2015 Summer Project Week:BigDataFeatures

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Matthew Toews, École de Technologie Supérieure
• William Wells, BWH, Harvard Medical School
• Tina Kapur, BWH, Harvard Medical School

Project Description

Objective

• This project will investigate the use of 3D SIFT-RANK image features for organizing and deriving information from 3D medical image volumes.
• Technology: invariant feature extraction, descriptor representation.
• Application domains: registration, segmentation, classification.
• Image domains: lung CT, brain MR, prostate and brain ultrasound.
• Clinical use case scenarios: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer.

Approach, Plan

• Discussion and documentation
• Algorithms: fast KNN methods, hashing, robust estimation (RANSAC, Hough transform).
• Mathematical formalisms: probabilistic inference, kernel methods, manifold learning.

Progress

References

[1] SIFT View, NAMIC 2015 SLC Project Week
[2] "A Feature-based Approach to Big Data Analysis of Medical Images", M. Toews, C. Wachinger, R. S. J. Estepar, W.M. Wells III. Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2015.