IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1, January 2002

Ultrasonography

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  Mostafa Fatemi, Lester E. Wold, Azra Alizad, James F. Greenleaf:
  Vibro-acoustic Tissue Mammography. 1-8
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  Raj Shekhar, Vladimir Zagrodsky:
  Mutual Information-Based Rigid and Nonrigid Registration of Ultrasound Volumes. 9-22

Image Registration

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  Damini Dey, David G. Gobbi, Piotr J. Slomka, Kathleen J. M. Surry, Terry M. Peters:
  Automatic Fusion of Freehand Endoscopic Brain Images to Three-Dimensional Surfaces: Creating Stereoscopic Panoramas. 23-30
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  Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Fisher:
  Parameter Space Warping: Shape-Based Correspondence Between Morphologically Different Objects. 31-47
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  Guofang Xiao, Michael Brady, J. Alison Noble, Yongyue Zhang:
  Segmentation of Ultrasound B-mode Images with Intensity Inhomogeneity Correction. 48-57

Volume 21, Number 2, February 2002

Vessel Tracking

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  Stephen R. Aylward, Elizabeth Bullitt:
  Initialization, Noise, Singularities and Scale in Height Ridge Traversal for Tubular Object Centerline Extraction. 61-75

Computed Tomography

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  Samit Basu, Yoram Bresler:
  O (N3logN) Backprojection Algorithm for the 3D Radon Transform. 76-88
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  Idris A. Elbakri, Jeffrey A. Fessler:
  Statistical Image Reconstruction for Polyenergetic X-ray Computer Tomography. 89-99

Image Interpolation

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  Adrian G. Bors, Lefteris Kechagias, Ioannis Pitas:
  Binary Morphological Shape-Based Interpolation Applied to 3D Tooth Reconstruction. 100-108

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Xiao Han, Chenyang Xu, Ulisses M. Braga-Neto, Jerry L. Prince:
  Topology Correction in Brain Cortex Segmentation Using a Multi-Scale, Graph-Based Algorithm. 109-121
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  Sylvain Prima, Sébastien Ourselin, Nicholas Ayache:
  Computation of the Mid-Sagittal Plane in 3D Brain Images. 122-138

Computer Aided Diagnosis

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  Bram van Ginneken, Shigehiko Katsuragawa, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Kunio Doi, Max A. Viergever:
  Automatic Detection of Abnormalities in Chest Radiographs Using Local Texture Analysis. 139-149
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  Shih-Chung Ben Lo, Huai Li, Yue Joseph Wang, Lisa Kinnard, Matthew T. Freedman:
  A Multiple Circular Paths Convolution Neural Network System for Detection of Mammographic Masses. 150-158

Positron Emission Tomography

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  Daniel F. Yu, Jeffrey A. Fessler:
  Edge-Preserving Tomographic Reconstruction with Nonlocal Regularization. 159-173

Image Registration

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  Yang-Ming Zhu:
  Volume Image Registration by Cross-Entropy Optimization. 174-180

Correspondence

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  Tadatoshi Tanifuji, Masanori Hijikata:
  FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) Analysis of Optical Pulse Responses in Biological Tissues for Spectroscopic Diffused Optical Tomography. 181-184

Errata

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  Punam K. Saha, Jayaram K. Udupa:
  Scale-Based Diffusive Image Filtering Preserving Boundary Sharpness and Fine Structures. 184-185

Volume 21, Number 3, March 2002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Mohamed N. Ahmed, Sameh M. Yamany, Nevin A. Mohamed, Aly A. Farag, Thomas Moriarty:
  A modified fuzzy c-means algorithm for bias field estimation and segmentation of MRI data. 193-199

Emission Computed Tomography

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  James E. Bowsher, Martin P. Tornai, J. Peter, D. E. Gonzalez Trotter, Andrzej Król, David R. Gilland, Ronald J. Jaszczak:
  Modeling the axial extension of a transmission line source within iterative reconstruction via multiple transmission sources. 200-215
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  Arkadiusz Sitek, Grant T. Gullberg, Ronald H. Huesman:
  Correction for ambiguous solutions in factor analysis using a penalized least squares objective. 216-225

Ultrasonography

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  Gary Jacob, J. Alison Noble, Christian P. Behrenbruch, Andrew D. Kelion, Adrian P. Banning:
  A shape-space based approach to tracking myocardial borders and quantifying regional left ventricular function applied in echocardiography. 226-238

