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Selected Research Publications, 1993-Present |
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"Interactive analysis system for narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Clinical and Biomedical Imaging, Barjor S. Gimi and A. Krol, eds., Vol. 12930, pp. 129301G-1 - 129301G-9, February 2024.
doi: 10.1117/12.3000395 |
| Vahid Daneshpajooh, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
| Cum Laude (First Place) poster award. | |
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"Synchronization and analysis of multimodal bronchoscopic airway exams for early lung cancer detection,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, M. Rettmann, eds., Vol. 12928, pp. 129281B-1 --- 129281B-8, February 2024.
doi: 10.1117/12.3004212 |
| Qi Chang, Vahid Daneshpajooh, Patrick D. Byrnes, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Self-supervised depth and pose estimation for CT-bronchoscopy fusion,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, M. Rettmann, eds., Vol. 12928, pp. 129280B-1 --- 129280B-12, February 2024.
doi: 10.1117/12.3004499 |
| Qi Chang and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Procedure Planning for Radial-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, M. Rettmann, eds., Vol. 12928, pp. 129281P-1 --- 129281P-15, February 2024.
doi: 10.1117/12.3004841 |
| Austin Kao and and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Guided System for RP-EBUS Bronchoscopy: Live Study Validation,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2023: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte and Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 12466, pp. 124661O-1 --- 124661O-7, February 2023.
doi: 10.1117/12.2648637 |
| Wennan Zhao, Trevor Kuhlengel, Qi Chang, Vahid Daneshpajooh, Thomas Schaer, Leslie Brewer, Rachel Hilliard, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
| Cum Laude (First Place) poster award. | |
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"ESFPNet: efficient deep learning architecture for real-time lesion segmentation in autofluorescence bronchoscopic video,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2023: Biomedical Applications in Molecular,
Structural, and Functional Imaging, Barjor S. Gimi and A. Krol, eds., Vol. 12468, pp. 1246803-1 --- 1246803-11, February 2023.
doi: 10.1117/12.2647897 |
| Qi Chang, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
| Finalist for Robert F. Wagner Best Student Paper award. (Best student paper in SPIE Conf. 12468.) | |
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"Vascular Pattern Recognition for Narrow-Band Imaging Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2023: Biomedical Applications in Molecular,
Structural, and Functional Imaging, Barjor S. Gimi and A. Krol, eds., Vol. 12468, pp. 124680L-1 --- 124680L-7, February 2023.
doi: 10.1117/12.2647150 |
| Vahid Daneshpajooh, Cedric Dumas, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Extemporaneous Airway Route Computation During Live Bronchoscopic Procedures,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2023: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte and Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 12466, pp. 1246602-1 --- 1246602-11, February 2023.
doi: 10.1117/12.2647901 |
| Yuxuan He and William E. Higgins | |
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"Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Simulation for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy,"
IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 318-330, January 2023.
doi: 10.1109/TBME.2022.3190165 |
| Wennan Zhao, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Efficient procedure planning for comprehensive lymph node staging bronchoscopy," Journal of Medical Imaging, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 055001-1 --- 055001-22, Sept./Oct. 2022.
doi: doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.9.5.055001 |
| Trevor Kuhlengel, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Multimodal Registration for Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy," Journal of Imaging, volume 8, issue 7, article no. 189, pp. 1-18, July 2022. For Special Issue Project on The Application of Imaging Technology in Medical Intervention and Surgery.
doi: 10.3390/jimaging8070189 Article featured on the journal's cover for July 2022 Journal of Imaging located at: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/8/7 |
| Xiaonan Zang, Wennan Zhao, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Guided Bronchoscopy for Comprehensive Lymph Node Staging: A Phantom Study,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2022, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 205, p. A3666-A3667, May 2022.
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2022.205.1_MeetingAbstracts.A3666 |
| W.E. Higgins, T. Kuhlengel, D. Ahmad, D. Guck, M. Chopra, D. Shore, J. Nuschke, and R. Bascom | |
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"Image-guided bronchoscopy for comprehensive lymph node staging,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2022: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte and Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 12034, pp. 120342U-1 --- 120342U-6, February 2022.
doi: 10.1117/12.2612203 |
| Trevor Kuhlengel, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Guided System for Radial-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2022: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte and Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 12034, pp. 120340B-1 --- 120340B-7, February 2022.
doi: 10.1117/12.2612104 |
| Wennan Zhao, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, William E. Higgins | |
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"Video Analysis Framework for Lesion Detection in Narrow Band Imaging Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2022: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, Barjor S. Gimi and A. Krol, eds., Vol. 12036, pp. 120360M-1 --- 120360M-8, February 2022.
doi: 10.1117/12.2606054 |
| Vahid Daneshpajooh, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy System for Lung-Cancer Staging,"
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Special issue on Innovations in
Healthcare 4.0, vol. 25, no. 100665, pp. 1-13, 2021.
doi: 10.1016/j.imu.2021.100665 |
| Xiaonan Zang, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Patrick D. Byrnes, Trevor K. Kuhlengel, Catherine Abendroth, Thomas Allen, Rickhesvar Mahraj, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Procedure Planning for Comprehensive Bronchoscopic Lymph Node Staging,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2021, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 203, p. A4802-A4803, May 2021.
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2021.203.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4802 |
| W.E. Higgins, T. Kuhlengel, and R. Bascom | |
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"Multimodal Virtual Bronchoscopic Guidance of Radial-Probe EBUS for Peripheral Nodule Biopsy: A Phantom Study,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2021, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 203, p. A4797-A4797, May 2021.
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2021.203.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4797 |
| W.E. Higgins, W. Zhao, D. Ahmad, J. Toth, and R. Bascom | |
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"Super-Resolution and Deblurring Enhancement for Narrow Band Imaging Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing, Ivana Isgum, Bennet A. Landman, eds., vol. 11596, pp. 1159625-1 --- 1159625-8, February 2021.
doi: 10.1117/12.2579922 |
| Vahid Daneshpajooh, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Bronchoscopic video synchronization for interactive multimodal inspection of bronchial lesions,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2021: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 11598, pp. 115981V-1 --- 115981V-10, February 2021.
doi: 10.1117/12.2579931 |
| Qi Chang, Patrick D. Byrnes, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Autonomous Planning and Guidance for Convex-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2021: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Christian A. Linte, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, eds., Vol. 11598, pp. 115980T-1 --- 115980T-10, February 2021.
doi: 10.1117/12.2580180 |
| Vitalii Vasyliev, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Blood Vessel Segmentation in Narrow Band Imaging Bronchoscopic Video,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2021: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, Functional Imaging, Andrzej Kroj and Barjor S. Gimi, eds., Vol. 11600, pp. 116001P-1 --- 116001P-9, February 2021.
doi: 10.1117/12.2579930 |
| Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Vahid Daneshpajooh, Danish Ahmad, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy Video Analysis for Lesion Frame Detection," 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 1556-1559, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 July 2020. |
| Qi Chang, Rebecca Bascom, Jennifer Toth, Danish Ahmad, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Continuation for "Image-based Global Registration System and Method Applicable to Bronchoscopy Guidance, " USPTO patent #10,667,679, issued 2 June 2020. |
| William E. Higgins, Rahul Khare, and Scott A. Merritt | |
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"Automated 3D-CT-based Lymph Node Station Definition for the IASLC 8th edition Guidelines,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2020, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 201, p. A4447, May 2020.
