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The paper ‘Benefits of texture analysis of dual energy CT for computer-aided pulmonary embolism detection’ by Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez, Oscar Alfonso Jimenez del Toro, Alexandra Platon, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti, Henning Müller and Adrien Depeursinge has been accepted for publication. 

It will be presented in the 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’13) to be held in Osaka International Convention Center, in Osaka, Japan on July 3-7, 2013.

 

The reportage ‘Santé digitale: la HES-SO Valais en charge de projets qui changeront le quotidien des malades’ appear at Canal 9 in Switzerland. 

It includes an interview to Prof. Henning Müller about some of projects the MedGIFT group is involved in. The video is available at:

Santé digitale: la HES-SO Valais en charge de projets qui changeront le quotidien des malades

 

The Swiss national science foundation project: ‘Non-cardiogenic Pulmonary Hypertension: Diagnosis and Etiologic Assessment using 4D Analysis of Dual Enerry CT Images’ has been accepted. The project was proposed by Pierre-Alexandre Poletti with Henning Müller as co-proposer.

Prof. Henning Müller has been invited as a speaker at the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval. This event will take place in Girona (Spain) May 11-2013. 

The Keynote talk is called “Medical 3D data retrieval”:

Medical tomographic data is produced in enormous quantities and currently very little of the knowledge stored in past cases has been exploited as data is only used in the context of single patients. In difference to object retrieval, tomographic data represents solid texture and the texture variation inside objects is usually more important than shapes of structures. The presentation will describe methods for retrieval of solid medical 3D texture in several applications and ways to better exploit existing medical data. 

The VISCERAL challenge in medical images segmentation and retrieval will be presented that has the goal to bring medical 3Ddata analysis towards big data. Several terabytes of data will be made available to the scientific community to first identify important body parts and then retrieve similar cases for challenges that will be run inside the cloud. 

 

Ranveer Joyseeree has joined the Medgift group as a PhD candidate. He’ll be participating in the MD Paedigree project.

Welcome to him!

The Project ”MD Paedigree” is a clinically led project developing a model-driven data and workflow-based digital repository for personalised and predictive treatment in paediatrics.

The Medgift group is part of this european-funded project. 

The book ‘Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support’ is now available online. Prof. Henning Müller contributes as editor. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third MICCAI Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, MCBR-CBS 2012, held in Nice, France, in October 2012.
The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The papers are divided on several topics on image analysis of visual or multimodal medical data (X-ray, MRI, CT, echo videos, time series data), machine learning of disease correlations in visual or multimodal data, algorithms for indexing and retrieval of data from visual or multimodal medical databases, disease model-building and clinical decision support systems based on visual or multimodal analysis, algorithms for medical image retrieval or classification, systems of retrieval or classification using the ImageCLEF collection.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » 3D retrieval – computer-aided diagnosis – multimodality – spatiotemporal polynomials– visual search

Related subjects » Database Management & Information Retrieval – Image Processing – Software Engineering

‘Information Retrieval Meets Information Visualization’ book is now available online. It constitutes the outcome of the PROMISE Winter School 2012 and contains 11 invited lectures from the research domains information retrieval and information visualization. A large variety of subjects are covered, including hot topics such as crowdsourcing and social media.

The research domains information retrieval and information visualization have always been independent from each other. However, they have the potential to be mutually beneficial. With this in mind, a writer school was organized in Zinal, Switzerland, in January 2012, within the context of the EU-funded research project PROMISE (Participative Research Laboratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation).  PROMISE aims at advancing the experimental evaluation of complex multimedia and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, commercial entities, and communities who design, develop, employ, and improve such complex systems. The overall goal of PROMISE is to deliver a unified environment collecting data, knowledge, tools, and methodologies, and to help the user community involved in experimental evaluation.
Content Level » Research
Keywords » complex systems – evaluation – search context – user-oriented information retrieval –visual analytics
Related subjects » Database Management & Information Retrieval – HCI – Information Systems and Applications – Media Design

Tutorial videos for the Khresmoi 2D and 3D search system are available at our website. 

Khresmoi demos

The revised tutorial lectures from PROMISE Winter School 2012 are now available online by Springer. 

It can be found at this Springer link. It contains:

-Introduction to Information Visualisation.– Principles for Human-Centred Design of IR Interfaces.- Human-Computer Interaction View on Information Retrieval.- User-Oriented Information Retrieval.- User-Oriented Evaluation in IR.- Multimedia Information Retrieval in a Social Context.- TREC-Style.- Visual Analytics and Information Retrieval.- An Introduction to Crowdsourcing for Language and Multimedia Technology Research.- Medical (Visual) Information Retrieval.- Is Visualization Usable for Displaying Web Search Results in an Exploratory Search Context?.

The MedGift group stand at the CeBiT 2013 has changed to Stand No. D25, Hall 009.

Join us from 05 to 09 March at Hannover, Germany

The crowdsourcing experience ‘Crowdsourcing Oppotunities in Medical Imaging’ by Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez and Henning Müller has been published in an IEEE communication society letter.

It is available at http://committees.comsoc.org/mmc/e-news/E-Letter-January13.pdf

The paper ‘Rotation-covariant texture analysis of 4D dual-energy CT as an indicator of local pulmonary perfusion’ by Adrien Depeursinge, Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez, Alejandro Vargas, Dimitri Van de Ville, Alexandra Paton, Pierre-Alexandre Poletti and Henning Müller was accepted. It will be presented at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2013), San Francisco, USA.

The MedGift group will have a stand at the CeBIT 2013,  05 to 09 March at Hannover, Germany.

The name of the stand is “EU Language & Big Data Projects”. The stand will be at Hall 9, stand A 13. It will be in the context of the Khresmoi and PROMISE projects.

Review of the state of the art in Retrieval of High-Dimensional Visual Data by Antonio Foncubierta-Rodríguez to be published in Multimedia Tools and Applications

The manuscript ‘A Survey on Visual Information Search Behavior and Requirements of Radiologists’ by Dimitrios Markonis was accepted for publication. It will be published by the journal ‘Methods of Information in Medicine’, volume 51, issue 6, 2012. 

Prof. Henning Müller gave the presentation Information Access to Medical Image Data: from Big Data to Semantics – Academic and Commercial Challenges at the DBTA Workshop on Academic-Industrial Forms of Collaboration at the University of Lausanne.

The presentation introduced two EU funded projects called Khresmoi and Visceral and highlighted the collaborations of HES-SO with several companies in these projects and also with other Universities and institutions in Switzerland.  

 

Prof. H. Müller was guest editor together with A. Hanbury and N. Al Shorbaji in the Focus Theme  of  Methods of Information in Medicine journal.  The focus theme in this issue is Health Information Search Combining Text, Visual Information, and Knowledge Bases. 

This is a journal that has stressed, for more than 50 year, the methodology and scientific fundamentals of organizing, representing and analysing data, information and knowledge in biomedicine and health care. 

The Khresmoi project was presented by Prof. Dr. Henning Müller at the Forum the Ark last Thursday 29-nov-2012 at TechnoArk at Sierre, Switzerland.

To know more about the Khresmoi project go to www.khresmoi.eu

Two presentations from the MICCAI 2012 and ACM multimedia 2012 are now available at the HesSo website.

The presentation Retrieval of 4D Dual Energy CT for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis was presented in the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention held October 2012 in Nice, France.

The presentation Ground truth generation in medical imaging: a crowdsourcing-based iterative approach was presented in the Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia ACM multimedia held November 2012 in Nara, Japan