Mammography

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  Paul Sajda, Clay Spence, John C. Pearson:
  Learning contextual relationships in mammograms using a pyramid neural network. 239-250

X-ray Angiography

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  Holger Schmitt, Michael Grass, Volker Rasche, Oliver Schramm, S. Hähnel, K. Sartor:
  An x-ray based method for the determination of the contrast agent propagation in 3D vessel structures. 251-262

X-ray Computed Tomography

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  Erich Sorantin, Csongor Halmai, Balázs Erdöhelyi, Kálmán Palágyi, Bernhard Geiger, Gerhard Friedrich, Karl Kiesel, Sven Loncaric:
  Spiral CT based assessment of laryngotrachealstenoses with 3D image processing using a Skeletonisation algorithm. 263-273

Volume 21, Number 4, April 2002

Guest Editorial

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  Jayaram K. Udupa, Gabor T. Herman:
  Medical image reconstruction, processing, visualization and analysis: The MIPG perspective. 281-295

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Michael Abramoff, Max A. Viergever:
  Computation and visualization of three-dimensional motion in the orbit. 296-304
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  Rick Archibald, Anne Gelb:
  A method to reduce the Gibbs ringing artifact in MRI scans while keeping tissue boundary integrity. 305-319
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  J. Dehmeshki, Gareth J. Barker, Paul S. Tofts:
  Classification of disease subgroup and correlation of disease severity using magnetic resonance imaging whole-brain histograms: Application to magnetization transfer ratios and multiple sclerosis. 320-331
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  Zhihua Xu, Andrew K. Chan:
  Encoding with frames in MRI and analysis of the signal-to-noise ratio. 332-342

Radiography

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  Sabine Dippel, Martin Stahl, Rafael Wiemker, Thomas Blaffert:
  Multiscale contrast enhancement for radiographies: Laplacian pyramid vs. fast wavelet transform. 343-353

X-ray Computed Tomography

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  A. Elmooutaouakkil, Françoise Peyrin, J. Elkafi, A. M. Laval-Jeantet:
  Segmentation of cancellous bone from high resolution computed tomography images: Influence on trabecular bone measurements. 354-362
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  Stefan Horbelt, Michael Liebling, Michael Unser:
  Discretization of the Radon transform and of its inverse by spline convolutions. 363-376

Molecular Imaging

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  Jian Ling, Alan C. Bovik:
  Smoothing low SNR molecular images via anisotropic median-diffusion. 377-384

Microwave Computed Tomography

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  Michio Miyakawa, Kentaroh Orikasa, Mario Bertero, Patrizia Boccacci, Franco Conte, Michele Piana:
  Experimental validation of a linear model for data reduction in Chirp-Pulse microwave CT. 385-395

Positron Emission Tomography

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  Thomas E. Nichols, Jinyi Qi, Evren Asma, Richard M. Leahy:
  Spatiotemporal reconstruction of list mode PET data. 396-404

Ultrasonography

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  Guofang Xiao, J. Michael Brady, J. Alison Noble, Michael Burcher, Ruth E. English:
  Non-rigid registration of 3-D free-hand ultrasound images of the breast. 405-412

Diffraction Tomography

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  Xiaochuan Pan, Mark A. Anastasio:
  On a limited-view reconstruction problem in wavefield tomography. 413-416

Volume 21, Number 5, May 2002

Editorial

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  Richard M. Leahy, Michael F. Insana:
  Editorial. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 21(5): 425-428 (2002)
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  Craig K. Abbey, Miguel P. Eckstein:
  Optimal shifted estimates of human-observer templates in two-alternative forced-choice experiments. 429-440
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  John W. Hoppin, Matthew A. Kupinski, George A. Kastis, Eric Clarkson, Harrison H. Barrett:
  Objective Comparison of Quantitative Imaging Modalities Without the Use of a Gold Standard. 441-449
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  Hans J. Johnson, Gary E. Christensen:
  Consistent Landmark and Intensity-based Image Registration. 450-461
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  Jundong Liu, Baba C. Vemuri, José L. Marroquín:
  Local Frequency Representations for Robust Multimodal Image Registration. 462-469
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  Luis Freire, Alexis Roche, Jean-François Mangin:
  What is the best similarity measure for motion correction in fMRI time series? 470-484
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  Gabriele Lohmann, Stefan Bohn:
  Using replicator dynamics for analyzing fMRI data of the human brain. 485-492
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  Viktor K. Jirsa, Kelly J. Jantzen, Armin Fuchs, J. A. Scott Kelso:
  Spatiotemporal forward solution of the EEG and MEG using network modelling. 493-504
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  Geoffrey J. M. Parker, Claudia A. M. Wheeler-Kingshott, Gareth J. Barker:
  Estimating Distributed Anatomical Brain Connectivity Using Fast Marching Methods and Diffusion Tensor Imaging. 505-512
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  Xiaodong Tao, Jerry L. Prince, Christos Davatzikos:
  Using a Statistical Shape Model to Extract Sulcal Curves on the Outer Cortex of the Human Brain. 513-524
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  Rhodri H. Davies, Carole J. Twining, Timothy F. Cootes, John C. Waterton, Christopher J. Taylor:
  A minimum description length approach to statistical shape modeling. 525-537
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  Sarang C. Joshi, Stephen M. Pizer, P. Thomas Fletcher, Paul A. Yushkevich, Andrew Thall, J. S. Marron:
  Multi-scale Deformable Model Segmentation and Statistical Shape Analysis Using Medial Descriptions. 538-550

