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 Preface

The 4th CompIMAGE conference (http://jessicaz.me.cmu.edu/CompImage

2014/) aimed to bring together researchers in the area of computational mod-
eling of objects represented in images. Different approaches, such as level set
methods, deformable models, optimization, geometric modeling, principal com-
ponent analysis, stochastic methods, machine learning and fuzzy logic, among
others, were discussed by experts to address problems from different applications,
including medicine, biomechanics, biometrics, material science, robotics, surveil-
lance, and defense. The CompImage 2014 conference was held in Pittsburgh,
USA, during September 3–5, 2014. The previous CompIMAGE conferences were
held in Rome, Italy (2012), Buffalo, USA (2010), and Coimbra, Portugal (2006).
There were 54 papers submitted to CompIMAGE 2014, and each paper was
carefully reviewed by several Program Committee members and/or external re-
viewers. Papers were individually reviewed and subsequently opened for dis-
cussion by their reviewers to encourage debate and finding a consensus among
reviewers. Eventually, 29 full papers were accepted. In addition, we solicited and
accepted ten short or position papers. The proceedings are published by Springer
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and the authors of the best ranked papers
were invited to submit extended versions to the journal Computer Methods in
Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization. The confer-
ence also featured six invited talks by Profs. Michael Sacks from The University
of Texas at Austin, Jelena Kovačević from Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew
D. McCulloch and Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen from the University of California San
Diego, Ross Whitaker from the University of Utah, and Marc Thiriet from the
Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
We would like to thank the authors and participants at the conference, the
international Program Committee members, and the external reviewers, all of
whom made their best effort to ensure the high quality of the CompIMAGE 2014
technical program. We further thank Christine Lambrou, Keri Baker, and Mike
Scampone from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, for their very hard effort in organizing and handling all the events at
CompIMAGE 2014.

July 2014 Yongjie Jessica Zhang

João Manuel R.S. Tavares
 Organization

General Co-chairs
Jessica Zhang Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joao Manuel R.S. Tavares Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Steering Committee
João Manuel R.S. Tavares Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Renato M. Natal Jorge Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Daniela Iacoviello Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”,
Italy

Scientific Committee
Lyuba Alboul Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Enrique Alegre Universidad de Leon, Spain
Michel Audette Old Dominion University, USA
Jorge M.G. Barbosa Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Reneta Barneva State University of New York, USA
George Bebis University of Nevada, USA
Manuele Bicego University of Verona, Italy
Elisabetta Binaghi Università dell'Insubria Varese, Italy
Nguyen D. Binh Hue University, Vietnam
John C. Brigham University of Pittsburgh, USA
Valentin Brimkov Buffalo State College, USA
Begoña Calvo Calzada Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
M. Emre Celebi Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA
Andrey Chernikov Old Dominion University, USA
Gary Christensen University of Iowa, USA
Michela Cigola University of Cassino, Italy
Stefania Colonnese Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Miguel V. Correia Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Alexandre Cunha California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
(CA), USA
Jorge Dias Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Alexandre X. Falcão Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Yusheng Feng The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
José A.M. Ferreira Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Ender Finol The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Alejandro Frangi The University of Sheffield, UK
Sidharta Gautama Ghent University, Belgium
VIII Organization
Jordi Gonzalez
Miguel A. Gonzáles Ballester
Manuel González Hidalgo
Bernard Gosselin
Cindy Grimm
Mahmoud Hassaballah
Daniela Iacoviello
Khan Iftekahruddin
Joaquim Jorge
Levent Kara
Constantine Kotropoulos
Jelena Kovacevic
Sebastian Kurtek
Slimane Larabi
Joshua A. Levine
Xiongbiao Luo
G. Elisabeta (Liz) Marai
André R. Marcal
Teresa Mascarenhas
Javier Melenchon
Ana Maria Mendonça
Prahlad Menon
António M.P. Monteiro
Arrate Muñoz
Renato M. Natal
Helcio R.B. Orlande
Lasse Riis Østergaard
João P. Papa
Rasmus R. Paulsen
Francisco J. Perales
Eduardo B. Pires
Hemerson Pistori
Giuseppe Placidi
Marcos Rodrigues
Kristian Sandberg
Gerald Schaefer
Mário F. Secca
Fiorella Sgallari
Suzanne M. Shontz
Jorge Silva
Miguel Silva
Marc Simon
Xue-Cheng Tai
Meng-Xing Tang
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
University of Mons, Belgium
Oregon State University, USA
Wakayama University, Japan
Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Old Dominion University, USA
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ohio State University, USA
USTHB University, Algeria
Clemson University, USA
Nagoya University, Japan
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
University of Porto, Portugal
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Carnegie Mellon University and Sun Yat-sen
University, Joint Institute of Engineering,
USA
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
University of Navarra, Spain
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aalborg University, Denmark
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Dom Bosco Catholic University, Brazil
University L’Aquila, Italy
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Loughborough University, UK
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
University of Bologna, Italy
Mississippi State University, USA
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
University of Bergen, Norway
Imperial College London, UK
 Organization IX

Sabina Tangaro Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy

Guorong Wu University of North Carolina, USA
Guanglei Xiong Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Ge Yang Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Zeyun Yu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Alexaxnder Zisman Central Research Institute of Structural
Materials-'Prometey', St. Petersburg, Russia

Supporting Organizations
Carnegie Mellon University
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP)
Universidade do Porto (UP)
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (INEGI)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
Springer
Taylor & Francis Group
Keynote Talks
 On Development of an Anatomical,
Structural, and Mechanical Integrated Model
of the Mitral Valve

Michael Sacks
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair I
Director of the ICES Center for Cardiovascular Simulation-based Engineering
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Abstract. The mitral valve (MV) is one of the four heart valves which
locates in between the left atrium and left ventricle and regulates the
unidirectional blood flow and normal functioning of the heart during
cardiac cycles. Alternation of any component of the MV apparatus will
typically lead to abnormal MV function. Currently 40,000 patients in
the United States receive MV repair or replacement annually according
to the American Heart Association. Clinically, this can be achieved iter-
atively by surgical repair that reinstate normal annular geometry (size
and shape) and restore mobile leaflet tissue, resulting in reduced annular
and chordae force distribution. High-fidelity computer simulations pro-
vide a means to connect the cellular function with the organ-level MV
tissue mechanical responses, and to help the design of optimal MV re-
pair strategy. As in many physiological systems, one can approach heart
valve biomechanics from using multiscale modeling (MSM) methodolo-
gies, since mechanical stimuli occur and have biological impact at the
organ, tissue, and cellular levels. Yet, MSM approaches of heart valves
are scarce, largely due to the major difficulties in adapting conventional
methods to the areas where we simply do not have requisite data. There
also re-mains both theoretical and computational challenges to applying
traditional MSM techniques to heart valves. Moreover, existing physi-
ologically realistic computational models of heart valve function make
many assumptions, such as a simplified micro-structural and anatomi-
cal representation of the MV apparatus, and thorough validations with
in-vitro or in-vivo data are still limited. We present the details of the
state-of-the-art of mitral valve modeling techniques, with an emphasis
on what is known and investigated at various length scales.

Short Bio: Professor Michael Sacks is the W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-
Based Engineering Science Chair and a world authority on cardiovascular
biomechanics. His research focuses on the quantification and modeling of the
XIV M. Sacks

structure-mechanical properties of native and engineered cardiovascular soft tis-

sues. He is a leading authority on the mechanical behavior and function of the
native and engineered heart valves. He is also active in the biomechanics of
engineered tissues, and in understanding the in-vitro and in-vivo remodeling
processes from a functional biomechanical perspective.
His research includes multi-scale studies of cell/tissue/organ mechanical in-
teractions in heart valves and is particularly interested in determining the local
stress environment for heart valve interstitial cells. Recent research has included
developing novel constitutive models of right ventricular myocardium that allow
for the individual contributions of the myocyte and connective tissue networks.

