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Image Understanding (CVIU) Special Issue on Shape
Modeling in Medical Image Analysis Aims
and Scope: Exploring and using anatomical shape properties plays an
increasingly important role in many medical imaging and image processing
applications. For examples, in medical image segmentation, prior knowledge on
the shape of interest has been used to achieve more accurate segmentation,
e.g. in case of ambiguities owing to limited image quality. In neuroscience,
the shape of certain brain structures, such as hippocampus, has been shown to
be useful for predicting the development of a brain disease, such as
Alzheimer’s. In cardiac imaging, the accurate tracking of the shape of the left
and right ventricles facilitates the computer aided diagnosis of
cardiovascular diseases. While
shape representation, modeling and analysis have been widely studied in both
the computer vision and medical imaging societies for many years, there are still
many unsolved problems. Furthermore, new medical imaging techniques and
applications produce higher dimensional data, such as 4D longitudinal data,
which bring in new challenges to shape modeling and analysis. For this
special issue, we invite researchers from both medical imaging and computer
vision societies to report on their recent progress in this area and discuss
the future direction of this important topic. This
Special Issue will include, but is not limited to the following topics, with
applications to medical image analysis. - Anatomic and functional shape
representation and matching - Shape based medical image
segmentation - Shape registration - Statistical shape analysis, - Shape deformation - Shape based abnormity detection - Shape tracking and longitudinal
shape analysis - Machine learning for shape
modeling and analysis - Shape based computer-aid-diagnosis - Shape based medical navigation - Benchmark and validation of shape
representation, analysis and modeling algorithms. Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012 Guest editors: Song Wang (University of South
Carolina) Email: SongWang@cec.sc.edu Shuo Li (GE Healthcare &
University of Western Ontario) Email: Shuo.Li@ge.com Wiro Niessen
(Erasmus MC) Email: w.niessen@erasmusmc.nl Submission: http://ees.elsevier.com/cviu/
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