Volume 21, Number 6, June 2002

Editorial

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  Jonathan C. Newell, David Isaacson, Jennifer L. Mueller:
  Electrical Impedance Tomography. 553-554

Reconstruction Algorithms/ Data Extraction

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  Jennifer L. Mueller, Samuli Siltanen, David Isaacson:
  A direct reconstruction algorithm for electrical impedance tomography . 555-559
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  Jacques Jossinet, Emmanuel Marry, Amalric Montalibet:
  Inverse Impedance Tomography: Imaging Tissue from Inside. 560-565
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  Alejandro F. Frangi, Pere J. Riu, Javier Rosell, Max A. Viergever:
  Propagation of Measurement Noise through Backprojection Reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography. 566-578
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  Andrea Borsic, William R. B. Lionheart, Christoher N. McLeod:
  Generation of Anisotropic-Smoothness Regularization Filters for EIT. 579-587
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  Bernhard Scholz:
  Towards Virtual Electrical Breast Biopsy: Space-frequency MUSIC for Trans-Admittance Data. 588-595
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  Nicholas Polydorides, William R. B. Lionheart, Hugh McCann:
  Krylov Subspace Iterative Techniques: On the Detection of Brain Activity with Electrical Impedance Tomography. 596-603
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  A. Richardot, Eric T. McAdams:
  Harmonic Analysis of Low-Frequency Bio-Electrode Behavior. 604-612
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  Elzbieta Ratajewicz-Mikolajczak, Jan Sikora:
  Neural Networks Method for Identification of the Objects Behind the Screen. 613-619
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  Mengxing Tang, Wei Wang, James Wheeler, Malcolm McCormick, Xiuzhen Dong:
  Effects of Incompatible Boundary Information in EIT on the Convergence Behavior of an Iterative Algorithm. 620-628
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  M. T. Clay, Thomas C. Ferrée:
  Weighted Regularization in Electrical Impedance Tomography with Applications to Acute Cerebral Stroke. 629-637

Clinical Applications

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  Todd E. Kerner, Keith D. Paulsen, Alex Hartov, Sandra K. Soho, Steven P. Poplack:
  Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy of the Breast: Clinical Imaging Results in 26 Subjects. 638-645
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  Inéz Frerichs, Jose Hinz, Peter Herrmann, Gerald Weisser, Günter Hahn, Michael Quintel, Gerhard Hellige:
  Regional Lung Perfusion as Determined by Electrical Impedance Tomography in Comparison with Electron Beam CT Imaging. 646-652
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  A. E. Hoetink, Theo J. C. Faes, J. T. Marcus, H. J. J. Kerkkamp, R. M. Heethar:
  Imaging of Thoracic Blood Volume Changes during the Heart Cycle with Electrical Impedance using a Linear Spot-Electrode Array. 653-661
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  Vladimir A. Cherepenin, Alexander Y. Karpov, Alexander V. Korjenevsky, Valdimir N. Kornienko, Yury S. Kultiasov, Mikhail B. Ochapkin, Olga V. Trochanova, J. David Meister:
  3D EIT Imaging of Breast Tissues: System Design and Clinical Testing. 662-667

Hardware

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  Anthony J. Fitzgerald, David S. Holder, Leila Eadie, C. Hare, Richard H. Bayford:
  A Comparison of Techniques to Optimize Measurement of Voltage Changes in Electrical Impedance Tomography by Minimizing Phase Shift Errors. 668-675

