face expression recognition is useful for designing new interactive devices offering the possibility of new ways for human to interact with computer systems. in this paper we develop a facial expressions analysis and synthesis system. the analysis part of the system is based on the facial features extracted from facial feature points (ffp) in frontal image sequences. selected facial feature poi...

assessment of cardiac right‑ventricle functions plays an essential role in diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (arvd). among clinical tests, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is now becoming the most valid imaging technique to diagnose arvd. fatty infiltration of the right ventricular free wall can be visible on cardiac mri. finding right‑ventricle functional paramete...

This paper presents the implementation and validation of a new 3D deformable model method, based on the Mumford-Shah functional for segmentation of threedimensional real-time ultrasound. An experiment on 10 patients with primary hypertension was carried out to compare three segmentation methods for quantification of right and left ventricular ejection fraction: (1) manual tracing by an expert c...

Background The use of a medical simulator should enhance the goals of minimally invasive surgery: patient safety, cosmesis, shortening the length of hospital admissions, and reducing cost. Using an innovative approach to the handling of ultrasound images in virtual reality simulation, this article describes a process that employs a hybrid model of deformable models that can be applied in the te...

A novel controi method for positioning operations of deformable objects will be presented. In many manipulative operations of deformable objects, it is required to guide multiple points on an object simultaneously. Moreover, the points often cannot be manipulated directly. A model of the manipulated deformable object is essential to perform these operations. It is, however, dificult to build a ...

Deformable registration is ubiquitous in medical image analysis. Many deformable registration methods minimize sum of squared difference (SSD) as the registration cost with respect to deformable model parameters. In this work, we construct a tight upper bound of the SSD registration cost by using a fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) in the registration pipeline. The upper bound SSD (UB-S...

This paper reviews model based methods for non rigid shape analysis and recognition These methods model match and classify non rigid shapes which are generally problematic for conventional algorithms using rigid models Issues including deformable model represen tation optimization criteria formulation model matching and classi cation are examined in detail The emphasis of this paper is on D def...

Manipulation of deformable objects will be discussed. Manipulation of deformable objects is de ned as controlling deformation of objects as well as their positions and orientations. The manipulation is a fundamental and important task in many industrial elds. In fact, there exist many operations of deformable objects such as textile fabrics, rubber parts, paper sheets, strings, and foods. In or...