Publications

1.: Coupled Non-Parametric Shape and Moment-Based Inter-Shape Pose Priors for Multiple Basal Ganglia Structure Segmentation. Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas¸ Octavian Soldea, Devrim Unay, Mujdat Cetin, Gozde Unal, Aytul Ercil, and Ahmet Ekin, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 29, Issue 12, pp. 1959–1978, December, 2010, DOI 10.1109/TMI.2010.2053554. IeeeTMI_UzunbasSoldeaEkinUnalMujdatErcilUnay.pdf

2.: 3D Object Recognition Using Invariants of 2D Projection Curves, Mustafa Unel, Octavian Soldea, Erol Ozgur, and Alp Bassa. Pattern Analysis and Applications. Volume 13, Number 4, pp. 451-468, DOI: 10.1007/s10044-010-0179-5, 2010. RecognitionAffine.pdf

3.: Segmentation of Anatomical Structures in Brain MR Images Using Atlases in FSL - A Quantitative Approach, Octavian Soldea, Ahmet Ekin, Diana F. Soldea, Devrim Unay, Mujdat Cetin, Aytul Ercil, Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas, Zeynep Firat, Mutlu Cihangiroglu, and The Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. IEEE International Conference of Pattern Recognition, pp. 2592–2595, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-26 August, 2010, DOI 10.1109/ICPR.2010.635. FSL_ICPR.pdf.

4.: Moments of Elliptic Fourier Descriptors, Octavian Soldea, Mustafa Unel, and Aytul Ercil. IEEE International Conference of Pattern Recognition, pp. 3521-3524, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-26 August, 2010, DOI 10.1109/ICPR.2010.859. Main: ICPR_main.pdf - Appendix: ICPR_app.pdf

5.: Recursive Computation of Moments of 2D Objects Represented by Elliptic Fourier Descriptors, Octavian Soldea, Mustafa Unel, and Aytul Ercil. Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 31, Issue 11, pp. 1428-1436, August, 2010, DOI 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.02.009. Main (including appendix): PRL_EFD.pdf - Appendix: PRL_App.pdf

6.: Automatic Annotation of X-ray Images: A Study on Attribute Selection, Devrim Unay, Octavian Soldea, Ahmet Ekin, Mujdat Cetin, and Aytul Ercil, the MCBR-CDS 2009: Medical Content-based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support, London, UK, September, 20th, 2009, in conjunction with MICCAI 2009. Unay-paperCLEF2009.pdf

7.: Medical Image Retrieval and Automatic Annotation: VPA-SABANCI at ImageCLEF 2009, Devrim Unay, Octavian Soldea, Sureyya Ozogur-Akyuz, Mujdat Cetin, and Aytul Ercil, the Proceedings of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) Workshop in conjunction with ECDL’09, Corfu - Greece, 2009. Unay_MCBR-CDS09_final.pdf

8.: Volumetric Segmentation of Multiple Basal Ganglia Structures Using Nonparametric Coupled Shape and Inter-Shape Pose Priors, Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas, Octavian Soldea, Mujdat Cetin, Gozde Unal, Aytul Ercil, Devrim Unay, Ahmet Ekin, Zeynep Firat, the The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'09), From Nano to Macro, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A, pp. 29-32, DOI 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5192975, June 28 - July 1, 2009. ISBI_UzunbasSoldeaUnalMujdatErcilEkinUnayZeynep.pdf

9.: Volumetric Segmentation of Multiple Basal Ganglia Structures, Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas, Octavian Soldea, Mujdat Cetin, Gozde Unal, Aytul Ercil, Ahmet Ekin, Devrim Unay, and Zeynep Firat, the ISRACAS 2009, Israel , 12th Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging, 7th May, 2009. Isracas_UzunbasSoldeaUnalMujdatErcilEkinUnayZeynep.pdf

10.: Voxel-Based Discriminant Map Classification on Brain Ventricles for Alzheimer's Disease, Jingnan Wang, Gerard de Haan, Devrim Unay, Ahmet Ekin, and Octavian Soldea, SPIE, Medical Imaging: Image Processing, Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA, Volume 7259, pp. 72591W-72591W-8 (2009), 7-12 February, 2009.