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4447 |
| W.E. Higgins, T. Kuhlengel, and R. Bascom | |
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"Multi-Frame CT-Video Registration for 3D Airway-Wall Analysis," 2020 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 1638-1641, Iowa City, IA, 3-7 April 2020. |
| Patrick D. Byrnes and William E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Radial-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound for Image-guided Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2020: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Baowei Fei and Christian A. Linte, eds., vol. 11315, pp. 113151U-1 --- 113151U-9, Houston, TX, 15-20 February 2020. |
| Wennan Zhao, Rebecca Bascom, Jennifer Toth, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Multi-destination procedure planning for comprehensive lymph node staging bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2020: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Baowei Fei and Christian A. Linte, eds., vol. 11315, pp. 113151T-1 --- 113151T-7, Houston, TX, 15-20 February 2020. |
| Trevor Kuhlengel and William E. Higgins | |
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"Continuation for "Medical Image Reporting System and Method"," USPTO patent #10,482,606, issued 19 November 2019. |
| William E. Higgins, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu, Michael W. Graham, and Kongkuo Lu | |
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"Optimal Route Planning for Image-Guided EBUS Bronchoscopy,"
Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 112, September 2019, 103361
doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103361 |
| Xiaonan Zang, Jason D. Gibbs, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Patrick D. Byrnes, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Reality Viewing of the Airway Mucosa: Bronchoscopic Video Analysis Fused with CT Images,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2019, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 199, pp. A2617, May 2019
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2019.199.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2617 |
| W.E. Higgins, P. Byrnes, W. Zhao, T. Kuhlengel, J. Toth, and R. Bascom | |
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"Route Planning for Predicting the Feasibility and Yield of Bronchoscopic Biopsy during Central-Chest Lymph Node Staging,"
American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2019, Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 199, pp. A2346, May 2019
doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2019.199.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2346 |
| W.E. Higgins, X. Zang, P. Byrnes, R. Cheirsilp, T. Kuhlengel, J. Toth, and R. Bascom | |
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"Efficient Bronchoscopic Video Summarization," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 848-863, March 2019 doi: 10.1109/TBME.2018.2859322 Featured article for March 2019 IEEE Trans. BME located at: http://tbme.embs.org/2019/03/01/efficient-bronchoscopic-video-summarization/ |
| Patrick D. Byrnes and William E. Higgins | |
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"Robust Video-Frame Classification for Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Baowei Fei and Christian A. Linte, eds., Vol. 10951, pp. 109511Q-1---109511Q-7, San Diego, CA, 16-21 February 2019
doi: 10.1117/12.2507290 |
| Matthew McTaggart and William E. Higgins | |
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"Bronchoscopic procedure planning for systematic lymph node analysis,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Baowei Fei and Christian A. Linte, eds., Vol. 10951, pp. 109511O-1---109511O-7, San Diego, CA, 16-21 February 2019
doi: 10.1117/12.2505788 |
| Trevor Kuhlengel and William E. Higgins | |
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"Guidance System Development for Radial-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound Bronchoscopy,"
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Baowei Fei and Christian A. Linte, eds., Vol. 10951, pp. 109511P-1---109511P-7, San Diego, CA, 16-21 February 2019
doi: 10.1117/12.2505827 |
| Wennan Zhao, Rebecca Bascom, Jennifer Toth, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Optimal Multimodal Virtual Bronchoscopy for Convex-Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound," SPIE Medical Imaging 2018: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , B. Fei and Robert J. Webster, eds., vol. 10576, pp. 1057618-1 - 1057618-6, Houston, TX, 10-15 February 2018, doi: 10.1117/12.2292099 |
| William E. Higgins, Xiaonan Zang, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Patrick D. Byrnes, Trevor K. Kuhlengel, Jennifer Toth, Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Global and Semi-Global Registration for Image-Based Bronchoscopy Guidance," USPTO patent #9,757,021-B2, issued 12 September 2017. |
| William E. Higgins and Rahul Khare | |
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"Continuation Application for Method and Apparatus for 3D Route Planning through hollow organs," USPTO patent #9,675,420-B2, issued 13 June 2017. |
| William E. Higgins and Jason D. Gibbs | |
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"Medical Image Reporting System and Method," USPTO patent #9,672,631-B2, issued 6 June 2017. |
| William E. Higgins, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu, Michael W. Graham, and Kongkuo Lu | |
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"Optimal Biopsy-Site Localization for Image-Guided Endobronchial Ultrasound," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2017, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 195, pg. A2873, May 2017, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2017.195.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2873. |
| W.E. Higgins, X. Zang, P. Byrnes, T. Kuhlengel, J. Toth, and R. Bascom | |
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"A System for Endobronchial-Video Analysis," SPIE Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Robert J. Webster and B. Fei, eds., vol. 10135, pp. 101351Q-1 - 101351Q-9, Orlando, FL, 11-16 February 2017, doi: 10.1117/12.2254975 |
| Patrick Byrnes and William E. Higgins | |
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"Methods for 2D and 3D Endobronchial Ultrasound Image Segmentation,"
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 1426-1439, July 2016, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2494838
Featured article for July 2016 IEEE Trans. BME located at: http://tbme.embs.org/2016/06/21/higgins/ |
| Xiaonan Zang, Rebecca Bascom, Christopher R. Gilbert, Jennifer W. Toth, and William E. Higgins | |
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"PET/CT Image Registration for Multimodal Bronchoscopic Procedure Planning and Guidance," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2016, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 193, pg. A4383, May 2016, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2016.193.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4383 |
| W.E. Higgins, R. Cheirsilp, X. Zang, P. Byrnes, T. Kuhlengel, J. Toth, T. Allen, and R. Bascom | |
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"System For Multimodal Image-Guided Endobronchial Ultrasound: Human Pilot Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2016, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 193, pg. A4382, May 2016, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2016.193.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4382 |
| W.E. Higgins, X. Zang, R. Cheirsilp, P. Byrnes, T. Kuhlengel, J. Toth, and R. Bascom | |
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"Image-Guided Endobronchial Ultrasound," SPIE Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Robert J. Webster and Ziv R. Yaniv, eds., vol. 9786, pp. 97862G-1 - 97862G-7, 2016, San Diego, CA, 3 Mar. 2016, doi: 10.1117/12.2208771 |
| William E. Higgins, Xiaonan Zang, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Patrick Byrnes, Trevor Kuhlengel, Rebecca Bascom and Jennifer Toth | |
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"Method for Endobronchial Video Parsing," SPIE Medical Imaging 2016: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Robert J. Webster and Ziv R. Yaniv, eds., vol. 9786, pp. 97861B-1 - 97861B-6, 2016, San Diego, CA, 3 Mar. 2016, doi: 10.1117/12.2208939 |
| Patrick Byrnes and William E. Higgins | |
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"Deformable image registration for multimodal lung-cancer staging," SPIE Medical Imaging 2016: Image Processing, , Martin A. Styner and Elsa D. Angelini, eds., vol. 9784, pp. 97843Z-1 - 97843Z-10, 2016, San Diego, CA, 3 Mar. 2016, doi: 10.1117/12.2208482 |
| Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Xiaonan Zang, Rebecca Bascom, Thomas W. Allen, Rickhesvar P.M. Mahraj, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Hands-Free System for Bronchoscopy Planning and Guidance," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, in press, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 2794-2811, December 2015, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2015.2401514 |
| Rahul Khare, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Computer-based 3D PET/CT Thoracic ROI Detection, Definition, and Visualization," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2015, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 191, pg. A4967, May 2015, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2015.191.1_MeetingAbstracts.A4967 |
