Statistical medical image registration with applications in epilepsy diagnosis and shape based segmentation [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Dieter Arnold Hahn
Statistical Medical Image Registration withApplications in Epilepsy Diagnosis andShape-Based SegmentationDer Technischen Fakultät derUniversität Erlangen–Nürnbergzur Erlangung des GradesDOKTOR–INGENIEURvorgelegt vonDieter Arnold HahnErlangen — 2009Deutscher Titel:Statistische medizinische Bildregistrierung mitAnwendungen in der Epilepsie-Diagnostik und derformbasierten SegmentierungAls Dissertation genehmigt von derTechnischen Fakultät derUniversität Erlangen-NürnbergTag der Einreichung: 06.07.2009Tag der Promotion: 20.11.2009Dekan: Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. GermanBerichterstatter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. HorneggerProf. W. WellsAcknowledgmentThis thesis would not have come into existence without the help and contributionsI received from others during the time I worked at the Pattern Recognition Lab ofProf. Hornegger in Erlangen.First and foremost, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to my supervisor Prof.Joachim Hornegger for his faith in me, his understanding, for promoting my researchsince my student’s thesis, and for opening up so many possibilities. If it had notbeen for him, I would not have had the chance to participate in this challengingbut rewarding field of research. I am also very thankful to Prof. William Wellsfor co-supervising this thesis and his valuable feedback. My special thanks go toProf. Torsten Kuwert, who not only agreed to participate in the committee, but alsoprovided his medical expertise in many fruitful discussions.