clinical applications of image registration

... Norimah Yusof 259 Chapter 20 Quality System in Radiation Sterilization of Tissue Grafts Nazly Hilmy 275 Part V CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF IRRADIATED BONE GRAFTS Chapter 21 Clinical Applications of Gamma-Irradiated ... Chairman of BATAN & Director-General of NM Preface Aziz Nather ix List of Contributors Part I v xvii TERMINAL STERILIZATION OF TISSUE GRAFTS Chapter Types of Terminal Sterilization of Tissue ... Code of Practice (2004), as well as a quality system for the radiation sterilization of tissue grafts The clinical applications of irradiated bone grafts are described in Part V, and the applications...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... Clinical Applications of CE 1 Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis Margaret A Jenkins Introduction Capillary ... Alternatively, mobilization of focused peaks may be achieved by the appli- Clinical Applications of CE cation of a vacuum to the capillary, as well as maintenance of the high voltage (17,18) ... electrophoresis as a clinical tool J Chromatogr B 682, 23–34 Clinical Applications of CE Lehmann, R., Liebich, H M., and Voelter, W (1996) Application of capillary electrophoresis in clinical chemistry:...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:16

... F,, the value offcorresponds to the slope of the regresston lme of a plot of In F, as a function of the number of cells per tube (c,), fitted through the origin A first approximation offcan also ... of the method of competitive PCR A series of PCR tubes containing an unknown amount of template (TO), in the example tentatively set at 1, 1s spiked with a dilution series of a known amount of ... detection of gene amplification or deletion and of aneuploidy (I) The application of PCR as a quantitatrve tool requrres the solution of the problem of how to reliably determine the initial amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 09:38

... also of scattered x rays Grids The most common method of reducing the level of scattered radiation reaching the image receptor is use of grids (9) A grid is constructed of alternating strips oftead ... atomic number of air is similar to that of soft tissue, differential 20 WoodPhysics, 1994; of electrons.) density of barium and No the are similar to those of iodine, but the size of the structures ... field of view of the subject The change in contrast that results from use of an air gap is shown in Figure 14 Patient Clinical Applications Both grid and air gap techniques are effective means of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/05/2014, 17:27

... CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF PHARMACOGENOMICS OF WARFARIN CHAN SZE LING (B.Sc(Pharmacy)(Hons)), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY NUS GRADUATE ... Sustainability of WPGT Due to the scarcity of resources, another necessary consideration for the clinical translation of WPGT is its economic sustainability At around US$400, the cost of WPGT is one of the ... price of the good or service in question), under-sensitivity to the magnitude of benefit, over-inflation of the valuation of the intervention in question (i.e budget constraint bias), dependence of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:18

... an example of image registration is given, and image registration steps are named In Chapter 2, preprocessing of images to facilitate image registration is described This includes image enhancement ... own experiences on image registration during the past twenty years The main objective has been to cover the fundamentals of image registration in detail Applications of image registration are not ... overlaying of the orthogonal crosssections of the images before registration, and the fourth row shows overlaying of the orthogonal cross-sections of the images after registration MR images show...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... using software (Image ProPlus) to calculate intimal and medial areas Because native media thickness is variable (reflecting the diameter of the artery), it was used to index the area of neointima ... opportunities Studied applications of endothelial-lineage cell therapy have demonstrated enhancement of new capillary formation in ischemic tissue (therapeutic vasculogenesis) and generation of an anti-thrombogenic ... approved by all members of the team Acknowledgements The finding of delivered cells over a small proportion of the luminal surface suggests direct but incomplete participation of CD34+ cells in endothelial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... (a) Image processing chain development Our system codesign approach starts from development of image processing chain (IPC) Roughly speaking, an image processing chain consists of various image ... shorter times because of utilization of existing library elements and clarity of application flow At this stage, we put all the components in software Software is profiled for various image sizes and ... component of the system is fixed; hence only tuning of some soft parameters is performed for these platforms to improve the application performance and resource usage Examples of such soft parameters...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... density plot of biometric device Load image Source image Load image Select transformation Select landmarks Target image Select landmarks Start registration Registration software Registered image (transformed ... wide range of image processing systems The rest of the paper is organized as follows In Section we define the intended use and calculate the operational profile of the image registration software ... pixel—20% of the time, within pixels—70% of the time, within pixels—10% of the time Another aspect that could influence the success of the registration process is the quality of the image being...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... of the electromyographical data The phases of the movement were separated using data from digitalized images showing the displacement of the marker placed on T1 Symmetrical execution of the Applications ... adjusted to the leg lengths of each subject, so that the hip and knee joints of the Lokomat were aligned with those of the subject During 22 Applications of EMG in Clinical and Sports Medicine ... choice of the cut-off frequency of an ideal lowpass filter for pre-filtering purposes therefore is 500 Hz, resulting in a typical Sampling Frequency of 1000 Hz, twice the cut-off frequency of pre-filtering...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 16:20