| W.E. Higgins, R. Cheirsilp, T. Kuhlengel, T. Allen, R. Mahraj, and R. Bascom | |
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"Multimodal Image-Guided System for Bronchoscopy: Human Feasibility Study,"
presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2015, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine,
vol. 191, pg. A3732, May 2015, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2015.191.1_MeetingAbstracts.A3732 |
| William E. Higgins, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Xiaonan Zang, and Patrick Byrnes | |
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"Method and Apparatus for 3D Route Planning through hollow organs," USPTO patent #9,037,215, issued 19 May 2015. |
| William E. Higgins and Jason D. Gibbs | |
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"Thoracic cavity definition for 3D PET/CT analysis and visualization," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 222-238, July 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.04.018 |
| Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Rebecca Bascom, Thomas W. Allen, William E. Higgins | |
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"Multimodal System for the Planning and Guidance of Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling , Ziv R. Yaniv and Robert J. Webster, eds., vol. 9415, pp. 941508-1 - 941508-9, 2015, Orlando, FL, 21-26 Feb. 2015, doi: 10.1117/12.2077242 |
| William E. Higgins, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Xiaonan Zang, and Patrick Byrnes | |
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"Sensor-based Bronchoscopy Guidance System: Human Studies," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2014, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 189, pg. A2513, 1 May 2014, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2014.189.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2513 |
| William E. Higgins, Duane C. Cornish, Rahul Khare, Jennifer W. Toth, Michael F. Reed, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Technician-Free Image-Guided Bronchoscopy System: A Human Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2014, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 189, pg. A2512, 1 May 2014, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2014.189.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2512 |
| William E. Higgins, Rahul Khare, Duane C. Cornish, Xiaonan Zang, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Patrick D. Byrnes, Jennifer W. Toth, Michael F. Reed, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Multimodal Image-Guided Intervention System for Bronchoscopy and EBUS Fusion," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2014, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 189, pg. A2511, 1 May 2014, doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2014.189.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2511 |
| William E. Higgins, Xiaonan Zang, Patrick D. Byrnes, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Trevor Kuhlengel, Anne E. Dimmock, Jennifer W. Toth, Christopher R. Gilbert, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Continuation Application #2 for Fast 2D-3D Image Registration
Method with Application to Continuously Guided Endoscopy," USPTO patent #8,675,935, issued 18 March 2014. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott A. Merritt, and Lav Rai | |
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"Method and Apparatus for Continuous Guidance of Endoscopy," USPTO patent #8,672,836, issued 18 March 2014. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Jason D. Gibbs, and Kun-Chang Yu | |
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"Optimal Procedure Planning and Guidance System for Peripheral Bronchoscopy,"
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.61, no. 3, pp. 638-657, March, 2014, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2285627,
Featured article for March 2014 IEEE Trans. BME at link: http://tbme.embs.org/2014/02/28/optimal-procedure-planning-guidance-system-peripheral-bronchoscopy |
| Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, Rebecca Bascom, Duane C. Cornish, Rahul Khare, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Construction of a Multimodal CT-Video Chest Model," SPIE Medical Imaging 2014: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Ziv R. Yaniv and David R. Holmes, III, eds., vol. 9036, pp. 903607-1 --- 903607-11, San Diego, CA, 15-20 February 2014, doi: 10.1117/12.2041609 |
| Patrick Byrnes and William E. Higgins | |
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"3D Intrathoracic Region Definition and Its Application to PET-CT Analysis," SPIE Medical Imaging 2014: Computer-Aided Diagnosis , Stephen Aylward and Lubomir M. Hadjiiski, eds., vol. 9035, pp. 90352J-1 --- 90352J-11, San Diego, CA, 15-20 February 2014, doi: 10.1117/12.2037076 |
| Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Rebecca Bascom, Thomas W. Allen, and William E. Higgins | |
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"3D Endobronchial Ultrasound Reconstruction and Analysis for Multimodal Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2014: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, Johan G. Bosch and Marvin M. Doyley, eds., vol. 9040, pp. 90400X-1 --- 90400X-12, San Diego, CA, 15-20 February 2014, doi: 10.1117/12.2036115 |
| Xiaonan Zang, Rebecca Bascom, Jennifer W. Toth, Christopher R. Gilbert, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Interactive CT-Video Registration for the Continuous Guidance of Bronchoscopy," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1376-1396, August 2013, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2252361 |
| Scott M. Merritt, Rahul Khare, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"3D Segmentation and Reconstruction of Endobronchial Ultrasound," SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Ultrasonic Imaging, Tomography, and Therapy, Johan G. Bosch and Marvin M. Doyley, eds., vol. 8675, pp. 867505-1--- 867505-15, Orlando, FL, 9-14 February 2013, doi: 10.1117/12.2004901 |
| Xiaonan Zang, Mikhail Breslav, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Multimodal 3D PET/CT System for Bronchoscopic Procedure Planning," SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Carol L. Novak and Stephen Aylward, eds., vol. 8670, pp. 86702X-1 --- 86702X-14 Orlando, FL, 9-14 February 2013, doi: 10.1117/12.2004571 |
| Ronnarit Cheirsilp and William E. Higgins | |
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"Technician-Free System for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2013: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, David R. Holmes, III, and Ziv R. Yaniv, eds., vol. 8671, pp. 867101-1 --- 867101-12, Orlando, FL, 9-14 February 2013, doi: 10.1117/12.2004880 |
| Rahul Khare, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Physician-Controlled System for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2012, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 185, pg. A1116, 1 May 2012 |
| William E. Higgins, Rahul Khare, Duane C. Cornish, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Automated 3D PET/CT-based Detection of Suspect Central-Chest Lesions," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2012, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 185, pg. A4431, 1 May 2012 |
| William E. Higgins, Ronnarit Cheirsilp, Rebecca Bascom, Thomas Allen, Anne E. Dimmock, and Trevor Kuhlengel | |
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"Techician-Free Bronchoscopy Guidance using External Sensor Measurements," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2012, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 185, pg. A4495, 1 May 2012 |
| William E. Higgins, Duane C. Cornish, Rahul Khare, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Optimization of CT-video Registration for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, David R. Holmes, and Kenneth H. Wong, eds., vol. 8316, pp. 831636-1 --- 831636-14, San Diego, CA, 4-9 February 2012, doi: 10.1117/12.910911 |
| Rahul Khare and William E. Higgins | |
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"Bronchoscopy Guidance System Based on Bronchoscope-Motion Measurements," SPIE Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, David R. Holmes, and Kenneth H. Wong, eds., vol. 8316, pp. 83161G-1 --- 83161G-11, San Diego, CA, 4-9 February 2012, doi: 10.1117/12.910914 |
| Duane C. Cornish and William E. Higgins | |
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"Planning and Visualization Methods for Effective Bronchoscopic Target Localization," SPIE Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, David R. Holmes, and Kenneth H. Wong, eds., vol. 8316, pp. 83161H-1 --- 83161H-13, San Diego, CA, 4-9 February 2012, doi: 10.1117/12.910913 |
| Jason D. Gibbs, Pinyo Taeprasartsit, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Continuation of Fast 2D-3D Image Registration Method with Application to Continuously Guided Endoscopy," USPTO patent #8,064,669, granted 22 November 2011. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott Merritt, and Lav Rai | |
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"Computer-based Route-Definition System for Peripheral Bronchoscopy," Journal of Digital Imaging, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 307-317, Feb 2012, doi: 10.1007/s10278-011-9433-7 |
| Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Segmentation of the Central-Chest Lymph Nodes in 3D MDCT Images," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 780-789, Sept. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.014 |
| Kongkuo Lu and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Definition of the Central-Chest Lymph-Node Stations," Int. Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 6, issue 4, pp. 539-555, July 2011, doi: 10.1007/s11548-011-0547-7 |
| Kongkuo Lu, Pinyo Taeprasartsit, Rebecca Bascom, Rickhesvar P.M. Mahraj, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Lymph-Node Station Definition in 3D MDCT Images," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2011, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 183, pg. A5381, May 2011 |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, Rebecca Bascom, and Rickhesvar P.M. Mahraj | |
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"Toward Exhaustive Identification of the Central-Chest Lymph Nodes in 3D MDCT Scans," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2011, in Am. J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, vol. 183, pg. A3071, May 2011 |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, Rebecca Bascom, Rickhesvar P.M. Mahraj, David Campbell, and Jennifer Toth | |
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"Fast 2D-3D image registration method with application to continuously guided endoscopy," USPTO patent #7,889,905, granted 15 Feb. 2011. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott Merritt, and Lav Rai | |
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"Real-Time Method for Bronchoscope Motion Measurement and Tracking," SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, K.H. Wong and D.R. Holmes III, eds., vol. 7964, pp. 79640M-1 --- 79640M-15, 2011, doi:10.1117/12.873086 |
| Duane C. Cornish and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-based Global Registration System for Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, K.H. Wong and D.R. Holmes III, eds., vol. 7964, pp. 79640I-1 --- 79640I-14, 2011, doi:10.1117/12.873085 |
| Rahul Khare and William E. Higgins | |
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"Robust method for extracting the pulmonary vascular trees from 3D MDCT images," SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, B.M. Dawant and D.R. Haynor, eds., vol. 7962, pp. 796237-1 --- 796237-17, 2011, doi: 10.1117/12.876721 |
| Pinyo Taeprasartsit and William E. Higgins | |
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"System for Robust Bronchoscopic Video Distortion Correction," SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, K.H. Wong and D.R. Holmes III, eds., vol. 7964, pp. 79641L-1 --- 79641L-16, 2011, doi: 10.1117/12.876657. |
| Brett Flood, Lav Rai, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Guidance method based on 2D-3D pose estimation and 3D-CT registration with application to live bronchoscopy," USPTO patent #7,756,563, granted 13 July 2010. |
| William E. Higgins, Lav Rai, and Scott Merritt | |
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"Experience with Image-Guided Ultrathin Bronchoscopsy," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2010, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol.181, pg. A1607, 1 May 2010. |
| William E. Higgins, Rebecca Bascom, Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Duane C. Cornish. | |
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"Image-Guided Bronchoscopic Sampling of Peripheral Lesions: A Human Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2010, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol.181, pg. A5171, 1 May 2010. |
| William E. Higgins, Rebecca Bascom, Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Duane C. Cornish, Muhammad Khan, Rahul Khare. | |
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"Selection of Central-Chest Lymph Nodes in 3D MDCT Images: an Observer Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2010, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol.181, pg. A5518, 1 May 2010. |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, Rebecca Bascom, Rickhesvar P.M. Mahraj, Jennifer Toth, and David Campbell. | |
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"Robust 3D Airway-Tree Segmentation for Image-Guided Peripheral Bronchoscopy," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29, issue 4, pp. 982-997, April 2010, doi: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2035813 |
| Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Duane C. Cornish, and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Toward Image-Based Global Registration for Bronchoscopy Guidance," SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Michael I. Miga and K.H. Wong, eds., vol. 7625, pp. 762510-1 --- 762510-12, 2010, doi: 10.1117/12.839479 |
| Rahul Khare and William E. Higgins | |
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"Semi-automatic Central-Chest Lymph-Node Definition from 3D MDCT Images," SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, N. Karssemeijer and R. Summers, eds., vol. 7624, pp. 76240T-1 --- 76240T-10, 2010, doi: 10.1117/12.839515 |
| Kongkuo Lu and William E. Higgins | |
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"Robust Extraction of the Aorta and Pulmonary Artery from 3D MDCT Image Data," SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, B. Dawant and D. Haynor, eds., vol. 7623, pp 76230H-1 --- 76230H-17, 2010, doi: 10.1117/12.839478 |
| Pinyo Taeprasartsit and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-based Reporting for Bronchoscopy," Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 39-50, Feb. 2010, doi: 10.1007/s10278-008-9170-8 |
| Kun-Chang Yu, Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Response to 'Need for Additional Information and Diagnostic Tools in Navigation of the Lung,'" Chest, vol. 136, issue 2, pp. 647-648, Aug. 2009. |
| Rebecca Bascom and William E. Higgins | |
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"Assessment of the 3D Characteristics of Central-Chest Lymph Nodes in 3D MDCT Images," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2009, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 179, abstracts issue, pg. A4369, April 2009. |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, Rebecca Bascom, and Rickhesvar Mahraj. | |
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"Planning and Visualization of Accessible, Safe Bronchoscopy Routes: Application to Centra-Chest Lymph Node Biopsy," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2009, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 179, abstracts issue, pg. A6148, April 2009. |
| William E. Higgins, Jason D. Gibbs, Rebecca Bascom, Rahul Khare, and Pinyo Taeprasartsit. | |
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"Simulation of Mediastinal Node Site Selection: Comparison of Transverse CT scans and Virtual Navigation System Guidance," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2009, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 179, abstracts issue, pg. A6149, April 2009. |
| Manuel Betancourt, Leah Marron, Rahul Khare, William Higgins, Rebecca Bascom. | |
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"Integrated 3D PET-CT for the Planning and Guidance of Bronchoscopy: A Feasibility Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2009, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 179, abstracts issue, pg. A6150, April 2009. |
| William E. Higgins, Pinyo Taeprasartsit, Kongkuo, Lu, Rebecca Bascom, Thomas W. Allen and Jason D. Gibbs. | |
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"Virtual Navigation System for the Bronchoscopic Sampling of Peripheral Nodules: A Pilot Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2009, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 179, abstracts issue, pg. A6166, April 2009. |
| William E. Higgins, Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Duane C. Cornish, Rebecca Bascom, Kun-Chang Yu, Muhammad Khan, Rahul Khare, Leah Marron. | |
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"System for Definition of the Central-Chest Vasculature," SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing, J. Pluim and B. Dawant, eds., vol. 7259, pp. 725918-1 --- 725918-15, 2009, doi: 10.1117/12.811143 |
| Pinyo Taeprasartsit and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Quantitative Analysis of the Central-Chest Lymph Nodes based on 3D MDCT Image Data," SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, N. Karssemeijer and M.L. Giger, eds., vol. 7260, pp.72600U-1 --- 72600U-9, 2009, doi: 10.1117/12.811040 |
| Kongkuo Lu, Rebecca Bascom, Rickhesvar Mahraj, and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Improved Navigation for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Michael I. Miga and K.H. Wong, eds., vol. 7261, pp. 72612J-1 --- 72612J-10, 2009, doi: 10.1117/12.811142 |
| Rahul Khare, Kun-Chang Yu, and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Fusion of MDCT-Based Endoluminal Renderings and Endoscopic Video," SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Michael I. Miga and K.H. Wong, eds., vol. 7261, pp. 726101-1 --- 726107-19, 2009, doi: 10.1117/12.808228 |
| Lav Rai and William E. Higgins. | |
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"3D MDCT-Based System for Planning Peripheral Bronchoscopic Procedures ," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 39, issue 3, pp. 266-279, March 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.12. 012 |
| Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, and William E. Higgins. | |
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"Image-Guided Bronchoscopy of Peripheral Lung Lesions: A Phantom Study," Chest, vol. 134, no. 5, pp. 1017-1026, Nov. 2008, doi:10.1378/chest.08-0603 |
| Scott A. Merritt, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu, Viral Patel, Lav Rai, Duane C. Cornish, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Combined Video Tracking and Image-Video Registration for Continuous Bronchoscopic Guidance," International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 3, no. 3-4, pp. 315-329, Sept. 2008, doi:10.1007/s11548-008-0241-6. |
| Lav Rai, James P. Helferty, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Navigation System (VNS) Chest Computerized Tomography (CT) Repository for Training in Bronchoscopy Pathway Selection," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2008, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 177, abstracts issue, pp. A554, April 2008. |
| L. Simonyants, Jason D. Gibbs, William E. Higgins, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Image-Guided Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Nodule Biopsy: A Human Feasibility Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2008, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 177, abstracts issue, pp. A893, April 2008. |
| Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu, Duane C. Cornish, Muhammad S. Khan, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Interactive Graphical Report Enables off-line 3D Endobronchial Route Planning Prior to Bronchoscopy," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2008, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 177, abstracts issue, pp. A893, April 2008. |
| Kun-Chang Yu, Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Interbronchoscopist Variability in Endobronchial Path Selection: A Simulation Study," Chest, vol. 133, no. 4, pp. 897 - 905, April 2008, doi: 10.1378/chest.07-2540. |
| Marina Y. Dolina, Duane C. Cornish, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Rickhesvar Mahraj, William E. Higgins, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"3D CT-Video Fusion for Image-Guided Bronchoscopy," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 32, issue 3, pp. 159-173, April 2008, doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.11.001. |
| William E. Higgins, James P. Helferty, Kongkuo Lu, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, and Kun-Chang Yu |
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"Extraction and Visualization of the Central Chest Lymph-Node Stations," SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, M. L. Giger and N. Karssemeijer, eds., vol. 6915, pp. 69151B-1 - 69151B-15, 2008, doi: 10.1117/12.768691. |
| Kongkuo Lu, Scott A. Merritt, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Method for Radiometric Calibration of an Endoscope's Camera and Light Source," SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, M. I. Miga and K. R. Cleary, eds., vol. 6918, pp. 691813-1 - 691813-16, 2008, doi 10.1117/12.768687. |
| Lav Rai and William E. Higgins | |
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"Continuous Endoscopic Guidance via Interleaved Video Tracking and Image-Video Registration," SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, M. I. Miga and K. R. Cleary, eds., vol. 6918, pp. 69182R-1 - 69182R-14, 2008, doi 10.1117/12.768702. |
| Lav Rai and William E. Higgins | |
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"Integrated System for Planning Peripheral Bronchoscopic Procedures," SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, X. P. Hu and A. V. Clough, eds., vol. 6916, pp. 69160H-1 - 69160H-15, 2008, doi 10.1117/12.768707. |
| Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, Kun-Chang Yu, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Robust System for Human Airway-Tree Segmentation," SPIE Medical Imaging 2008: Image Processing, J. Pluim and J. Reinhardt, eds., vol. 6914, pp. 69141J-1 - 69141J-18, 2008, doi: 10.1117/12.768706. |
| Michael W. Graham, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu and William E. Higgins | |
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"Interactive Segmentation based on the Live Wire for 3D CT Chest Image Analysis," Int. J. Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 2, no. 3-4, pp. 151-167, Dec. 2007, doi: 10.1007/s11548-007-0129-x. |
| Kongkuo Lu and William E. Higgins | |
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"System for the Analysis and Visualization of Large 3D Anatomical Trees," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 37, issue 12, pp. 1802-1820, Dec. 2007, doi: 10.1016/ j.compbiomed.2007.06.005. |
| Kun-Chang Yu, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Computer-based System for the Virtual-Endoscopic Guidance of Bronchoscopy," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special Issue on Vision for Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 108, no. 1-2, pp. 171-187, Oct.-Nov. 2007, doi: 10.1016/ j.cviu.2006.10.010. |
| James P. Helferty, Anthony J. Sherbondy, Atilla P. Kiraly, and William E. Higgins |
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"Real-Time Image-Guided Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Lesion Biopsy: a Phantom Study," Radiologic Society of N. America (RSNA) 2007, pg. 741. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott A. Merritt, Kun-Chang Yu, Viral Patel, Rebecca Bascom, Duane Cornish, Jason Gibbs, and Lav Rai |
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"Automated Analysis of the Mediastinal and Hilar Lymph Nodes from 3D MDCT Chest Images," Radiologic Society of N. America (RSNA) 2007, pp.405-406. |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Graphics-Based Computer System for the Anatomical Labeling of the Major Airways: Initial Development," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2007, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 175, abstracts issue, pg. A333, April 2007. |
| Michael W. Graham, Marina Y. Dolina, Rebecca Bascom, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Endobronchial path selection skill improves with use of a Virtual Navigation System during simulated bronchoscopy," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2007, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 175, abstracts issue, pg. A619, April 2007. |
| Marina Y. Dolina, Viral P. Patel, Duane C. Cornish, Jason D. Gibbs, William E. Higgins, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Image-Guided Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Nodule Biopsy: A Phantom Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2007, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 175, abstracts issue, pg. A814, April 2007. |
| William E. Higgins, K.C. Yu, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, Kongkuo Lu, Duane C. Cornish, Viral P. Patel, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Virtual Navigation System for Bronchoscopic Sampling of Central Chest Lymph Nodes: A Human Feasibility Study," presented at American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2007, Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vol. 175, abstracts issue, pg. A814, April 2007. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott A. Merritt, Jason D. Gibbs, Michael W. Graham, Kongkuo Lu, Lav Rai, K.C. Yu, Duane C. Cornish , Marina Y. Dolina, Rickhesvar P. Mahraj, Jenn W. Toth, Milos Tucakovic, and Rebecca Bascom | |
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"Method for Continuous Guidance of Endoscopy ," SPIE Medical Imaging 2007: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, A. Manduca and X.P. Hu, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6511, Feb. 2007, doi: 10.1117/12.708532 |
| Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Jason D. Gibbs, Kun-Chang Yu, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Method for Extracting the Aorta from 3D CT Images ," SPIE Medical Imaging 2007: Image Processing, J.P.W. Pluim and J.M. Reinhardt, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6512, Feb. 2007, doi: 10.1117/12.708522 |
| Pinyo Taeprasartsit and William E. Higgins | |
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"3D Path Planning and Extension for Endoscopic Guidance," SPIE Medical Imaging 2007: Visualization and Image-Guided Procedures, K.R. Cleary and M.I. Miga, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6509, Feb. 2007, doi: 10.1117/12.708513 |
| Jason D. Gibbs and William E. Higgins | |
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"Endoscopes Push Imaging Boundaries," Advanced Imaging, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 30-35, Jan. 2007. |
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"Real-Time Image-Based Guidance Method for Lung-Cancer Assessment," IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2006), vol. 2, pp. 2437-2444, June 2006, doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2006.238 |
| Lav Rai, Scott A. Merritt, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Comparison of Transverse Chest CT Images and a Virtual Navigation Endoluminal Image for Bronchoscopy Path Selection to Endoluminal Pulmonary Nodules," ATS 2006, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 3, abstracts issue, pg. A541, April 2006. |
