Biomedical Image Analysis Tracking

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 techniques* Description of shape-based methods for biomedical image analysisRay, Nilanjan is the author of 'Biomedical Image Analysis Tracking', published 2006 under ISBN 9781598290189 and ISBN 1598290185.