Publications in Conference Proceedings (2000-current):

 

234. S. Banik, R. M. Rangayyan, and J. E. L. Desautels, "Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms of interval cancer using measures of angular spread and Tsallis entropy", Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany, June 2011. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 6, Suppl. 1, ppS188-189, Springer.

 

233. E.A. Ribeiro, M.H. Nogueira-Barbosa, F.J. Albuquerque de Paula, R. Rangayyan, P. Azevedo-Marques, “Automatic quantitative evaluation of vertebral morphometry in radiographic images”,  Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany, June 2011. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 6, Suppl. 1, ppS29-31, Springer.

 

232. F. Oloumi, R.M. Rangayyan, A. Ells, "Dual-Parabolic Modeling of the Superior and the Inferior Temporal Arcades in Fundus Images of the Retina", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, Bari, Italy, 30-31 May 2011, pp xxxix-xliv. Invited Paper.

           

231. S. Banik, R. M. Rangayyan, and J. E. L. Desautels, "Rényi Entropy of Angular Spread for Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, Bari, Italy, 30-31 May 2011, pp609-612.

 

230. S. Banik, R. M. Rangayyan, and J. E. L. Desautels, “Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms using measures of angular distribution”, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2011: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Orlando, FL, February 2011. Vol. 7963, pp 796308:1-9, Ed. R. M. Summers and B. van Ginneken.

 

229. S. M. Pereira, M. A. C. Frade, R. M. Rangayyan, and P. M. de Azevedo-Marques, “Quantificação automática de componentes de tecido em imagens de úlceras dermatológicas”, XXII Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia BiomédicaCBEB 2010, 21-25 November 2010, Tiradentes, MG, Brazil, pp1305-1308.

 

228. E. A. Ribeiro,  M. H. Nogueira-Barbosa, R. M. Rangayyan, F. J. de Paula, and P. M. de Azevedo Marques, “Extração automática de medidas relacionadas a morfometria vertebral em imagens de raios-X”, XXII Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia BiomédicaCBEB 2010, 21-25 November 2010, Tiradentes, MG, Brazil, p691.

 

227. R.M. Rangayyan, F. Oloumi, “Fractal Analysis of Knee-joint Vibroarthrographic Signals”, Proc. 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010), Corfu, Greece, 3-5  November 2010. DOI 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687786, pp1-4.

 

226. F. Oloumi, R.M. Rangayyan, A. Ells, “Parametric Representation of the Retinal Temporal Arcade”,  Proc. 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010), Corfu, Greece, 3-5  November 2010. DOI 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687722, pp1-4.

 

225. G. Raguso, A. Ancona, L. Chieppa, S. L'Abbate, M.L. Pepe, F. Mangieri, M. De Palo, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Application of Fractal Analysis to Mammography”, Proc. 32nd  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp 3182-3185.

 

224. E.A. Ribeiro, M.H. Nogueira-Barbosa, R.M. Rangayyan, P.M. Azevedo-Marques, “Detection of Vertebral Plateaus in Lateral Lumbar Spinal X-ray Images with Gabor Filters”, Proc. 32nd  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp 4052-4055.

 

223. R.M. Rangayyan, F. Oloumi, and T.M. Nguyen, “Fractal Analysis of Contours of Breast Masses in Mammograms via the Power Spectra of their Signatures”, Proc. 32nd  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp 6737-6740.

 

222. S. Banik, R. M. Rangayyan, and J. E. L. Desautels, “Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms  of interval cancer using Laws’ texture energy measures”,  Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2010. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 5, Suppl. 1, ppS200-201, Springer.

 

221. P. Azevedo-Marques, E. Alvarez Ribeiro, M. Nogueira-Barbosa, and R. Rangayyan, “Segmentation of vertebrae in lateral lumbar spinal X-ray images”,  Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2010. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 5, Suppl. 1, ppS219-220, Springer.

 

220. D. Frey, V. Coelho, R. M. Rangayyan, “Spectral Verification of an Experimentally Derived Acoustical Impulse Response Function of a Music Performance Hall”, Proceedings IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE2010), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2010. DOI 10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575251, pp1-4.

 

219. S. Seminowich, A. Sar, S.Yilmaz, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Segmentation of cell nuclei in images of renal biopsy samples”, Proceedings IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE2010), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2010. DOI 10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575162, pp1-4.

