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Image Foresting Transform

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A.X. Falcão, J. Stolfi, and R.A. Lotufo.
The image foresting transform: Theory, algorithms, and applications.
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 26(1):19-29, 2004.
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F. Cappabianco and G. Araújo and A.X. Falcão.
The Image Foresting Transform Architecture.
IEEE 17th Intl. Conf. on Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT), Kokurakita, Kitakyushu, Japan, pages 137--144, 2007.
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F. P. G. Bergo and A. X. Falcão.
A Partitioned Algorithm for the Image Foresting Transform.
Proc. 8th Intl. Symposium Mathematical Morphology, MCT/INPE, Rio de Janeiro, pages 425--436, 2007.
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Image Alignment

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F.P.G. Bergo and G.C.S. Ruppert and L.F. Pinto and A.X. Falcão.
Fast and Robust Mid-Sagittal Plane Location in 3D MR Images of the Brain.
Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Funchal, Portugal, pages 92--99, 2008.
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Image Registration

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F. Favretto and F. P. G. Bergo and A.X. Falcão.
A Fast and Automatic Method for 3D Rigid Registration of MR Images of the Human Brain
Proc. of the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Campo Grande, 2008, to appear.
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Image Filtering

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A.X. Falcão, B. S. da Cunha, and R. A. Lotufo.
Design of connected operators using the image foresting transform.
In Proc. of SPIE on Medical Imaging, volume 4322, pages 468-479. SPIE, 2001.
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Image Segmentation

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F.A.M. Cappabianco and A.X. Falcão and L.M. Rocha.
Clustering by optimum path forest and its application to automatic GM/WM classification in MR-T1 images of the brain.
The 5th IEEE Intl. Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Paris, pages 428--431, 2008.
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P. A. V. Miranda and A. X. Falcão and Jayaram K. Udupa
CLOUDS: A model for synergistic image segmentation
Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Paris, pages 209--212, 2008.
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P.A.V. Miranda, A.X. Falcão, A. Rocha and F.P.G. Bergo.
Object delineation by kappa-connected components.
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi, doi: 10.1155/2008/467928, 2008.
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F.P.G. Bergo and A.X. Falcão and P.A.V. Miranda and L.M. Rocha.
Automatic Image Segmentation by Tree Pruning
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 29(2-3), pages 141--162, 2007.
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A.X. Falcão and F.P.G. Bergo.
Interactive Volume Segmentation with Differential Image Foresting Transforms.
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 23(9):1100-1108, 2004.
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L.G. Nyúl, A.X. Falcão, and J.K. Udupa.
Fuzzy-connected 3D image segmentation at interactive speeds.
Graphical Models, 64(5):259-281, 2003.
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R.A. Lotufo, A.X. Falcão, and F.A. Zampirolli.
IFT-watershed from gray scale marker.
In Proc. of the XV Brazillian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, pages 146-152. IEEE, 2002.
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A.X. Falcão, J.K. Udupa, and F.K. Miyazawa.
An ultra-fast user-steered image segmentation paradigm: Live-wire-on-the-fly.
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 19(1):55-62, 2000.
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A.X. Falcão and J.K. Udupa.
A 3D generalization of user-steered live wire segmentation.
Medical Image Analysis, 4(4):389-402, 2000.
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R.A. Lotufo and A.X. Falcão.
The ordered queue and the optimality of the watershed approaches.
In Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing, volume 18, pages 341-350. Kluwer Academic, ISBN 0-7923-7862-8, 2000.
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A.X. Falcão, J.K. Udupa, S. Samarasekera, S. Sharma, B.E. Hirsch, and R.A. Lotufo.
User-steered image segmentation paradigms: Live-wire and live-lane.
Graphical Models and Image Processing, 60(4):233-260, 1998.
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Shape representation

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F.A. Andaló and P.A.V. Miranda and R.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão.
Detecting Contour Saliences using Tensor Scale.
Proc. of the 14th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, San Antonio, TX, pages 349--352, 2007.
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A.X. Falcão, L.F. Costa, and B.S. da Cunha.
Multiscale skeletons by image foresting transform and its applications to neuromorphometry.
Pattern Recognition, 35(7):1571-1582, 2002.
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Shape description

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F.A. Andaló and P.A.V. Miranda and R.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão.
A New Shape Descriptor based on Tensor Scale.
Proc. of the 8th Intl. Symp. on Mathematical Morphology, MCT/INPE, Rio de Janeiro, pages 141--152, 2007.
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R.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão.
Contour salience descriptors for effective image retrieval and analysis
Image and Vision Computing, 25(1):3--13, 2007.
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R.S. Torres, A.X. Falcão, and L.F. Costa.
A graph-based approach for multiscale shape analysis.
Pattern Recognition, 37(6):1163-1174, 2004.
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Texture description

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J.A. Montoya-Zegarra and J.P. Papa and N.J. Leite and R.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão.
Learning How to Extract Rotation-Invariant and Scale-Invariant Features from Texture Images
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi, doi: 10.1155/2008/691924, 2008.
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Color description

