Shape Contexts1 by Belongie, Malik, and Puzicha at Berkeley looks like a promising approach for finding point correspondences (along the lines of ICP, TPS-RPM, etc).
Give it a looksie whenever you get the time.
1 http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/shape/sc_digits.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
2008 IEEE International Symposium
on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
May 14-17, 2008
Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center, Paris, France
** Paper Submission Deadline: December 7, 2007 **
The Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'08) will be held May 14-17, 2008, in Paris, France. The previous meetings have played a leading role in facilitating interaction between researchers in medical and biological imaging. The 2008 meeting will continue the tradition of fostering cross-fertilization between different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative imaging approach across all scales of observation.
ISBI 2008 is a joint initiative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), with the support of Optics Valley. The meeting will feature an opening afternoon of tutorials and short courses, followed by a strong scientific program of plenary talks and special sessions as well as oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers. An industrial exhibition is planned.
High-quality papers are solicited containing original contributions to the algorithmic, mathematical and computational aspects of biomedical imaging, from nano- to macroscale. Topics of interest include image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological and statistical modeling. Papers on all molecular, cellular, anatomical and functional imaging modalities and applications are welcomed. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and will afterwards also be made available online through the IEEExplore database.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of 4-page paper:
7 December 2007 (Midnight at International Date Line)
Notification of acceptance/rejection:
15 February 2008
Submission of final accepted 4-page paper:
14 March 2008
Deadline for early registration:
14 March 2008
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Program Chairs
Isabelle Bloch, ENST, Paris, France
Andrew Laine, Columbia University, NYC, USA
Special Sessions
Josiane Zerubia, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Wiro Niessen, Erasmus Medical Ctr, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Plenaries
Christian Roux ,ENST Bretagne, Brest, France
Tutorials
Michael Unser, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Finances
Elsa Angelini, ENST, Paris, France
Publications
Habib Benali, Inserm, Paris, France
Local Arrangements
Severine Dubuisson, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Vannary Meas-Yedid, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Industrial Liaison
Spencer Shorte, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Institutional Liaison
Claude Boccara, ESPCI, Paris, France
Technical Liaison
Sebastian Ourselin, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
American Liaison
Jeff Fessler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Gary E. Christensen, Sarang C. Joshi, Michael I. Miller, "Volumetric Transformation of Brain Anatomy" IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. (1997)
Abstract
This paper presents diffeomorphic transformations of three-dimensional (3-D) anatomical image data of the macaque occipital lobe and whole brain cryosection imagery and of deep brain structures in human brains as imaged via magnetic resonance imagery. These transformations are generated in a hierarchical manner, accommodating both global and local anatomical detail. The initial low-dimensional registration is accomplished by constraining the transformation to be in a low-dimensional basis. The basis is defined by the Green’s function of the elasticity operator placed at predefined locations in the anatomy and the eigenfunctions of the elasticity operator. The high-dimensional large deformations are vector fields generated via the mismatch between the template and target-image volumes constrained to be the solution of a Navier–Stokes fluid model. As part of this procedure, the Jacobian of the transformation is tracked, insuring the generation of diffeomorphisms. It is shown that transformations constrained by quadratic regularization methods such as the Laplacian, biharmonic, and linear elasticity models, do not ensure that the transformation maintains topology and, therefore, must only be used for coarse global registration.
A good resource for the computational aspects of stochastic theory, ode’s, pde’s and statistical mechanics (from a computational physics point of view) at:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/franz.vesely/cp_tut/nol2h/new/index.html
by Franz J. Vesely at the University of Vienna.