 

218. E. Dorileo, M. Frade, R. M. Rangayyan, P. M. Azevedo-Marques, “Segmentation and Analysis of the Tissue Composition of Dermatological Ulcers”, Proceedings IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE2010), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 2010. DOI 10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575143, pp1-4.

 

217. S. Banik, R. M. Rangayyan, and J. E. L. Desautels, “Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms Using Fractal Analysis and Angular Spread of Power”, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, San Diego, CA, February 2010. Ed. edited by N. Karssemeijer, R. M. Summers, Vol. 7624, pp762408:1-9.

 

216. S. Banik,  R.M. Rangayyan, J.E.L. Desautels, “Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms of Interval-cancer Cases with Neural Networks”, Proc. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN, September 2009. pp6667-6670.

 

215. F. Oloumi, R.M. Rangayyan, “Detection of the Temporal Arcade in Fundus Images of the Retina Using the Hough Transform”, Proc. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN, September 2009. pp3585-3588.

 

214. R.M. Rangayyan, S. Banik, S. Prajna, and J.E.L. Desautels, “Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms of interval-cancer cases”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany, June 2009. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer. vol. 4, suppl. 1, June 2009, ppS171-S173.

 

213. S. Seminowich, A. Sar, S.Yilmaz, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Segmentation of the effective area of images of renal biopsy samples”, Proc. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NF, Canada, May 2009, pp108-111.

 

212. D. Frey, V. Coelho, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Filtering and removal of the effects of the transducers on the acoustical impulse response of concert halls”, Proc. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NF, Canada, May 2009, pp368-371.

 

211. R.M. Rangayyan, X. Zhu, and F.J. Ayres, “Detection of the Optic Disc in Images of the Retina Using Gabor Filters and Phase Portrait Analysis”, J. Vander Sloten, P. Verdonck, M. Nyssen, J. Haueisen (Eds.): ECIFMBE 2008, Proceedings of the 4th European Congress on Biomedical Engineering, November 2008, Antwerp, Belgium, IFMBE Proceedings 22, pp. 468–471.

 

210. S. Banik, R.M. Rangayyan, G.S. Boag, “Landmarking of Computed Tomographic Images to Assist in Segmentation of Abdominal Tumors Caused by Neuroblastoma”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 3126-3129.

 

209. X. Zhu, R.M. Rangayyan, “Detection of the Optic Disc in Images of the Retina Using the Hough Transform”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 3546-3549.

 

208. R.M. Rangayyan, Y.F. Wu, “Modeling and Classification of Knee-Joint Vibroarthrographic Signals Using Probability Density Functions Estimated with Parzen Windows”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 2099-2102.

 

207. E.A.G. Dorileo, M.A.C. Frade, A.M. Roselino, R.M. Rangayyan, P.M. de Azevedo-Marques, “Color image processing and content-based image retrieval techniques for the analysis of dermatological lesions”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 1230-1233.

 

206. N.A. Rosa, J.A. Felipe, A. Traina, C. Traina, R.M. Rangayyan, P.M. de Azevedo-Marques, “Using relevance feedback to reduce the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval of mammographic masses”, Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 406-409.

 

205. I. Kamenetsky, R.M. Rangayyan, and H. Benediktsson, “Segmentation and Analysis of the Glomerular Basement Membrane Using the Split and Merge Method”,  Proc. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp 3064-3067.

 

204. R.M. Rangayyan, I. Kamenetsky, and H. Benediktsson, “Segmentation and Analysis of the Glomerular Basement Membrane in Renal Biopsy Samples Using Active Contours”, Proc. IET 4th International Conference on Advances in Medical and Signal Processing (MEDSIP 2008), 14-16 July 2008, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, Paper 2.1.3 (4 pages).

 

203. R.M. Rangayyan, S. Banik, and G.S. Boag, “Automatic segmentation of the ribs and the vertebral column in computed tomographic images of pediatric patients”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, June 2008. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 3, Suppl. 1, pp S177-S178, Springer.

 

202. R.M. Rangayyan, S. Prajna, F.J. Ayres, and J.E.L. Desautels, “Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms using Fractal Dimension and Texture Features”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, June 2008. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 3, Suppl. 1, pp S42-S44, Springer.

