Powerful, flexible shape models of anatomical structures are required for robust, automatic analysis of medical images. In this paper we investigate a physics-based shape representation and deformation method in an effort to meet these requirements. Using a medial-based springmass mesh model, shape deformations are produced via the application of external forces or internal spring actuation. Th...

Developers of new image analysis algorithms typically require an interactive environment in which the image data can be passed through various operators, some of which may involve feedback, synchronization, merging and conditional control strategies. This paper describes the requirements of visual languages for developing new algorithms , and how several visual languages meet these requirements...

Texture analysis is quite important operation in medical image processing. Wavelet based texture analysis is developed which gives better way of extracting inherent object and properties in medical image. It gives a robust technique in disease diagnosis and future of biophysical disorder ness in a body. Image processing has an important influence on the medical decision making process and even ...

Medical image analysis is the science of analyzing or solving medical problems using different image analysis techniques for affective and efficient extraction of information. It has emerged as one of the top research area in the field of engineering and medicine. Recent years have witnessed rapid use of machine learning algorithms in medical image analysis. These machine learning techniques ar...

Advances in medical digital imaging have greatly benefited patient care. Computer-aided diagnosis is increasingly being used to facilitate semior fullyautomatic medical image analysis and image retrieval. While different tasks involve different methodologies in this domain, these tasks normally require image feature extraction as an essential component in the algorithmic framework. In this Chap...

We present a framework and geometry for object modeling in medical image analysis and display based on a sampled medial representation called an m-rep. This approach provides a coordinate system that is relative to the shape of the model—important because it allows the definition of more accurate visualization of 3D image data relative to a model. It also provides a means for describing the cor...