Selected Recognitions:
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow (Inaugural), Biomedical Engineering Society
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Van C. Mow Medal, American Society for Mechanical Engineers Bioengineering
Division
Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen-
ter at Dallas
M.S., Engineering Mechanics, Michigan State University
B.S. Engineering Mechanics, Michigan State University
Image Based Modeling of Biomaterials Based on
Galerkin and Collocation Meshfree Method

Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen

William Prager Chair Professor
Structure Engineering
University of California San Diego, USA

Abstract. This work introduces meshfree method for image based mod-
eling of biomaterials. The proposed approach allows a direct construction
of simulation model based on pixel data obtained the MRI images. The
pixel points serve for dual purposes in the meshfree modeling: they are
used to define the geometry of the subject and are employed as the
discrete points to obtain approximate solution of the governing partial
differential equations. The material properties and the fiber orientation
information in the DTI data are stored at each pixel point, and the dis-
placements, stresses and strains are solved at each pixel point as well.
The meshfree approximation with smooth kernel allows a representation
of material heterogeneity with smooth transition across the material in-
terfaces. The point based reproducing kernel (RK) approximation also
avoids the complexity in construction of the well shaped mesh in the
conventional finite element method. Two types of meshfree method for
image based modeling of biomaterials are introduced, one based on Gel-
erkin type weak formulation and the other based on a direct collocation
of differential equations. In conjunction with the level set based image
segmentation technique, we apply the proposed meshfree methods to
multiscale modeling of bone materials as well as simulation of skeletal
muscles under contraction.

Short Bio: Prof. Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen is the William Prager Chair of
Structural Engineering at UCSD. He earned his undergraduate degree from Na-
tional Central University in Taiwan, and Master’s and Ph.D. from Northwestern
University. Before moving to UCSD in October 2013, he was the Chancellor’s
Professor of UCLA and has served as the Department Chair of Civil & Environ-
mental Engineering Department (2007-2012). His research is in computational
mechanics and multiscale materials modeling with specialization in development
of meshfree methods. He is one of the original developers of the meshfree Re-
producing Kernel Particle Method (RKPM). He has applied meshfree methods
to large deformation and contact mechanics, geomechanics, shock waves, high
strain rate fragment-impact problems, biomechanics, molecular mechanics, quan-
tum mechanics, as well as multi-scale mechanics and materials.
He is the past President of US Association for Computational Mechanics
(USACM) and is currently serving on the Executive Council of the International
XVI J.-S. Chen

Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), the Executive Council of

the USACM, the Executive Council of the International Chinese Association for
Computational Mechanics (ICACM), and the Board of Governors of ASCE Engi-
neering Mechanics Institute (EMI). He has received numerous awards, including
GenCorp Technology Achievement Award; James Lightners Faculty Fellowship
and The Faculty Scholar Award from The University of Iowa; Outstanding Alum-
nus of National Central University (Taiwan); Tongji Chair of Tongji University
(China); the ICACM Award from International Chinese Association for Com-
putational Mechanics; the Computational Mechanics Award from International
Association for Computational Mechanics, among others. He is the Fellow of
USACM, IACM, ASME, EMI, ICACM. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief,
Associate Editor, or Editorial Board member for nine international journals.
 Problems in Biological Imaging:
Opportunities for Signal Processing

Jelena Kovačević

Department Head of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Director of Center for Bioimage Informatics
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abstract. In recent years, the focus in biological sciences has shifted

from understanding single parts of larger systems, sort of vertical ap-
proach, to understanding complex systems at the cellular and molecu-
lar levels, horizontal approach. Thus the revolution of “omics” projects,
genomics and now proteomics. Understanding complexity of biological
systems is a task that requires acquisition, analysis and sharing of huge
databases, and in particular, high-dimensional databases. Processing such
huge amount of bioimages visually by biologists is inefficient, time-
consuming and error-prone. Therefore, we would like to move towards
automated, efficient and robust processing of such bioimage data sets.
Moreover, some information hidden in the images may not be readily
visually available. Thus, we do not only help humans by using sophisti-
cated algorithms for faster and more efficient processing but also because
new knowledge is generated through use of such algorithms.
The ultimate dream is to have distributed yet integrated large bioim-
age databases which would allow researchers to upload their data, have it
processed, share the data, download data as well as platform-optimized
code, etc., and all this in a common format. To achieve this goal, we
must draw upon a whole host of sophisticated tools from signal process-
ing, machine learning and scientific computing. I will address some of
these issues in this presentation, especially those where signal processing
expertise can play a significant role.

Short Bio: Prof. Jelena Kovačević received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia Uni-
versity. She then joined Bell Labs, followed by Carnegie Mellon University in
2003, where she is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering. She received the Belgrade October Prize and the E.I. Jury Award
at Columbia University. She is a coauthor on an SP Society award-winning paper
and is a coauthor of the books “Wavelets and Subband Coding” and ”Founda-
tions of Signal Processing”. Dr. Kovacevic is the Fellow of the IEEE and was
the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. She was a
XVIII J. Kovačević

keynote speaker at a number of meetings and has been involved in organizing

numerous conferences. Her research interests include multiresolution techniques
and biomedical applications.
 Adaptivity and Conformity in Meshing:
A Two Phase Strategy

Ross Whitaker
Professor in School of Computing
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
University of Utah, USA

Abstract. Despite a great deal of important research and many fun-

damental advances, the general problem of tetrahedral meshing remains
unsolved and challenging. In particular, the contraints imposed by adap-
tive element size, good tetrahedral quality (shape measured by some local
metric), and material boundaries are often in conflict, and attempts to
satisfy these conditions simultaneously frustrate many conventional ap-
proaches, particularly those that rely on iterative local updates to the
mesh. This talk presents results from a recent body of work where we
decouple these problems of adaptivity and geometric conformity. The
strategy is to construct an adaptive background mesh that ignores geo-
metric boundaries, and then partition or cleave that mesh, so that the
resulting mesh conforms to geometry and maintains certain gaurantees
on important mesh properties. The resulting algorithm produces high-
quality, adaptive meshes relatively quickly, but introduces several inter-
esting and important technical challenges.

Short Bio: Ross Whitaker graduated Summa Cum Laude with B.S. degree
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in
1986. From 1986 to 1988 he worked for the Boston Consulting Group, entering
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. At UNC he received
the Alumni Scholarship Award, and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science in
1994. From 1994–1996 he worked at the European Computer-Industry Research
Centre in Munich Germany as a research scientist in the User Interaction and
Visualization Group. From 1996–2000 he was an Assistant Professor in the De-
partment of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee and received
an NSF Career Award. Since 2000 he has been at the University of Utah where
he is faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and
a Professor and the Director of the School of Computing. He teaches discrete
math, scientific visualization, and image processing. Professor Whitaker leads a
graduate-level research group in image analysis, geometry processing, and sci-
entific computing, with a variety of projects supported by both federal agencies
and industrial contracts. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Computing
Community Consortium.
 A Predictive Mathematical Model
of Acupuncture Based on an Explanation
Biological Model

Marc Thiriet
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
France

Abstract. Acupuncture requires a long-term training to handle acu-

points. Four techniques exist: (1) development of a local mechanical
stress field by needle motions (lifting - thrusting cycle or rotation) at
acupoints; (2) development of a local temperature field by directly ap-
plying a heating moxa (mugwort herb) stick on the skin or indirectly
by applying this stick on the acupuncture needle (moxibustion) at acu-
points; (3) development of a local electrical field by applying a small
electric current between a pair of acupuncture needles (electroacupunc-
ture, or percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [PENS]) at acupoints;
and (4) laser light excitation independently of heating and other physical
means probably via proper G-protein-coupled receptors on the surface of
mastocytes.
Acupoints are enriched of mastocytes, among other biological struc-
tures and cells. Mastocytes are activation by a mechanical stress field
(mechanotransduction), heating (thermotransduction), or a electrical field
(electrotransduction). Whatever the operation mode, calcium entry in
the mastocyte triggers degranulation and release of chemoattractants,
neural stimulants, and endocrine substances. The process is sustained by
recruitment of mastocytes (chemotaxis).
Acupuncture effects result from a set of signals sent from activated
mastocytes at given acupoints to local nerve endings and capillaries that
are transmitted to the brain and heart for processing and augmenting
the flow rate, especially in the vasodilated acupoint. Released substances
targets their cognate receptors on nerves and lymph and blood vessels.
These two types of conduits deliver fast cues (electrochemical waves)
and delayed information (blood transport) to the central nervous system,
where they are processed for a desired output.
The mathematical model is a system of 5 partial differential equations.
Its simplest form describes the evolution of the density of mastocytes
and the chemoattractant concentration. A mathematical analysis of a
simplified version of the equation set leads to a theorem for blow-up
condition (the expected solution) as well as an analytical solution useful
for validation. Numerical simulations are also carried out using a finite
element method with mesh adaptivity. The computational model based
 A Predictive Mathematical Model of Acupuncture XXI

on the home-made FreeFEM++ software demonstrated the occurrence

of a stress field that excite mastocytes. It also shows that only adequate
pools of mastocyte, that is, acupoints, must be targeted to have marked
effects.

