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Introduction
Technological advances in diagnostic and intraoperative imaging offer increasingly useful information regarding vascular anatomy and function and are poised to have dramatic impact on the diagnosis, analysis, modeling, and treatment of vascular diseases. Computational vision techniques designed to analyze images for modeling, simulating, and visualizing anatomy and medical devices such as stents as well as the assessment of interventional procedures are therefore playing an important role and are currently receiving significant interest. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - February 16, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Su-Lin Lee, Simone Balocco, Carlo Gatta, Stefanie Demirci, Geir Arne Tangen Source Type: research

Standard and Fenestrated Endograft Sizing in EVAR Planning: Description and Validation of a Semi-automated 3D Software
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a pathological condition consisting of an abnormal dilation of the abdominal aorta, exceeding more than 50% its normal diameter [8]. Aneurysms tend to grow, and eventually may rupture, with a high mortality rate. Elective surgery is usually performed when the diameter exceeds 5.5cm [16]. The traditional surgical approach based on an open repair, has been steadily substituted by the endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), a minimally invasive technique involving the deployment and fixation of a stent graft that excludes the damaged wall from circulation. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - February 12, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Iván Macía, Mariano de Blas, Jon Haitz Legarreta, Luis Kabongo, Oscar Hernández, José María Egaña, José Ignacio Emparanza, Ainhoa García-Familiar, Manuel Graña Source Type: research

Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI with Moving Mesh Correspondences
Right Ventricular (RV) failure can have numerous aetiologies, which include pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, congenital heart disease, and sepsis [1]. Although clinically evidenced with several studies [2,3], the importance of RV analysis was overlooked in the last decade. Andersen et al.[2] showed that up to 50% of all regional infarcts are RV related. Cor pulmonale, the enlargement of the RV due to pulmonary hypertension, is the third most common cause of cardiac dysfunction in patients over the age of 50 [3]. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - February 11, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Michelle Noga, Ismail Ben Ayed, Pierre Boulanger Source Type: research

Change in aneurysmal flow pulsatility after flow diverter treatment
Flow diverters (FDs) have in recent years become an attractive alternative to treat cerebral aneurysms [1,2]. These endovascular devices are low-porosity stents, placed in the parent artery to divert blood flow away from the aneurysm. The flow reduction is aimed at promoting thrombosis inside the aneurysm and effectively excluding it from blood circulation. In particular, wide-necked, fusiform and giant aneurysms are well-suited for this treatment option [3]. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 29, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Ignacio Larrabide, Arjan J. Geers, Hernán G. Morales, Philippe Bijlenga, Daniel, A. Rüfenacht Source Type: research

Iterative Mesh Transformation for 3D Segmentation of Livers with Cancers in CT Images
Liver cancer is the third most common cause of death from cancer worldwide [1], and liver is the most common metastatic spread sites of cancers after the lymph nodes, which have been found in 30-70% of patients who are dying of cancer [2]. With the technical advances of computed tomography (CT), hepatic CT scanning has become one of the major routinely-used clinical imaging modality in cancer diagnosis, staging, and treatment evaluation because of the relatively low cost and wide availability [3]. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 27, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Difei Lu, Yin Wu, Gordon Harris, Wenli Cai Source Type: research

Watershed Based Intelligent Scissors
Segmentation of various structures is very important in medical image processing. There are many ways to detect edges in the image. Some solutions are global and rely on detection of the largest possible number of edges. As examples, spatial edge filters (i.e. Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel), detectors (i.e. Canny, Susan) and transforms (i.e. Fourier, wavelet, watershed) can be given. Some of them are highly sensitive and detect many — also very thin — edges. Therefore, they are low resistant to local noise. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 21, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: W. Wieclawek, E. Pietka Source Type: research

A Multiscale Decomposition Approach to Detect Abnormal Vasculature in the Optic Disc
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world [6]. The disease is asymptomatic in its early stages and can be best managed by the patient by maintaining tight blood sugar and blood pressure control. However, as the disease progresses, it can become sight threatening. Studies [4,17] have demonstrated that 50% of type I diabetics and 20% of patients with type II diabetes will progress to advanced stages of DR some time in their lives. One of these advanced stages is proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 20, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Carla Agurto, Honggang Yu, Victor Murray, Marios S. Pattichis, Sheila Nemeth, Simon Barriga, Peter Soliz Source Type: research