 

201. D. Frey, V. Coelho, and R.M. Rangayyan, “The Loudspeaker as a Measurement Sweep Generator for the Derivation of the Acoustical Impulse Response of a Concert Hall”, Proc. 21st IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 2008, pp 301 – 304.

 

200. S. Banik, R.M. Rangayyan, and G.S. Boag, “Delineation of the Pelvic Girdle in Computed Tomographic Images”, Proc. 21st IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 2008, pp 179 – 182.

 

199. R.M. Rangayyan and Y.F. Wu, “Screening of knee-joint vibroarthrographic signals using parameters of activity and radial-basis functions”, Proc. 21st IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May 2008, pp 57 – 60.

 

198. S. Prajna, R.M. Rangayyan, F.J. Ayres, and J.E.L. Desautels, “Detection of architectural distortion in mammograms acquired prior to the detection of breast cancer using texture and fractal analysis”, Proc. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, vol. 6915, San Diego, CA, February 2008, pp 691529:1-8.

 

197. Y.F. Wu, R.M. Rangayyan, Y. Wu, and S.C. Ng, “Filtering of Noise in Electrocardiographic Signals Using An Unbiased and Normalized Adaptive Artifact Cancellation System”, Proc. Joint Meeting of the 6th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source imaging of the Brain and Heart & the International Conference on Functional Biomedical Imaging (NFSI&ICFBI’07), Oct 12 – 14, 2007, Hangzhou, China, pp 173 – 176.

           

196. T. Mu, A. K. Nandi, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Strict 2-Surface Proximal Classification of Knee-joint Vibroarthrographic Signals”, Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2007, Lyon, France, pp 4911-4914.

 

195. Y.F. Wu, R.M. Rangayyan, and S.C. Ng, “Cancellation of Artifacts in ECG Signals Using a Normalized Adaptive Neural Filter”, Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2007, Lyon, France, pp 2552-2555.

           

194. Faraz Oloumi, R.M. Rangayyan, Foad Oloumi, P. Eshghzadeh-Zanjani, and F.J. Ayres, “Detection of Blood Vessels in Fundus Images of the Retina using Gabor Wavelets”, Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2007, Lyon, France, pp 6451-6454. Finalist in Student Paper Competition.

 

193. R.S. Bôaventura, D. Guliato, M.S. Simedo, M.A. Maia, T.A.A. Macedo, R.M. Rangayyan, “INDIAM  Um sistema de ensino para auxiliar estudantes na interpretação de mamogramas e diagnóstico de câncer de mama via Web”, Proc. VII Workshop de Informática Médica, Porto de Galinhas, PE, Brasil, 25-26 June, 2007, 10p on CDROM. 

 

192. R.M. Rangayyan, T.M. Nguyen, F. J. Ayres, A.K. Nandi, “Analysis of the Effect of Spatial Resolution on Texture Features in the Classification of Breast Masses in Mammograms”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany, June 2007. Springer. pp 334-336.

 

191. R.M. Rangayyan and Y.F. Wu, “Analysis of Knee-joint Vibroarthrographic Signals Using Statistical Measures”, Proc. 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Maribor, Slovenia, June 2007, pp 377-382.

 

190. Y.F. Wu and R.M. Rangayyan, “An Unbiased Linear Artificial Neural Network with Normalized Adaptive Coefficients for Filtering Noisy ECG Signals”, CDROM Proc. 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), pp 868-871, Vancouver, BC, 22 – 26, April 2007.

 

189. Y.F. Wu and R.M. Rangayyan, “An Algorithm for Evaluating the Performance of Adaptive Filters for the Removal of Artifacts in ECG Signals”, CDROM Proc. 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), pp 864-867, Vancouver, BC, 22 – 26, April 2007.

 

188. R.M. Rangayyan, Faraz Oloumi, Foad Oloumi, P. Eshghzadeh-Zanjani, and F.J. Ayres, “Detection of Blood Vessels in the Retina using Gabor Filters”, CDROM Proc. 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), pp 717-720, Vancouver, BC, 22 – 26, April 2007.

           

187. J. Daloia de Carvalho, D. Guliato, S. A. Santiago, R.M. Rangayyan, “Polygonal Modeling of Contours using the Turning Angle Function”, CDROM Proc. 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), pp 1090-1093, Vancouver, BC, 22 – 26, April 2007.

