Possible talk topics and papers  (still under construction... suggestions are very welcome)

• Medical Image Sequence Segmentation and Tracking
  
• Particle filter (PF) applications: Heart left ventricle tracking(also MICCAI), Blood vessel tracking (alsoMICCAI'05),  PF tutorial
• Kalman filter (KF) applications:  Electrical Impedance Tomography tracking, Heart tracking (P1 P2  P3 P4 P5), Auditory Signal Analysis
  
• Medical Image Segmentation
  
• Optimization approaches: minimize an energy functional. See papers listed on the Fall'05 EE520 page under Segmentation
  
• Medical Image Registration
• Using Mutual Information for Registration  First paper
  
• Transformation (e.g. affine) parameters estimation problem, often solved using MMSE techniques
• Recent MICCAI, CVPR, ICCV proceedings
• IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
  
• Other Bio-Signal Processing
• Neuronal Signal Processing: Estimating STRFs
• fMRI estimation
• IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, September 2005 (special issue on Brain Imaging)
• Auditory Signal Analysis
• Heart rate variabiltiy analysis using a Kalman Filter: P1
• See Prof. Arye Nehorai and  Dr. Dogandzic's webpages, also talk to Dr. Dogandzic
  
• See Prof. Helena Kovasevic's page (Cornell)
• Prof. Alan Wilsky's group at MIT
• Prof. Clem Karl's group at Boston Univ.
  
• Prof. Mike Unser's group
  
• Recent ICASSP proceedings: biomedical imaging or signal processing sessions
  
• IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
• Computer Aided Detection (of diseases)
  
• Image change detection
• Shape abnormalities of organs, Lesions, Tumor, ....
  
• IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging
• Recent MICCAI, CVPR, ICCV proceedings
• Talk to Dr. Viren Amin
  
• More to come...
• Bio-informatics
• See Dr Julie Dickerson's webpage, also talk to Dr Dickerson.
• Other groups: Surgical Planning Lab, Prof Allen Tannenbaum, Dr. Tony Yezzi, Prof. Guido Gerig, Prof. Sonka
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A set of  papers suggested by Dr. Viren Amin:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gerig/publications/ICPR02_SeanHo_snakes.pdf
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~meinel/papers/vecims.pdf
http://casilab.med.unc.edu/pdfs/2004-Media-Prastawa-Tumor.pdf
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/papers/stanford2002-08.pdf
http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/gering/gering-miccai2002.pdf
http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/PDF/HP_SNM2004.pdf
Websites of groups at Surgical Planning Lab & Harvard, Brigham & Young, UNC, GaTech (BME), UPenn (Radiology), Univ of Iowa, ...