New Technology

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  Shai Levy, Dan Adams, Yoram Bresler:
  Electro-magnetic Impedance Tomography (EMIT): A New Method for Impedance Imaging. 676-687
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  Adnan Koksal, B. Murat Eyüboglu, Mehmet Demirbilek:
  A Quasi-Static Analysis for a Class of Induced-Current EIT Systems using Discrete Coils. 688-694
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  Hyan Soo Khang, Byung Il Lee, Suk Hoon Oh, Eung Je Woo, Soo Yeol Lee, Min Hyoung Cho, Ohin Kwon, Jeong-Rock Yoon, Jin Keun Seo:
  J-Substitution Algorithm in Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Tomography (MREIT): Phantom Experiments for Static Resistivity Images. 695-702

Tissue Properties

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  Serguei Y. Semenov, Robert H. Svenson, Vitaly G. Posukh, Alexei G. Nazarov, Yuri E. Sizov, Alexander E. Bulyshev, Alexander E. Souvorov, Wendy Chen, Jackie Kasell, George P. Tatsis:
  Dielectrical Spectroscopy of Canine Myocardium during Acute Ischemia. 703-707

Correspondence

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  Rod H. Smallwood, Ahmad Keshtkar, Bev A. Wilkinson, John A. Lee, Freddie C. Hamdy:
  Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) in the Urinary Bladder: The Effect of Inflammation and Edema on Identification of Malignancy. 708-710
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  Yael A. Glickman, Orna Filo, Udi Nachaliel, Sarah Lenington, Sigal Amin-Spector, Gad Kenan, Ron Ginor:
  Novel EIS Post-Processing Algorithm for Breast Cancer Diagnosis. 710-712

Volume 21, Number 7, July 2002

Guest Editorial

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  Karl Heinz Hoehne:
  Medical Image Computing at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf. 713-723

X-ray Coronary Angiography

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  S.-Y. James Chen, John D. Carroll, John C. Messenger:
  Quantitative analysis of reconstructed 3-D coronary arterial tree and intracoronary devices. 724-740

Image Interpretation

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  Laura Dempere-Marco, Xiaopeng Hu, Sharyn L. S. MacDonald, Stephen M. Ellis, David M. Hansell, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  The use of visual search for knowledge gathering in image decision support. 741-754

Optical Imaging

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  Brian W. Pogue, Xiaomei Song, Tor D. Tosteson, Troy O. McBride, Shudong Jiang, Keith D. Paulsen:
  Statistical analysis of non-linearly reconstructed near-infrared tomographic images: Part I - Theory and simulations. 755-763
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  Xiaomei Song, Brian W. Pogue, Tor D. Tosteson, Troy O. McBride, Shudong Jiang, Keith D. Paulsen:
  Statistical analysis of non-linearly reconstructed near-infrared tomographic images: Part II - Experimental studies. 764-772

Left Ventricular Image Analysis

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  Masamitsu Moriyama, Yoshinobu Sato, Hiroaki Naito, Masayuki Hanayama, Takashi Ueguchi, Toshinobu Harada, Fujiichi Yoshimoto, Shinichi Tamura:
  Reconstruction of time-varying 3D left ventricular shape from multiview x-ray cineangiocardiograms. 773-785
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  Xenophon Papademetris, Albert J. Sinusas, Donald P. Dione, R. Todd Constable, James S. Duncan:
  Estimation of 3D left ventricular deformation from medical images using biomechanical models. 786-800

X-ray Computed Tomography

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  Sarah K. Patch:
  Computation of unmeasured 3rd generation VCT views from measured views. 801-813

Thermoacoustic Tomography

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  Minghua Xu, Lihong V. Wang:
  Time-Domain Reconstruction for Thermoacoustic Tomography in a Spherical Geometry. 814-822
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  Yuan Xu, Dazi Feng, Lihong V. Wang:
  Exact Frequency-Domain Reconstruction for Thermoacoustic Tomography: I. Planar Geometry. 823-828
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  Yuan Xu, Minghua Xu, Lihong V. Wang:
  Exact Frequency-Domain Reconstruction for Thermoacoustic Tomography: II. Cylindrical Geometry. 829-833

Comments

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  Elena Biagi, Luca Breschi, Simona Granchi, Leonardo Masotti:
  Frequency Decomposition and Computing of Ultrasound Medical Images with Wavelets Packets. 834-837

Reply to the comments

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  Gabriella Cincotti, Giovanna Loi, Massimo Pappalardo:
  Frequency Decomposition and Computing of Ultrasound Medical Images with Wavelet Packets. 836-837

