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 | 23 May 2012, Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Epidemiologie, Building 523, Room 2.2 „Besprechungsraum“ Klinikum rechts der Isar, Towards Computer-Aided Diagnostic of Pigmented Skin Lesions Skin cancer is one of the most frequently encountered types of cancer in the Western world. According to the Skin Cancer foundation Statistics, one in every five Americans develops skin cancer during his/her lifetime. Today, the incurability of advanced cutaneous melanoma raises the importance of its early detection. Since the differentiation of early melanoma from other pigmented skin lesions is not a trivial task, even for experienced dermatologists, computer aided diagnosis could become an important tool for reducing the mortality rate of this highly malignant cancer type. In this thesis, a computer aided diagnosis system based on machine learning is proposed in order to support the clinical use of optical spectroscopy and dermatoscopy imaging techniques for skin lesions quantification and classification. |
 | 11 May 2012, IMETUM Hörsaal 1.126 Real-time freehand SPECT reconstruction As part of the tum.reconstruction series of invited talks, Dr. Thomas Wendler will present recent developments on real-time freehand SPECT reconstructions. |
 | 11 May 2012, MI 03.13.010 Invited Talk by Dr. Tommaso Mansi Patient-specific therapy planning is challenging due to the large variability in disease causes, locations and severity. Dr. Tommaso Mansi is going to present an integrated framework for multi-physics heart modeling based on medical images, relying on efficient machine-learning methods to estimate an accurate and comprehensive model of patient’s anatomy from MRI |
 | 27 April 2012, Room 03.13.010, FMI-Building, Garching, Boltzmannstr. 3 PhD Defense of Maximilian Baust about Polar Active Contours for Medical Applications The accurate and robust detection and tracking of objects in different kinds of imaging data is a fundamental task in computer vision, which can be achieved by so-called active contours. The contribution of this dissertation is the development of a novel class of polar active contours, i.e. a sub-class of active contours which can only describe star-shaped objects. These novel active contours enjoy several properties, such as an increased robustness to noise for instance, which are particularly desirable for medical applications, e.g. the segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms from computed tomography angiography data or the tracking of the left ventricular cavity acquired by magnetic resonance imaging. |
 | 30 March 2012, IMETUM Hörsaal 1.126 Interventional Perfusion Imaging Computed tomography is rather advanced and experienced an immense innovation boost in the last decade. Nowadays reconstruction algorithms for rigid objects exhibit excellent image quality. Contrast and spatial resolution are sufficient for many diagnostic and interventional procedures. One out of many, but very demanding open problems in interventional imaging is still the three-dimensional reconstruction of perfusion processes using C-arm devices. The impact of such a system would be outstanding: perfusion measurements could be done during interventions using the existing imaging equipment. In this talk I will present initial algorithmic and clinical results for C-arm perfusion imaging in the interventional suite. |
 | 27 March 2012, Room 03.13.010, FMI-Building, Garching, Boltzmannstr. 3 PhD Defense of Victor Castaneda about Constructive interference for Multi-view Time–of-flight acquisition This thesis describes a novel method for acquiring depth images using multi-view Time of Flight (ToF) cameras, which uses a constructive interference between the emitted signals to enhance the depth accuracy. This work proposes to combine the measurements of the multi-view cameras at the acquisition level, in opposite to approaches that filter, calibrate or do 3D reconstructions posterior to the image acquisition. This work presents an example using a pair of ToF cameras in stereo-set-up defining a three-stages procedure, in which the infrared lighting of the scene is actively modified. This thesis also presents two applications of Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (MonoSLAM). The first application is using MonoSLAM in endoscopic images and the second one in a RGB-D sensor. |
Recent Publications
 | 1 October 2012, Nice, France Ten papers accepted in MICCAI 2012 We got 10 papers accepted at MICCAI 2012 (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions). MICCAI has received this year 779 submissions and only around 250 papers have been accepted. MICCAI 2012 will be held in Nice, France; in October (http://www.miccai2012.org/). |
 | 27 June 2012, Pisa, Italy One paper will be presented in IPCAI 2012 We have one paper accepted at the 3rd International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI 2012). IPCAI 2012 will be held on June 27 in Pisa, Italy (co-located with CARS). |
 | 3 May 2012, Article accepted at MedIA We are happy to announce that our article about the application of the 2D analytic signal on ultrasound images will be published in the journal of Medical Image Analysis |
 | 5 March 2012, Providence, Rhode Island Paper at CVPR 2012 We are happy to announce that we have a paper at IEEE CVPR 2012! |
 | 20 February 2012, Paper accepted at the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision We are proud to announce that our paper Translation, Scale, and Deformation Weighted Polar Active Contours has been accepted at the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (published by Springer) has been accepted for publication. The Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision is one of the leading journals in the area of applied mathematics related to computer vision and image processing, which is proven by its promiment editorial board - i.e. J. Weickert (Editor-in-Chief) as well as M.A. Viergever, J.A. Sethian, and J.-M. Morel (Co-Editors-in-Chief) - and last but not least its impact factor (1.285 in 2010). |
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