| Marina Y. Dolina, Larisa V. Buyantseva, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Kongkuo Lu, Chris R. Cope, William E. Higgins, Rickhesvar Mahraj, Milos Tucakovic, and Rebecca Bascom |
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"Virtual-Bronchoscopic Analysis of Peripheral Nodules," ATS 2006, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 3, abstracts issue, pg. A539, April 2006. |
| William E. Higgins, Kongkuo Lu, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Kun-Chang Yu, Jason D. Gibbs, Marina Dolina, Jen W. Toth, Milos Tucakovic, Larisa V. Buyantseva, and Rebecca Bascom |
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"Real-Time Image-Based Guidance of Mediastinal Lymph-Node Biopsy," ATS 2006, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, vol. 3, abstracts issue, pg. A609, April 2006. |
| William E. Higgins, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Kongkuo Lu, Kun-Chang Yu, Rickhesvar P. Mahraj, Jen W. Toth, Milos Tucakovic, Larisa V. Buyantseva, and Rebecca Bascom |
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"Optimal Graph-Theoretic Approach to 3D Anatomical Tree Matching," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 109-112, April 2006, doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624864 |
| Michael Graham and William E. Higgins | |
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"Improved 3D Live-Wire Method with Application to 3D CT Chest Image Analysis," SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, J.M. Reinhardt and J.P.W. Pluim, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6144, pp 189-203, Feb. 2006, doi: 10.1117/12.651723 |
| Kong-Kuo Lu and William E. Higgins | |
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"Globally Optimal Model-Based Matching of Anatomical Trees," SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, J.M. Reinhardt and J.P.W. Pluim, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6144, pp 373-388, Feb. 2006, doi: 10.1117/12.651719 |
| Michael Graham and William E. Higgins | |
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"Real-Time CT-Video Registration for Continuous Endoscopic Guidance," SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, A. Manduca and A.A. Amini, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6143, pp. 370-384, Feb. 2006, doi: 10.1117/12.651695 |
| Scott Merritt, Lav Rai, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Based Rendering Method for Mapping Endoscopic Video Onto CT-Based Endoluminal Views," SPIE Medical Imaging 2006: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, K.R. Cleary and R.L. Galloway Jr., eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6141, pp. 1-12, Feb. 2006, doi: 10.1117/12.651717 |
| Lav Rai and William E. Higgins | |
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"Exact Depth-based Thin-Slab Visualization for 3D MDCT Analysis," Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) 2005, Nov. 2005. |
| William E. Higgins, Janice Turlington, Scott A. Merritt, Lav Rai, Kongkuo Lu, and Kun-Chang Yu |
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"System for 3D Visualization and Data Mining of Large Vascular Trees," SPIE Optics East 2005: Three-Dimensional TV, Video, and Display IV, B. Javidi, F. Okano, and J. Son, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6016, pp. 60160B-1 - 60160B-15, Nov. 2005 |
| Kun-Chang Yu, Erik L. Ritman, William E. Higgins | |
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"3D Image Fusion and Guidance for Computer-Assisted Bronchoscopy," SPIE Optics East 2005: Three-Dimensional TV, Video, and Display IV, B. Javidi, F. Okano, and J. Son, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 6016, pp. 60160A-1 - 60160A-15, Nov. 2005, doi: 10.1117/12.629909 |
| William E. Higgins, Lav Rai, Scott A. Merritt, Kong-Kuo Lu, Nicholas T. Linger, and Kun-Chang Yu | |
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"System for Live Virtual-Endoscopic Guidance of Bronchoscopy," IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005: Workshop on Vision for Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 68-75, vol. 3, June 2005. |
| James P. Helferty, Anthony J. Sherbondy, Atilla P. Kiraly, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Bronchoscopy for Quantitative Airway Analysis,'' SPIE Medical Imaging 2005: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, A. Amini and A. Manduca, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 5746, Feb, 2005. |
| Atilla P. Kiraly, Joseph M. Reinhardt, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and William E. Higgins | |
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Chapter 10.3, "Cardiac Image Processing,'' for The Image and Video Processing Handbook, 2nd. Edition, A.C. Bovik, Ed., pp. 1175-1194, Academic Press, 2005. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Introduction to the Special Issue on Virtual Endoscopy,"IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging,,vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1333-1334, Nov. 2004. |
| Jerome Liang, William E. Higgins, Ronald M. Summers and Hiro Yoshida, guest editors. | |
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"3D Path Planning for Virtual Bronchoscopy," invited paper, for the Special Issue on Virtual Endoscopy, vol. 23, no. 11, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Nov. 2004. |
| Attila P. Kiraly, James P. Helferty, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and William E. Higgins | |
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"CT-Video Registration Accuracy for Virtual Guidance of Bronchoscopy,'' SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, A. Amini and A. Manduca, eds, SPIE Proceedings vol. 5369. |
| James P. Helferty, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Graphical Tools for Accurate Definition of 3D Arterial Trees,'' SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, vol. 5369, A. Amini and A. Manduca, eds. |
| K.C. Yu, E.L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Three Dimensional True Color Topographical Analysis of the Pulmonary Airways,'' SPIE Medical Imaging 2004: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, vol. 5369, A. Amini and A. Manduca, eds. |
| Melissa Suter, Joseph Reinhardt, Milan Sonka, William Higgins, Eric Hoffman, and Geoffrey McLennan | |
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"3D Model-Based Vasculature Analysis Using Differential Geometry," IEEE Int. Symp. on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 177-180, Arlington, VA, 15-18 April 2004. |
| Kun-Chang Yu, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Symmetric Region Growing," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1007-1015, September 2003. |
| Shu-Yen Wan and William E. Higgins | |
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"Progress Toward Virtual-Bronchoscopic Guidance of Peripheral Nodule Biopsy," Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care, May 2003. |
| William Higgins, Scott Ferguson, Karl Thomas, James Helferty, Atilla Kiraly, Anthony Sherbondy, Janice Turlington, Eric Hoffman, and Geoffrey McLennan | |
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"Toward Reliable Multi-Generational Analysis of Anatomical Trees in 3D High-Resolution CT Images," in SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: Physiology and Function --- Methods, Systems, and Applications, SPIE Proc. vol. 5031, A. Clough and A. Amini, eds., pp. 178-186. |
| K.C. Yu, E.L. Ritman, A.P. Kiraly, S.W. Wan, Mair Zamir, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Integrated Bronchoscopic Video Tracking and 3D CT Registration for Virtual Bronchoscopy," in SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: Physiology and Function --- Methods, Systems, and Applications, SPIE Proc. vol. 5031, A. Clough and A. Amini, eds., pp. 80-89. |
| William E. Higgins, James P. Helferty, and Dirk R. Padfield | |
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"Live Guidance of Mediastinal Lymph Node Biopsy Using Virtual Bronchoscopy," Radiology, vol. 225(P), pp. 147-147, Nov. 2002. |
| William E. Higgins, James P. Helferty, Atilla P. Kiraly, Janice Z Turlington, Anthony J. Sherbondy, Eric A. Hoffman, and Geoffrey McLennan | |
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"3D Human Airway Segmentation Methods for Virtual Bronchoscopy," Academic Radiology, vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 1153-1168, Oct. 2002. |
| A. Kiraly, W. Higgins, E. Hoffman, G. McLennan, and J. Reinhardt | |
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"Analysis of Branching Tubular Structures in 3D Digital Images," IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, 22-25 Sept. 2002. |
| Atilla P. Kiraly and William E. Higgins | |
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"Combined Endoscopic Video Tracking and Virtual 3D CT Registration for Surgical Guidance," IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing, pp. II-961 --- II-964, Rochester, NY, 22-25 Sept. 2002. |
| James P. Helferty and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Axes-Generation for Virtual Bronchoscopic Assessment of Major Airway Obstructions,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics,vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 103-118, March-April 2002. |
| R.D. Swift, A.P. Kiraly, A.J. Sherbondy, A.L. Austin, E.A. Hoffman, G. McLennan, and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Image Guidance of Mediastinal Lymph Node Fine Needle Biopsy," Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care,vol. 165, no. 8, pp. A142-A142, April 2002. |