Short Bio: Marc Thiriet was educated at Medicine Faculty of Lille and Univer-
sity Pierre and Marie Curie ([UPMC] MD), and then at Technology University of
Compiègne (3rd cycle Doctorate in Biomechanics), and Physics College of Uni-
versity Denis Diderot (Accreditation to Supervise Research). He was assistant
physician in the lung disease department of Pontoise hospital. He is currently
a member of the INRIA-UPMC-CNRS team REO in Laboratory Jacques-Louis
Lions (applied math.) of UPMC. He worked in flows in collapsible tubes applied
to airways and veins, 3D unsteady developing laminar flows in bend and branch-
ings, both experimentally and numerically, as well as in models derived from 3D
reconstruction of human anatomy. He is now involved in mathematical modeling
of biological processes.
Marc Thiriet is the author of Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows (2∼Vols.)
and the book series “Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Cir-
culatory and Ventilatory Systems” (9 Vols., 6 published books). He is associate
editor for the medical encyclopedia “Pan Vascular II”. He also wrote the chap-
ter Biofluid Flow and Heat Transfer for the next edition of Handbook of Fluid
Dynamics. He is President of the french committee for Intensive Computation
in Biology and Medicine and was involved in European committees for HPC
(HPC-Europa-2 and PRACE). He is an Internal Reviewer of several Evaluation
Groups of the Canadian Granting Agency (NSERC, mainly Mech. Eng. and also
Life Sciences, Chemistry, Material and Chem. Eng., Computer Sci., and Mathe-
matics). He was a Member of the “Biology” Panel of the french National Strategy
for Research and Innovation (SNRI). He won the Grand Prix de la Fondation
scientifique Franco-Taiwanaise in 2011 from the french Academy of Sciences and
Taiwainese Science Council with his colleague Tony WH Sheu for their contribu-
tion in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)-based treatment of liver cancer
and the first modeling of acupuncture.
 Multi-Scale Image-Based Modeling
of the Failing Heart: From Cell to Patient

Andrew D. McCulloch
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Jacobs School Distinguished Scholar
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA

Abstract. Multi-scale models of the heart have been developed that in-
tegrate both functionally across biomechanical, electrophysiological and
regulatory functions and structurally across physical scales of organiza-
tion from molecule to organ system. Imaging is central to the develop-
ment of multi-scale cardiac models at all scales of biological organiza-
tion, especially in disease states such as heart failure where structural
remodeling of cells, tissue and the whole heart are all key contributors to
mechanical dysfunction and arrhythmia risk. Here, we illustrate the de-
velopment and application of these imaged-derived computational mod-
els to improving understanding and treatment of heart disease using
several examples including: Microanatomically detailed models of sub-
cellular and cellular biophysics generated from 3D electron tomograms;
multi-scale models of murine ventricular mechanics derived from mouse
cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; and patient-specific computational
models of human atrial fibrillation and dyssynchronous heart failure to
improve diagnosis and treatment efficacy.

Short Bio: Prof. Andrew McCulloch is Distinguished Professor of Bioengineer-

ing and Medicine and Jacobs School Distinguished Scholar at the University of
California San Diego, where he joined the faculty in 1987. He is member of the
UCSD Institute for Engineering in Medicine, the Qualcomm Institute, a Senior
Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and a member of the UCSD
Center for Research on Biological Systems. Dr. McCulloch is a Principal Investi-
gator of the National Biomedical Computation Resource and the Cardiac Atlas
project, and Co-Director of the Cardiac Biomedical Science and Engineering
Center at UCSD. He served as Vice Chair of the Bioengineering Department
from 2002 to 2005 and Chair from 2005 to 2008. Dr. McCulloch is Director of
the HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Graduate Training Program and the accompanying
UCSD Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Specialization in Multi-Scale Biology.
 Table of Contents

Medical Treatment, Imaging and Analysis

HIFU Treatment of Liver Cancer – Reciprocal Effect of Blood Flow
and US Studied from a Patient-Specific Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Marc Thiriet, Maxim Solovchuk, and Tony Wen-Hann Sheu

An Inter-Projection Interpolation (IPI) Approach with Geometric

Model Restriction to Reduce Image Dose in Cone Beam CT (CBCT) . . . 12
Hong Zhang, Fengchong Kong, Lei Ren, and Jian-Yue Jin

Adaptive Sampling and Non Linear Reconstruction for Cardiac

Magnetic Resonance Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Giuseppe Placidi, Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Guido Macchiarelli,
Andrea Petracca, and Matteo Spezialetti

A Feasibility Study on Kinematic Feature Extraction from the Human

Interventricular Septum toward Hypertension Classification . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jing Xu, Jia Wu, Bahram Notghi, Marc Simon, and John C. Brigham

Analysis of Cardiac MRI Based Regional Timing of Left Ventricular

Mechanical Contraction as a Biomarker for Electrical Dyssynchrony in
Heart-Failure Patients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Prahlad G. Menon, Srilakshmi M. Adhyapak, and V. Rao Parachuri

Image Registration, Denoising

and Feature Identification
A Parallel Adaptive Physics-Based Non-rigid Registration Framework
for Brain Tumor Resection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Fotis Drakopoulos and Nikos P. Chrisochoides

Curvature-Based Registration for Slice Interpolation of Medical

Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Ahmadreza Baghaie and Zeyun Yu

Well-Posed Gaussian-Like Models for Image Denoising and

Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Xiangtuan Xiong, Xinge Li, and Guoliang Xu

Pattern Classes in Retinal Fundus Images Based on Function Norms . . . 95

Isabel N. Figueiredo, Júlio S. Neves, Susana Moura,
Carlos Manta Oliveira, and João Diogo Ramos
XXIV Table of Contents

Identification of Distinct Blood Vessels in Retinal Fundus Images . . . . . . 106

Nilanjana Dutta Roy, Milan Someswar, Harshit Dalmia, and
Arindam Biswas

Image Segmentation
Segmentation of Two-Phase Flow: A Free Representation for Levet Set
Method with a Priori Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Mauren Louise Sguario, Lucia Valeria Ramos de Arruda,
Iuri Nack Buss, and Henderson Cari Nascimento

Analysis and Segmentation of a Three-Dimensional X-ray Computed

Tomography Image of a Textile Composite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Ilya Straumit, Stepan V. Lomov, and Martine Wevers

Image Segmentation by Image Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Asma Bellili and Slimane Larabi

Improving Atlas-Based Medical Image Segmentation with a Relaxed

Object Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Renzo Phellan, Alexandre X. Falcão, and Jayaram Udupa

Extended Edge-Weighted Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation for Image

Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Kangkang Hu and Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Shape Analysis, Meshing and Graphs

Knapsack Intersection Graphs and Efficient Computation of Their
Maximal Cliques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Valentin E. Brimkov

Characterization of a Novel Imaging-Based Metric of Patellofemoral

Separation Using Computational Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Prahlad G. Menon and Jacobus H. Muller

Feature-Sensitive and Adaptive Mesh Generation of Grayscale

Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Ming Xu, Zhanheng Gao, and Zeyun Yu

Subdividing Prismatic Meshes by Cutting Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Xiaotian Yin, Wei Han, Xianfeng Gu, and Shing-Tung Yau

Medical Image Processing and Simulations

Segmentation of Skin Lesions Using Level Set Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Zhen Ma and João Manuel R.S. Tavares
 Table of Contents XXV

