Fusion of spatial relationships for guiding recognition, example of brain structure recognition in 3D MRI

I Bloch, O Colliot, O Camara, T Géraud - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Spatial relations play an important role in recognition of structures embedded in a complex
environment and for reasoning under imprecision. Several types of relationships can be …

Representation and fusion of heterogeneous fuzzy information in the 3D space for model-based structural recognition—application to 3D brain imaging

I Bloch, T Géraud, H Maître - Artificial Intelligence, 2003 - Elsevier
We present a novel approach to model-based pattern recognition where structural
information and spatial relationships have a most important role. It is illustrated in the …

Fuzzy spatial relation ontology for image interpretation

C Hudelot, J Atif, I Bloch - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
The semantic interpretation of images can benefit from representations of useful concepts
and the links between them as ontologies. In this paper, we propose an ontology of spatial …

Spatial organization in 2D segmented images: representation and recognition of primitive spatial relations

K Miyajima, A Ralescu - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 1994 - Elsevier
Object recognition and scene analysis tasks can be greatly enhanced when information
about spatial organization in an image is available. Moreover, for recognition of complex …

Fuzzy modeling and evaluation of the spatial relation “Along”

CM Takemura, R Cesar, I Bloch - … 2005, Havana, Cuba, November 15-18 …, 2005 - Springer
The analysis of spatial relations among objects in an image is a important vision problem
that involves both shape analysis and structural pattern recognition. In this paper, we …

Description of brain internal structures by means of spatial relations for MR image segmentation

O Colliot, O Camara, R Dewynter… - Medical Imaging 2004 …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper presents a method for segmenting internal brain structures in MR images. It
introduces prior information in an original way through descriptions of the spatial …

Fusion of numerical and structural image information in medical imaging in the framework of fuzzy sets

I Bloch - Fuzzy Systems in Medicine, 2000 - Springer
Fuzzy sets theory provides a good theoretical basis to represent imprecision of the
information, at different levels of representation. It constitutes an unified framework for …

Modeling and measuring the spatial relation “along”: Regions, contours and fuzzy sets

CM Takemura, RM Cesar Jr, I Bloch - Pattern Recognition, 2012 - Elsevier
The analysis of spatial relations among objects in an image is an important vision problem
that involves both shape analysis and structural pattern recognition. In this paper, we …

Integration of fuzzy spatial relations in deformable models—Application to brain MRI segmentation

O Colliot, O Camara, I Bloch - Pattern recognition, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper presents a general framework to integrate a new type of constraints, based on
spatial relations, in deformable models. In the proposed approach, spatial relations are …

[PDF][PDF] From Generic Knowledge to Specific Reasoning for Medical Image Interpretation Using Graph based Representations.

J Atif, C Hudelot, G Fouquier, I Bloch, ED Angelini - IJCAI, 2007 - perso.telecom-paristech.fr
In several domains of spatial reasoning, such as medical image interpretation, spatial
relations between structures play a crucial role since they are less prone to variability than …