| Karl Thomas, James Helferty, William Higgins, Eric Hoffman, Scott Ferguson, Angela Delsing, Janice Cook-Granroth, Kurt Wolf, Atilla Kiraly, and Geoffrey McLennan | |
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"Virtual Endoscopic Guidance for the Management of Major Airway Obstruction," Am. J. Respiratory and Critical Care, vol. 165, no. 8, pp. A142-A142, April 2002. |
| Scott Ferguson, James Helferty, William Higgins, Eric Hoffman, Joseph Reinhardt, Karl Thomas, Angela Delsing, Janice Cook-Granroth, Allan Ross, Kurt Wolf, Janice Turlington, and Geoffrey McLenna | |
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"3D Human Airway Segmentation for Virtual Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, SPIE Proceedings vol. 4683, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., pp. 16-29. |
| Atilla P. Kiraly, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, William E. Higgins, and Joseph M. Reinhardt | |
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"Dynamic Depth-Based Techniques for Sliding Thin-Slab Volume Visualization: Demonstration with Multi-Slice Spiral CT of the Chest," Radiology, vol. 221(P), pp. 355-356, Nov. 2001. |
| J. Z Turlington, B.F. Mullan, E.A. Hoffman, G. McLennan, and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Use of Integrated Virtual Bronchoscopic Analysis During Live Bronchoscopy," Radiology, vol. 221(P), pp. 719-719, Nov. 2001. |
| W.E. Higgins, A.P. Kiraly, A.J. Sherbondy, J. Z Turlington, E.A. Hoffman, and G. McLennan | |
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"Technique for Registering 3D Virtual CT Images to Endoscopic Video," 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, vol. II, pp. 893-896, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-10 October 2001. |
| James P. Helferty and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Image-Guided Endoscopy for Lung-Cancer Assessment," 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, vol. II, pp. 307-310, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-10 October 2001. |
| James P. Helferty, Anthony J. Sherbondy, Atilla P. Kiraly, Janice Z Turlington, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Multi-Generational Analysis and Visualization of the Vascular Tree in 3D Micro-CT Images," submitted 13 July 2001, accepted 10 Sept. 2001, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol.32, no. 2, pp. 55 71, Feb. 2002. |
| Shu-Yen Wan, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Multigenerational Analysis and Visualization of Large 3D Vascular Images," SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing, SPIE Proceedings vol. 4322, Milan Sonka and Kenneth Hanson, Eds. |
| Shu-Yen Wan, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"New Techniques for Efficient Sliding Thin-Slab Volume Visualization," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 823-835, August 2001. |
| Janice Z Turlington and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Videoendoscopic Distortion Correction and its Application to Virtual Guidance of Endoscopy," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, pp. 605-617, vol. 20, no. 7, July 2001. |
| James P. Helferty, Chao Zhang, Geoffrey McLennan, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Experiments in Virtual Endoscopic Guidance of Bronchoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, SPIE Proceedings vol. 4321, pp. 111-121, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds. |
| James P. Helferty, Anthony J. Sherbondy, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and William E. Higgins | |
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Book Chapter on "Pulmonary Imaging and Analysis," for Handbook of Medical Imaging, vol. 2, M. Sonka and J.M. Fitzpatrick, eds, pp. 1005-1060. |
| J. Reinhardt, R. Uppaluri, W. Higgins, and E. Hoffman | |
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"Virtual Bronchoscopy for 3D CT Assessment and Endoscopic Guidance," infoRAD2000, Radiology, vol. 217(P), pp. 706-706, Nov. 2000. |
| W.E. Higgins, A.J. Sherbondy, J.P. Helferty, A.P. Kiraly, G. McLennan, E.A. Hoffman, J. Z Turlington | |
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Chapter 10.3, "Cardiac Image Processing," for The Image and Video Processing Handbook, A.C. Bovik, ed., pp. 789-804 and C-46 -- C-51, Academic Press, 2000. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Exploration of Extracted Geometrical Information from 3D Vascular Images," winner, Best Paper Award, Medical Informatics Symposium in Taiwan 2000 (MIST2000), pp. 181-185, 26-29 October 2000. |
| Shu-Yen Wan, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Nonlinear Distortion Correction in Endoscopic Video Images," 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, pp. II-439 -- II-442, Vancouver, BC, 10-13 September 2000. |
| Chao Zhang, James P. Helferty, Geoffrey McLennan, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Symmetric Region Growing," 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, pp. II-96 -- II-99, Vancouver, BC, 10-13 September 2000. |
| Shu-Yen Wan and William E. Higgins | |
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"Extraction of the Hepatic Vasculature in Rats using 3D Micro-CT Images," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 964-971, Sept. 2000. |
| Shu-Yen Wan, Atilla P. Kiraly, Erik L. Ritman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Bronchoscopic Approach for Combining 3D CT and Endoscopic Video," in SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3978, 2000 |
| Anthony J. Sherbondy, Atilla P. Kiraly, Allen L. Austin, James P. Helferty, Shu-Yen Wan Janice Z Turlington, Tao Yang, Chao Zhang, Eric A. Hoffman, Geoffrey McLennan, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"(New) Improved Techniques for Fast Sliding Thin-Slab Volume Visualization," in SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Image Display and Visualization, S. K. Mun, editor, SPIE Proceedings vol. 3976, 2000 |
| Janice Z Turlington and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Heterogeneity of Coronary Arterial Branching Geometry," SPIE Medical Imaging 2000: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3978, 515-520, 2000. |
| Shu-Yen Wan, Patricia E. Lund, Denise A. Reyes, Catherine A. Seaman, William E. Higgins, and Erik L. Ritman | |
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"4D Analysis of Cardiac Image Sequences," in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on analysis of volumetric images, vol. 77, pp 251-262, Feb. 2000. |
| J.M. Reinhardt, A.J. Wang, T.P. Weldon, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Designing Multiple Gabor Filters for Segmenting Multi-textured Images," Optical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 1478-1489, Sept. 1999 |
T.P. Weldon and W.E. Higgins |
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"Extraction and Analysis of Large Vascular Networks in 3D Micro-CT Images," in SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3660, pp 322-334, 1999. |
| S. Wan, E. L. Ritman, and W. E. Higgins | |
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"Dynamic Template-Based Method for 3D Virtual-endoscopy Exploration,'' Optical Engineering, 1999. |
M.L. Brady, K. Ramaswamy, R. Srinivasan, and W.E. Higgins |
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"Interactive Dynamic Navigation for Virtual Endoscopy,'' Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 303-331, 1999. |
| K. Ramaswamy and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Virtual Bronchoscopic Assessment of Major-Airway Obstructions,'' in SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3660, 1999. |
| G. McLennan, E.A. Hoffman, R.D. Swift, and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Template-Based Approach for Virtual-Endoscopic Navigation,'' in SPIE Medical Imaging 1999: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, A. Clough and C.T. Chen, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3660, 1999. |
| M.L. Brady, W.E. Higgins, and K. Ramaswamy | |
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"Watershed-based Maximum-homogeneity Filtering," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 982-988, July 1999. |
M.W. Hansen and W.E. Higgins |
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"An Algorithm for Designing Multiple Gabor Filters for Segmenting Multi-Textured Images," 1998 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Chicago, IL, 4-7 October 1998. |
| T.P. Weldon and W.E. Higgins | |
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"A Virtual-Endoscopic System for Interactive Navigation and Detailed Quantitation," invited paper, Radiographics, May 1998. |
| W.E. Higgins, K. Ramaswamy, G. McLennan, E.A. Hoffman, and R. D. Swift | |
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Presentation: Virtual Bronchoscopy for 3D Pulmonary Image Assessment |
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"Automatic Axis Generation for 3D Virtual-Bronchoscopic Image Assessment," SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, E. Hoffman, ed., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3337, 1998. |
| R. D. Swift, W.E. Higgins, E.A. Hoffman, G. McLennan, and J.M. Reinhardt | |
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"Coherence-Based Dynamic Navigation for Virtual Endoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging 1998: Image Display, Y. Kim and S.K. Mun, eds., SPIE Proceedings vol. 3335, 1998. |