Wavelet-Based Computer-Aided Detection of Bright Lesions in Retinal

Fundus Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Isabel N. Figueiredo and Sunil Kumar

Computing Probabilistic Optical Flow Using Markov Random Fields . . . 241

Dongzhen Piao, Prahlad G. Menon, and Ole J. Mengshoel

Detection of Myocardial Perfusion Defects Using First Pass Perfusion

Cardiac MRI Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Stephen Kruzick, Ole J. Mengshoel, and Prahlad G. Menon

Numerical Simulation from Medical Images: Accurate Integration by

Means of the Cartesian Grid Finite Element Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Onofre Marco, Rubén Sevilla, Juan José Ródenas, and Manuel Tur

Image Recognition, Reconstruction

and Predictive Modeling
Nonlinear Transformation of the Distance Function in the Nearest
Neighbor Image Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Andrey V. Savchenko

A New Method to Improve Quality of Reconstructed Images in

Tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Ahlem Ouaddah and Dalila Boughaci

A General Framework for Nonlinear Regularized Krylov-Based Image

Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Serena Morigi, Lothar Reichel, and Fiorella Sgallari

Image Restoration of Phase Contrast Nano Scale X-ray CT Images . . . . . 280

Arjun Kumar, Pratiti Mandal, Yongjie Jessica Zhang, and Shawn
Litster

Predictive Modeling for 2D Form Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Erhan Batuhan Arisoy, Gunay Orbay, and Levent Burak Kara

Image-Based Modeling and Simulations

Computational Image Modeling for Characterization and Analysis of
Intracellular Cargo Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Kuan-Chieh Chen, Minhua Qiu, Jelena Kovacevic, and Ge Yang

Element Stiffness Matrix Integration in Image-Based Cartesian Grid

Finite Element Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Luca Giovannelli, Juan José Ródenas, José M. Navarro-Jimenez,
and Manuel Tur
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Pixel Based Meshfree Modeling of Skeletal Muscles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Ramya Rao Basava, Jiun-Shyan Chen, Yantao Zhang,
Shantanu Sinha, Usha Sinha, John Hodgson, Robert Csapo, and
Vadim Malis

Modelling of Bioimpedance Measurements: Application to Sensitivity

Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Alexander A. Danilov, Vasily K. Kramarenko, and
Alexandra S. Yurova

Flow Simulations on 3D Segmented Images Using Reinitialization and

Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Luisa Silva, Jia-Xin Zhao, Hugues Digonnet, and Thierry Coupez

Computer Vision and Data-Driven Investigations

UAVision: A Modular Time-Constrained Vision Library for
Color-Coded Object Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
António J.R. Neves, Alina Trifan, and Bernardo Cunha

Time-of-Flight Camera Based Virtual Reality Interaction for Balance

Rehabilitation Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Stefano Levialdi, Andrea Petracca,
Giuseppe Placidi, and Matteo Spezialetti

A Random Decision Forests Approach to Face Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

M. Hassaballah and Mourad Ahmed

A Data-Driven Investigation and Estimation of Optimal Topologies

under Variable Loading Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Erva Ulu, Rusheng Zhang, Mehmet Ersin Yumer, and
Levent Burak Kara

Innovative On-line Handwriting Identification Algorithm Based on

Stroke Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Stefano Levialdi, Andrea Petracca,
Giuseppe Placidi, and Matteo Spezialetti

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

 HIFU Treatment of Liver Cancer –
Reciprocal Effect of Blood Flow and US Studied
from a Patient-Specific Configuration

Marc Thiriet, Maxim Solovchuk4,5, and Tony Wen-Hann Sheu4,5

1
Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7598,
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75005, Paris, France
2
CNRS, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75005, Paris, France
3
INRIA-Paris-Rocquencourt, EPC ***, Domaine de Voluceau, BP105,
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France
4
Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
5
Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Sciences (CASTS),
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract. The present computational model is aimed at predicting the

temperature field in a region of the hepatic parenchyma with a can-
cer resulting from applied high-intensity focused ultrasounds (HIFU)
for thermal ablation of the tumor in a patient-specific geometry. The
three-dimensional (3D) acoustic–thermal–hydrodynamic coupling model
computes the pressure, temperature, and blood velocity fields expressed
by the nonlinear Westervelt equation with relaxation effects and bio-
heat equations in both the hepatic parenchyma and blood vessels (sink).
The classical nonlinear Navier–Stokes equations related to mass and mo-
mentum conservation in large hepatic blood vessels are employed both
for convective cooling and acoustic streaming. This 3D three-field cou-
pling MODEL demonstrates that both convective cooling and acoustic
streaming change the temperature considerably near large blood vessels.
In addition, acoustic streaming cannot be neglected due to resulting ve-
locity magnitude and blood redistribution in the local vascular circuit.

Keywords: 3D reconstruction, acoustic streaming, blood flow, hepatic

cancer, HIFU.

1 Introduction

Liver cancer is the second leading cause of death in Asia and pertains to the most
common malignancy worldwide. In addition to the open and minimally inva-
sive surgery, cryotherapy, radio-frequency (RF) ablation, microwave coagulation
therapy, laser-induced thermotherapy, and catheter-based infusion chemother-
apy followed by transarterial chemoembolizationinfusion chemotherapy (TACE),
high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)-based treatment is noninvasive, non-
ionizing technique. Thermal ablation relies on the observation that a temperature

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above 56◦ C applied during 1 second by a energy source (pressure or electromag-

netic waves) causes irreversible tissue damage.
The HIFU beam should be properly focused to heat (T > 56◦ C) and sub-
sequently necrose only a localized tumoral region. The propagation of sound
in a dispersive medium is investigated by solving the Westervelt equation. The
acoustic energy distributed over the transducer face is concentrated into a vol-
ume that roughly has the size of a rice grain. Acoustic energy propagates through
dispersive biological tissues; hence, it is attenuated. The attenuation depends on
frequency. The numerical model must tackle the frequency content of the acoustic
signal. The heat deposition due to absorption of acoustic energy in the biological
tissue is then determined.
The target tissue temperature should rise to lethal levels without affecting
healthy surrounding tissue, especially blood vessels to avoid vascular damage,
although some organs such as the liver has a strong self-renewal, which enables
fast regeneration. On the other hand, blood flow cooling reduces the necrosed
volume.
Blood supply by both the hepatic artery and portal vein and drainage by
hepatic veins is particulalrly important, as the liver is the body’s chemical pro-
cessor. Destroying the microcirculatory network surrounding the tumor has little
effect, as it contributes to cancer scavenging on the one hand and the liver is
endowed with a strong renewal capacity on the other. Damaging segments of the
macrocirculation can cause huge bleeding.
Creating a medicosurgical platform requires a proper HIFU equipment and a
simulation device that incorporates multiple GPU processors for fast and efficient
computations. Image processing tools are mandatory for optimized procedures.
Simulations carried out on patient-specific geometries are aimed at training,
predicting, and planning the treatment. Numerical investigation also enables
to relatively easily test the effects of nonlinear wave propagation, blood flow
cooling, and acoustic streaming on HIFU tumor ablation.
The three-dimensional (3D) acoustic–thermal–hydrodynamic coupling model
computes the pressure, temperature, and blood velocity fields expressed by the
nonlinear Westervelt equation with relaxation effects and bioheat equations in
both the hepatic parenchyma and blood vessels. The classical nonlinear Navier–
Stokes equations related to mass and momentum conservation in large hepatic
blood vessels are employed both for convective cooling and acoustic streaming.
The 3D problem is solved using the finite-volume method [5–8].
Intrahepatic blood flow and ultrasound-induced heat exert reciprocal influ-
ences. The flowing blood participates in heat transfer as a sink. On the other
hand, ultrasounds disturb the local blood flow as well as its regional distribution.

2 Method

The Westervelt wave equation describes the nonlinear propagation of small-

amplitude sound in a dispersive medium. The dispersive feature of a sonicated
medium relies on the frequency-dependent attenuation. This equation is coupled
 HIFU Treatment of Liver Cancer 3

Fig. 1. Patient-specific 3D reconstruction of the liver and its vasculature

to Pennes bioheat and Navier–Stokes equations to numerically determine the

resulting heat deposition.