Book Reviews

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  Yue Wang:
  Independent Component Analysis by Aapo Hyvärinen, Juha Karhunen, Erkki Oja. 837-838
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  Xiaochuan Pan, Chien-Min Kao:
  Spatial Statistics: Methodological Aspects and Applications, Marc Moore, editor. 839-841

Volume 21, Number 8, August 2002

Editorial

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  Peter G. Katona:
  The Whitaker Foundation: The end will be just the beginning. 845-849
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  Michael Unser, Zhi-Pei Liang:
  First IEEE Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 850-851

Optical Imaging

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  Harry L. Graber, Yaling Pei, Randall L. Barbour:
  Imaging of spatiotemporal coincident states by DC optical tomography. 852-866

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

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  Freek J. Beekman, Hugo W. A. M. de Jong, Sander van Geloven:
  Efficient Fully 3D Iterative SPECT Reconstruction with Monte Carlo Based Scatter Compensation. 867-877
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  Scott D. Metzler, James E. Bowsher, Kim L. Greer, Ronald J. Jaszczak:
  Analytic Determination of the Pinhole Collimator's Point-Spread Function and RMS Resolution with Penetration. 878-887

Image Segmentation

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  Jeroen G. Snel, Henk W. Venema, Cornelis A. Grimbergen:
  Deformable Triangular Surfaces Using Fast 1-D Lagrangian Dynamics - Segmentation of 3-D MR and CT Images of the Wrist. 888-903
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  Yong Fan, Tianzi Jiang, David J. Evans:
  Volumetric Segmentation of Brain Images Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms. 904-909
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  Alain Pitiot, Arthur W. Toga, Paul M. Thompson:
  Adaptive Elastic Segmentation of Brain MRI via Shape Model Guided Evolutionary Programming. 910-923
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  Bram van Ginneken, Alejandro F. Frangi, Joes Staal, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Max A. Viergever:
  Active Shape Model Segmentation with Optimal Features. 924-933
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  José L. Marroquín, Baba C. Vemuri, Salvador Botello, Félix Calderón, Antonio Fernández-Bouzas:
  An Accurate and Efficient Bayesian Method for Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI. 934-945

Image Registration

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  Gert Wollny, Frithjof Kruggel:
  Computational Cost of Non-Rigid Registration Algorithms Based on Fluid Dynamics. 946-952
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  Dinggang Shen, Christos Davatzikos:
  HAMMER: Heirarchical Attribute Matching Mechanism for Elastic Registration. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 21(8) (2002)

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Philipp G. Batchelor, Andy D. Castellano-Smith, Derek L. G. Hill, David J. Hawkes, Tim C. S. Cox, A. F. Dean:
  Measures of Folding Applied to the Development of the Human Fetal Brain. 953-965
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  Sofia Chavez, Qing-San Xiang, Li An:
  Understanding Phase Maps in MRI: Improved Phase Unwrapping. 966-977

X-Ray Computed Tomography

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  Patrick J. La Rivière, Xiaochuan Pan:
  Anti-Aliasing Weighting Functions for Single-Slice Helical CT. 978-997

Invited Review

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  Dirk Selle, Bernhard Preim, Andrea Schenk, Heinz-Otto Peitgen:
  Analysis of Vasculature for Liver Surgery Planning. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 21(8) (2002)

Image Guided Surgery

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  Wolfgang Birkfellner, Michael Figl, Klaus Huber, Franz Watzinger, Felix Wanschitz, Johann Hummel, Rudolf Hanel, Wolfgang Greimel, Peter Homolka, Rolf Ewers, Helmar Bergmann:
  A Head-Mounted Operating Binocular for Augmented Reality Visualization in Medicine - Design and Initial Evaluation. 991-997

Correspondence

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  Elizabeth Bullitt, Stephen R. Aylward:
  Volume Rendering of Segmented Image Objects. 998-1002

Volume 21, Number 9, September 2002

Editorial

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  Alejandro F. Frangi, Daniel Rueckert, James S. Duncan:
  Three-dimensional Cardiovascular Image Analysis. 1005-1010

Review Articles

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  Timo Mäkelä, Patrick Clarysse, Outi Sipilä, Nicoleta Pauna, Quoc Cuong Pham, Toivo Katila, Isabelle E. Magnin:
  A Review of Cardiac Image Registration Methods. 1011-1021
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  Jan D'hooge, Bart H. Bijnens, Jan Thoen, Frans Van de Werf, George R. Sutherland, Paul Suetens:
  Echocardiographic Strain and Strain-rate Imaging: A New Tool to Study Regional Myocardial Function. 1022-1030

