Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain—3-Dimensional Proportional System: An Approach to Cerebral Imaging, J. Talairach, P. Tournoux. Georg Thieme Verlag, New York (1988), 122 pp., 130 figs. DM 268

The analysis of medical images has been woven into the fabric of the pattern analysis and machine intelligence (PAMI) community since the earliest days of these Transactions. Initially, the efforts in this area were seen as applying pattern analysis and computer vision techniques to another interesting dataset. However, over the last two to three decades, the unique nature of the problems presented within this area of study have led to the development of a new discipline in its own right. Examples of these include: the types of image information that are acquired, the fully three-dimensional image data, the nonrigid nature of object motion and deformation, and the statistical variation of both the underlying normal and abnormal ground truth. In this paper, we look at progress in the field over the last 20 years and suggest some of the challenges that remain for the years to come.

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Medical image analysis: progress over two decades and the challenges ahead

From the Publisher: 
The accessible presentation of this book gives both a general view of the entire computer vision enterprise and also offers sufficient detail to be able to build useful applications. Users learn techniques that have proven to be useful by first-hand experience and a wide range of mathematical methods. A CD-ROM with every copy of the text contains source code for programming practice, color images, and illustrative movies. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book includes essential topics that either reflect practical significance or are of theoretical importance. Topics are discussed in substantial and increasing depth. Application surveys describe numerous important application areas such as image based rendering and digital libraries. Many important algorithms broken down and illustrated in pseudo code. Appropriate for use by engineers as a comprehensive reference to the computer vision enterprise.

Computer vision : a modern approach = 计算机视觉 : 一种现代的方法

語用論(Pragmatics)を考える

I read this book the same weekend that the Packers took on the Rams, and the experience of the latter event, obviously, colored my judgment. Although I abhor anything that smacks of being a handbook (like, \"How to Earn a Merit Badge in Neurosurgery\") because too many volumes in biomedical science already evince a boyscout-like approach, I must confess that parts of this volume are fast, scholarly, and significant, with certain reservations. I like parts of this well-illustrated book because Dr. Sj6strand, without so stating, develops certain subjects on technique in relation to the acquisition of judgment and sophistication. And this is important! So, given that the author (like all of us) is somewhat deficient in some areas, and biased in others, the book is still valuable if the uninitiated reader swallows it in a general fashion, realizing full well that what will be required from the reader is a modulation to fit his vision, propreception, adaptation and response, and the kind of problem he is undertaking. A major deficiency of this book is revealed by comparison of its use of physics and of chemistry to provide understanding and background for the application of high resolution electron microscopy to problems in biology. Since the volume is keyed to high resolution electron microscopy, which is a sophisticated form of structural analysis, but really morphology in a modern guise, the physical and mechanical background of The instrument and its ancillary tools are simply and well presented. The potential use of chemical or cytochemical information as it relates to biological fine structure , however, is quite deficient. I wonder when even sophisticated morphol-ogists will consider fixation a reaction and not a technique; only then will the fundamentals become self-evident and predictable and this sine qua flon will become less mystical. Staining reactions (the most inadequate chapter) ought to be something more than a technique to selectively enhance contrast of morphological elements; it ought to give the structural addresses of some of the chemical residents of cell components. Is it pertinent that auto-radiography gets singled out for more complete coverage than other significant aspects of cytochemistry by a high resolution microscopist, when it has a built-in minimal error of 1,000 A in standard practice? I don't mean to blind-side (in strict football terminology) Dr. Sj6strand's efforts for what is \"routinely used in our laboratory\"; what is done is usually well done. It's just that …

Methods in Enzymology.

Although structural approaches to pattern recognition are not as popular anymore as they were some 30 years ago, they still provide reasonable solutions for certain recognition problems. This paper demonstrates that recognizing mechanical assemblies is among these problems. We will present and evaluate a framework for visual assembly recognition that combines different structural techniques. Context free grammars are used to detect assemblies in an image. The resulting syntactic structures are translated into relational models which enable the recognition of individual assemblies.

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A Structural Framework for Assembly Modeling and Recognition

Semantic Models and Object Recognition in Computer Vision

Selective Visual Perception Driven by Cues from Speech Processing

At the University of Bielefeld within the framework of the colloborative research center Situ ated Arti cial Communicators SFB an integrative system of vision and speech under standing is developed By the term arti cial communicators we mean formal systems which reconstruct the behaviour of natural communicators in relevant aspects Since most cognitive skills are situation dependent the SFB s research has concentrated on a speci c basis scenario The subject of this scenario is a task orientated discourse about construction acts The cooper ative assembly of a model aeroplane from construction kit parts see Figure is the long term goal

Selective Visual Perception Driven by Cues from Speech Processing (book version)

Four decades of intensive research in computer vision have lead to numerous computational paradigms. This fact is comprehensible since problems like object recognition or scene descriptions are of high complexity, have different aspects and can be attacked by processing various features. In this paper we propose an architecture that combines the advantages of different paradigms in pattern recognition. Voting and Bayesian networks provide a computational framework to integrate approaches to knowledge based and probabilistic reasoning as well as neural computations.

Gerhard Sagerer

Papers

A Structural Framework for Assembly Modeling and Recognition

Semantic Models and Object Recognition in Computer Vision

Selective Visual Perception Driven by Cues from Speech Processing

Selective Visual Perception Driven by Cues from Speech Processing (book version)

Integrating Recognition Paradigms in a Multiple-Path Architecture