Robust tracking of position and velocity with Kalman snakes

N Peterfreund - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 1999‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new Kalman-filter based active contour model is proposed for tracking of nonrigid objects
in combined spatio-velocity space. The model employs measurements of gradient-based …

Coupled B-snake grids and constrained thin-plate splines for analysis of 2-D tissue deformations from tagged MRI

AA Amini, Y Chen, RW Curwen… - IEEE transactions on …, 1998‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to noninvasively and selectively
alter tissue magnetization and create tagged patterns within a deforming body such as the …

Quantitative coronary angiography with deformable spline models

AK Klein, F Lee, AA Amini - IEEE transactions on medical …, 1997‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although current edge-following schemes can be very efficient in determining coronary
boundaries, they may fail when the feature to be followed is disconnected (and the scheme …

[ספר][B] Information theory in computer vision and pattern recognition

FE Ruiz, PS Pérez, BI Bonev - 2009‏ - books.google.com
Information theory has proved to be effective for solving many computer vision and pattern
recognition (CVPR) problems (such as image matching, clustering and segmentation …

Spatio-temporal tracking of myocardial deformations with a 4-D B-spline model from tagged MRI

J Huang, D Abendschein… - IEEE transactions on …, 2002‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate delineation of the volumetric motion of the left ventricle (LV) of the heart from
tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important area of research. The authors …

Point-tracked quantitative analysis of left ventricular surface motion from 3-D image sequences

P Shi, AJ Sinusas, RT Constable… - IEEE transactions on …, 2000‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proposes and validates the hypothesis that one can use differential shape properties of the
myocardial surfaces to recover dense field motion from standard three-dimensional (3-D) …

Unsupervised contour representation and estimation using B-splines and a minimum description length criterion

MAT Figueiredo, JMN Leitão… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2000‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a new approach to adaptive estimation of parametric deformable
contours based on B-spline representations. The problem is formulated in a statistical …

Deformable B-solids and implicit snakes for 3D localization and tracking of SPAMM MRI data

P Radeva, AA Amini, J Huang - Computer Vision and Image …, 1997‏ - Elsevier
To date, MRI–SPAMM data from different image slices have been analyzed independently.
In this paper, we propose an approach for 3D tag localization and tracking of SPAMM data …

Robust tracking of multiple objects in sector-scan sonar image sequences using optical flow motion estimation

DM Lane, MJ Chantler, D Dai - IEEE journal of oceanic …, 1998‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fast update rate and good performance of new generation electronic sector scanning
sonars is now allowing practicable use of temporal information for signal processing tasks …

Tag surface reconstruction and tracking of myocardial beads from SPAMM-MRI with parametric B-spline surfaces

AA Amini, Y Chen, M Elayyadi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2001‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to noninvasively and selectively
alter tissue magnetization, and create tag planes intersecting image slices. The resulting …