Content-Based Image Retrieval
Prof. Adrien Depeursinge will give an invited talk at the GdR Information Signal Image Vision (ISIS) meeting in Paris.
The meeting will take place the 23 and 24 june 2015 at the Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France. The title of the ‘Texture-Based Computational Models of Tissue in Biomedical Images: Initial Experience With Digital Histopathology’
The paper ‘Anaplastic Medulloblastoma tumor differentiation by combining Unsupervised Feature Learning and Riesz wavelets for histopathology image representation’ by Sebastian Otálora et al. was accepted at the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) 2015.
The conference will take place from October 5th to 9th 2015 in Munich Germany.
This and other publications can be found at our Publications webpage.
The paper ‘User-oriented evaluation of a medical image retrieval system for radiologists’ by Dimitrios Markonis et al. can now be found online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505615000829
The paper ‘Comparing image search behaviour in the ARRS GoldMiner search engine and a clinical PACS/RIS’ by Maria De-Arteaga et al. can now be found online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046415000878. You can access this paper free for a limited time in the following link: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1R9v05SMDQM7Kk
All MedGIFT publications can be found at our publication webpage.
Four papers from the medGIFT group were accepted at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 2015. The conference will take place in Milan, Italy August 25-29 2015.
The accepted papers are the following:
The article ‘Specialist imaging search tool shows promise‘ published by the website AuntMinnieEurope refered to the Khresmoi system and its ‘high degree of accuracy for finding images and cases’.
The complete article can be found here.
Adrien Depeursinge is co-organizing a tutorial at MICCAI 2015 on Biomedical Texture Analysis with J Ross Mitchell from Mayo Clinic. The tutorial will take place October 5th, in Munich, Germany.
Here is the outline of the tutorial:
Texture-based imaging biomarkers complement focal, invasive biopsy based biomarkers by providing information on tissue structure over broad regions, non-invasively, and repeatedly across multiple time points. Texture has been used to predict patient survival, tissue function, disease subtypes and genomics (imagenomics and radiogenomics). Nevertheless, several challenges remain, such as: the lack of an appropriate framework for multi-scale, multi-spectral analysis in 2D and 3D; localization of the uncertainty of texture operators; validation; and, translation to routine clinical applications.
Prof. Henning Müller participated in the discussion ‘Health Apps – Opportunity or Risk?’ from santemedia.ch:
‘Health apps and wearables manage personal health and affect the behavior of the users. The interest in health data is large. Users usually don’t know what happens to their data. Who determines who is allowed to see or use the data? Are there guidelines for providers? What users need to pay attention in health apps? What is happening to our health service?
Staying with David Staudenmann are next to Dr. med. Urs Stoffel, Member of Corporate Executive Medical Association FMH Prof. Henning Müller, e-health expert and FH lecturer at the Institute of computer science, HES-SO Valais Wallis and Dr. iur. Michael Isler, lawyer, Walder Wyss AG Zurich.’
The medGIFT group was present in this year’s International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI): From Nano to Macro 2015 in New York, USA. The symposium took place from the 16 to 19 April 2015.
The poster ‘Optimal wavelet bandwidth for rotation-covariant texture analysis of lung tissue in 3-D CT: Classification of usual interstitial pneumonia’ by Adrien Depeursinge et al. was presented during the ISBI poster session.
Two papers were presented at the VISCERAL Grand Challenge workshop: ‘Efficient and fully automatic segmentation of the lungs in CT volumes’ by Yashin Dicente Cid et al. and ‘Hierarchic Anatomical Structure Segmentation Guided by Spatial Correlations (AnatSeg-Gspac): VISCERAL Anatomy3’ by Oscar A. Jiménez del Toro et al.
The MedGIFT group presented two papers at the Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain (MRMD) 2015 workshop. The workshop was held as part of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2015 in Vienna, Austria the 29th March 2015.
The presented papers are:
The Radio Rottu Oberwallis station interviewed Prof. Henning Müller and Ivan Eggel and published the note in their website: http://www.rro.ch/cms/das-institut-wirtschaftsinformatik-an-der-hes-so-valais-wallis-beteiligt-sich-an-anwendungsorientierten-forschungsprojekten-so-auch-im-gesundheitsbereich-77526
Shangri-La is a web-based interface for medical case-based retrieval.
The web interface can be accessed in the link http://shangrila.khresmoi.eu/
Alba García Seco de Herrera presented her PhD work at the National Library of Medicine, in Bethesda, United States. Her thesis’ title is ‘Use-Case Oriented Medical Visual Information Retrieval & System Evaluation’.
She will present her thesis defence in April 2015.
The paper ‘Applying Machine Learning to Gait Analysis Data for Disease Identification’ by Ranveer Joyseeree et al. has been accepted for a presentation at Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2015.
The MIE 2015 will take place 27-29th May 2015 in Madrid, Spain.
The paper ‘Medical case-based retrieval: integrating query MeSH terms for query-adaptive multi-modal fusion’ by Alba García Seco de Herrera et al. was among the finalists for the Robert F. Wagner Best Student Paper Award.
The award was given during the SPIE 2015 Medical Imaging Conference for the best paper in the category PACS and Imaging Informatics: Next Generation and Innovations
Three oral presentations and a poster paper were presented at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2015 in Orlando, Florida, United States.
The presented papers are:
Alba García Seco de Herrera et al. ‘Medical case-based retrieval: integrating query MeSH terms for query-adaptive multi-modal fusion’
Oscar Jiménez et al. ‘Texture classification of anatomical structures using a context-free machine learning approach’
Ranveer Joyseeree et al. ‘Locating seed points for automatic multi-organ segmentation using non-rigid registration and organ annotations’
Yashin Dicente Cid et al. ‘Pulmonary Embolism Detection using Localized Vessel-Based Features in Dual Energy CT’
These and other publications can be found in our publication webpage.
Prof. Henning Müller, Prof. Adrien Depeursinge and PhD Manfredo Atzori visited Idiap Research Institute at Martigny, Switzerland.
The oral presentation titled Medical visual information retrieval: techniques and evaluation can be seen at the Idiap website.
The publication ‘Electromyography data for non-invasive naturally-controlled robotic hand prostheses’ by Manfredo Atzori et al. has now been published. This research was conducted as part of the NinaPro project.
Both the data and the article can be found at the open-access Scientific Data publication from Nature.com.
Prof. Hening Müller participated as an invited speaker in the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2014 at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore.
Here is the forum’s objective:
The importance of reusable, large-scale standard test collections in Information Access research has been widely recognized. The success of TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR has clearly established the importance of an evaluation workshop that facilitates research by providing the data and a common forum for comparing models and techniques. The Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) follows in the footsteps of TREC, CLEF and NTCIR with the following aims:
An article about the VISCERAL project appeared in Research*EU magazine. The publication is available in the Issue 38 – December 2014/ January 2015.
The PhD defence of Dimitrios Markonis thesis took place 19th November, 2014. The thesis is titled: ‘User-oriented Medical Image Retrieval’.
Dimitrios’ publications can be found here.