Automatic segmentation of MRI in prospective breast volume evaluation: Comparison of different assessments for immediate breast reconstruction.

Background: Assessment of breast volume is essential in preoperative planning of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) surgery to achieve satisfactory cosmetic outcome. This study introduced a breast volume measurement tool that can be used to perform automatic segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) and calculation of breast volume. We compared the accuracy and reliability of this measurement method with four other conventional modalities.

Modeling Bidirectional Texture Functions with Multivariate Spherical Radial Basis Functions.

This paper presents a novel parametric representation for bidirectional texture functions. Our method mainly relies on two original techniques, namely, multivariate spherical radial basis functions (SRBFs) and optimized parameterization. First, since the surface appearance of a real-world object is frequently a mixed effect of different physical factors, the proposed sum-of-products model based on multivariate SRBFs especially provides an intrinsic and efficient representation for heterogenous materials.

Background removal of multiview images by learning shape priors.

Image-based rendering has been successfully used to display 3-D objects for many applications. A well-known example is the object movie, which is an image-based 3-D object composed of a collection of 2-D images taken from many different viewpoints of a 3-D object. In order to integrate image-based 3-D objects into a chosen scene (e.

Comparison between immersion-based and toboggan-based watershed image segmentation.

Watershed segmentation has recently become a popular tool for image segmentation. There are two approaches to implementing watershed segmentation: immersion approach and toboggan simulation. Conceptually, the immersion approach can be viewed as an approach that starts from low altitude to high altitude and the toboggan approach as an approach that starts from high altitude to low altitude.