2.1 Mathematical Model

The mathematical model relies on a coupling of: (1) nonlinear Westervelt equa-
tion; (2) heat equations in biological tissues; and (3) acoustic streaming hydro-
dynamic equations. The computational domain is meshed from a patient-specific
3D reconstruction that includes the hepatic and portal veins (Fig. 1). The total
number of tetrahedral elements is 910,000. In the focal region, the grid is refined,
thereby generating a cell length of 0.2 mm.
Three-dimensional ultrasound propagation creates an acoustic field that de-
livers energy especially in the focused beam area (heat source). The HIFU beam
is spherically focused from an aperture of 12 cm and a focal length of 12 cm
(frequency 1 MHz). The solid tumor is exposed to a 650-ms ultrasound. The
peak positive and negative pressures equal 14.3 and -6.3 MPa. Acoustic inten-
sity equals 2400 W/cm2 .
Resulting heat is transferred to the biological tissue that possesses sinks. These
sinks are represented by the micro- and macrocirculation. In the region devoid
of large vessels, heat transfer relies on Pennes bioheat equation [4]. In the neigh-
boring region containing large vessels heat is convected by the local blood flow.
Conversely, ultrasounds alter the local blood circulation by acoustic streaming.
A finite-amplitude wave propagation in a homogeneous medium obeys the
Westervelt wave equation:
 
1 2 D 2  ck τk κ 2 2
∇ p − 2 ∂t p +
2
+ 3 ∂t3 p + ∂ p = 0, (1)
c c 4 c 1 + τk ∂t ρ0 c 4 t
k

where p is the acoustic pressure, c the characteristic medium sound speed, ρ0 the
medium density at rest, D the acoustic diffusivity (2c3 α/ω 2 in a thermoviscous
4 M. Thiriet, M. Solovchuk, and T.W.-H. Sheu

fluid), α the acoustic absorption coefficient, ω the angular frequency, and κ =

1 + B/2A (B/2A: nonlinearity parameter, an index of sound pressure vs. density
relation). The third term (T3 ) is a loss term that results from thermal conduction
and viscous dissipation. The forth term (T4 ) describes the nonlinear distorsion
of the pressure wave.
The harmonic compression–expansion longitudinal sound wave oscillating in
time with a given frequency (ω) applied along a given direction in a composite
medium with a multiconstituent structure such as biological tissues undergoes
a dispersion. Sound dispersion arises from the medium with its given physical
properties as well as from possible boundaries (geometrical dispersion) and other
dispersion sources independent of the propagation medium properties. In par-
ticular, sound dispersion is related to relaxation processes occuring during its
propagation. The molecular displacement, especially vibrations, results from a
transfer of energy from the sound wave with a certain delay, the relaxation time.
A substantial frequency dispersion of the sound absorption coefficient can be
observed in dispersive media, at least in the ultrasonic range.
Both the acoustic attenuation coefficient (α) and sound speed (c) depend
on the ultrasound frequency (f ). In a concentrated solution of polymer chains
immersed in a solvent, the absorption coefficient α/f 2 scales as f −1/2 when
f ranges from 1 to 10 MHz [2]. The frequency dependence of the absorption
coefficient becomes higher when the frequency increases.
The complex propagation factor γ(ω) = −α(ω) + ıβ(ω) in the frequency do-
main (α: frequency-dependent attenuation; β: frequency-dependent dispersive
component) is related to the relaxation time (τ ) that characterizes the rate of
the fluctuation relaxation and sound dispersion.
The Westerwelt equation is equivalent to the coupled system of partial differ-
ential equations:

1 ∂ 2p D ∂3p κ ∂ 2 p2 
∇2 p − + + + Pk = 0,
c2 ∂t2 c4 ∂t3 ρ0 c4 ∂t2
 k
∂ 2 ∂3p
1 + τk Pk = 3 ck τk 3 ,
∂t c ∂t

where τi and ci are the characteristic relaxation time and small sound speed
component.
First-order non-reflecting boundary conditions are imposed:

∂p 1 ∂p
= ,
∂n c ∂t

where n is the outward normal.

The heat equation incorporates a heat source, ultrasounds, and a sink, the
local blood flow with a given velocity distribution (v). The equation of energy
field in the flowing blood domain is given by

ρcp Dt T = ∇ · (GT ∇T ) + 2μD : D + S, (2)

 HIFU Treatment of Liver Cancer 5

Table 1. Acoustic and thermal properties of the hepatic parenchyma and blood (cp :
specific heat capacity at constant pressure; GT : thermal conductivity)

c ρ cp GT
(m/s) (kg/m3 ) (J/[kg·K]) (W/[m·K])
Liver 1550 1055 3600 0.51
Blood 1540 1060 3770 0.53
Tumor 1550 1000 3800 0.55

where Dt = ∂t + (v · ∇) is the time derivative, D = (∇v + (∇v)T )/2 the rate of

deformation tensor for a Newtonian fluid, and S a source term (physical dimen-
sion M/(LT 3)). When the viscous dissipation is neglected, the heat transfer due
to blood convection is given by:
DT
ρcp = GT ∇2 T + S, (3)
Dt
The Pennes bioheat equation is
ρtis ctis ∂t T = Gtis ∇2 T + qb cb (T − Ta ) + qmet + qs (4)
where ctis is the specific heat of biological tissue (b: blood), ρtis the density of
biological tissue, Gtis the thermal conductivity, qb the perfusion rate (microcircu-
latory flow), Ta the arterial temperature, qmet the metabolic heat source (usually
neglected), and qs the heat source, that is, the ultrasound power deposition per
unit volume. The physical quantities of the bioheat equation are given in Table 1.
In the linear case, the intensity is equal to Ilin = p2 /2ρc0 , where c0 is the speed
of sound in the propagation medium. In the nonlinear case, the total intensity is
∞

I= In , (5)
n=1

where In are intensities for the respective harmonics n f0 . The ultrasound power
deposition per unit volume is calculated as follows:
∞

qs = 2α(n f0 )In (6)
n=1

The acoustic streaming obeys the following equation, in the absence of body
forces, the force vector exerted by an imposed ultrasound beam being assumed
to act on blood along the acoustic axis (n):
ρ Dt v = −∇p + ν∇2 v + F, (7)
where F (physical dimension M/(LT )2 ) is given by:
qs
F·n = .
c0
6 M. Thiriet, M. Solovchuk, and T.W.-H. Sheu

2.2 Relaxation Model for the Frequency-Dependent Attenuation

Law in Tissue
The tissue absorption coefficient obeys the following power law (p=1):
 p  p
f ω
α = α0 = α0 . (8)
f0 ω0

The original Westervelt equation was derived for thermoviscous fluids. Disper-
sive biological tissues are characterized by a frequency-dependent phase velocity
and attenuation. The acoustic attenuation depends linearly on frequency. Each
relaxation process has its characteristic relaxation time (τi ) and small sound
speed increment (ci ).
The absorption coefficient at frequency ωn = nω0 has the following form:

1  ck τk ωn
2
δωn2
α(ωn ) = + . (9)
2c30 c20 1 + (τk ωn )2
k=1

Five unknown parameters {δ, {ck }21 , {τk }21 } in the Westervelt equation are
calculated by minimizing a mean square error between the experimental tissue
attenuation (using Eq. 8 with p = 1) and the relaxation model (Eq. 9) in the
frequency range from 0.5 to 20 MHz (Table 2).

