Table of Contents
Biomedical Image Analysis
Automated Vertebra Identification from X-Ray Images Xiao Dong Guoyan Zheng 1
Towards Non Invasive Diagnosis of Scoliosis Using Semi-supervised Learning Approach Lama Seoud Mathias M. Adankon Hubert Labelle Jean Dansereau Farida Cheriet 10
Articulated Model Registration of MRI/X-Ray Spine Data Rola Harmouche Farida Cheriet Hubert Labelle Jean Dansereau 20
Multimodality Image Alignment Using Information-Theoretic Approach Mohammed Khader A. Ben Hamza Prabir Bhattacharya 30
Retinal Images: Optic Disk Localization and Detection M. Usman Akram Aftab Khan Khalid Iqbal Wasi Haider Butt 40
Using Retinex Image Enhancement to Improve the Artery/Vein Classification in Retinal Images S.G. Vázquez N. Barreira M.G. Penedo M. Saez A. Pose-Reino 50
Automatic Corneal Nerves Recognition for Earlier Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Diabetic Neuropathy Ana Ferreira António Miguel Morgado José Silvestre Silva 60
Fusing Shape Information in Lung Segmentation in Chest Radiographs Amer Dawoud 70
A 3D Tool for left Ventricle Segmentation Editing Samuel Silva Beatriz Sousa Santos Joaquim Madeira Augusto Silva 79
Myocardial Segmentation Using Constrained Multi-Seeded Region Growing Mustafa A. Alattar Nael F. Osman Ahmed S. Fahmy 89
A Level Set Segmentation Method of the Four Heart Cavities in Pediatric Ultrasound Images Sofia G. Antunes José Silvestre Silva Jaime B. Santos 99
Improved Technique to Detect the Infarction in Delayed Enhancement Image Using K-Mean Method Mohamed K. Metwally Neamat El-Gayar Nael F. Osman 108
Detection of Arterial Lumen in Sonographic Images Based on Active Contours and Diffusion Filters Amr R. Abdel-Dayem 120
Classification of Endoscopic Images Using Delaunay Triangulation-Based Edge Features M. Häfner A. Gangl M. Liedlgruber Andreas Uhl A. Vécsei F. Wrba 131
A Framework for Cerebral CT Perfusion Imaging Methods Comparison Miguel Moreira Paulo Dias Miguel Cordeiro Gustavo Santos José Maria Fernandes 141
Application of the Laplacian Pyramid Decomposition to the Enhancement of Digital Dental Radiographic Images for the Automatic Person Identification Dariusz Frejlichowski Robert Wanat 151
Automatic Recognition of Five Types of White Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi Kosar Khaksari Hamid Soltanion-Zadeh 161
An Application for Semi-automatic HPV Typing of PCR-RFLP Images Christos Maramis Evangelia Minga Anastasios Delopoulos 173
Automatic Information Extraction from Gel Electrophoresis Images Using GEIAS C.M.R. Caridade A. R.S. Marçal T Mendonça A.M. Pessoa S. Pereira 185
Elastography of Biological Tissue: Direct Inversion Methods That Allow for Local Shear Modulus Variations C. Antonio Sánchez Corina S. Drapaca Sivabal Sivaloganathan Edward R. Vrscay 195
Segmentation of Cell Nuclei in Arabidopsis Thaliana Roots Jonas De Vylder Filip Rooms Wilfried Philips 207
Optical Flow Based Arabidopsis Thaliana Root Meristem Cell Division Detection Pedro Qnelhas Ana Maria Mendonça Aurélio Campilho 217
Biometrics
The West Pomeranian University of Technology Ear Dababase-A Tool for Testing Biometric Algorithms Dariusz Frejlichowski Natalia Tyszkiewicz 227
Associating Minutiae between Distorted Fingerprints Using Minimal Spanning Tree En zhu Edwin Hancock Peng Ren Jianping Yin Jianming Zhang 235
Application of Wave Atoms Decomposition and Extreme Learning Machine for Fingerprint Classification Abdul A. Mohammed Q.M Jonathan Wu Maher A Sid-Ahmed 246
Unideal Iris Segmentation Using Region-Based Active Contour Model Kaushik Roy Prabir Bhattacharya Ching Y. Suen 256
Secure Iris Recognition Based on Local Intensity Variations Christian Rathgeb Andreas Uhl 266
Transforming Rectangular and Polar Iris Images to Enable Cancelable Biometrics Peter Fä;rberböck Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl Dominik Kaaser Elias Pschernig Andreas Uhl 276
Advances in EEG-Based Biometry António Ferreira Carlos Almeida Pétia Georgieva Ana Tomé Filipe Silva 287
Two Factor Authentication or How to Potentially Counterfeit Experimental Results in Biometric Systems Christian Rothgeb Andreas Uhl 296
Applications
Automated Detection of Sand Dunes on Mars Lourenç;o Bandeira Jorge S. Marques José Saraiva Pedro Pina 306
Directional Gaze Analysis in Webcam Video Sequences V. Vivero N Barreira M.G. Penedo D. Cabrero B. Remeseiro 316
Novelty Detection on Metallic Surfaces by GMM Learning in Gabor Space Yigitcan Savran Bilge Gunsel 325
Digital Instrumentation Calibration Using Computer Vision Fernando Martín-Rodríguez Esteban Vázquez-Fernández Ángel Dacal-Nieto Arno Formella Víctor Álvarez-Valado Higinio González-Jorge 335
Dynamic Scenes HDRI Acquisition Anna Tomaszewska Mateusz Markowski 345
Correcting Book Binding Distortion in Scanned Documents Rafael Dueire Lins Daniel M. Oliveira Gabriel Torreão Jian Fan Marcelo Thielo 355
Image-Based and Height Estimation for Helicopter Landings in Brownout Hans-Ullrich Doehler Niklas Peinecke 366
Can Background Baroque Music Help to Improve the Memorability of Graphical Passwords? Haichang Gao Xiuling Chang Zhongjie Ren Uwe Aickelin Liming Wang 378
Color Texture Analysis for Tear Film Classification: A Preliminary Study D. Calvo A. Mosquera M. Penas C. García-Resúa B. Remeseiro 388
A New Method for Text-Line Segmentation for Warped Documents Daniel M. Oliveira Rafael D. Lins Gabriel Torreão Jian Fan Marcelo Thielo 398
HistDoc-A Toolbox for Processing Images of Historical Documents Gabriel Pereira e Silva Rafael Dueire Lins João Marcelo Silva 409
Urban Road Extraction from High-Resolution Optical Satellite Images Mohamed Naouai Atef Hamouda Christiane Weber 420
Geometrical Characterization of Various Shaped 3D-Aggregates of Primary Spherical Particules by Radial Distribution Functions Marthe Lagarrigue Johan Debayle Sandra Jacquier Frédéric Gruy Jean-Charles Pinoli 434
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