Image Acquisition and Reconstruction

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  Bernhard Tilg, Gerald Fischer, Robert Modre, Friedrich Hanser, Bernd Messnarz, Michael Schocke, Christian Kremser, Thomas Berger, Florian Hintringer, Franz Xaver Roithinger:
  Model-Based Imaging of Cardiac Electrical Excitation in Humans. 1031-1039
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  Eric C. Frey, Karen L. Gilland, Benjamin M. W. Tsui:
  Application of Task-Based Measures of Image Quality to Optimization and Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Reconstruction-Based Compensation Methods in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT. 1040-1050

Echocardiography

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  Xujiong Ye, J. Alison Noble, David Atkinson:
  3D Freehand Echocardiography for Automatic Left Ventricle Reconstruction and Analysis based on Multiple Acoustic Windows. 1051-1058
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  Olivier Gérard, Antoine Collet Billon, Jean-Michel Rouet, Miarie Jacob, Maxim Fradkin, Cyril F. Allouche:
  Efficient Model-based Quantification of Left Ventricle Function in 3D Echography . 1059-1068
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  Gerardo I. Sanchez-Ortiz, Gabriel J. T. Wright, Nigel J. Clarke, Jérôme Declerck, Adrian P. Banning, J. Alison Noble:
  Automated 3D Echocardiography Analysis Compared with Manual Delineations and SPECT MUGA. 1069-1076
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  Mingzhou Song, Robert M. Haralick, Florence H. Sheehan, Richard K. Johnson:
  Integrated Surface Optimization for 3-D Freehand Echocardiography. 1077-1090
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  Ivo Wolf, Mark Hastenteufel, Raffaele De Simone, Marcus Vetter, Gerald-P. Glombitza, Sibylle Mottl-Link, Christian-Friedrich Vahl, Hans-Peter Meinzer:
  Semi-automated Segmentation Methods for Accelerated Analysis of Three-dimensional Echocardiographic Data. 1091-1104

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Pernilla Selskog, Einar Heiberg, Tino Ebbers, Lars Wigström, Matts Karlsson:
  Kinematics of the Heart: Strain Rate Imaging from Time-Resolved 3D phase-contrast MRI. 1105-1109
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  Yasheng Chen, Amir A. Amini:
  A MAP Framework for Tag Line Detection in SPAMM Data Using Markov Random Fields on the B-Spline Solid. 1110-1122
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  Sharmeen Masood, Jianxin Gao, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  Virtual Tagging: Numerical Considerations and Phantom Validation. 1123-1131
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  Dirk Manke, Peter Rösch, Kay Nehrke, Peter Börnert, Olaf Dössel:
  Model Evaluation and Calibration for Prospective Respiratory Motion Correction in Coronary MR Angiography Based on 3D Image Registration. 1132-1141
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  Kate McLeish, Derek L. G. Hill, David Atkinson, Jane M. Blackall, Reza Razavi:
  A Study of the Motion and Deformation of the Heart due to Respiration. 1142-1150

Statistical Shape Modeling

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  Alejandro F. Frangi, Daniel Rueckert, Julia A. Schnabel, Wiro J. Niessen:
  Automatic Construction of Multiple-object Three-dimensional Statistical Shape Models: Application to Cardiac Modelling. 1151-1166
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  Steven C. Mitchell, Johan G. Bosch, Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt, Rob J. van der Geest, Johan H. C. Reiber, Milan Sonka:
  3-D Active Appearance Models: Segmentation of Cardiac MR and Ultrasound Images. 1167-1178

4D Image Compression

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  Li Zeng, Christian P. Jansen, Stephan Marsch, Michael Unser, Patrick R. Hunziker:
  Wavelet compression of Four-Dimensional Arbitrarily Size Echocardiographic Data. 1179-1187

Biplane X-ray Angiography

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  Cristina Cañero Morales, Fernando Vilariño, Josefina Mauri, Petia Radeva:
  Predicitive (un)distortion Model and 3D Reconstruction by Biplane Snakes. 1188-1201

Short Communications

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  Cristiana Corsi, Giuseppe Saracino, Alessandro Sarti, Claudio Lamberti:
  Left Ventricular Volume Estimation for Real-time Three-dimensional Echocardiography. 1202-1208

