Related Publications

A list of publications of the author for the PhD candidacy is given below, ordered according to their topic.

Publications related to the mass detection and false positive reduction proposals:

• [IbPRIA 2007] A. Oliver, X. Lladó, J. Martí, R. Martí, and J. Freixenet. False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection using Two-Dimensional PCA. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, to appear. Girona, Spain. June 2007.

• [MIUA 2006] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, R. Martí, E.R.E. Denton, and R. Zwiggelaar. Mammographic mass eigendetection. Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pp 71-75. Manchester, UK. July 2006.

• [ICPR 2006] A. Oliver, J. Martí, R. Martí, A. Bosch, and J. Freixenet. A new approach to the classification of mammographic masses and normal breast tissue. International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol IV pp 707-710. Hong Kong. August 2006.

Publications related to the breast tissue characterization:

• [TITB] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, R. Martí, J. Pont, E. Pérez, E. R. E. Denton, and R. Zwiggelaar. A novel breast tissue density classification methodology. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Submitted in second revision.

• [MICCAI 2006] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, R. Martí, and R. Zwiggelaar. A comparison of breast tissue classification techniques. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, vol II pp 872-879. Copenhagen, Denmark. October 2006.

• [CVPR 2006] A. Bosch, X. Muñoz, A. Oliver, and J. Martí. Modeling and Classifying Breast Tissue Density in Mammograms. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol II pp 1552-1558. New York. June 2006.

• [ICIP 2005] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, and R. Zwiggelaar. Automatic Classification of Breast Density. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol II pp 1258-1261. Genova, Italy. September 2005.

• [IbPRIA 2005] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, A. Bosch, D. Raba, and R. Zwiggelaar. Automatic Classification of Breast Tissue. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS 3523, pp 431-438. Estoril, Portugal. June 2005.

• [CARS 2005] A. Oliver, J. Martí, J. Freixenet, J. Pont, and R. Zwiggelaar. Automatic classification of breast density according BIRADS categories using a clustering approach. Computed Aided Radiology and Surgery. Berlin, Germany. June 2005.

Publications related to the survey of mass detection algorithms:

• [TMI] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, J. Martí, E. R. E. Denton, and R. Zwiggelaar. A Review of Automatic Mass Segmentation in Mammographic Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Submitted.

• [CCIA 2005] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, M. Peracaula, and J. Martí. Mass Segmentation using a Pattern Matching Approach with a Mutual Information based Metric. Congrés Català d'Intel·ligència Artificial, pp 123-130. L'Alguer, Italy. October 2005.

• [SERAM 2004] A. Oliver, J. Freixenet, J. Martí, and R. Zwiggelaar. Estudio comparativo de cuatro métodos para la detección automàtica de masas en mamografías digitales. XXVII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Radiología. Bilbao, Spain. May 2004.

• [IbPRIA 2003] J. Martí, J. Freixenet, X. Muñoz, and A. Oliver. Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS 2652, pp 478-485. Mallorca, Spain. June 2003.

Other publications related to mammographic works:

• [IbPRIA 2007] R. Martí, A. Oliver, D. Raba and J. Freixenet. Breast Skin-Line Segmentation Using Contour Growing. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, to appear. Girona, Spain. 2007.

• [IWDM 2006] I. Muhimmah, A. Oliver, E.R.E. Denton, J. Pont, E. Pérez, and R. Zwiggelaar. Comparison between Wolfe, Boyd, BI-RADS and Tabár based Mammographic Risk Assessment. International Workshop on Digital Mammography, LNCS 4046, pp 407-415. Manchester, UK. June 2006.

• [IWDM 2006] R. Martí, D. Raba, A. Oliver, and R. Zwiggelaar. Mammographic Registration: Proposal and Evaluation of a New Approach. International Workshop on Digital Mammography, LNCS 4046, pp 213-220. Manchester, UK. June 2006.

• [IbPRIA 2005] D. Raba, A. Oliver, J. Martí, M. Peracaula, and J. Espunya. Breast Segmentation with Pectoral Muscle Suppression on Digital Mammograms. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS 3523, pp 471-478. Estoril, Portugal. June 2005.

• [CARS 2005] J. Freixenet, D. Raba, A. Oliver, and J. Espunya. Breast profile segmentation based on the region growing approach. Computed Aided Radiology and Surgery. Berlin, Germany. June 2005.

• [IWDM 2004] J. Martí, J. Freixenet, M. Peracaula, A. Oliver, D. Raba, J. Espunya, J. Pont, and R. Martí. Automatic segmentation of micro-calcifications based on the fusion of different algorithms over CC and MLO views. International Workshop on Digital Mammography. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. June 2004.

Other works related to various computer vision non-medical aspects:

• [ICPR 2006] A. Bosch, X. Muñoz, A. Oliver, and R. Martí. Object and scene classification: what does a supervised approach provide us? International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol II pp 872-879. Hong Kong. August 2006.

• [AQTR 2006] A. Oliver, X. Muñoz, J. Batlle, Ll. Pacheco, and J. Freixenet. Improving clustering algorithms for image segmentation using contour and region information. IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics, pp 315-320. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. May 2006.

• [CCIA 2005] A. Bosch, X. Muñoz, J. Martí, and A. Oliver. Classifying Natural Objects on Outdoor Scenes. Congrés Català d'Intel·ligència Artificial, pp 115-122. L'Alguer, Italy. October 2005.

• [BMVC 2003] X. Lladó, A. Oliver, M. Petrou, J. Freixenet, and J. Martí. Simultaneous Surface Texture Classification and Illumination Tilt Angle Prediction. British Machine Vision Conference, pp 789-798. Norwich, UK. September 2003.