Normalization of Magnetic Resonance Images and its Application to the Diagnosis of the Scoliotic Spine Abstract Due to its excellent soft tissue contrast and novel innovative acquisition sequences, Magnetic Resonance Imaging has become one of the most popular imaging modalities in health c...

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Probabilistic Modeling for Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images of the Human Brain Abstract This thesis deals with the fully automatic generation of semantic annotations for medical imaging data by means of medical image segmentation and labeling. In particular, we focus on the segmenta...

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Application of Pattern Recognition Methods in Biomechanics (external: University of Calgary, Canada) Abstract Biomechanical studies often attempt to identify differences between groups. Several scientific methods are available for identifying such differences. Traditional methods often foc...

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Adaptive Filtering for Noise Reduction in X-Ray Computed Tomography Abstract The projection data measured in computed tomography (CT) and, consequently, the slices reconstructed from these data are noisy. This thesis investigates methods for structure preserving noise reduction in reconstruc...

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One-to-one Edge Based Registration and Segmentation Based Validations in Hybrid Imaging Abstract During the past decade, image registration has become an essential tool for medical treatment in clinics, by finding the spatial mapping between two images, observing the changes of anatomical st...

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Statistical Medical Image Registration with Applications in Epilepsy Diagnosis and Shape-Based Segmentation Abstract: The advances in scanner technologies over the past years and a growing number of modalities in medical imaging result in an increased amount of patient data. The physicians a...

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Cardiac C-Arm Computed Tomography: Motion Estimation and Dynamic Reconstruction Abstract Generating three dimensional images of the heart during interventional procedures is a significant challenge. In addition to real-time fluoroscopy, angiographic C-arm systems can also be used to generate...

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Speech of children with Cleft Lip and Palate: Automatic Assessment Abstract This work investigates the use of automatic speech processing techniques for the automatic assessment of children’s speech disorders. The target group were children with cleft lip and palate (CLP). The speech process...

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