Annotation Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking addresses methods for extracting image information from biological/medical images for use in tracking biological targets. Here, and in the forthcoming companion Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation (Morgan & Claypool, ISBN: 1598290207), the authors concentrate on aspects of image analysis rather than the modalities or the imaging process itself. This lecture will be a valuable resource for graduate students, faculty, and industrial/governmental researchers interested in applications of imaging, or more specifically, biomedical imaging. It is written from first principles and will be accessible to a broad readership. Key Features:?Methods for tracking using active contours, together with a discussion of selection of parameters and weights?Methods for implementing snakes by way of dynamic programming?Probabilistic methods for tracking, with a description of the Kalman filter?Coverage of factored sampling and Monte Carlo methods, including the newly emerging particle filter?A summary of important new advances in target tracking, including multi-target tracking techniquesDescription of shape-based methods for biomedical image analysis.
The sequel to the popular lecture book entitled Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, this book on Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting biological and medical images. The problem of partitioning multidimensional biomedical data into meaningful regions is perhaps the main roadblock in the automation of biomedical image analysis. Whether the modality of choice is MRI, PET, ultrasound, SPECT, CT, or one of a myriad of microscopy platforms, image segmentation is a vital step in analyzing the constituent biological or medical targets. This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive look at biomedical image segmentation that is accessible to well-equipped undergraduates, graduate students, and research professionals in the biology, biomedical, medical, and engineering fields. Active model methods that have emerged in the last few years are a focus of the book, including parametric active contour and active surface models, active shape models, and geometric active contours that adapt to the image topology. Additionally, Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation details attractive new methods that use graph theory in segmentation of biomedical imagery. Finally, the use of exciting new scale space tools in biomedical image analysis is reported. Table of Contents: Introduction / Parametric Active Contours / Active Contours in a Bayesian Framework / Geometric Active Contours / Segmentation with Graph Algorithms / Scale-Space Image Filtering for Segmentation
This book, first published in 1974, analyses the position of the Gypsies in Britain in the twentieth century, and assesses its significance in their overall history. Two dramatic shifts in Government policy towards the Gypsies are examined – in the 1880s and the 1960s – as are the changes in the stereotype of the ‘true Gypsy’. Dr Acton traces the developments of attitudes and economic conditions that gave rise to the 1970s increase in interest in Gypsies, and discusses the concomitant political and pressure group activity. He gives an account of the historical background to modern Gypsy politics; describes the postwar situation of the Gypsies in England and Wales, including pro-Gypsy pressure group activity up to 1965, and goes on to cover the campaigns of the Gypsy Council, including a sociological assessment of its work. He considers these aspects of Gypsy life in the light of modern sociological theory on minorities and race relations.
The pampered heiress to a plantation in South Carolina gives up everything to marry a Union officer and moves with him to Indiana during the last years of the Civil War.
She was born in the dry, wind-swept land of the West to a beautiful mother who loved her and a tall, green-eyed man who adored them both -- until the fateful day he sent them away. Educated in the East and married to young Dr. Samuel Greene, she hid a truth from the world that would change forever her place in it.Her ordinary life is threatened by the approaching Civil War as yet another escaped slave finds his way to her door, sent to "the Healing Woman" by an unknown farmer, a member of what became known as the Underground Railroad. Conflicted by her desire to protect her husband and her compassion for the slaves, Talitha Gardinier Greene must at last come to terms with who she chooses to be.
Part of Wayland's 'People Under Threat' series, this book describes the wealth of Romanichal culture and tradition, and explains why their way of life is under constant threat, as fewer and fewer places allow caravans to stop.
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