The 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2006, was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Tivoli Concert Hall with satellite workshops and...

To date, technology transfer from academia to industry has been strongest in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector. The medical imaging and medical device industries have traditionally been s...

The following abstracts of diagnostic radiology research and training grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were awarded to principal investigators (PIs) whose primary appointmen...

Rationale and Objectives Manual annotation of the full contour of the vertebrae in lateral x-rays for subsequent morphometry is time-consuming. The standard six-point morphometry is commonly used ...

Rationale and Objectives The segmentation of textured anatomy from magnetic resonance images (MRI) is a difficult problem. We present an approach that uses features extracted from the magnitude an...

Rationale and Objectives This study was designed to evaluate the performance of radiology residents in interpreting emergency department (ED) chest radiographs for congestive heart failure and to ...

For the practice lifetime of any radiologist reading this essay, it has been axiomatic to say that modern radiology is safe and effective. Modern equipment, when used by qualified people, produces ...

Rationale and Objectives Current quantitative morphometric methods of vertebral fracture detection lack specificity, particularly with mild fractures. We use more detailed shape and texture inform...

Musculoskeletal diseases have a great impact on the quality of life for the individual. Diseases such as osteoporosis (OP), osteoarthritis (OA), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often cause pain, stif...

Rationale and Objectives In this article, we propose an alternative approach to voxel-by-voxel analysis, which overcomes problems associated with heuristic methods currently used for dynamic contr...