Table 2. Values of quantities related to tissue attenuation in the Westervelt equation

Parameter Value
δ 0.0022
c1 5.3 m/s
c2 4.3 m/s
τ1 2.3 × 10−6 s
τ2 2.4 × 10−7 s

2.3 Solving Procedure

The temporal terms are discretized using 2nd-order accuracy scheme and the
nonlinear temporal term is linearized:

∂ 2 p2  2 n+1 2 n
 n 2 2 n

∂p n ∂p n+1
= 2 2 ∂t ∂t + p n∂ p
∂t2 + p n+1 ∂ p
∂t2 − 2 ∂p
∂t − 2p n∂ p
∂t2 ; (10)
∂t2

∂p n+1 1
= (3pn+1 − 4pn + pn−1 );
∂t 2Δt
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’Twas three an’ thirty year ago,

When I was ruther young, you know,
I had my last an’ only fight
About a gal one summer night.
’Twas me an’ Zekel Johnson; Zeke
’N’ me ’d be’n spattin’ ’bout a week,
Each of us tryin’ his best to show
That he was Liza Jones’s beau.
We couldn’t neither prove the thing,
Fur she was fur too sharp to fling
One over fur the other one
An’ by so doin’ stop the fun
That we chaps didn’t have the sense
To see she got at our expense.
But that’s the way a feller does,
Fur boys is fools an’ allus was;
An’ when they’s females in the game
I reckon men’s about the same.
Well, Zeke an’ me went on that way
An’ fussed an’ quarreled day by day;
While Liza, mindin’ not the fuss,
Jest kep’ a-goin’ with both of us,
Tell we pore chaps, that’s Zeke an’ me,
Was jest plum mad with jealousy.
Well, fur a time we kep’ our places,
An’ only showed by frownin’ faces
An’ looks ’at well our meanin’ boded
How full o’ fight we both was loaded.
At last it come, the thing broke out,
An’ this is how it come about.
One night (’twas fair, you’ll all agree)
I got Eliza’s company,
An’ leavin’ Zekel in the lurch,
Went trottin’ off with her to church.
An’ jest as we had took our seat,
(Eliza lookin’ fair an’ sweet),
Why, I jest couldn’t help but grin
When Zekel come a-bouncin’ in
As furious as the law allows.
He’d jest be’n up to Liza’s house,
To find her gone, then come to church
To have this end put to his search.
I guess I laffed that meetin’ through,
An’ not a mortal word I knew
Of what the preacher preached er read
Er what the choir sung er said.
Fur every time I’d turn my head
I couldn’t skeercely help but see
’At Zekel had his eye on me.
An’ he ’ud sort o’ turn an’ twist
An’ grind his teeth an’ shake his fist.
I laughed, fur la! the hull church seen us,
An’ knowed that suthin’ was between us.
Well, meetin’ out, we started hum,
I sorter feelin’ what would come.
We’d jest got out, when up stepped Zeke,
An’ said, “Scuse me, I’d like to speak
To you a minute.” “Cert,” said I—
A-nudgin’ Liza on the sly
An’ laughin’ in my sleeve with glee,
I asked her, please, to pardon me.
We walked away a step er two,
Jest to git out o’ Liza’s view,
An’ then Zeke said, “I want to know
Ef you think you’re Eliza’s beau,
An’ ’at I’m goin’ to let her go
Hum with sich a chap as you?”
An’ I said bold, “You bet I do.”
Then Zekel, sneerin’, said ’at he
Didn’t want to hender me,
But then he ’lowed the gal was his
An’ ’at he guessed he knowed his biz,
An’ wasn’t feared o’ all my kin
With all my friends an’ chums throwed in.
Some other things he mentioned there
That no born man could no ways bear
Er think o’ ca’mly tryin’ to stan’
Ef Zeke had be’n the bigges’ man
In town, an’ not the leanest runt
’At time an’ labor ever stunt.
An’ so I let my fist go “bim.”
I thought I’d mos’ nigh finished him.
But Zekel didn’t take it so.
He jest ducked down an’ dodged my blow
An’ then come back at me so hard,
I guess I must ’a’ hurt the yard,
Er spilet the grass plot where I fell,
An’ sakes alive it hurt me; well,
It wouldn’t be’n so bad you see,
But he jest kep’ a-hittin’ me.
An’ I hit back an’ kicked an’ pawed,
But ’t seemed ’twas mostly air I clawed,
While Zekel used his science well
A-makin’ every motion tell.
He punched an’ hit, why, goodness lands,
Seemed like he had a dozen hands.
Well, afterwhile, they stopped the fuss,
An’ some one kindly parted us.
All beat an’ cuffed an’ clawed an’ scratched,
An’ needin’ both our faces patched,
Each started hum a different way;
An’ what o’ Liza, do you say,
Why, Liza—little humbug—darn her,
Why, she’d gone home with Hiram Turner.

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 THE FIRST FURROW
By James J. Montague

Don’t you ever feel a yearnin’, ’long about this time o’ year,
For a robin’s song to tell you that the summer time is near?
Don’t you ever sort o’ hanker for the blackbird’s whistlin’ call,
Echoin’ through the hillside orchard, where the blossoms used to
fall?
Don’t you wish that you were out there, breathin’ in the April air,
Full o’ glad an’ careless boyhood, an’ with strength an’ health to
spare?
Don’t it hurt you to remember, when the springtime comes around,
How the first, long, rollin’ furrow used to wake the sleepy ground?

How’d you like to take the children, born to dirty city streets,
Out to where the brook goes pulsin’ when the heart o’ nature beats?
How’d you like to watch ’em wonder at the boomin’ of the bees,
Or to see ’em dodge the petals that are snowin’ from the trees?
How’d you like to see their faces catch the color o’ the rose,
As they raced across the meadow where the earliest crocus grows?
Wouldn’t it be joy to watch ’em follow on behind the plow,
As it cut the first brown furrow, like it’s doin’ out there now?

SUNSHINE
By Fred Emerson Brooks

Some people have the sunshine,

While others have the rain;
But God don’t change the weather
Because the folks complain.
Don’t waste your time in grumbling,
Nor wrinkle up your brow;
Some other soul has trouble,
Most likely has it now.

When nature lies in shadow,

 On damp and cloudy days,
Don’t blame the sun, good people,
But loan a few bright rays.
The sun is always shining
Above the misty shroud,
And if your world be murky,
The fault lies in the cloud.

Take sunshine to your neighbor,

In all you do and say;
Have sunshine in your labor,
And sunshine in your play.
Where’er the storm-cloud lowers,
Take in the sunlight glow,
And Heaven will show what flowers
From seeds of kindness grow.

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permission of author and publisher.

“CICELY”
ALKALI STATION
By Bret Harte

Cicely says you’re a poet: maybe; I ain’t much on rhyme:

I reckon you’d give me a hundred, and beat me every time.
Poetry!—that’s the way some chaps puts up an idee,
But I takes mine “straight without sugar,” and that’s what’s the matter
with me.

Poetry!—just look round you,—alkali, rock, and sage;

Sage-brush, rock, and alkali; ain’t it a pretty page!
Sun in the east at mornin’, sun in the west at night,
And the shadow of this ’yer station the on’y thing moves in sight.

Poetry!—Well now—Polly! Polly run to your mam;

Run right away, my pooty! By by! Ain’t she a lamb?
Poetry!—that reminds me o’ suthin’ right in that suit:
Jest shet that door thar, will yer?—for Cicely’s ears is cute.

Ye noticed Polly,—the baby? A month afore she was born,

Cicely—my old woman—was moody-like and forlorn;
Out of her head and crazy, and talked of flowers and trees;
Family man yourself, sir? Well, you know what a woman be’s.

Narvous she was, and restless,—said that she “couldn’t stay,”

Stay,—and the nearest woman seventeen miles away.
But I fixed it up with the doctor, and he said he would be on hand,
And I kinder stuck by the shanty, and fenced in that bit o’ land.

One night,—the tenth of October,—I woke with a chill and fright,

For the door it was standing open, and Cicely warn’t in sight,
But a note was pinned on the blanket, which said that she “couldn’t
stay,”
But had gone to visit her neighbor,—seventeen miles away.

When and how she stampeded, I didn’t wait for to see,

For out in the road, next minit, I started as wild as she:
Running first this way and that way, like a hound that is off the scent,
For there warn’t no track in the darkness to tell me the way she went.

I’ve had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,—
Lost on the plains in ’50, drowned almost, and shot;
But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife,
Was ra’ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.

“Cicely! Cicely! Cicely!” I called, and I held my breath,

And “Cicely!” came from the canyon,—and all was as still as death.
And “Cicely! Cicely! Cicely!” came from the rocks below,
And jest but a whisper of “Cicely!” down from them peaks of snow.

