Technical Program

 
Monday 21st February
Keynote
Recent Progress in Advanced Medical Imaging Applications
Sebastien Ourselin
1

 
Medical I
Medical Image Watermarking: A Study on Image Degradation
Birgit Maria Planitz and Anthony John Maeder
3

 
Classification of Pathology in Diabetic Eye Disease
Herbert Franz Jelinek, Jorge de Jesus Gomez Leandro, Roberto Marcondes Cesar-Jr, and Michael John Cree
9

 
Automatic Generation of 3D Statistical Shape Models of the Knee Bones
Jurgen Fripp, Sebastien Ourselin, Simon Keith Warfield, Andrea Julia Ursula Mewes, and Stuart Crozier
15

 
Registration evaluation of dynamic breast MR images
Andrew J.H. Mehnert, Pascal C. Bamford, Andrew P. Bradley, Stephen Wilson, Ben Appleton, Stuart Crozier, Kerry McMahon, and Dominic Kennedy
21

 
Extracting the pectoral muscle in screening mammograms using a graph pyramid
Fei Ma, Mariusz Bajger, and Murk Bottema
27

 
Vector-Field-Based Deformable Models for Radiation Dosimetry
Rongxin Li, Donald McLean, and Sebastien Ourselin
33

 
Medical II
Assessment of Fourier Tools for Cancellous Bone Structure Analysis
Tammy M. Cleek, Murk J. Bottema, Nicola L. Fazzalari, and Karen J. Reynolds
39

 
Multiple Watermark Method for Privacy Control and Tamper Detection in Medical Images
Chaw-Seng Woo, Jiang Du, and Binh Pham
43

 
Implementing Direct Volume Visualisation with Spatial Classification
Daniel C. Mueller, Anthony J. Maeder, and Peter J. O'Shea
49

 
Multi-dimensional mutual information image similarity metrics based on derivatives of linear scale-space
Mark Holden
55

 
Automatic Tracking of Neural Stem Cells
Tang Chunming and Ewert Bengtsson
61

 
Visualisation of the pattern of contrast enhancement in dynamic breast MRI
Andrew Mehnert, Ewert Bengtsson, Kerry McMahon, Dominic Kennedy, Stephen Wilson, and Stuart Crozier
67

 
Computer Vision
Investigation into Optical Flow Super-Resolution for Surveillance Applications
Frank Lin, Clinton Fookes, Vinod Chandran, and Sridha Sridharan
73

 
Visual Tracking for Sports Applications
Andrew William Baillie Smith and Brian C. Lovell
79

 
Using the Correspondence Framework to Select Surface Matching Algorithms
Birgit M. Planitz, Anthony J. Maeder, and John A. Williams
85

 
Hand posture analysis for visual-based human-machine interface
Abdolah Chalechale, Farzad Safaei, Golshah Naghdy, and Prashan Premaratne
91

 
Robust Fundamental Matrix Determination without Correspondences
Stefan Lehmann, Vaughan L. Clarkson, Andrew P. Bradley, John Williams, and Peter J. Kootsookos
97

 
Active Machine Learning of Complex Visual Tasks
Phil Sheridan and Steve Drew
103

 
A PDA Based Artificial Human Vision Simulator
Jason Dowling, Anthony Maeder, and Wageeh Boles
109

 
Manufacturing Multiple View Constraints
David N. R. McKinnon and Brian C. Lovell
115

 
A Study of the Optimality of Approximate Maximum Likelihood Estimation
David N. R. McKinnon and Brian C. Lovell
121

 
Pattern Recognition
Automatic Particle Picking Algorithms for High Resolution Single Particle Analysis
Jasmine Banks, Bernard Pailthorpe, Rosalba Rothnagel, and Ben Hankamer
127

 
Neural-fuzzy Feature Detector : A New Approach
Harvey Cohen
133

 
Mixture Model-based Statistical Pattern Recognition of Clustered or Longitudinal Data
Shu-Kay Ng and Geoffrey John McLachlan
139

 
Newborn EEG Seizure Simulation Using Time-Frequency Signal Synthesis
Nathan Stevenson, Luke Rankine, Mostefa Mesbah, and Boualem Boashash
145

 
A Person Location Service on the Planetary Sensor Network
Ting Shan, Brian C. Lovell, and Shaokang Chen
151

 
Medical Imaging
Visual Odometry for Quantitative Bronchoscopy Using Optical Flow
Simon B. Wilson, Brian C. Lovell, Anne B. Chang, and I. Brent Masters
157

 
Colour Normalisation to Reduce Inter-Patient and Intra-Patient Variability in Microaneurysm Detection in Colour Retinal Images
Michael J. Cree, Erin Gamble, and David Cornforth
163

 
Segmenting Cortical Structures by Globally Minimal Surfaces
Ben Appleton, David N R McKinnon, and Deming Wang
169

 
Multigrid Methods for Anisotropic Diffusion
Simon Long
175

 
Arrhythmia Detection in Human Electrocardiogram
Chiranjivi GVS, Vamsi Krishna Madasu, Madasu Hanmandlu, and Brian C. Lovell
181

 
Digital Image Computing
Subfractals: A new concept for fractal image coding and recognition
H. Ebrahimpour, V. Chandran, and S. Sridharan
185

 
Classification of Trees and Powerlines from medium resolution Airborne Laserscanner data in Urban Environments
Simon Clode and Franz Rottensteiner
191