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Dirk Loeckx

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Evaluation of registration methods on thoracic CT: the EMPIRE10 challenge

…, R Werner, D Smeets, D Loeckx… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
<?Pub Dtl=""?> EMPIRE10 (Evaluation of Methods for Pulmonary Image REgistration 2010)
is a public platform for fair and meaningful comparison of registration algorithms which are …

Nonrigid image registration using conditional mutual information

D Loeckx, P Slagmolen, F Maes… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maximization of mutual information (MMI) is a popular similarity measure for medical image
registration. Although its accuracy and robustness has been demonstrated for rigid body …

Relationship between fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the large vessels and late aortic diameter in giant cell arteritis

…, S Vanderschueren, S Stroobants, D Loeckx… - …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Objective. GCA carries an increased risk of developing thoracic aortic aneurysms. Previous
work with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET has shown that the aorta is frequently involved in …

Three-dimensional cardiac strain estimation using spatio–temporal elastic registration of ultrasound images: A feasibility study

A Elen, HF Choi, D Loeckx, H Gao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current ultrasound methods for measuring myocardial strain are often limited to measurements
in one or two dimensions. Cardiac motion and deformation however are truly 3-D. With …

Semi-automatic level set segmentation of liver tumors combining a spiral-scanning technique with supervised fuzzy pixel classification

D Smeets, D Loeckx, B Stijnen, B De Dobbelaer… - Medical image …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a specific method is presented to facilitate the semi-automatic segmentation of
liver tumors and liver metastases in CT images. Accurate and reliable segmentation of …

Nonrigid image registration using free-form deformations with a local rigidity constraint

D Loeckx, F Maes, D Vandermeulen… - … Conference on Medical …, 2004 - Springer
Voxel-based nonrigid image registration can be formulated as an optimisation problem whose
goal is to minimise a cost function, consisting of a first term that characterises the similarity …

Computerized craniofacial reconstruction using CT-derived implicit surface representations

D Vandermeulen, P Claes, D Loeckx… - Forensic science …, 2006 - Elsevier
In forensic craniofacial reconstruction, facial features of an unknown individual are estimated
from an unidentified skull, based on a mixture of experimentally obtained guidelines on the …

Automated detection of absence seizures using a wearable electroencephalographic device: a phase 3 validation study and feasibility of automated behavioral testing

G Japaridze, D Loeckx, T Buckinx, S Armand Larsen… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Our primary goal was to measure the accuracy of fully automated absence seizure
detection, using a wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) device. As a secondary goal, …

Minimal shape and intensity cost path segmentation

D Seghers, D Loeckx, F Maes… - … on Medical Imaging, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new generic model-based segmentation algorithm is presented, which can be trained from
examples akin to the active shape model (ASM) approach in order to acquire knowledge …

Biological image-guided radiotherapy in rectal cancer: is there a role for FMISO or FLT, next to FDG?

S Roels, P Slagmolen, J Nuyts, JA Lee, D Loeckx… - Acta …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of PET/CT with fluorodeoxyglucose
(FDG), fluorothymidine (FLT) and fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) for radiotherapy (RT) …