First results and future developments of the MIBISOC Project in the IBISlab of the university of parma

Abstract

Medical Imaging using Bio-Inspired and Soft Computing" (MIBISOC) is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) within the EU Seventh Framework Programme.MIBISOC is a training programme in which sixteen EarlyStage Researchers (ESRs) are exposed to a wide variety of Soft Computing (SC) and Bio-Inspired Computing (BC) techniques, and face the challenge of applying them to the different situations and problems which characterize medical image processing tasks. Hence, the main goal of the project is to generate new methods and solutions from the combination of the ideas of experts from the area of Medical Imaging (MI) with those working on BC and SC applications.The Intelligent Bio-Inpired Systems laboratory (IBISlab) in the University of Parma is one of the partners of this ITN. In this paper, we describe the work which is being developed in the IBISlab, as well as its future developments and main objectives, within the framework of this ITN.

Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution for model-based object detection

“…it allows a high performance for unimodal or non-strongly multimodal landscapes, as the one that is, supposedly, generated by the body pose estimation problem using the hierarchical optimization. On the contrary, DE has more exploratory properties and is more efficient when multiple basins of attraction with similar strength are present in the landscape, like in the hippocampus localization, that is a highly multimodal problem, as shown in [54].…”