Volume 21, Number 10, October 2002

Editorial

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  Milan Sonka, Michael Grunkin:
  Image Processing and Analysis in Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials. 1209-1211

Cellular Image Analysis

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  Christophe Zimmer, Elisabeth Labruyere, Vannary Meas-Yedid, Nancy Guillen, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin:
  Segmentation and Tracking of Migrating Cells in Videomicroscopy with Parametric Active Contours: A Tool for Cell-Based Drug Testing. 1212-1221
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  Nilanjan Ray, Scott T. Acton, Klaus Ley:
  Tracking Leukocytes In Vivo with Shape and Size Constrained Active Contours. 1222-1235

Retinal Image Analysis

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  Thomas Walter, Jean-Claude Klein, Pascale Massin, Ali Erginay:
  A Contribution of Image Processing to the Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy - Detection of Exudates in Color Fundus Images of the Human Retina. 1236-1243
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  Enrique Corona, Sunanda Mitra, Mark P. Wilson, Peter Soliz, Thomas Krile, Young H. Kwon:
  Digital Stereo Image Analyzer for Generating Automated 3-D Measures of Optic Disc Deformation in Glaucoma. 1244-1253

Cardiovascular Image Analysis

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  Gerhard Koning, Joan C. Tuinenburg, Ellen Hekking, Janny Peelen, Anton van Weert, Danny Bergkamp, Bob Goedhart, Johan H. C. Reiber:
  A Novel Measurement Technique to Assess the Effects of Coronary Brachytherapy in Clinical Trials. 1254-1263
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  Florence H. Sheehan, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, Mark Reisman, Karl-Christian Kock, Athena Poppas:
  Method for Three Dimensional Data Registration from Disparate Imaging Modalities. 1264-1270
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  Milan Sonka, Weidong Liang, Ronald M. Lauer:
  Automated Analysis of Brachial Ultrasound Image Sequences: Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease via Surrogates of Endothelial Function. 1271-1279

Brain Image Analysis

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  Alex P. Zijdenbos, Reza Forghani, Alan C. Evans:
  Automatic 'Pipeline' Analysis of 3D MRI Data for Clinical Trials: Application to Multiple Sclerosis. 1280-1291
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  Mark Holden, Julia A. Schnabel, Derek L. G. Hill:
  Quantification of Small Cerebral Ventricular Volume Changes in Treated Growth Hormone Patients using Non-Rigid Registration. 1292-1301

Small Animal Image Analysis/Drug Delivery

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  Shaun S. Gleason, Hamed Sari-Sarraf, Mongi A. Abidi, Ohannes A. Karakashian, F. Morandi:
  A New Deformable Model for Analysis of X-ray CT Images in Pre-clinical Studies of Mice for Polycystic Kidney Disease. 1302-1309
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  Kyle A. Salem, Agata Szymanski-Exner, Roee S. Lazebnik, Michael S. Breen, Jinming Gao, David L. Wilson:
  X-Ray Computed Tomography Methods for In Vivo Evaluation of Local Drug Release Systems. 1310-1316
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  Bram Ramjiawan, Robert E. Ariano, Henry H. Mantsch, Pradip Maiti, Michael Jackson:
  Immunofluorescence Imaging as a Tool for Studying the Pharmacokinetics of a Human Monoclonal Single Chain Fragment Antibody. 1317-1323

Drug Delivery

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  Zhenghong Lee, Marc S. Berridge:
  PET Imaging-based Evaluation of Aerosol Drugs and Their Delivery Devices: Nasal and Pulmonary Studies. 1324-1331

Volume 21, Number 11, November 2002

Guest Editorial Series

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  Arthur W. Toga:
  The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging; What it is; Why it is; and How it Came to Be. 1333-1343

Invited Review

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  Dirk Selle, Bernhard Preim, Andrea Schenk, Heinz-Otto Peitgen:
  Analysis of Vasculature for Liver Surgical Planning. 1344-1357

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

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  Marianna Dudasne Nagy, Eörs Máté, Bela Kari:
  Mathematical Generation of Normal Data for Evaluating Myocardial Perfusion Studies. 1358-1365

X-ray Computed Tomography

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  Patrick J. La Rivière, Xiaochuan Pan:
  Longitudinal aliasing in Multi-slice Helical Computed Tomography: Sampling and Cone-beam Effects. 1366-1373