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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
Cell histograms versus color histograms for image representation and retrieval.
Knowledge and Information Systems - KAIS, 5(3):315-336, 2003.
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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
A compact and efficient image retrieval approach based on border/interior pixel classification.
In Proc. of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 102-109. ACM, 2002.
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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
On shapes of colors for content-based image retrieval.
In Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, pages 171-174. ACM, 2000.
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Pattern Recognition

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J.P. Papa and A.X. Falcão and C.T.N. Suzuki and N.D.A. Mascarenhas.
A Discrete Approach for Supervised Pattern Recognition
12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis: Theory Track, LNCS 4958, Buffalo,NY, pages 136--147, 2008.
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L.M. Rocha and A.X. Falcão and L.G.P. Meloni.
A Robust Extension of the Mean Shift Algorithm using Optimum Path Forest
12th Intl. Work. on Combinatorial Image Analysis: Application Track, RPS, Buffalo,NY, pages 29--38, 2008.
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J.P. Papa and A.X. Falcão and P.A.V. Miranda and C.T.N. Suzuki and N.D.A. Mascarenhas.
Design of Robust Pattern Classifiers based on Optimum-path Forests
Proc. of the 8th Intl. Symp. on Mathematical Morphology, MCT/INPE, Rio de Janeiro, pages 337--348, 2007.
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Image Retrieval

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R.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão and M.A. Gonçalves and J.P. Papa and B. Zhang and W. Fan and E.A. Fox.
A Genetic Programming Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval
Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 2008, to appear.
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RR.S. Torres and A.X. Falcão.
Content-Based Image Retrieval: Theory and Applications.
Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada, 13(2), pages 161--185, 2006.
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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
Techniques for color-based image retrieval.
In Multimedia Mining - a High Way to Intelligent Multimedia Document, Chapter 4, Kluwer, pages 61-80, 2002.
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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
Microm: A metric distance to compare segmented images.
In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2314, pages 12-23. Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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R.O. Stehling, M.A. Nascimento, and A.X. Falcão.
An adaptive and efficient clustering-based approach for content based retrieval in image databases.
In Proc. of Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium - IDEAS'01, pages 356-365. IEEE, 2001.
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Image Visualization

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F. P. G. Bergo and A. X. Falcão.
Fast and automatic curvilinear reformatting of MR images of the brain for diagnosis of dysplastic lesions.
Proc. of 3rd IEEE Intl. Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Arlington, VA, pages 486--489, 2006.
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R. Audigier and R.A. Lotufo and A.X. Falcão
3D visualization to assist iterative object definition from medical images
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 30(4):217--230, 2006.
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F. de Goes and F. P. G. Bergo and A.X. Falcão and S. Goldenstein and L. Velho.
Adapted Dynamic Meshes for Deformable Surfaces.
Proc. of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Natal, RN, pages 213--220, 2006.
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A.X. Falcão, L.M. Rocha, and J.K. Udupa.
A combined approach of shell and shear-warp rendering for efficient volume visualization.
In Proc. of SPIE on Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, volume 5029, pages 569-580. SPIE, 2003.
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C.F.X. de Mendonça, A.X. Falcão, A.C. Vannini, and J.J. Lunazzi.
Fast holographic stereograms display using shell rendering and a holographic screen.
In Proc. of SPIE on Medical Imaging, volume 3658, pages 484-492. SPIE, 1999.
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Image Analysis

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A.X. Falcão and C.T.N. Suzuki and J.F. Gomes and J.P. Papa and L.C.S. Dias and S.H. Shimizu.
A system for diagnosing intestinal parasites by computerized image analysis.
PCT WO/2008/064442.
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J.P. Papa and A.A. Spadotto and A.X. Falcão and J.C. Pereira.
Optimum Path Forest Classifier Applied to Laryngeal Pathology Detection.
Proc. of the 15th Intl. Conf. on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, Bratislava, Slovakia, pages 249--252, 2008.
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A.A. Spadotto and J.C. Pereira and R.C. Guido and J.P. Papa and A.X. Falcão and A.R. Gatto and P.C. Cola and A.O. Shelp.
Oropharyngeal Dysphagia Identification Using Wavelets and Optimum Path Forest
Proc. of the 3th IEEE Intl. Symp. on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, St. Julians, Malta, pages 735--740, 2008.
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F. P. G. Bergo and A. X. Falcão and C. L. Yasuda and F. Cendes
FCD Segmentation using Texture Asymmetry of MR-T1 Images of the Brain.
Proc. of the 5th Intl. Symp. on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Paris, pages 424--427, 2008.
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P.K. Saha, J.K. Udupa, A.X. Falcão, B.E. Hirsch, and S. Siegler.
Iso-shaping rigid bodies for estimating their motion from image sequences.
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 23(1):63-72, 2004.
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PhD Thesis

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A.X. Falcão.
Paradigmas de Segmentação de Imagens Guiada pelo Usuário: Live-Wire, Live-Lane e 3D-Live-Wire
PhD Thesis, FEEC-Unicamp, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 1997
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MSc Thesis

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A.X. Falcão.
Visualização de Volumes Aplicada à Área Médica
MSc Thesis, FEEC-Unicamp, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 1993
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