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Evaluation of Five Registration Methods for the Human Abdomen on Clinically Acquired CT

Jun. 30, 2016—Zhoubing Xu, Christopher P. Lee, Marc Modat, Daniel Rueckert, Sebastien Ourselin, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “Evaluation of Five Registration Methods for the Human Abdomen on Clinically Acquired CT”. IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering. 2016 Aug;63(8):1563-72. PMC4972188 Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27254856 Abstract Objective: This work evaluates current 3-D image registration tools on clinically acquired abdominal...

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Evaluation of Body-Wise and Organ-Wise Registrations for Abdominal Organs

Apr. 15, 2016—Zhoubing Xu, Sahil A. Panjwani, Christopher P. Lee, Ryan P. Burke, Rebeccah B. Baucom, Benjamin K. Poulose, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman, “Evaluation of Body-Wise and Organ-Wise Registrations for Abdominal Organs”, In Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. San Diego, California, February 2016. Oral presentation. Full Text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845963/   Abstract Identifying cross-sectional and...

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Abdomen and spinal cord segmentation with augmented active shape models

Feb. 27, 2016—Xu, Zhoubing; Benjamin Conrad; Rebeccah Baucom; Seth Smith; Benjamin Poulose; Landman, Bennett. “Abdomen and spinal cord segmentation with augmented active shape models.” Journal of Medical Imaging. 3(3) 036002 Full text: https://spie.org/Publications/Journal/10.1117/1.JMI.3.3.036002 Abstract The abdominal wall is an important structure differentiating subcutaneous and visceral compartments and intimately involved with maintaining abdominal structure. Segmentation of the whole...

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Whole Abdominal Wall Segmentation using Augmented Active Shape Models (AASM) with Multi-Atlas Label Fusion and Level Set

Feb. 1, 2016—Zhoubing Xu, Rebeccah B. Baucom, Richard G. Abramson, Benjamin K. Poulose, Bennett A. Landman, “Whole Abdominal Wall Segmentation using Augmented Active Shape Models (AASM) with Multi-Atlas Label Fusion and Level Set”, In Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. San Diego, California, February 2016. Oral presentation. Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845968/   Abstract The abdominal wall is an...

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Quantitative CT Imaging of Ventral Hernias: Preliminary Validation of an Anatomical Labeling Protocol

Oct. 31, 2015—Zhoubing Xu, Andrew J. Asman, Rebeccah Baucom, Richard G Abramson, Benjamin K. Poulose, and Bennett A. Landman. “Quantitative CT Imaging of Ventral Hernias: Preliminary Validation of an Anatomical Labeling Protocol.” PLoS ONE. 2015 Oct 28;10(10):e0141671. Full Text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26509450 Abstract OBJECTIVE: We described and validated a quantitative anatomical labeling protocol for extracting clinically relevant quantitative parameters for...

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Efficient Multi-Atlas Abdominal Segmentation on Clinically Acquired CT with SIMPLE Context Learning

Aug. 31, 2015—Zhoubing Xu, Ryan P. Burke, Christopher P. Lee, Rebeccah B. Baucom, Benjamin K. Poulose, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “Efficient Multi-Atlas Abdominal Segmentation on Clinically Acquired CT with SIMPLE Context Learning.” Medical Image Analysis. In press May 2015. † Full Text: http://www.medicalimageanalysisjournal.com/article/S1361-8415(15)00076-6/fulltext Abstract Abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired computed tomography (CT) has been a...

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Evaluation of Five Image Registration Tools for Abdominal CT: Pitfalls and Opportunities with Soft Anatomy.

Feb. 12, 2015—Christopher P. Lee, Zhoubing Xu, Ryan P. Burke, Rebeccah B. Baucom, Benjamin K. Poulose, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “Evaluation of Five Image Registration Tools for Abdominal CT: Pitfalls and Opportunities with Soft Anatomy.” In Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. Orlando, Florida, February 2015. † Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405654/ Abstract Image registration has...

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Multi-Atlas Segmentation for Abdominal Organs with Gaussian Mixture Models

Feb. 12, 2015—Ryan P. Burke, Zhoubing Xu, Christopher P. Lee, Rebeccah Baucom, Benjamin K. Poulose, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “Multi-Atlas Segmentation for Abdominal Organs with Gaussian Mixture Models.” In Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. Orlando, Florida, February 2015. Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405670/ Abstract Abdominal organ segmentation with clinically acquired computed tomography (CT) is drawing...

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SIMPLE Is a Good Idea (and Better with Context Learning)

Sep. 30, 2014—Zhoubing Xu, Andrew J. Asman, Peter L. Shanahan, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman. “SIMPLE Is a Good Idea (and Better with Context Learning)”, In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Boston, MA, September 2014. Full text: PubMed Abstract Selective and iterative method for performance level estimation (SIMPLE) is a multi-atlas segmentation technique that integrates...

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Shape-Constrained Multi-Atlas Segmentation of Spleen in CT

Feb. 1, 2014—Z. Xu, B. Li, S. Panda, A. Asman, Kristen. L. Merkle, Peter L. Shanahan, Richard G. Abramson, B. Landman. “Shape-Constrained Multi-Atlas Segmentation of Spleen in CT.” In Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. San Diego, California, February 2014† Full Text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Shape-Constrained+Multi-Atlas+Segmentation+of+Spleen+in+CT Abstract Spleen segmentation on clinically acquired CT data is a challenging problem given...

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