Optical flow (OF) tracking of the myocardium contours has a potential in segmenting the myocardium in time sequences of cardiac medical images. Nevertheless, to estimate the displacement field of the contour points, a number of assumptions are required to solve an under-determined set of optical flow equations. In this work, a new framework is proposed to solve the OF tracking problem using greedy optimisation algorithm. The new framework allows different types of constraints such as motion invariance, shape and topology to be applied in a unified way. The developed methods are applied to a

Different heart tissue identification is important for therapeutic decision-making in patients with myocardial infarction (MI), this provides physicians with a better clinical decision-making tool. Composite Strain Encoding (C-SENC) is an MRI acquisition technique that is used to acquire cardiac tissue viability and contractility images. It combines the use of blackblood delayed-enhancement (DE) imaging to identify the infracted (dead) tissue inside the heart muscle and the ability to image myocardial deformation from the strain-encoding (SENC) imaging technique. In this work, various machine

We propose a model that describes the interaction of several Brain Regions based on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) time series to make inferences about functional integration and segregation within the human brain. The method is demonstrated using dynamic causal modeling (OeM) using real data to show how such models are able to characterize interregional dependence. We extend estimating and reviewing designed model to characterize the interactions between regions. A further benefit is to estimate the effective connectivity between these regions. All designs, estimates, reviews

Breast cancer is the main cause of death for women between the ages of 35 to 55. Mammogram breast X-ray is considered the most reliable method in early detection of breast cancer. Microcalcifications are among the earliest signs of a breast carcinoma. Actually, as radiologists point out, microcalcifications can be the only mammographic sign of non-palpable breast disease which are often overseen in the mammogram. In this paper a method is proposed to develop a Computer-Aided Diagnostic system for classification of microcalcifications in digital mammograms, it splits into three-step process

In this work, we propose an algorithm for segmenting the ascending and descending aorta from magnetic resonance phase contrast images, also referred to as MR flow imaging. The proposed algorithm is based on the active contour model combined with some refinements. In addition, false segmentation results due to severe image artifacts are automatically detected and corrected. The developed algorithm features three practical advantages: (1) fast; (2) requires minimal user interaction; and (3) robust to the changes in the algorithm parameters (e.g. same parameter set is used for all datasets). The

The growing interest of using cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to assess the heart function and structure results in creating huge cardiac image databases. Due to the lack of standard meta-data description of the images, content-based classification of the cardiac images is essential to manage such databases. In particular, cardiac view classification is becoming an important stage for medical image analysis; efficient content-based retrieval as well as CAD systems. The major challenge in such classification lies in the large variability in image appearance caused by variation of

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging provides a number of different imaging acquisition types and views of different body cross sections and orientations. A huge amount of images are produced which demand an automatic method for classification based on the visual contents to facilitate diagnosis and searching operations. In this work, we propose a fully automated classification method for classifying cardiac MRI images according to image acquisition type and orientation. Local binary pattern is used to represent the texture differences among the different image types. Edge orientation histogram

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is a common manifestation of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It is characterized by the growth of abnormal blood vessels in the choroidal layer causing blurring and deterioration of the vision. In late stages, these abnormal vessels can rupture the retinal layers causing complete loss of vision at the affected regions. Determining the CNV size and type in fluorescein angiograms is required for proper treatment and prognosis of the disease. Computer-aided methods for CNV segmentation is needed not only to reduce the burden of manual segmentation but

Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) is a severe retinal disease characterized by abnormal growth of blood vessels in the choroidal layer. Current diagnosis of CNV depends mainly on qualitative assessment of a temporal sequence of fundus fluorescein angiography images. Automated segmentation and identification of the CNV lesion types (either occult or classic) is required to reduce the inter-and intra- observer variability and also to reduce the manual segmentation effort and time. In this work, we present automatic segmentation method for the CNV lesions. The method is based on developing a

Spinal motoneurons (MNs) play a crucial role in movement control. Decoding the firing activity of spinal MNs could help in real-life challenges, such as enhancing the control of myoelectric prostheses and diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach to automatically classify MNs based on their firing activity. Applying the proposed approach to data from a MN computational model, the classification accuracy of all examined datasets exceeded 95%. We extended the approach to detecting the death of a given MN type using clustering validity index