Estimating the size of polyps during actual endoscopy procedures using a spatio-temporal characterization
Colorectal cancer is the seventh most likely cause of death worldwide [1] and frequently asymptomatic illness characterized by a set of malign polyps along the digestive tract [2,3]. Typically, this disease is discovered during an endoscopy procedure, in which case the polyp size is used as the main endoscopic sign that supports the decision of an immediate resection, i.e., if the polyp is smaller than 10mm [4,5], it is removed, otherwise a sample is sent to pathology and the procedure is re-programmed for an extirpation [2,3,5]. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 20, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Fabio Martínez, Josué Ruano, Martín Gómez, Eduardo Romero Source Type: research

Geometrical modeling of complete dental shapes by using panoramic X-ray, digital mouth data and anatomical templates
Nowadays, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) plays a crucial role in several medical applications including customized prosthesis design, virtual treatment planning and computer-guided surgery. Generally, a CAD-based biomedical tool requires three-dimensional modeling of anatomical shapes, which are used for downstream clinical simulations [1]. The development of imaging technologies and reverse engineering methods has given a great support to the widespread use of digital human models for diagnosis and treatment planning. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 20, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Sandro Barone, Alessandro Paoli, Armando Viviano Razionale Source Type: research

Memory Based Active Contour Algorithm using Pixel-level Classified Images for Colon Crypt Segmentation
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2008. Lung, stomach, liver, colon and breast cancer cause the most cancer deaths each year. Deaths from cancer worldwide are projected to continue rising, with an estimated 13.1 million deaths in 2030 [29]. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 7, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Assaf Cohen, Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni, Edmond Sabo Source Type: research

3D Surgical Planning in Patients affected by Lipodystrophy
HIV or AIDS is a disease that has spread in recent years. Thanks to advances in medication control, it is now considered a chronic illness rather than a fatal disease. The introduction of antiretroviral therapies (ART) has significantly reduced mortality and infection rates in patients affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Anti-retroviral drugs have reduced the viral load to undetectable levels, allowing patients to lead normal lives. However, one of the side effects of AIDS treatment is the marked lipodystrophy [1,2] it can cause in several parts of the body. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 7, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: J.A. Perez-Carrasco, B. Acha, T. Gomez-Cia, R.A. Lopez-Garcia, Carlos Delgado, C. Serrano Source Type: research

Dynamic State of Water Molecular Displacement of the Brain during the Cardiac Cycle in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) has been characterized as a chronic communicating hydrocephalus in elderly patients with the clinical triad gait disturbance, dementia, and incontinence [1–3]. The clinical symptoms of both secondary and idiopathic NPH (iNPH) can be reversed by the removal of the accumulated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) [3]. Secondary NPH can result in subarachnoid hemorrhage, trauma, and stroke. Although numerous investigations have attempted to clarify the underlying mechanism of and to diagnose iNPH, its exact causes remain poorly understood. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 6, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Hirohito Kan, Tosiaki Miyati, Mitsuhito Mase, Tomoshi Osawa, Naoki Ohno, Harumasa Kasai, Nobuyuki Arai, Makoto Kawano, Yuta Shibamoto Source Type: research

An automated approach to the segmentation of HEp-2 cells for the indirect immunofluorescence ANA test
Pattern recognition techniques are at the basis of computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems in a large number of medical applications. Such systems support and facilitate the decision of the physicians, help reducing diagnosis errors and enable massive screening at a moderate cost, with tremendous positive impact on health care quality and economy [1]. This motivates an ever growing interest of the research community in providing solutions to the most challenging medical problems. (Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics)
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 6, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Simone Tonti, Santa Di Cataldo, Andrea Bottino, Elisa Ficarra Source Type: research

A decade of community-wide efforts in advancing medical image understanding and retrieval
Access to images in scientific publications overall and in the biomedical domain specifically, has long been established a desirable feature for services providing access to scientific literature [2,6]. Likewise, automatic identification of regions of interest in clinical images and image-based assisted diagnosis are widely recognized as a means for bringing potentially important health issues to clinicians’ attention [11]. The individual research efforts in addressing these needs were faced with the lack of resources for development and evaluation of image search engines and tools for understanding image content. (Sourc...
Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 1, 2015 Category: Radiology Authors: Dina Demner-Fushman, Sameer Antani, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Henning Müller Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Editorial board and publication information
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Source: Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics - January 1, 2015 Category: Radiology Source Type: research