Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 13th International Conference, IPMI'93, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, June 14-18, 1993. Proceedings [Paperback]

This volume contains the proceedings of the thirteenthbiennial International Conference on Information Processingin Medical Imaging (IPMI XIII), held on the campus ofNorthern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, in June1993. This conference was the latest in a series of meetingswhere new developments in the acquisition, analysis andutilization of medical images are presented, discussed,dissected, and extended. Today IPMI is widely recognized asa preeminent international forum for presentation ofcutting-edge research in medical imaging and imageanalysis.The volume contains the text of the papers presented orallyatIPMI XIII. Over 100 manuscripts were submitted andcritically reviewed, of which 35 were selected forpresentation. In this volume they are arranged into ninecategories: shape description with deformable models,abstractshape description, knowledge-based systems, neuralnetworks, novel imaging methods, tomographic reconstruction,image sequences, statistical pattern recognition, and imagequality.A feature space for derivatives of deformations.- Non-rigid motion analysis in medical images: a physically based approach.- The use of active shape models for locating structures in medical images.- Parameterized feasible boundaries in gradient vector fields.- Multi-resolution stochastic 3D shape models for image segmentation.- Higher order differential structure of images.- Symbolic description of 3-D structures applied to cerebral vessel tree obtained from MR angiography volume data.- Multiscale Medial analysis of medical images.- Arrangement: A spatial relation comparing part embeddings and its use in medical image comparisons.- Characterizing first and second-order patches using geometry-limited diffusion.- Spatial knowledge representation for visualization of human anatomy and function.- A strategy for automated multimodality image registration incorporating anatomical knowledge and imager characteristics.- Model-bal“&