 

186. T. Mu, A. K. Nandi, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Strict 2-surface proximal classifier with application to breast cancer detection in mammograms”,  Proc. IEEE 32nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu, HI, April 2007, pp II:477 – 480.

 

185. T. Mu, A. K. Nandi, and R.M. Rangayyan, Pairwise Rayleigh quotient classifier with application to the analysis of breast tumors, Proc. 4th IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007, pp 356 – 361.

 

184. T. Mu, A. K. Nandi, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Classification of breast masses via transformation of features using kernel principal component analysis”, Proc. 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007, pp 396 – 401.

 

183. D. Guliato,  E. V. de Melo, R. C. Soares, and R.M. Rangayyan, “A system design for content-based image retrieval and analysis of mammograms using POSTGRESQL with image-handling extension”, Proc. 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2007, pp 402 – 408.

 

182. D. Guliato, R. S. Bôaventura, M. S. Simedo, R. M. Rangayyan, T. A. A. Macedo, “A Teaching System for Assistance in the Interpretation of Mammograms and the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer”,  IEEE Special Topic Symposium on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Iaonnina, Greece, October 2006, 4 pages on CDROM.

 

181. R. M. Rangayyan, D. Guliato, J. Daloia de Carvalho, S. A. Santiago, “Feature Extraction from the Turning Angle Function for the Classification of Contours of Breast Tumors”,  IEEE Special Topic Symposium on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Iaonnina, Greece, October 2006, 4 pages on CDROM.

           

180. T. C. S. Santos-André, E. L. Cheade, P. M. Azevedo Marques, R. M. Rangayyan, J. A. H. Rodrigues, R. G. S. Rodrigues, “Discriminação de áreas prováveis de crescimento do câncer de mama em mamogramas anteriores à detecção”, (in Portuguese) Anais do XX Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Biomédica, São Pedro, SP, October 2006, pp 225 – 228.

 

179. D. Guliato, R.M. Rangayyan, J. Daloia de Carvalho, S. A. Santiago, “Spiculation-Preserving Polygonal Modeling of Contours of Breast Tumors”, 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2006, New York, NY, pp 3021 – 3024.

 

178. R. J. Nandi, A. K. Nandi, R.M. Rangayyan, D. Scutt, “Genetic Programming and Feature Selection for Classification of Breast Masses in Mammograms”, 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2006, New York, NY, pp 2791 – 2794.

 

177. E. V. de Melo, D. Guliato, R.M. Rangayyan, and R. Soares, “SISPRIMSistema de Pesquisa com Suporte para Recuperação de Imagens Mamográficas baseada em conteúdo”, Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software 2006 – Workshop de Informática Médica, Vila Velha, ES, Brasil, 29 May – 2 June, 2006, 9 pages.

 

176. R.M. Rangayyan, R. Vu, and G.S. Boag, “Delineation of the diaphragm in CT images to improve segmentation of the tumor mass in neuroblastoma”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Osaka, Japan, June 2006. Springer. pp 78 – 80.

 

175. R.M. Rangayyan and F.J. Ayres, “Detection of architectural distortion in mammograms using a shape-constrained phase portrait model”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Osaka, Japan, June 2006. Springer. pp 334 – 336.

 

174. R. Vu, R.M. Rangayyan, and G.S. Boag, “Multi-seed segmentation of the primary tumor mass in

neuroblastoma using opening-by-reconstruction”, Proc. 4th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2006, pp 242 – 249.

 

173. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “Optimization procedures for the estimation of phase portrait parameters in orientation fields”, Proc. IS&T/ SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging – Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems V, vol. 6064, San Jose, CA, January 2006. DOI:10.1117/12.644852, pp 606407:1-12.

 

172. B. Acha, C. Serrano, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Detection of microcalcifications in mammograms using 2D prediction filtering and a new statistical measure of the right tail weight”, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 11, ISSN 1727-1983, Editors: J. Hozman, P. Kneppo, Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference: EMBEC´05, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2005, paper number 2251, pages 3112 – 3117.

 

171. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “Detection of architectural distortion in mammograms via analysis of phase portraits and curvilinear structures”, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 11, ISSN 1727-1983, Editors: J. Hozman, P. Kneppo, Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference: EMBEC´05, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2005, paper number 1873, pages 1768 – 1773.

