Pit Pattern Classification in Colonoscopy using Wavelets - WaveLab

Preface
Time is the school in which we learn, time is
the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
Writing this thesis sometimes was a very challenging task, but in the end time passed by
very quickly. Now, that the journey is over, it’s time to say thanks to those people without
whom this thesis would not have been possible.
I want to thank Andreas Uhl for supervising my thesis, keeping me always on track and
inspiring me with new ideas.
Furthermore I want to thank my family which always believed in me and supported me
during my study.
I also want to thank Michael Häfner from the Medical University of Vienna and Thomas
Schickmair from the Elisabethinen Hospital in Linz for their support during this thesis.
Finally I want to thank Naoki Saito from the University of California for helping me
to understand the concept of Local Discriminant Bases, Dominik Engel for helping me
tackling my first steps in the realm of Wavelets, Manfred Eckschlager and Clemens Bauer
for listening to me patiently when I was again talking about my thesis only, Martin Tamme
for having very inspiring discussions with him about this thesis and image processing in
general and, last but not least, I want to thank the people from RIST++ for providing me
with enough computing power on their cluster to perform the tests the final results are based
on.
Michael Liedlgruber
Salzburg, May 2006
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