Related publications

The work carried out in the framework of this thesis has been the subject of a number publications in international conferences and journals.
The use of multiple neighborhoods in the EDT by propagation algorithm was first presented at ICIAP'97 [27]. In ICIP'97 [30], it was extended to anisotropic grids and applied to the generation of morphological skeletons. The implementation of the mathematical morphology dilation with the PMN algorithm was presented in a local conference [33] and in IPA'99 [34]. Most of chapter 3, including a detailed analysis of the computational complexity of the algorithms, will appear in Computer Vision and Image Understanding [29]. Noticeably, this paper does not distinguish the PMN and PMON algorithms.
The technical aspects of chapter 4 - the automatic morphometry of nerve cross-sections - were presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 99 [35]. This paper received a poster award. A paper with less emphasis on the method itself and more on its validation has been submitted to the Journal of Neuroscience Methods [130].
The algorithm of chapter 5 was presented in a local conference [31] and during ICASSP'99 [32]. An extended version has been submitted to Pattern Recognition [26].
The atlas-MRI registration in chapter 7 was presented at SPIE Medical Imaging 96 [36]. The registration was used as the initialization step of an active surface segmentation of the inner brain structures. The concept of this method was presented in NMBIA'98 [28] and results in SPIE Medical Imaging 99 [49].
Papers about the algorithms of chapters 8 to 11 are under preparation.