53 research outputs found
GATE : a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT
Monte Carlo simulation is an essential tool in emission tomography that can
assist in the design of new medical imaging devices, the optimization of
acquisition protocols, and the development or assessment of image
reconstruction algorithms and correction techniques. GATE, the Geant4
Application for Tomographic Emission, encapsulates the Geant4 libraries to
achieve a modular, versatile, scripted simulation toolkit adapted to the field
of nuclear medicine. In particular, GATE allows the description of
time-dependent phenomena such as source or detector movement, and source decay
kinetics. This feature makes it possible to simulate time curves under
realistic acquisition conditions and to test dynamic reconstruction algorithms.
A public release of GATE licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
can be downloaded at the address http://www-lphe.epfl.ch/GATE/
Rapid Coarse-to-Fine Matching Using Scale-Specific Priors
The Gibbs priors with potential equal to the membrane deflection and thin plate bending energies are explored in the Bayesian approach to image matching. Their smoothness properties are qualitatively demonstrated in a matching task. The priors are further evaluated by comparing their effect on the atlas-based localization of several subcortical structures in MRI data. Results of the localization study indicate that the implementation based on the membrane prior assumed over a fine mesh outperforms, both in speed and accuracy of the anatomic labeling, a plate-based approach that uses a comparable number of unknowns. Keywords: Image matching, Bayesian analysis, smoothness constraints, anatomic atlases, cerebral anatomy 1. INTRODUCTION Given two related images in the sense that they represent instances of the same scene, the image matching operation determines the transformation that maps each point in one image into its corresponding point in the other. Such inferences are of interest..
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