I ain’t what you call religious,—but I jest looked up to the sky,

And—this ’yer’s to what I’m coming, and maybe ye think I lie:
But up away to the east’ard, yaller and big and far,
I saw of a suddent rising the singlerist kind of star.
Big and yaller and dancing, it seemed to beckon to me:
Yaller and big and dancing, such as you never see:
Big and yaller and dancing,—I never saw such a star,
And I thought of them sharps in the Bible, and I went for it then and
thar.

Over the brush and bowlders I stumbled and pushed ahead:

Keeping the star afore me, I went wharever it led.
It might hev been for an hour, when suddent and peart and nigh,
Out of the yearth afore me thar riz up a baby’s cry.

Listen! thar’s the same music; but her lungs they are stronger now
Than the day I packed her and her mother,—I’m derned if I jest know
how.
But the doctor kem the next minit, and the joke o’ the whole thing is
That Cis. never knew what happened from that very night to this!

But Cicely says you’re a poet, and maybe you might, some day,
Jest sling her a rhyme ’bout a baby that was born in a curious way,
And see what she says; but, old fellow, when you speak of the star,
don’t tell
As how ’twas the doctor’s lantern,—for maybe ’twon’t sound so well.

—Copyright by Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, and used by their

kind permission.

AN ORDER FOR A PICTURE

By Alice Cary

O good painter, tell me true,

Has your hand the cunning to draw
Shapes of things that you never saw?
Ay? Well, here is an order for you.

Woods and cornfields, a little brown,—

The picture must not be over-bright,—
Yet all in the golden and gracious light
Of a cloud, when the summer sun is down.

Alway and alway, night and morn,

Woods upon woods, with fields of corn
Lying between them, not quite sere,
And not in the full thick, leafy bloom,
When the wind can hardly find breathing-room
Under their tassels,—cattle near,
Biting shorter the short green grass,
And a hedge of sumach and sassafras,
With bluebirds twittering all around,—
(Ah, good painter, you can’t paint sound)—
These and the house where I was born,
Low and little, and black and old,
With children, many as it can hold,
All at the windows, open wide,—
Heads and shoulders clear outside,
And fair young faces all ablush:
Perhaps you may have seen, some day,
Roses crowding the selfsame way,
Out of a wilding, wayside bush.
Listen closer. When you have done
With woods and cornfields and grazing herds,
A lady, the loveliest ever the sun
Looked down upon, you must paint for me;
Oh, if I only could make you see
The clear blue eyes, the tender smile,
The sovereign sweetness, the gentle grace,
The woman’s soul, and the angel’s face
That are beaming on me all the while!—
I need not speak these foolish words:
Yet one word tells you all I would say,—
She is my mother: you will agree
That all the rest may be thrown away.

Two little urchins at her knee

You must paint, sir: one like me,—
 The other with a clearer brow,
And the light of his adventurous eyes
Flashing with boldest enterprise:
At ten years old he went to sea,—
God knoweth if he be living now,—
He sailed in the good ship Commodore,—
Nobody ever crossed her track
To bring us news, and she never came back.
Ah, ’tis twenty long years and more
Since that old ship went out of the bay
With my great-hearted brother on her deck;
I watched him till he shrank to a speck,
And his face was toward me all the way.
Bright his hair was, a golden brown,
The time we stood at our mother’s knee:
That beauteous head, if it did go down,
Carried sunshine into the sea.

Out in the fields one summer night

We were together, half afraid
Of the corn leaves rustling, and of the shade
Of the high hills, stretching so far and still,—
Loitering till after the low little light
Of the candle shone through the open door,
And over the haystack’s pointed top,
All of a tremble, and ready to drop,
The first half-hour, the great yellow star
That we with staring, ignorant eyes,
Had often and often watched to see
Propped and held in its place in the skies
By the fork of a tall, red mulberry tree,
Which close in the edge of our flax-field grew,—
Dead at the top—just one branch full
Of leaves, notched round, and lined with wool,
From which it tenderly shook the dew
Over our heads, when we came to play
In its handbreadth of shadow, day after day:—
 Afraid to go home, sir; for one of us bore
A nest full of speckled and thin-shelled eggs,—
The other, a bird held fast by the legs,
Not so big as a straw of wheat:
The berries we gave her she wouldn’t eat,
But cried and cried, till we held her bill,
So slim and shining, to keep her still.

ONE, TWO, THREE

By Henry C. Bunner

It was an old, old, old, old lady,

And a boy who was half-past three,
And the way that they played together
Was beautiful to see.

She couldn’t go running and jumping,

And the boy, no more could he;
For he was a thin little fellow,
With a thin little twisted knee.

They sat in the yellow sunlight,

Out under the maple tree;
And the game that they played I’ll tell you,
Just as it was told to me.

It was hide-and-go-seek they were playing,

Though you’d never have known it to be—
With an old, old, old, old lady,
And a boy with a twisted knee.

The boy would bend his face down

On his one little sound right knee,
And he’d guess where she was hiding,
In guesses One, Two, Three.

“You are in the china closet!”

 He would cry, and laugh with glee.
It wasn’t the china closet;
But he still had Two and Three.

“You are up in papa’s big bedroom,

In the chest with the queer old key!”
And she said: “You are warm and warmer;
But you’re not quite right,” said she.

“It can’t be the little cupboard

Where Mamma’s things used to be,
So it must be the clothespress, Gran’ma!”
And he found her with his Three.

Then she covered her face with her fingers,

That were wrinkled and white and wee,
And she guessed where the boy was hiding,
With a One and a Two and a Three.

And they never had stirred from their places,

Right under the maple tree—
This old, old, old, old lady,
And the boy with a lame little knee;
This dear, dear, dear old lady,
And the boy who was half-past three.

RECIPROCITY
By H. Bedford-Jones

Would you have men play square with you,

Play fair with you, and bear with you
In all the little weaknesses so easy to condemn?
Then simply try to do the same—
Hold up your head and play the game,
And when the others are to blame
Be sure to bear with them!
Would you have men, when new to you,
 Be true to you and do to you
The things that faith and brother-love and nothing else impel?
Then give them faith and brother-love
And set sincerity above
All other things—and it will prove
That you have builded well!

THE YOUNG TRAMP

By Chas. F. Adams

Hello, thar, stranger! Whar yer frum?

Come in and make yerself ter hum!
We’re common folks, ain’t much on style;
Come in and stop a little while;
’Twon’t do no harm ter rest yer some.

Youngster, yer pale, and don’t look well!

What, way from Bosting? Naow, dew tell!
Why, that’s a hundred mile or so;
What started yer, I’d like ter know,
On sich a tramp; got goods ter sell?

No home, no friends? Naow that’s too bad!

Wall, cheer up, boy, and don’t be sad,—
Wife, see what yer can find ter eat,
And put the coffee on ter heat,—
We’ll fix yer up all right, my lad.

Willing ter work, can’t git a job,

And not a penny in yer fob?
Wall, naow, that’s rough, I dew declare!
What, tears? Come, youngster, I can’t bear
Ter see yer take on so, and sob.

How came yer so bad off, my son?

Father was killed? ’Sho’; whar? Bull Run?
Why, I was in that scrimmage, lad,
And got used up, too, pretty bad;
I shan’t forgit old ’sixty-one!

So yer were left in Bosting, hey!

A baby when he went away?
Those Bosting boys were plucky, wife,
Yer know one of ’em saved my life,
Else I would not be here to-day.

’Twas when the “Black Horse Cavalcade”

Swept down on our small brigade,
I got the shot that made me lame,
When down on me a trooper came,
And this ’ere chap struck up his blade.

Poor feller! He was stricken dead;

The trooper’s sabre cleaved his head.
Joe Billings was my comrade’s name,
He was a Bosting boy, and game!
I almost wished I’d died, instead.

Why, lad! what makes yer tremble so?

Your father! what, my comrade Joe?
And you his son? Come ter my heart.
My home is yours; I’ll try in part,
Ter pay his boy the debt I owe.

