When the method of contouring an object surface by electronic speckle pattern interferometry is based on shifting the illumination beams, the shifted phase of the interference speckle pattern has a new relationship with the depth of the test surface. Therefore the contour interval as well as the fringe sensitivity of this method has new forms. The geometry of such a situation, which differs fro...

BACKGROUND Body contouring performed for cosmetic purposes, or after weight loss, has the potential to improve body image and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The BODY-Q is a new patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument designed to measure patient perceptions of weight loss and/or body contouring. In this article, we describe the psychometric properties of the BODY-Q scales after an inte...

In this paper we suggest an approach to a completely automatic contouring the left ventricle (LV). We use the method of signatures to describe the shape of the contour. Analysis of contours performed manually enables us to conclude that the signature of any contour of any patient has the shape of the inverted letter "M". This allows reducing the contouring problem to the problem of signature re...

Objective: To carry out a 3D vector reconstruction of the nerves ventral region neck from anatomical sections “Korean Visible Human” for educational purposes. Materials and Methods: The subject was 33-year-old Korean man who died leukemia. He 164cm tall weighed 55kgs. A cryomacrotome sectioned frozen body into 5960 sections. Sections numbered 1500 to 2000 were used this study. segmentation by m...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess whether clinically acceptable segmentations of organs at risk (OARs) in head and neck cancer can be obtained automatically and efficiently using the novel "similarity and truth estimation for propagated segmentations" (STEPS) compared to the traditional "simultaneous truth and performance level estimation" (STAPLE) algorithm. METHODS First, 6 OARs w...

In the latest hgh-speed and hgh-acceleration NC machine tools, the structural vibration is one of the most critical factors to deteriorate the machine's contouring performance. Particularly on such a machine, the parameters in a CNC servo control system must be carehlly tuned, since too high response of the latest CNC units often causes severe structural vibration. Ths paper presents a practica...

Treatment planning for high precision radiotherapy of head and neck (H&N) cancer patients requires accurate delineation of many structures and lymph node regions. Manual contouring is tedious and suffers from large inter- and intra-rater variability. To reduce manual labor, we have developed a fully automated, atlas-based method for H&N CT image segmentation that employs a novel hierarchical at...

Radiotherapy treament planning implies to delineate on the CT image of the patient the organs at risk where the dose has to be controlled. To avoid manual contouring that is tedious and prone to inter-expert variability, algorithms able to provide these delineations automatically can be helpful for the clinicians. This paper presents a multiatlas based segmentation procedure to segment the paro...

Body contouring following massive weight loss is a rapidly expanding field in plastic surgery. However, healthcare payers are reluctant to fund such procedures, viewing them as purely cosmetic. This has resulted in a flurry of studies assessing quality of life (QoL) and patient satisfaction following body contouring surgery in this cohort of patients to establish an evidence base to support the...