Segmentation of human muscles of mastication from magnetic resonance images

... SEGMENTATION OF HUMAN MUSCLES OF MASTICATION FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES NG HSIAO PIAU (B Eng (Hons.), National University of Singapore) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... masticatory muscles 157 Chapter Introduction 1.1 Introduction This thesis presents methods for segmenting the human masticatory muscles from magnetic resona...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:20

... FAST REGISTRATION OF CONTRAST- ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES OF THE BREAST SUN YIN (B.Eng (Hons.), NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ... 1.1 Background Contrast- enhanced magnetic resonance mammography (CEMRM) uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to obtain the 3-D image of the human bre...

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2015, 20:49

... processing of images in MR colonography 1.2 Aim of the Thesis One of the most important steps in the processing of the images is segmentation This step consists of isolating the colon from the rest ... different kinds of images, including: • CT images of the lungs • MR images of the brain • MR images of the liver • MR images of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... variants of level set methods are incorporated in this software, including both gradient-magnitude based level set as well as region-competition level set A complete segmentation pipeline, including ... simple level set initialization and removes the time consuming non-tumor sampling In order to train the SVM, samples inside the zero level set are used and the trai...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:33

... for an automatic recovery and visualization of a 3D chromosome structure from a sequence of 2D tomographic reconstruction images taken through the nucleus of a cell Structure is very important ... method of real-time visualization of a 4D volume visualization of a beating heart using the graphics processing unit [19] Most techniques for the segmentation and...

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... analysis of MRI scans in a cohort of TBI patients with ICP monitoring in order to study the relationship between ONSD and ICP and to assess the diagnosis accuracy of ONSD for the detection of raised ... with ICP Therefore, the increase in ONSD during raised ICP cannot be related only to optic nerve dilatation (as during optic nerve oedema) but also, and predo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Pathology a Benign b Malignant Fig 2.1 shows a brain image with a tumor pointed by the arrow Fig 2.1 Brain image with a tumor 2.2 MR Image Characteristics of Brain Tumors MRI has become firmly established ... quantification of brain normality, brain tumor detection, and provision of useful information for further localization or segmentation Chapter Background Information Fo...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 12:56

... provide detailed images of blood vessels without using any contrast material [33] Precise segmentation of vasculature from three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images plays ... Bibliography 68 iii Summary Precise segmentation of vasculature from three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images plays an important role in image-guided n...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 12:55

... about the anatomy and radiology of the CS, and the MRI techniques are briefly described It also reviews the trends and recent development of the methods and the history of the identification of the ... reformatting and the ROI defined by the Z coordinates of the AC and PC After loading a 3D MR volumetric images, the location of the MSP (Hu...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:24

... modifications on heparin binding, recombinant CHO cells were treated with inhibitors of tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications ... In summary, we present evidence for a very strong similarity of HCII from human serum and its recombinant counterpart from CHO cells with respect to tyrosine...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... tag atc act c cat gat gca cgc tct acg aga c ctg tga gga act act gtc ttc acg cag cac tcg caa cca ccc tat cag act gtc ttc acg cag aag cgt cta gcc at cga gac ctc ccg ggg cac tcg caa gca ccc acg cag ... aaa gcg tct agc cat ggc gtt agt tcc cgg ggc act cgc aag cac cct atc agg ggg ccg ggc atg aga cac gct gtg ata aat gtc 1The primers were designed with the program PrimerSelect (DNASTAR) using con...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... different UL146 sequence groups In each case the sequence of the RT-PCR product was identical to the sequence of the PCR product derived from the viral genomic DNA The differences in the sizes of the ... comparative study of all of the genomic components of the ORFs from UL146 through UL147A and the first report of multiple overlapp...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... and NA (A) Seasonal amino acid next (A) Seasonal amino acid distances of H3N2 HA and NA proteins since 1999 and (B) amino acid distances of H3N2 HA and NA from one season to the next The same ... sequences from Europe are made public Methods Human samples A total of 234 Danish human nasal swab suspensions or nasopharyngeal aspirates positive for influenza A, from...

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