Ultrasonography

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  Johan G. Bosch, Steven C. Mitchell, Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt, Francisca Nijland, Otto Kamp, Milan Sonka, Johan H. C. Reiber:
  Automatic Segmentation of Echocardiographic Sequences by Active Appearance Motion Models. 1374-1383
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  Jochen F. Krucker, Gerald L. LeCarpentier, J. Brian Fowlkes, Paul L. Carson:
  Rapid Elastic Image Registration for 3D Ultrasound. 1384-1394
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  Michael M. Bronstein, Alexander M. Bronstein, Michael Zibulevsky, Haim Azhari:
  Reconstruction in Diffraction Ultrasound Tomography Using Non-Uniform FFT. 1395-1401

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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  Mukund Desai, Rami Mangoubi, Jayant Shah, William Clement Karl, David N. Kennedy, Homer H. Pien, Andrew J. Worth:
  Functional MRI Activity Characterization Using Response Time Shift Estimates from Curve Evolution. 1402-1412

Emission Tomography

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  Sakari Alenius, Ulla Ruotsalainen:
  Generalization of Median Root Prior Reconstruction. 1413-1420

Image Registration

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  Dinggang Shen, Christos Davatzikos:
  HAMMER: Heirarchical Attribute Matching Mechanism for Elastic Registration. 1421-1439

Correspondence

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  Karl Krissian:
  Flux-Based Anisotropic Diffusion Applied to Enhancement of 3-D Angiogram. 1440-1442

Volume 21, Number 11, December 2002

Editorial

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  Pierre Jannin, J. Michael Fitzpatrick, David J. Hawkes, Xavier Pennec, Ramin Shahidi, Michael W. Vannier:
  Validation of Medical Image Processing in Image-Guided Therapy. 1445-1449

Virtual Endoscopy

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  Ming Wan, Zhengrong Liang, Qi Ke, Lichan Hong, Ingmar Bitter, Arie E. Kaufman:
  Automatic Centerline Extraction for Virtual Colonoscopy. 1450-1460
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  Burak Acar, Christopher F. Beaulieu, Salih Burak Göktürk, Carlo Tomasi, David S. Paik, R. Brooke Jeffrey Jr., Judy Yee, Sandy Napel:
  Edge Displacement Field-Based Classification for Improved Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography. 1461-1467

Positron Emission Tomography

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  Robert Z. Stodilka, Edward J. Soares, Stephen J. Glick:
  Characterization of Tomographic Sampling in Hybrid PET Using the Fourier Crosstalk Matrix. 1468-1478

Image Interpolation

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  Tong-Yee Lee, Chao-Hung Lin:
  Feature-Guided Shape-Based Image Interpolation. 1479-1489

Ultrasonography

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  Oleg V. Michailovich, Dan Adam:
  A High-Resolution Technique for Ultrasound Harmonic Imaging Using Sparse Representation in Gabor Frames. 1490-1503

X-ray Computed Tomography

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  Neculai Archip, Pierre-Jean Erard, Michael Egmont-Petersen, Jean-Marie Haefliger, Jean-Francois Germond:
  A Knowledge-Based Approach to Automatic Detection of the Spinal Cord in CT Images. 1504-1516
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  Yoshitaka Masutani, Heber MacMahon, Kunio Doi:
  Computerized Detection of Pulmonary Embolism in Spiral CT Angiography Based on Volumetric Image Analysis. 1517-1523

Multimodality Imaging

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  Ramin Shahidi, Michael R. Bax, Calvin R. Maurer Jr., Jeremy A. Johnson, Eric P. Wilkinson, Bai Wang, Jay B. West, Martin J. Citardi, Kim H. Manwaring, Rasool Khadem:
  Implementation, Calibration and Accuracy Testing of an Image-Enhanced Endoscopy System. 1524-1535
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  Magnus Hemmendorff, Mats T. Andersson, Torbjörn Kronander, Hans Knutsson:
  Phase-Based Multidimensional Volume Registration. 1536-1543

Brain Surface Topology

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  Roman Goldenberg, Ron Kimmel, Ehud Rivlin, Michael Rudzsky:
  Cortex Segmentation - A Fast Variational Geometric Approach. 1544-1551

Mammography

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  Issam El-Naqa, Yongyi Yang, Miles N. Wernick, Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Robert M. Nishikawa:
  A Support Vector Machine Approach for Detection of Microcalcifications. 1552-1563

Correspondence

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  Lowell Abrams, Donniell E. Fishkind, Carey E. Priebe:
  A Proof of the Spherical Homeomorphism Conjecture for Surfaces. 1564-1566