1. Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Internship at Siemens Corporate Research
Ugo Jardonnet
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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Ecole Pour l’Informatique et les Techniques Avancees.
Department of Imaging and Visualization
Siemens Corporate Research
End-of-Study Internship Presentation, 2009
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2. Outline
1 Introduction
Siemens Corporate Research
Organization
2 Internship Project
Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Segmentation
3 Technical Aspect
Various tools and technology
Tools
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3. Introduction
Outline
1 Introduction
Siemens Corporate Research
Organization
2 Internship Project
Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Segmentation
3 Technical Aspect
Various tools and technology
Tools
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4. Introduction Siemens Corporate Research
Siemens
Company founded in 1847.
Revenue of 77.3 billion euros in fiscal 2008.
Activity: Conception, development, manufacturing and marketing.
Products: Automation, telecommunication, healthcare, power
generation and home appliances.
Roughly 430 000 employees over the world.
About 300 at Siemens Corporate Research.
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5. Introduction Siemens Corporate Research
From Siemens Corporate Technology to SCR
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6. Introduction Organization
Organization
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7. Internship Project
Outline
1 Introduction
Siemens Corporate Research
Organization
2 Internship Project
Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Segmentation
3 Technical Aspect
Various tools and technology
Tools
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8. Internship Project Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Knee Cartilage
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9. Internship Project Segmentation
Boosting
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10. Internship Project Segmentation
Implementation
Boosting algorithm
Adaboost and variant.
Weak Classifier
k -Nearest Neighbors
Stump
Linear
Perceptron
Classifier tree
Gini Index
Misclassification
Square error
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11. Internship Project Segmentation
Classification Tree
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12. Internship Project Segmentation
Practical Proficiency for SCR
Boosting
overfits very slowly.
allows feature Selection.
can converge very quickly.
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13. Technical Aspect
Outline
1 Introduction
Siemens Corporate Research
Organization
2 Internship Project
Knee Cartilage Segmentation
Segmentation
3 Technical Aspect
Various tools and technology
Tools
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14. Technical Aspect Various tools and technology
CoreLib
CoreLib test
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15. Technical Aspect Tools
Tools
SVN
Python
Matlab
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16. Technical Aspect Tools
Make Titles Informative.
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17. Summary
Timeline
Gantt Chart
Mar Apr May Jun Jul
Kickoff-Meeting / First meeting with Li
Implementation of weak classifiers / Validation
Boosting Algorithms / Validation
Haar Filters
Organs classification / Validation
Feature extraction (wavelet, hessian, tensor)
Corelib test
Bmp2txt
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18. Summary
Conclusion
The first main message of your talk in one or two lines.
The second main message of your talk in one or two lines.
Perhaps a third message, but not more than that.
Outlook
Something you haven’t solved.
Something else you haven’t solved.
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19. Appendix For Further Reading
For Further Reading I
A. Author.
Handbook of Everything.
Some Press, 1990.
S. Someone.
On this and that.
Journal of This and That, 2(1):50–100, 2000.
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