Tonic Intestinal Contractions BT 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition PY 2006 BP 178–187 VL 4225 DI 10.1007/11892755_18 AB This work tackles the categorization of general linear radial patterns by means of the valleys and ridges detection and the use of descriptors of directional information, which are provided by steerable filters in different regions of the image. We successfully apply our proposal in the specific case of automatic detection of tonic contractions in video capsule endoscopy, which represent a paradigmatic example of linear radial patterns. PI Berlin Heidelberg ER