Image Analysis and Recognition [recurso electrónico] : 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzin, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010, Proceedings, Part II / edited by Aurélio Campilho, Mohamed Kamel.

Biomedical Image Analysis -- Automated Vertebra Identification from X-Ray Images -- Towards Non Invasive Diagnosis of Scoliosis Using Semi-supervised Learning Approach -- Articulated Model Registration of MRI/X-Ray Spine Data -- Multimodality Image Alignment Using Information-Theoretic Approach -- Retinal Images: Optic Disk Localization and Detection -- Using Retinex Image Enhancement to Improve the Artery/Vein Classification in Retinal Images -- Automatic Corneal Nerves Recognition for Earlier Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Diabetic Neuropathy -- Fusing Shape Information in Lung Segmentation in Chest Radiographs -- A 3D Tool for Left Ventricle Segmentation Editing -- Myocardial Segmentation Using Constrained Multi-Seeded Region Growing -- A Level Set Segmentation Method of the Four Heart Cavities in Pediatric Ultrasound Images -- Improved Technique to Detect the Infarction in Delayed Enhancement Image Using K-Mean Method -- Detection of Arterial Lumen in Sonographic Images Based on Active Contours and Diffusion Filters -- Classification of Endoscopic Images Using Delaunay Triangulation-Based Edge Features -- A Framework for Cerebral CT Perfusion Imaging Methods Comparison -- Application of the Laplacian Pyramid Decomposition to the Enhancement of Digital Dental Radiographic Images for the Automatic Person Identification -- Automatic Recognition of Five Types of White Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood -- An Application for Semi-automatic HPV Typing of PCR-RFLP Images -- Automatic Information Extraction from Gel Electrophoresis Images Using GEIAS -- Elastography of Biological Tissue: Direct Inversion Methods That Allow for Local Shear Modulus Variations -- Segmentation of Cell Nuclei in Arabidopsis Thaliana Roots -- Optical Flow Based Arabidopsis Thaliana Root Meristem Cell Division Detection -- Biometrics -- The West Pomeranian University of Technology Ear Database – A Tool for Testing Biometric Algorithms -- Associating Minutiae between Distorted Fingerprints Using Minimal Spanning Tree -- Application of Wave Atoms Decomposition and Extreme Learning Machine for Fingerprint Classification -- Unideal Iris Segmentation Using Region-Based Active Contour Model -- Secure Iris Recognition Based on Local Intensity Variations -- Transforming Rectangular and Polar Iris Images to Enable Cancelable Biometrics -- Advances in EEG-Based Biometry -- Two-Factor Authentication or How to Potentially Counterfeit Experimental Results in Biometric Systems -- Applications -- Automated Detection of Sand Dunes on Mars -- Directional Gaze Analysis in Webcam Video Sequences -- Novelty Detection on Metallic Surfaces by GMM Learning in Gabor Space -- Digital Instrumentation Calibration Using Computer Vision -- Dynamic Scenes HDRI Acquisition -- Correcting Book Binding Distortion in Scanned Documents -- Image-Based Drift and Height Estimation for Helicopter Landings in Brownout -- Can Background Baroque Music Help to Improve the Memorability of Graphical Passwords? -- Color Texture Analysis for Tear Film Classification: A Preliminary Study -- A New Method for Text-Line Segmentation for Warped Documents -- HistDoc - A Toolbox for Processing Images of Historical Documents -- Urban Road Extraction from High-Resolution Optical Satellite Images -- Geometrical Characterization of Various Shaped 3D-Aggregates of Primary Spherical Particules by Radial Distribution Functions.

ICIAR 2010, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, held in Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, was seventh in the ICIAR - ries of annual conferences alternating between Europe and North America. The idea oforganizingtheseconferenceswasto fosterthecollaborationandexchange between researchersand scientists in the broad ?elds of image analysis and p- tern recognition, addressing recent advances in theory, methodology and app- cations. During the years the conferences have become a forum with a strong participation from many countries. This year, ICIAR was organized along with AIS 2010,the InternationalConferenceon Autonomousand IntelligentSystems. Both conferences were organized by AIMI—Association for Image and Machine Intelligence. For ICIAR 2010, we received a total of 164 full papers from 37 countries. The review process was carried out by members of the Program Committee and other reviewers;all areexperts invariousimageanalysisandpatternrecognition areas. Each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers, and checked by the Conference Chairs. A total of 89 papers were ?nally accepted and appear in the two volumes of these proceedings. The high quality of the papers is attributed ?rst to the authors, and second to the quality of the reviews provided by the experts. We would like to sincerely thank the authors for responding to our call, and to thank the reviewers for their careful evaluation and feedback provided to the authors. It is this collective e?ort that resulted in the strong conference program and high-quality proceedings.

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