HULLO!
By Sam Walter Foss

When you see a man in woe,

Walk straight up and say, “Hullo!”
Say “Hullo!” and “How d’ye do?
How’s the world been using you?”
Slap the fellow on his back,
Bring your hand down with a whack!
Waltz straight up and don’t go slow,
Shake his hand and say “Hullo!”

Is he clothed in rags? Oh, ho.

Walk straight up and say “Hullo!”
Rags are but a cotton roll
Just for wrapping up a soul;
And a soul is worth a true
Hale and hearty “How d’ye do?”
Don’t wait for the crowd to go.
Walk straight up and say “Hullo!”

When big vessels meet, they say,

They salute and sail away;
Just the same as you and me,
Lonely ships upon the sea,
Each one sailing his own jog
For a port beyond the fog;
Let your speaking trumpet blow,
Lift your horn and cry, “Hullo!”

Say “Hullo!” and “How d’ye do?”

Other folks are good as you.
When you leave your house of clay,
Wandering in the far away,
When you travel through the strange
Country far beyond the range,
Then the souls you’ve cheered will know
Who you be, and say “Hullo!”

COLUMBUS
By Arthur Hugh Clough

How in heaven’s name did Columbus get over,

Is a pure wonder to me, I protest,
Cabot, and Raleigh, too, that well-read rover,
Frobisher, Dampier, Drake, and the rest;
 Bad enough all the same,
For them that after came;
But in great heaven’s name,
How he should think
That on the other brink
Of this wild waste, terra firma should be,
Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.

How a man should ever hope to get thither,

E’en if he knew that there was another side;
But to suppose he should come any whither,
Sailing straight on into chaos untried,
In spite of the motion,
Across the whole ocean,
To stick to the notion
That in some nook or bend
Of a sea without end,
He should find North and South America,
Was a pure madness, indeed, I must say.

What if wise men had, as far back as Ptolemy,

Judged that the earth like an orange was round,
None of them ever said, Come along, follow me,
Sail to the West, and the East will be found.
Many a day before
Ever they’d come ashore
Sadder and wiser men,
They’d have turned back again;
And that he did not, but did cross the sea,
Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.

—Copyright by Macmillan & Co., New York, and used by

arrangement.

THE USUAL WAY

Anonymous
There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took,
For he said, “I’ll go a-fishing in the neighboring brook.”
And it chanced a little maiden was walking out that day,
And they met—in the usual way.

Then he sat down beside her, and an hour or two went by,
But still upon the grassy brink his rod and line did lie;
“I thought,” she shyly whispered, “you’d be fishing all the day!”
And he was—in the usual way.

So he gravely took his rod in hand and threw the line about,
But the fish perceived distinctly he was not looking out;
And he said, “Sweetheart, I love you,” but she said she could not
stay,
But she did—in the usual way.

Then the stars came out above them, and she gave a little sigh
As they watched the silver ripples like the moments running by;
“We must say good-by,” she whispered by the alders old and gray.
And they did—in the usual way.

And day by day beside the stream, they wandered to and fro,
And day by day the fishes swam securely down below,
Till this little story ended, as such little stories may,
Very much—in the usual way.

And now that they are married, do they always bill and coo?
Do they never fret and quarrel, like other couples do?
Does he cherish her and love her? Does she honor and obey?
Well, they do—in the usual way.
 HUMOROUS SELECTIONS IN POETRY

LITTLE MISS STUDY AND LITTLE MISS PLAY

By Fred Emerson Brooks

Little Miss Study and little Miss Play,

Each came to the school from an opposite way;
While little Miss Study could always recite,
This little Miss Play hardly ever was right;
For little Miss Study found she could do more
By learning her lessons the evening before;
But, fond of a frolic, this little Miss Play
Would put off her lessons until the next day.
At the head of her class Miss Study was put,
While little Miss Play had to stay at the foot!
Thus little Miss Study and little Miss Play
Went onward through life—in an opposite way.

—Copyright by Forbes & Co., Chicago, and used by kind

permission of author and publisher.

A SIMILAR CASE
Anonymous

Jack, I hear you’ve gone and done it,—

Yes, I know; most fellows will;
Went and tried it once myself, sir,
Though you see I’m single still.
And you met her—did you tell me—
Down at Newport, last July,
And resolved to ask the question
At a soiree?—So did I.

I suppose you left the ball-room,

With its music and its light;
For they say Love’s flame is brightest
In the darkness of the night.
Well, you walked along together,
Overhead, the starlit sky;
And I’ll bet—old man, confess it—
You were frightened.—So was I.

So you strolled along the terrace,

Saw the summer moonlight pour,
All its radiance on the waters,
As they rippled on the shore,
Till at length you gathered courage,
When you saw that none was nigh—
Did you draw her close and tell her,
That you loved her?—So did I.

Well, I needn’t ask you further,

And I’m sure I wish you joy,
Think I’ll wander down and see you
When you’re married,—eh, my boy?
When the honeymoon is over
And you’re settled down, we’ll try—
What? The deuce you say! Rejected?
You rejected?—So was I.

IRISH CASTLES
By Fitz-James O’Brien

“Sweet Norah, come here, and look into the fire;

Maybe in its embers good luck we might see;
But don’t come too near, or your glances so shining,
Will put it clean out, like the sunbeams, machree!

“Just look ’twixt the sods, where so brightly they’re burning,

There’s a sweet little valley, with rivers and trees,
And a house on the bank, quite as big as the squire’s—
Who knows but some day we’ll have something like these?

“And now there’s a coach and four galloping horses,

A coachman to drive, and a footman behind;
That betokens some day we will keep a fine carriage,
And dash through the streets with the speed of the wind.”

As Dermot was speaking, the rain down the chimney,

Soon quenched the turf-fire on the hollowed hearth-stone:
While mansion and carriage, in smoke-wreaths evanished,
And left the poor dreamer dejected and lone.

Then Norah to Dermot, these words softly whispered:

“’Tis better to strive than to vainly desire:
And our little hut by the roadside is better
Than palace, and servants, and coach—in the fire!”

’Tis years since poor Dermot his fortune was dreaming—

Since Norah’s sweet counsel effected its cure;
For, ever since then hath he toiled night and morning,
And now his snug mansion looks down on the Suir.

THE DEACON’S DRIVE

By Fred Emerson Brooks

Good Deacon Jones, although a pious man,

Was not constructed on the meager plan;
And he so loved the Sabbath day of rest,
Of all the seven deemed it far the best;
Could he have made the year’s allotment o’er,
He would have put in many rest-days more.
One Sunday morn, on sacred matters bent,
With his good wife, to church the deacon went.
And since there was no fear of being late,
The horse slow jogged along his Sunday gait.
This horse he got by trading with a Jew,
And called him Moses,—nothing else would do.
He’d been a race-horse in his palmy days,
But now had settled down, to pious ways,—
Save now and then backsliding from his creed,
When overtempted to a burst of speed.

’Twas early, and the deacon’s wife was driving,

While from the book the deacon hard was striving
On sacred things to concentrate his mind—
The sound of clattering hoofs is heard behind;
Old Mose pricked up his ears and sniffed the air;
The deacon mused: “Some racers, I declare!
Fast horse, fast man, fast speeds the life away,
While sluggish blood is slow to disobey!”
He closed the book; he’d read enough of psalms—
And, looking backward, spat upon his palms,
Then grabbed the sagging reins: “Land sakes alive!
It’s late, Jerushee, guess I’d better drive!”

The wife suspects there’s something on his mind;

Adjusts her spectacles and looks behind:
“Pull out, good Silas, let that sinner past
Who breaks the Sabbath day by drivin’ fast!
What pretty horses; he’s some city chap;
My, how he drives; he’ll meet with some mishap!
Be quick thar, Silas; further to the side;
He’s comin’; thank the Lord the road is wide!
Jes’ look at Mose; if he ain’t in fer war!
Say, Silas, what on earth you bracin’ for?
Old man, have you forgot what day it is?”
“Git up thar, Mose! Jerushee, mind yer biz!”
“Upon my soul, look how that nag’s a-pacin’;
Why, Silas, dear, I do believe you’re racin’!
Land sakes alive, what will the people say?
Good Deacon Jones a-racin’, Sabbath day!”

“Jerushee, now you hold yer pious tongue,