Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging: Computational Challenges and Clinical Opportunities

1. Front Matter

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2. CT Colonography CAD

   1. Electronic Cleansing in CT Colonography: Past, Present, and Future

      • Wenli Cai, Hiroyuki Yoshida

      Pages 1-8

   2. Improved Curvature Estimation for Shape Analysis in Computer-Aided Detection of Colonic Polyps

      • Hongbin Zhu, Yi Fan, Zhengrong Liang

      Pages 9-14

   3. Characterizing Colonic Detections in CT Colonography Using Curvature-Based Feature Descriptor and Bag-of-Words Model

      • Javed M. Aman, Ronald M. Summers, Jianhua Yao

      Pages 15-23

   4. Haustral Fold Segmentation of CT Colonography Using Ridge Line Detection

      • Hongbin Zhu, Lihong Li, Yi Fan, Zhengrong Liang

      Pages 24-31

   5. Recent Advances in Reduction of False Positives in Computerized Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography

      • Kenji Suzuki

      Pages 32-39

   6. A Bayesian Approach for False Positive Reduction in CTC CAD

      • Xujiong Ye, Gareth Beddoe, Greg Slabaugh

      Pages 40-46

   7. False-Positive Reduction in Computer-Aided Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography: A Massive-Training Support Vector Regression Approach

      • Jian-Wu Xu, Kenji Suzuki

      Pages 47-52

   8. Learning to Detect 3D Rectal Tubes in CT Colonography Using a Global Shape Model

      • Xiaoyun Yang, Gareth Beddoe, Greg Slabaugh

      Pages 53-59

3. Abdominal Imaging

   1. Estimation of Necrosis Volumes in Focal Liver Lesions Based on Multi-phase Hepatic CT Images

      • June-Goo Lee, Wenli Cai, Anand Singh, Hiroyuki Yoshida

      Pages 60-67

   2. Detection of the Invasion of Bladder Tumor into Adjacent Wall Based on Textural Features Extracted from MRI Images

      • Zhide Wu, Zhengxing Shi, Guopeng Zhang, Hongbing Lu

      Pages 68-75

   3. Detecting Bladder Abnormalities Based on Inter-layer Intensity Curve for Virtual Cystoscopy

      • Fanghua Liu, Chaijie Duan, Kehong Yuan, Zhengrong Liang, Shanglian Bao

      Pages 76-83

   4. Computer-Assisted Diagnosis for Quantitative Image-Based Analysis of Crohn’s Disease in CT Enterography

      • Janne Näppi, June-Goo Lee, Joel G. Fletcher, Hiroyuki Yoshida

      Pages 84-90

   5. Computer-Aided Detection of Small Bowel Strictures for Emergency Radiology in CT Enterography

      • Nisha I. Sainani, Janne Näppi, Dushyant V. Sahani, Hiroyuki Yoshida

      Pages 91-97

4. Virtual Colonoscopy

   1. Teniae Coli Extraction in Human Colon for Computed Tomographic Colonography Images

      • Zhuoshi Wei, Jianhua Yao, Shijun Wang, Ronald M. Summers

      Pages 98-104

   2. Extraction of Landmarks and Features from Virtual Colon Models

      • Krishna Chaitanya Gurijala, Arie Kaufman, Wei Zeng, Xianfeng Gu

      Pages 105-112

   3. Conformal Geometry Based Supine and Prone Colon Registration

      • Wei Zeng, Joseph Marino, Xianfeng Gu, Arie Kaufman

      Pages 113-119

   4. Colon Visualization Using Shape Preserving Flattening

      • Joseph Marino, Arie Kaufman

      Pages 120-125

   5. Synchronized Display of Virtual Colonoscopic Views in Supine and Prone CT Images

      • Masahiro Oda, Eiichiro Fukano, Takayuki Kitasaka, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Masaki Mori, Hiroshi Natori et al.

      Pages 126-133

   6. Colorectal Polyp Segmentation Based on Geodesic Active Contours with a Shape-Prior Model

      • Haiyong Xu, H. Donald Gage, Pete Santago, Yaorong Ge

      Pages 134-140

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Challenges and Clinical Opportunities in Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2010, in Beijing, China, on September 20, 2010.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on CT colonography CAD, abdominal imaging, and virtual colonoscopy.

• artificial neural network
• computer-aided diagnosis
• conformal geometry
• medical imaging
• visualization

• Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

  Hiroyuki Yoshida

• Radiology - Computer Aided Diagnostics Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

  Wenli Cai

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