Math 290j/2, Winter 2007 and CCB SIG-PDE 
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Current literature in applied mathematics
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<b>Topics:</b> variational methods and partial differential equations for image analysis, including medical imaging. Statistical or wavelets methods are also welcome.

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<b>SCHEDULE:</b> 
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<b>Thursday, January 18, 11am-12pm:</b> We talked about the paper 
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<i>Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow</i>, by Xu CY, Prince JL, from IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING 7 (3): 359-369 MAR 1998. 
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<u><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/83/14393/00661186.pdf?tp=&arnumber=661186&isnumber=14393"> Paper </a></u>


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<b>Thursday, January 25, 11am - 12pm:</b>

We will continue with the same topic, by reading and presenting the papers: 
<Li> <i>NGVF: An improved external force field for active contour model</i>,
Ning JF, Wu CK, Liu SG, Yang SQ, PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS 28 (1): 58-63 JAN 1 2007 

 <u><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V15-4KPX8M1-1-15&_cdi=5665&_user=4423&_orig=search&_coverDate=01%2F01%2F2007&_sk=999719998&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkWb&md5=e8a5a666b646e486042e5ff788df4d70&ie=/sdarticle.pdf"> Paper </a></u>

<Li> <i>Interpolating orientation fields: An axiomatic approach </i>, 
Chessel A, Cao F, Fablet R, COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2006, PT 4, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3954: 241-254, Part 4 2006 

<u><a href="http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/q4261467l4384r8r/fulltext.pdf"> Paper </a></u>
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These two papers are related and based on the paper presented last year by Toungyou Lin:
<Li> <i>An axiomatic approach to image interpolation</i>, 
Caselles V, Morel JM, Sbert C, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING 7 (3): 376-386 MAR 1998 

<u><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/83/14393/00661188.pdf?tp=&arnumber=661188&isnumber=14393"> Paper </a></u>

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<b>Week of January 29:</b> there will be no meeting this week 

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<b>Week of February 5:</b> meeting on Wednesday, 4pm, talk by visitor 
Gary Hewer from China Lake, on <i> Double Density Complex Wavelet Based Image Cartoon-Texture Decomposition</i> 
 
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<b>Week of February 12:</b> meeting on Friday, February 16, talk by
Jan Modersitzki on <i>Numerical Methods for Image Registration</i>

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<b>Week of February 19:</b> meeting on Thursday, February 22, 10am-11pm, 
with talk in LONI/CCB by Daniel Rueckert, on <i>Quantification of Growth and Motion Using Non-rigid Registration</i> 

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<b>Week of February 19:</b> meeting on Thursday, February 22, 11am-12pm,
with talk in LONI/CCB by Talk by James Gee on <i>Geodesic Image Normalization in the Space of Diffeomorphisms</i> 

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<br> Future speakers: Jason Chung (graduate student), Todd Wittman (PIC instructor), Ilaria Dorigati (international student), and by the other students registered to the class. 


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<b> Suggested reading: </b> 
<Li> <u><a href="http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mariom/AM282-01/"> Notes and papers from a course of David Mumford on shapes, matching, registration for medical imaging </a></u>

<Li> <u><a href="http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mariom/AM282-01/landmarks.html"> Another link to David Mumford's course web page on shapes, matching, registration </a></u>

<Li> <u><a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~lvese/285j.1.05s/index.html"> Papers and 285J course webpage at UCLA on variational methods for image analysis and computer vision </a></u>