 

170. H. Bosnak, R. Grewal, J. Howland, B. Liu, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer via an indexed atlas and content-based retrieval of mammograms”, IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 11, ISSN 1727-1983, Editors: J. Hozman, P. Kneppo, Proceedings of the 3rd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conference: EMBEC´05, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2005, paper number 1872, pages 1762 – 1767.

 

169. H.J. Deglint and R.M. Rangayyan, “Segmentation of neuroblastoma in CT images using image reconstruction, deformable models, and convex hulls”, Third IEE International Seminar on Medical Applications of Signal Processing, London, UK, 3 – 4 November 2005, pp 29 – 34.

 

168. L. A. Silva, E. Del-Moral-Hernandez, and R. M. Rangayyan, “Classificação de tumores e massas de mama utilizando um comitê de perceptrons de múltiplas camadas”, Proceedings of the VII CBRN – Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais, VIII ERN – Escola de Redes Neurais, and I JCI – Jogos Computacionais Inteligentes, Natal, RN, Brasil, 16 – 19 October, 2005, 6 pp, ISSN:1808-8589.

 

167. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “Performance analysis of oriented feature detectors”,  Proc. SIBGRAPI 2005: XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (IEEE Computer Society Press), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, October 2005, pp 147 – 154.

 

166. T.M. Nguyen and R.M. Rangayyan, “Shape analysis of breast masses in mammograms via the fractal dimension”, 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005, Shanghai, China, Paper no. 1852, 4 pages.

 

165. Y. Sun, J. Suri, Z. Ye, R.M. Rangayyan, and R. Janer, “Effect of adaptive-neighborhood contrast enhancement on the extraction of the breast skin-line in mammograms”, 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005, Shanghai, China, Paper no. 2063, 4 pages.

 

164. Y. Sun, J. Suri, R. M. Rangayyan, and R. Janer, “Relationship between the stroma edge and skin-air boundary for generating a dependency approach to skin-line estimation in screening mammograms,” 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, ICAPR 2005, pp. 746-753, August 22-25, 2005, Bath, United Kingdom.

 

163. D. Guliato, R.S. Bôaventura, E.V. de Melo, V. de Deus, F.R. Janones, and R.M. Rangayyan, “AMDI: An atlas to integrate case studies, e-learning, and research systems via the Web”, Proc. IASTED International Conference on Telehealth, July 2005, pp 69 – 74.

 

162. Y. Sun, J. Suri, and R. M. Rangayyan, “A novel approach for breast skin-line estimation in mammograms,” The 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2005, June 22-24, 2005, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 241-246.

 

161. Y. Sun, J. Suri, and R. M. Rangayyan, “An inward mammilla detection algorithm for analysis of skin-line retraction,” Medical Physics, vol. 32, no. 6, June 2005, pp. 1908-1909. (AAPM abstract SU-FF-I-22).

 

160. R.M. Rangayyan and T.M. Nguyen, “Pattern classification of breast masses via fractal analysis of their contours”, Proc. Computer-assisted Radiology and Surgery, Berlin, Germany, June 2005. International Congress Series 1281, Elsevier, pp 1041 - 1046.

 

159. H.J. Deglint, R.M. Rangayyan, and G.S. Boag, “Strategies for three-dimensional segmentation of the neuroblastoma tumor mass in computed tomographic images”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology, June 2005, Orlando, FL, pp 103 – 105.

 

158. R. do Espiríto Santo, R. de Deus Lopes, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Classification of mammographic masses using radial basis functions and simulated annealing with shape, acutance, and texture features”, Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005, pp 164-167.

 

157. L.A. Silva, E. del Moral Hernandez, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Classification of breast masses using a committee machine of neural networks”,  Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005, pp 168-173.

 

156. Y. Sun, J. Suri, R.M. Rangayyan, and R. Janer, “A microscopic look at breast skin-line metrics: A performance evaluation strategy for FFDM/ screen-film projection mammograms”, Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005, pp 174-179.

 

155. T.M. Nguyen and R.M. Rangayyan, “Fractal analysis of contours of mammograpic masses”, Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005, pp 186-191.

 

154. R.M. Rangayyan and H.J. Deglint, “Automatic detection and segmentation of the spinal canal in computed tomographic images”, Proc. 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2005, pp 38-43.

