Computational anatomy and computational physiology for medical image analysis

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas Ayache

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Director, Epidaure/Asclepios Laboratory, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • CVBIA'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Medical image analysis brings about a revolution to the medicine of the 21st century, introducing a collection of powerful new tools designed to better assist the clinical diagnosis and to model, simulate, and guide more efficiently the patient’s therapy. A new discipline has emerged in computer science, closely related to others like computer vision, computer graphics, artificial intelligence and robotics. In this talk, I will describe the increasing role of computational models of anatomy and physiology to guide the interpretation of complex series of medical images, and illustrate my presentation with three applications: the modeling and analysis of 1) brain variability from a large database of cerebral images, 2) tumor growth in the brain and 3) heart function from a combined exploitation of cardiac images and electrophysiology. I will conclude with a presentation of some promising trends, including the analysis of in vivo microscopic images.