Medical Imaging Systems Technology: Methods in cardiovascular and brain systems

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World Scientific, 2005 - Medical - 399 pages
This scholarly set of well-harmonized volumes provides indispensable and complete coverage of the exciting and evolving subject of medical imaging systems. Leading experts on the international scene tackle the latest cutting-edge techniques and technologies in an in-depth but eminently clear and readable approach.Complementing and intersecting one another, each volume offers a comprehensive treatment of substantive importance to the subject areas. The chapters, in turn, address topics in a self-contained manner with authoritative introductions, useful summaries, and detailed reference lists. Extensively well-illustrated with figures throughout, the five volumes as a whole achieve a unique depth and breath of coverage.As a cohesive whole or independent of one another, the volumes may be acquired as a set or individually.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Geometrical and Structural Analysis of Vessel Systems in 3D Medical Image Datasets Tobias Boskamp Horst K Hahn Milo Hindennach Ste...
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Chapter 2 Automatic Methods to Analyze and Quantify Cardiac Left Ventricle Parameters by Means of SPECT Marco A Gutierrez Sergio S Furuie M...
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Chapter 3 Left Ventricular Boundary Segmentation from Echocardiography Ning Lin Weichuan Yu and James S Duncan
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Chapter 4 Application of UltrasoundBased Computational Fluid Dynamics to Modeling Blood Flow in the Carotid Bifurcation Alexander D Augst Be...
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Theory and Applications Alessandro Sarti Cristiana Corsi and Claudio Lamberti
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Chapter 6 Logic Characterization and Classication of ECG signals Adam Gacek and Witold Pedrycz
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Chapter 7 Techniques in Image Segmentation and 3D Visualization in Brain MRI and their Applications Hyunwook Park Min Jeong Kwon and Yeji ...
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Chapter 8 Techniques in Analyzing the Neocortical FineStructure F Kruggel
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Chapter 9 Techniques in Automatic Cortical Gray Matter Segmentation of ThreeDimensional 3D Brain Images Roman Goldenberg Ron Kimmel Ehu...
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Chapter 10 Computer Techniques for the Automatic Segmentation of 3D MR Brain Images Alan WeeChung Liew and Hong Yan
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Chapter 11 Techniques in the Enhancement of 3D Angiograms and their Applications Karl Krissian and Gunnar Farneback
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Index
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