Model-Based Brain Tissue Classification -- Supervised Texture Classification for Intravascular Tissue Characterization -- Medical Image Segmentation: Methods and Applications in Functional Imaging -- Automatic Segmentation of Pancreatic Tumors in Computed Tomography -- Computerized Analysis and Vasodilation Parameterization in Flow-Mediated Dilation Tests from Ultrasonic Image Sequences -- Stat…
A Basic Model for IVUS Image Simulation -- Quantitative Functional Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography: Principles and Instrumentation -- Advances in Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Physical Principles -- Recent Advances in the Level Set Method -- Shape From Shading Models -- Wavelets in Medical Image Processing: Denoising, Segmentation, and Registration -- Improving the Initialization…
Medical Image Registration: Theory, Algorithm, and Case Studies in Surgical Simulation, Chest Cancer, and Multiple Sclerosis -- State of the Art of Level Set Methods in Segmentation and Registration of Medical Imaging Modalities -- Three-Dimensional Rigid and Non-Rigid Image Registration for the Pelvis and Prostate -- Stereo and Temporal Retinal Image Registration by Mutual Information Maximiza…
Oligonucleotides as Radiopharmaceuticals -- Imaging Protein-Protein Interactions in Whole Cells and Living Animals -- Radiolabeled Peptides in Nuclear Oncology: Influence of Peptide Structure and Labeling Strategy on Pharmacology -- Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy -- PET/CT: Combining Function and Morphology -- High Relaxivity Contrast Agents for MRI and Molecular Imaging -- Luminescent Lanthani…
Insurance -- Insuring the Practice of Medicine -- Legal -- What Every Doctor Should Know About Litigation -- Risk Reduction From a Plaintiff Attorney’s Perspective -- The Physician As a Witness -- The Judicial Process -- The Clinical Face of Litigation -- Communication and Patient Safety -- E-Medicine in the Physician’s Office -- Risk Management for the Family Physician -- Emergency Medicin…
Headache for History Buffs -- When Is a Headache More Than “Just a Headache?”: The Secondary Headaches -- The Primary Headache Syndromes: When Is a Headache “Just a Headache?” -- The Pharmacologic Treatment of Migraine -- Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Migraine -- Your Visit to the Doctor -- What to Expect.Frequent headaches seriously affect the lives of millions of sufferers. The result…
Introduction: World Federation 1993—1997 -- Consent and Intensive Care: Is It Possible? -- Hepatorenal Syndrome -- HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries -- Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Order -- Molecular Biology in Critical Care: Is It More Than a Look Only? -- Resource Management and Audits in Intensive Care Medicine -- Sepsis and Organ(s) Dysfunction — Key Points, Reflections, and Perspectives…
The Laboratory Bench -- Introduction: Inflammatory bowel disease: from bench to bedside -- The changing faces of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis -- Genetics of inflammatory bowel disease -- Experimental mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease: new insights into pathogenic mechanisms -- The normal intestinal mucosa: a state of ‘controlled inflammation’ -- The lymphocyte-epithelia…
Essentials in Clinical Microbiology -- Glossary of Terms and Definitions -- Carriage -- Colonization and Infection -- Classification of Micro-Organisms According to Their Pathogenicity -- Classification of ICU Infections -- Gut Microbiology: Surveillance Samples for the Detection of the Abnormal Carrier State -- Antimicrobials -- Systemic Antibiotics -- Systemic Antifungals -- Enteral Antimicro…
Generalities -- Basic Notions -- The Ultrasound Equipment -- Specific Notions of Ultrasound in the Critically Ill -- General Ultrasound: Normal Patterns -- Organ by Organ Analysis -- Peritoneum -- Gastrointestinal Tract -- Liver -- Gallbladder -- Urinary Tract -- The Retroperitoneal Space -- Spleen, Adrenals, and Lymph Nodes -- Upper Extremity Central Veins -- Inferior Vena Cava -- Lower Extrem…