Biomedical Imaging

<P>Guest Editors' Comments.- Miniaturized CMOS Imaging Module with Real-time DSP Technology for Endoscope and Laryngoscope Applications.- Resolution Improvement of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy Using Sparse Signal Representation.- Time Efficient DT-MRI Acquisition Parameters for Robust Estimation of Fiber Tracts.- Non-rigid Ultrasound Image Registration Based on Intensity and Local Phase Information.- Adaptive Grid Generation Based Non-rigid Image Registration using Mutual Information for Breast MRI.- Non-Iterative Hierarchical Registration for Medical Images.- Image Reconstruction Scheme Based on Phase Correction and Singularity Function Analysis Model.- Robust Multimodal Registration using Local Phase-Coherence Representations.- Multimodality Image Registration using Spatial Procrustes Analysis and Modified Conditional Entropy.- Image Processing for Fusion Identification between the GLUT4 Storage Vesicles and the Plasma Membrane.- Effective filtration techniques for gallbladder ultrasound images with variable contrast.- Image segmentation and selective smoothing based on variational framework.- Robust B-spline Snakes for Ultrasound Image Segmentation.- Vasculature Segmentation in MRA Images Using Gradient Compensated Geodesic Active Contours.- A Scalable Framework for Segmenting Magnetic Resonance Images.- Image Segmentation using Excess Entropy.- Effect of Number of Coupled Structures on the Segmentation of Brain Structures.- Edge-based Segmentation Using Robust Evolutionary Algorithm Applied to Medical Images.- Automated Protein Distribution Detection in High-throughput Image-based siRNA Library Screens.- Automated Renal Cell Carcinoma Subtype Classification Using Morphological, Textural and Wavelets Based Features.- In vivo short-echo time localized 1H MRS of the rat brain at 7T: influence of two strategies of background-accommodation on the metabolite concentration estimation using QUEST.- Intravascular Ultrasound Tissue Characterization with Sub-class Error-Correcting Output Codes.- Automated Breast Cancer Diagnosis based on GVF-Snake Segmentation, Wavelet Features Extraction and Fuzzy Classification.- Reproducibility of Laplacian wall thickness measurements of the gallbladder with varying CT slice thickness.- Detection of Breast Masses in Mammogram Images Using Growing Neural Gas Algorithm and Ripley's K Function.- Retinal vessel radius estimation and a vessel center line segmentation method based on ridge descriptors.- Detection of Retinal Blood Vessels Based on Nonlinear Projections.-Using Articulated Models for Tracking Multiple C. elegans in Physical Contact.- Ultrasound Image Sequence Registration and Its Application for Thyroid Nodular Disease.- Left Ventricle Segmentation Using Model Fitting and Active Surfaces.- Estimating Brain Deformation during Surgery Using Finite Element Method: Optimization and Comparison of Two Linear Models.- Histopathological Image Analysis using Model-based Intermediate Representations and Color Texture: Follicular Lymphoma Grading.- Balancing the Role of Priors in Multi-observer Segmentation Evaluation.- Registration of Brain Atlas to MR Images Using Topology Preserving Front Propagation.- Embedded Computing for Fluorescence Confocal Endomicroscopy Imaging.- Non-rigid Registration for Large Sets of Microscopic Images on Graphics Processors.- Wavelet-based Interpolation Scheme for Resolution Enhancement of Medical Images.- Parallel Algorithms based on the Temporal-Window Method for Non-Alternating 3D-WT over Angiographies using a Multicomputer.- Computational Complexity Reduction for Volumetric Cardiac Deformation Recovery.</P>