Active contour extraction method using partial shape constraint contour model. - Masahide Nishiura; Mayumi Yuasa; Mutsumi Watanabe (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2000)

Automatic heart wall contour extraction from MR images using active contour models: Initial contour setting based on principal component analysis. - Mayumi Yuasa; Mutsumi Watanabe; Masahide Nishiura; Kojiro Yamaguchi; Takeshi Kondo; Hirofumi Anno; Kouichi Muto (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2003)

Robust Lip Contour Extraction using Separability of Multi-Dimensional Distributions. - Tomokazu Wakasugi; Masahide Nishiura; Kazuhiro Fukui (FGR, 2004)

Automated detection of myocardial wall thickening for echocardiographic sequences. - Masahide Nishiura (Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2005)

Fully automatic feature localization for medical images using a global vector concentration approach. - Tatsuo Kozakaya; Tomoyuki Shibata; Tomoyuki Takeguchi; Masahide Nishiura (CVPR, 2008)