11.: Multi-Object Segmentation using Coupled Nonparametric Shape and Relative Pose Priors, Gokhan Ununbas, Octavian Soldea, Mujdat Cetin, Gozde Unal, Aytul Ercil, Devrim Unay, Ahmet Ekin, and Zeynep Firat, IS&T SPIE, Electronic Imaging, Computational Imaging VII, San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California, USA, Volume 7246, pp. 72460H-72460H, DOI: 10.1117/12.815215, 18 - 22 January 2009. CI_UzunbasSoldeaUnalMujdatErcilEkinUnayZeynep.pdf

12.: A Comparison on Features Efficiency in Automatic Reconstruction of Archeological Broken Objects. - Diana Florentina Soldea, Octavian Soldea, Gozde Unal, and Aytul Ercil, The 9th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST 2008), Workshops, Short and Project Papers Proceedings, pp. 39-42, December, 2 to 6, 2008, Braga, Portugal. VAST2008.pdf

13.: Learning Function Based Classification from 3D Imagery. Michael Pechuk, Octavian Soldea, and Ehud Rivlin, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 110, Issue 2, May, 2008, pp. 173-191. FunctionalOCLS.pdf.pdf

14.: Efficient Search and Verification for Function Based Classification from Real Range Images. Guy Froimovich, Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni, and Octavian Soldea, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 105, Issue 3, pp. 200-217, March, 2007. FunctionalIlan.pdf

15.: A Comparison of Gaussian and Mean Curvature Estimation Methods on Triangular Meshes of Range Image Data. Evgeni Magid, Octavian Soldea, and Ehud Rivlin, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 107, Issue 3, September, 2007, pp. 139-159. RangeImageCurvatures.pdf

16.: Function-Based Classification from 3D Data and Audio. Aliza Amsellem, Octavian Soldea, and Ehud Rivlin, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems, Beijing, China, pp. 336-341, 9-15 October, 2006. AlizaIROS.pdf

17.: Efficient Search and Verification for Function Based Classification from Real Range Images. Octavian Soldea, Ilan Shimhoni, and Ehud Rivlin, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong-Kong, China, Volume II, pp. 1118-1121, 20-24 August, 2006. Soldea_Search.pdf

18.: Global Segmentation and Curvature Analysis of Volumetric Data Sets Using Trivariate B-spline Functions. Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, and Ehud Rivlin, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 28, Issue 2, 2006. PAMITavi.pdf

19.: Function-Based Classification from 3D Data via Generic and Symbolic Models. Michael Pechuk, Octavian Soldea, and Ehud Rivlin, The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 950-955, July 9-13, 2005. AAAI051PechukM.pdf

20.: Global Curvature Analysis and Segmentation of Volumetric Data Sets Using Trivariate B-spline Functions. Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, and Ehud Rivlin, Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), Beijing, China, pp. 217-226, 13-15 April, 2004. soldeao_curvature.ps.gz

21.: A Comparison of Gaussian and Mean Curvatures Estimation Methods on Triangular Meshes. Tatiana Surazhsky, Evgeny Magid, Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, and Ehud Rivlin, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2003), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1021-1026, 14-19 September, 2003. poly_crvtr.pdf

22.: Exact and Efficient Computation of Moments of Free-Form Surface Based Geometry. Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, and Ehud Rivlin, Israel-Korea Binational Conference on Geometrical Modeling and Computer Graphics, Seoul, Korea, pp. 4-11, 11-12 October, 2001. moments_srfs.zip

23.: Exact and Efficient Computation of Moments of Free-Form Surface and Trivariate Based Geometry. Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, and Ehud Rivlin, Computer-Aided Design, Volume 34, Number 7, pp. 529-539, June 2000. moments_exef.zip

24.: Algorithms on Continued Fractions, Jewels are Forever, Contributions on Theoretical Computer Science in Honor of Arto Salomaa. Octavian Soldea and Azaria Paz, Springer, pp. 273-284, 1999. cf.zip