PDE and Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery
PDE & Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static & Motion Imagery is specially dedicated to the segmentation of complex shapes from the field of imaging sciences using level sets and PDEs. It covers the fundamentals of level sets, different kind
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TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL BOOK SERIES Series Editor: Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering: Signal Processing and Physiological Systems Modeling Suresh R. Devasahayam Models of the Visual System Edited by George K. Hung and Kenneth J. Ciuffreda PDE and Level Sets: Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery Edited by Jasjit S. Suri and Swamy Laxminarayan
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PDE AND LEVEL SETS Algorithmic Approaches to Static and Motion Imagery Edited by
Jasjit S. Suri, Ph.D. Philips Medical Systems, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio, USA and
Swamy Laxminarayan, Ph.D. New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Jasjit Suri would like to dedicate this book to his parents and especially to his late mother for her immortal softness and encouragements. Swamy Laxminarayan would like to dedicate this book to his late sister, Ramaa, whose death at the tender age of 16 inspired his long career in biomedical engineering.
Contributors
Jasjit S. Suri, Ph.D.
Philips Medical Systems, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Jianbo Gao, Ph.D. Jun Zhang, Ph.D.
KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, California, USA University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Weison Liu, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Alessandro Sarti, Ph.D. Xioaping Shen, Ph.D. Laura Reden, B.S. David Chopp, Ph.D.
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy University of California, Davis, California, USA
Philips Medical Systems, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, USA Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Swamy Laxminarayan, Ph.D. sey, USA
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jer-
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The Editors
Dr. Jasjit S. Suri received his B.S. in computer engineering with distinction from MACT, Bhopal, M.S. in computer sciences from the University of Illinois, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has been working in the field of computer engineering/imaging sciences for more than 18 years, and has published more than 85 papers on image processing. He is a lifetime member of various research engineering societies, including Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, the New York Aca
