Digital Image Processing Lab

Department of Radiology, University of Michigan

Areas of Research

The outline below describes the Lab's areas of research. Additional information may be found in our on-line bibliography which contains abstracts, full text, and images of selected works. (The "Image Viewing Hints" page may provide helpful information on viewing images that are included in our site.)

Our current projects involve algorithms that operate on data:

Registration using MUTUAL INFORMATION:

• The "MIAMI Fuse" application:
  • Mutual Information for Automatic Multimodality Image Fusion
• Clinical applications:
  • Fusion of three head scans - Description and image
  • Fusion of thoracic datasets - Description and image
  • Accuracy & clinical versatility - Abstract & movies
  • 3D compound ultrasound scan - Bibliographic citation
  • Tumor response to radiation therapy - Description and images
• Basic sciences applications:
  • Unwarping rat brain autoradiographs - Description and images
  • Visualizing rat brain tumor growth - Description and images
• Application to functional MRI:
  • Registration of function and anatomy - Description and image
  • Application to motion correction - Description, images, movie
• Commercial opportunities:
  • Commercial partners for MIAMI Fuse are sought via the University's Technology Management Office.

Object Definition:

• A robust segmentation technique - abstract
• Multi-organ shape modeling & fitting using Bayesian statistics -
  abstract and full text (Adobe PDF format)
• Population-based shape model for liver definition - abstract and overview

Retrospective Correction of Field Inhomogeneity:

• An overview
• Correction of MRI amplitude inhomogeneities - abstract (IEEE TMI)
• Correction of MRI amplitude inhomogeneities - abstract (CVRMed95)
• Commercial opportunities:
  • Commercial partners for MIAMI Fuse are sought via the University's Technology Transfer Office.

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