Statistical Methodology Used in the TAXUS ATLAS Trial

Direct stenting with the TAXUS Liberté drug-eluting stent: results from the Taxus Atlas Direct Stent Study.

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine whether direct stenting with TAXUS Liberté is noninferior to stenting after pre-dilation. BACKGROUND Direct stenting is performed in approximately 30% of patients, but data on clinical and angiographic outcomes with drug-eluting stents are limited. METHODS The TAXUS ATLAS DIRECT STENT is a single-arm, multicenter study that enrolled patients ...

Statistical Methodology in Forestry

Statistical Methodology in Biometry

Statistical Atlas of the Human Knee

We describe a semi-automated statistical atlas building pipeline that uses CT images, and present our results for the atlas of the femur and tibia that were built using this pipeline. The method described is a modified and more automated version of the pipeline developed by Dr. Gouthami Chintalapani [2]. The modified pipeline reduces the user interaction, and thus makes the process more accessi...

Statistical atlas based exudate segmentation

Diabetic macular edema (DME) is characterized by hard exudates. In this article, we propose a novel statistical atlas based method for segmentation of such exudates. Any test fundus image is first warped on the atlas co-ordinate and then a distance map is obtained with the mean atlas image. This leaves behind the candidate lesions. Post-processing schemes are introduced for final segmentation o...