Curve and Shape Extraction with Minimal Path and Level-Sets techniques. Applications to 3D Medical Imaging.
Since I defended my Ph.D. dissertation in December 2001, I feel sorry to release only now (march 2002) my manuscript, especially toward those who asked for it months ago. Anyway I would like to thank them for the interest they expressed in my research.
The introduction, the conclusion, and the abstract of each chapter are in French, but the core is in English. Reasons are either that I found it more convenient to make it available to a larger community (even if I do not expect to make it a best-seller...), and that several members of my jury were not French native speakers.
My English practise is far from perfect, therefore I would like to warn every potential reader that it may include language mistakes. Anyway I hope you'll enjoy my literature.
There is now an html version of my manuscript that you can find at http://math.lbl.gov/~deschamp/latex2html/phdthesis/index.html.
It is a first draft and I will soon arrange it to make it fancier.
Check the bibtex entry.
You can either download the complete manuscript in PDF here (the postscript version is 90M...), or you can choose to download each part separately
| Part I | Path Extraction | part1.pdf (5.3M) |
| Part II | Shape Extraction | part2.pdf (6.6M) |
| Part III | Visualization and quantification of anatomical tree structures | part3.pdf (7.4M) |
or you can download each chapter at a time:
| chapter 0 | Introduction | intro.pdf (100k) |
| chapter 1 | Minimal Paths in Image Processing | chapter1.pdf (1.5M) |
| chapter 2 | Path extraction techniques based on the Fast-Marching algorithm | chapter2.pdf (825k) |
| chapter 3 | Application to Virtual Endoscopy and to Several Problems in Medical Imaging | chapter3.pdf (3.1M) |
| chapter 4 | Deformable Models for Surface Extraction in Medical Imaging | chapter4.pdf (2M) |
| chapter 5 | Several Segmentation Techniques involving Level-Sets and Fast-Marching | chapter5.pdf (1.5M) |
| chapter 6 | Applications of Level-Sets and Fast-Marching shape extraction framework | chapter6.pdf (3.2M) |
| chapter 7 | Visualization and Quantification Tools | chapter7.pdf (3.4M) |
| chapter 8 | Tree Extraction framework | chapter8.pdf (1.7M) |
| chapter 9 | Application to segmentation and visualization of tree structures | chapter9.pdf (2.2M) |
| chapter 10 | Conclusion | conclusion.pdf (170k) |
For those who are interested by the beautiful illustrations that Helene Sellier allowed me to include in my Ph.D. dissertation, at the beginning of each part, you can find the illustrations here.