| K. Ramaswamy and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Strategy for Shape-based Image analysis," Optical Engineering, vol. 37, no. 2, Feb. 1998. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Image Analysis for Efficient Virtual-Bronchoscopic Assessment," Radiology, vol. 205 (P), pp. 358-358, Nov. 1997. |
| W.E. Higgins, E.A. Hoffman, G. McLennan, R. D. Swift, and J.M. Reinhardt | |
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"Quantitative and Visual Approach to CT-Based Virtual Bronchoscopic Exploration," Radiology, vol. 205 (P), pp. 691-691, Nov. 1997. |
| E.A. Hoffman, W.E. Higgins, G. McLennan, R. D. Swift, and J.M. Reinhardt | |
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"Adaptive Axes-Generation Algorithm for 3D Tubular Structures," 1997 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, vol. II, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 136-139, 26-29 Oct. 1997. |
| R. D. Swift, K. Ramaswamy, and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Relaxation Methods for Supervised Image Segmentation," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 949-962, Sept. 1997. |
| M.W. Hansen and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Distributed System for Processing 3D Medical Images," Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 97-116, March/April 1997. |
| W.E. Higgins and R. D. Swift | |
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"Extracting Halftones From Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis," Optical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1044-1052, April 1997. |
| D.F. Dunn, T.P. Weldon, and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Efficient Gabor-Filter Design for Texture Segmentation," Pattern Recognition, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 2005-2016Dec. 1996. |
| Tom Weldon, William E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn | |
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"QUICKSEE: A Virtual-Endoscopic System for Interactive Navigation and Detailed Quantitation," presented at RSNA infoRAD '96, Radiology, vol. 201 (P), pg. 552, Nov. 1996. |
W.E. Higgins, K. Ramaswamy, G. McLennan, E.A. Hoffman, and R. D. Swift |
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"Gabor Filter Design for Multiple Texture Segmentation," Optical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 2852-2863, October 1996. |
| Tom Weldon, William E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn | |
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"Extracting Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis," 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland, vol. II, pp. 225-228, 16-19 Sept. 1996. |
| D. F. Dunn, Tom Weldon,and William E. Higgins | |
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"Integrated Approach to Texture Segmentation Using Multiple Gabor Filters," 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing Lausanne, Switzerland, vol. II, pp. 225-228, 16-19 Sept. 1996. |
| Tom Weldon and William E. Higgins | |
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"Methods for 3D Cardiopulmonary Image Analysis," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 24, suppl. 1, pg. S65, Sept.-Oct. 1996. |
| P. Americus, R. Boreda, W.E. Higgins, K. Ramaswamy, and R.D. Swift | |
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"Comparison Between the Morphological Skeleton and Morphological Shape Decomposition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 951-957, Sept. 1996. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Nonlinear Filtering Approach to 3D Grayscale Image interpolation," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 4, August 1996. |
| W.E. Higgins, C. Orlick, and B.E. Ledell | |
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"System for Analyzing True Three-Dimensional Angiograms," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 377-385, June 1996. |
| W.E. Higgins, R.A. Karwoski, W.J.T. Spyra, and E.L. Ritman | |
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"Design of Multiple Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation," IEEE 1996 Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Atlanta, GA, 7-10 May 1996. |
| Tom Weldon and William E. Higgins | |
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"Endoscopic Exploration and Measurement in 3D Radiological Images," SPIE Conf. Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing, vol. 2710, Newport Beach, CA, pp. 511-523, Feb. 1996. |
| Krishnan Ramaswamy and William E. Higgins | |
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Presentation: Virtual Bronchoscopy for 3D Pulmonary Image Assessment |
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"Semi-Automatic 4D Analysis of Cardiac Image Sequences," SPIE Medical Imaging 1996: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, Newport Beach, CA, vol. 2709, pp. 359-372, 11-13 Feb. 1996. |
| William E. Higgins, Andrien J. Wang, and Joseph M. Reinhardt | |
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"Distributed System for Processing Multidimensional Radiological Images," SPIE Conf. Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing , vol. 2710, Newport Beach, CA, pp. 869-879, Feb. 1996. |
| William E. Higgins and Roderick D. Swift | |
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"Efficient Morphological Shape Representation," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 89-101, Jan. 1996. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Interactive Navigation Inside 3D Radiological Images," Proc. 1995 BioMedical Visualization, IEEE Visualization 1995 , Atlanta, GA, pp. 33-40 and p. 85 (color plate),Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 1995. |
| Martin L. Brady, William E. Higgins, Krishnan Ramaswamy, and R. Srinivasan | |
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Presentation: Virtual Bronchoscopy for 3D Pulmonary Image Assessment |
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"Look But Don't Touch: Penn State Developing Virtual Endoscopy," UniScience News Net, Focus article #108, 23 October 1995. |
| G.B. Marsella | |
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"Image Enhancement Using Watershed-Based Maximum Homogeneity Filtering," 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, pp. 482-485, 22-25 Oct. 1995, Washington, D.C. |
| M.W. Hansen and W.E. Higgins | |
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"New Software Lets Doctors Zoom in on Problem Spots," Biophotonics International, vol. 2, no. 5, pg. 22, Sept.-Oct. 1995 |
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"Strategy for Shape-Based Image Analysis," 1995 IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, pp. 502-505, 22-25 Oct. 1995, Washington, D.C. |
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"IMPROMPTU: A System for Automatic 3D Medical Image Analysis," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 131-143, Jan.-Feb. 1995. |
| Gopal Sundaramoorthy, John D. Hoford, Eric A. Hoffman, and William E. Higgins | |
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"Automatic Generation of Image-Segmentation Processes," First IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Austin, TX, pp. 791-795, 13-16 November 1994. |
| J.M. Reinhardt and W.E. Higgins | |
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"Toward Dynamic Visualization for Endoscopy Simulation," Proc. 16th IEEE EMBS Conference , vol. 1, Baltimore, MD, pp. 700-701, Nov. 3-5, 1994 |
| William E. Higgins and Krishnan Ramaswamy | |
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"Automatic Construction of 3D Medical Image-Segmentation Processes," Visualization in Biomedical Computing 1994, SPIE Proceedings vol. 2359, Rochester, MN, pp. 59-71, 4-7 October 1994. |
| W.E. Higgins, J.M. Reinhardt, and W.L. Sharp | |
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"A Graphical User Interface System for 3D Medical Image Analysis," SPIE Medical Imaging `94 -- Image Capture, Formatting, and Display, Newport Beach, CA, pp. 95-106, 13-18 February 1994. |
| W.E. Higgins, W.L. Sharp, M.W. Hansen, and J.M. Reinhardt | |
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"Texture Boundary Classification using 2-D Gabor Elementary Functions," IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 130-149, Feb. 1994. |
| D. Dunn, W. E. Higgins, and J. Wakeley | |
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"Edge Detection Using Two-Dimensional Local Structure Information," Pattern Recognition, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 277-294, Feb. 1994. |
| W.E. Higgins and C. Hsu | |
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"Shape-Based Interpolation of Thin Structures in Three-Dimensional Images," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, pp. 439{--}450, vol. 12, no. 3, Sept. 1993. |
| W.E. Higgins, C. Morice, and E.L. Ritman | |
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"4D Morphological Processing of Cardiac Image Sequences," 15th Annual Int. Conf. IEEE Engin. Medicine Biology Soc., San Diego, CA, pp. 136-137, 28-31 Oct. 1993. |
| W.E. Higgins and J. Lee | |
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"Interactive Morphological Watershed Analysis for 3D Medical Images," Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Special Issue on 3D Advanced Image Processing in Medicine, vol. 17, no. 4-5, pp. 387-396, July-Oct. 1993. |
| W.E. Higgins and E.J. Ojard | |