Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications

Chapter 1 Parameter Estimation for Personalization of Liver Tumor Radiofrequency Ablation

Chapter 2 Automatic Identification and Localisation of Potential Malignancies in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Liver Scans Using Spatio-Temporal Features

Chapter 3 A Semi-automated Toolkit for Analysis of Liver Cancer Treatment Response Using Perfusion CT

Chapter 4 Parameter Comparison Between Fast-Water-Exchange-Limit-Constrained Standard and Water-Exchange-Modified Dual-Input Tracer Kinetic Models for DCE-MRI in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Chapter 5 Kinetic Textural Biomarker for Predicting Survival of Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Antiangiogenic Therapy by Use of Baseline First-Pass Perfusion CT

Chapter 6 Feasibility of Single-Input Tracer Kinetic Modeling with Continuous-Time Formalism in Liver 4-Phase Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT.

Chapter 7 Metastatic Liver Tumor Segmentation Using Texture-Based Omni-Directional Deformable Surface Models

Chapter 8 Automated Navigator Tracker Placement for MRI Liver Scans

Chapter 9 Pancreatic Blood Flow Measurements in the Pig Pancreatitis Model Using Perfusion CT with Deconvolution Method

Chapter 10 A Bottom-Up Approach for Automatic Pancreas Segmentation in Abdominal CT Scans

Chapter 11 Spatially-Constrained Probability Distribution Model of Incoherent Motion (SPIM) in Diffusion Weighted MRI Signals of Crohn’s Disease

Chapter 12 Semi-automatic Crohn’s Disease Severity Estimation on MR Imaging

Chapter 13 Combining Multiple Expert Annotations Using Semi-supervised Learning and Graph Cuts for Crohn’s Disease Segmentation

Chapter 14 Automatic Assessment of Image Informativeness in Colonoscopy

Chapter 15 Information-Preserving Pseudo-Enhancement Correction for Non-Cathartic Low-Dose Dual-Energy CT Colonography.

Chapter 16 Application of Pseudo-enhancement Correction to Virtual Monochromatic CT Colonography.

Chapter 17 A Novel Minimal Surface Overlay Model for the Whole Colon Wall Segmentation

Chapter 18 A Unified Framework for Automated Colon Segmentation

Chapter 19 A Novel Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy Using One-Sided Transparency

Chapter 20 Total Variation Regularization of Displacements in Parametric Image Registration

Chapter 21 A Bilinear Model for Temporally Coherent Respiratory Motion

Chapter 22 A New Tube Detection Filter for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Chapter 23 Total Variation Based 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Laparoscopic Sequences

Chapter 24 MRI-Based Thickness Analysis of Bladder Cancer: A Pilot Study

Chapter 25 Three-Dimensional Respiratory Deformation Processing for CT Vessel Images Using Angiographic Images

Chapter 26 Reconstruction Method by Using Sparse and Low-Rank Structures for Fast 4D-MRI Acquisition

Chapter 27 Combined Homogeneous Region Localization and Automated Evaluation of Radiation Dose Dependent Contrast-to-Noise Ratio in Dual Energy Abdominal CT

Chapter 28 Modeling and Analysis of Bioimpedance Measurements