... strategies, a number of generic problems must be overcome for the development of successful clinical applications These include development of methods for reliably generating large numbers of specific ... whether transdifferentiation of MSCs or other stem cell populations occurs at a high enough frequency to be useful for stem cell replacement therapy Regardless of the source of the stem cells used ... committed to the desired cell types before transplantation The study of human ES cells has been controversial, and their use in clinical applications would be unacceptable to some patients and physicians...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... ischemic heart disease; and (3) stimulation of endogenous stem cells to facilitate repair—e.g., administration of appropriate growth factors to amplify numbers of endogenous stem/progenitor cells or ... Disease and Cardiomyocyte Regeneration Because of the high prevalence of ischemic heart disease, extensive efforts have been devoted to cell replacement of cardiomyocytes Historically, the adult heart ... transplantation of a variety of different cell types, including ES cells, bone marrow stem cells, endothelial stem cells, and adipose stem cells Bone marrow stem cells in particular have been examined in clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... has been reported, and clinical trials of such cells have begun for a number of neurologic disorders Clinical trials of a conditionally immortalized human cell line and of human umbilical cord ... the development of dyskinesia Transplantation of stem cell– derived dopamine-producing cells offers a number of potential advantages over fetal transplants, including the ability of stem cells ... experimental spinal cord injury Clinical trials of marrow-derived stem cells have already begun, and this may be the first disease targeted for the clinical use of ES cells Marrow-derived stem...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... However, such stem cell–based therapies are at a very early stage of development, and perfection of techniques for clinical transplantation of predictable, wellcharacterized cells will be a difficult ... members of a society Stem cell research raises questions about the definition of human life, and it has raised deep fears about our ability to balance issues of justice and safety with the needs of ... coadministration of scaffolding, artificial extracellular matrix, and/or growth factors to orchestrate differentiation of stem cells and their organization into appropriate constituents of the organ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20

... reproducibility of patients' setup by using the video-surface imaging reg- Figure Alignment of a daily image to the reference surface image Alignment of a daily image to the reference surface image Page of ... the use of video recorded images may be able to reduce the number of setup corrections To our knowledge, only one study investigating the use of surface imaging for analysis of the setup of patients ... described Then the procedure for image acquisition in a clinical series of 16 cases of prostate radiation treatment is reported and the methods of data analysis are described Image acquisition system...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... analysis of the DR, all images were imported into in-house software Two CT image series were loaded into this software and manual registration of these image data sets was performed with the registration ... results of the DR were better for registration of the planning CT and CT images acquired mid-way of treatment compared to registration of planning CT and CT images acquired at the end of the treatment ... points onof infiltrativeof points on the right distortion of the pulmonary left image) with mesh image based on of consequences of an the pulmonary structures;surface); middle image registration: structures...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... general, the applications of image registration could be 1.1 Image Registration divided into four main groups, according to the manner of the image acquisition: • Different viewpoints: Images of the ... Quantitative evaluation of the proposed slice indexing method 96 xiii CHAPTER Introduction 1.1 Image Registration Image registration refers to the process of overlaying two or more images of the same ... sample image 63 Illustration of the procedure to detect control points from the two images of a document Images (a-b) are the two side images of a document; Images...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:32

... steady flow of new applications, such as commercial, industrial and medical applications This trend generates ample opportunities for the development of new image and vision based applications ... applications This thesis addresses different sets of challenges present in different applications of image and visionbased systems It presents the design of three image and vision-based systems which can ... development of computer and image technology and the increasing mature of picture and image technology, this technology has gradually entered medical field and improved the quality of medical images...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:40

... resulting in various patterns of tails Chapter 9- Applications of the DFT 177 This leads us to the flat-top window, shown in Fig 9-5d In some applications the amplitude of a spectral peak must be ... width of the peak) and spectral leakage (the amplitude of the tails) To explore the theoretical aspects of this in more detail, imagine an infinitely long discrete sine wave at a frequency of 0.1 ... peak and adding tails composed of numerous side lobes This is an unavoidable result of using only a portion of the original time domain signal Here we can see the tradeoff between the three windows...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 09:49

... performance of a bronchoalveolar lavage for culture, or start of or a change in antimicrobial therapy in case of unexpected infiltrates on the CXR; repositioning of tubes in case of malposition of orotracheal ... ultrasound of the thorax in case of pleural effusion on the CXR, start or change in medication (diuretics); insertion of a pleural drain; and repositioning of devices in the case of malposition of medical ... removal of intravenous lines) The observers were not involved in the daily care of the patients, and ICU physicians were not aware of this part of the observation As a consequence, the clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39