 

153. T.C.S. Santos André , P.M. de Azevedo Marques, J.A.H. Rodrigues, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Sistema de recuperação de imagens baseada em conteúdo usando mapas de Kohonen e técnicas de correlação cruzada”, IX Congresso Brasileiro de Informática em Saúde (CBIS), Ribeirão Preto, SP, 7 – 10 Novembro 2004, 5pp (CDROM).

 

152. T.C.S. Santos André , P.M. de Azevedo Marques, J.A.H. Rodrigues, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Content-based image retrieval using self-organizing maps and cross correlation”, III Congresso Latinamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, September 2004, pp 1379-1382.

 

151. D. Guliato, M. Caetano, F.R. Janones, S.C.L. Lima, V. Deus,  R.M. Rangayyan, R.S. Bôaventura, , P.M. de Azevedo Marques, and J.A.H. Rodrigues,  AMDI – Um atlas indexado para mamografias digitais via web”, III Congresso Latinamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, September 2004, pp 529-532.

 

150. L.A. da Silva, E. del Moral Hernandez, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Classificação de tumores e massas de mama utilizando máquinas de comitê”, III Congresso Latinamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, September 2004, pp 935-938.

 

149. H. Lau, K. Mok, D. So, C. Tse, and R.M. Rangayyan, “An indexed atlas for content-based retrieval and analysis of mammograms”, 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2004, San Francisco, CA, pp 3167-3170.

 

148. Y. Liu, M.R. Smith, and R.M. Rangayyan, “The application of Efron’s bootstrap methods in validating feature classification using artificial neural networks for the analysis of mammographic masses”, 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2004, San Francisco, CA, pp 1553-1556.

 

147. R. do Espírito Santo, R.D. Lopes, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Radial basis functions – simulated annealing classification of mammographic calcifications”, 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2004, San Francisco, CA, pp 1644-1647.

 

146. R.M. Rangayyan, R.J. Ferrari, and A.F. Frère, “Detection of asymmetry between left and right mammograms”, 7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2004, pp 651 – 658.

 

145. D. Guliato, M. Caetano, R.M. Rangayyan, P.M. de Azevedo Marques, and J.A.H. Rodrigues, “Database architecture and query strategies for content-based retrieval of mammograms”,  7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2004, pp 376 – 381.

 

144. D. Guliato, M. Caetano, F.R. Janones, V. de Deus,  P.M. de Azevedo Marques, R.M. Rangayyan, S.C.L. de Lima, T.A. Medeiros, and J.A.H. Rodrigues,  AMDI – An indexed atlas of digital mammograms available via the web”, 7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2004, pp 370 – 375.

 

143. X. Wang, M.R. Smith, and R.M. Rangayyan, “Mammographic information analysis through association-rule mining”, Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, ON, May 2004. pp 1495-1498.

 

142. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “Detection of architectural distortion in mammograms using phase portraits”, Proc. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, vol. 5370, San Diego, CA, February 2004. pp 587-597.

 

141. H.J. Deglint, R.M. Rangayyan, and G.S. Boag, “Three-dimensional segmentation of the tumor mass in computed tomographic images of neuroblastoma”, Proc. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, vol. 5370, San Diego, CA, February 2004. pp 475-483.

 

140. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “An iterative linear algorithm for the analysis of phase portraits”, Proc. IS&T/ SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging – Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems III, vol. 5298, San Jose, CA, January 2004, pp 232-241.

 

139. F.J. Ayres and R.M. Rangayyan, “Characterization of architectural distortion in mammograms”, paper no. 2.4.4.5 (4 pp) in CDROM Proc. 25th Ann. Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancún, Mexico, September 2003. Winner of the Second Prize in the Student Paper Competition with 314 entries.

 

138. T.C.S.S. André and R.M. Rangayyan,  “Classification of tumors and masses in mammograms using neural networks with shape and texture features”, paper no. 6.7.2.4 (4 pp) in CDROM Proc. 25th Ann. Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancún, Mexico, September 2003.

 

137. R.B. Paranjape, L. Benedicenti, R.M. Rangayyan, and Q.A. Liu, “A mobile-agent-based mammogram retrieval system”, pp 213-220, Proc. ATS2003: Agent Based Technologies and Systems, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 2003.

 

136. D. Guliato, R.M. Rangayyan, F. Adorno, and M.M.G. Ribeiro, “Analysis and classification of breast masses by fuzzy-set-based image processing”, Proc. Sixth International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Bremen, Germany, Ed: H.O. Peitgen, 22-25 June 2002. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg, Germany. pp 195-197.

 

135. H. Alto, R.M. Rangayyan, and J.E.L. Desautels, “An indexed atlas of digital mammograms”, Proc. Sixth International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Bremen, Germany, Ed: H.O. Peitgen, 22-25 June 2002. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg, Germany. pp 309-311.

 

134. H. Alto, R.M. Rangayyan, B. Solaiman, J.E.L. Desautels, and J.H. MacGregor, "Image processing, radiological, and clinical information fusion in breast cancer detection", Proc. SPIE Vol. 4731 on Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications VI, Orlando, FL, 3-5 April 2002, pp 134-144.

 

133. N.R. Mudigonda and R.M. Rangayyan, "Texture flow-field analysis for the detection of architectural distortion in mammograms", Proc. BioVision, Bangalore, India, 21-24 December 2001, pp 76-81.

 

132. F.J. Ayres, M.K. Zuffo, R.M. Rangayyan, V. Odone, and M. Valente, "Segmentation and estimation of the histological composition of the tumor mass in computed tomographic images of neuroblastoma", Proc. 23rd Ann. Intl. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Oct. 2001, Istanbul, Turkey, pp 2700 – 2703, CDROM.

 

131. S. Krishnan, R.M. Rangayyan, and K. Umapathy, "A time-frequency approach for auditory display of time-varying signals", pp 236-241, Proc. IASTED Intl. Conf. Signal and Image Processing, Honolulu, HI, Aug.2001.

 

130. C. Serrano, J.D. Trujillo, B. Acha, and R.M. Rangayyan, "Use of 2D linear prediction error to detect microcalcifications in mammograms", II Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, Havana, Cuba, 23-25 May 2001, 4 pages on CDROM.

 

129. R.M. Rangayyan, R.J. Ferrari, J.E.L. Desautels, and A.F. Frère, "Directional analysis of images with Gabor wavelets", Proc. SIBGRAPI 2000: XIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (IEEE Computer Society Press), Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 17-20 October, 2000, pp 170-177.

 

128. R.J. Ferrari, R.M. Rangayyan, J.E.L. Desautels, and A.F. Frère, "Segmentação de mamogramas: Identificação da borda da mama, músculo peitoral e disco glandular", (Portuguese version of item 123) Anais do Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Biomédica, Florianôpolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 11-13 Sept., 2000, pp 1255-1261.

 

127. S. Krishnan, R.M. Rangayyan, G.D. Bell, and C.B. Frank, "Sonification of knee-joint vibration signals", Proceedings of World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL, July 2000, four pages on CDROM.

 

126. H. Alto, R.M. Rangayyan, and D. Gavrilov, "Parallel implementation of an algorithm to detect calcifications in mammograms", Proc. SPIE vol. 4118: Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing IV, San Diego, CA, July 2000, pp 79-87.

 

125. N.R. Mudigonda, R.M. Rangayyan, and J.E.L. Desautels, "Detection of masses in mammograms using flow-field principles", Proc. 5th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Toronto, ON, June 2000, Editor: M.J. Yaffe, pp 308-314.

 

124. R.J. Ferrari, R.M. Rangayyan, J.E.L. Desautels, and A.F. Frère, "Segmentation of mammograms: Identification of the skin-air boundary, pectoral muscle, and fibro-glandular disc", Proc. 5th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Toronto, ON, June 2000, Editor: M.J. Yaffe, pp 573-579.

 

123. C. Vertan, M. Ciuc, V. Buzuloiu, and R.M. Rangayyan, "Color edge detection by perceptual assessment of local non--uniformity", Proc. of 7th Intl. Conf. on Optimization and Electronic Equipments OPTIM 2000, Braşov, Romania, May 2000, pp 804-807.

           

122. N.R. Mudigonda, R.M. Rangayyan, and J.E.L. Desautels, "Segmentation and classification of mammographic masses", Proc. SPIE vol. 3979: Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, February 2000, pp 55-67.