Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2007

Cortical Hemisphere Registration Via Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Curve Mapping.- Tagged Volume Rendering of the Heart.- One-Class Acoustic Characterization Applied to Blood Detection in IVUS.- Phase Sensitive Reconstruction for Water/Fat Separation in MR Imaging Using Inverse Gradient.- LOCUS: LOcal Cooperative Unified Segmentation of MRI Brain Scans.- Spline Based Inhomogeneity Correction for 11C-PIB PET Segmentation Using Expectation Maximization.- Hyperspherical von Mises-Fisher Mixture (HvMF) Modelling of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI.- Use of Varying Constraints in Optimal 3-D Graph Search for Segmentation of Macular Optical Coherence Tomography Images.- Automatic Segmentation of Bladder and Prostate Using Coupled 3D Deformable Models.- Characterizing Spatio-temporal Patterns for Disease Discrimination in Cardiac Echo Videos.- Integrating Functional and Structural Images for Simultaneous Cardiac Segmentation and Deformation Recovery.- Statistical Shape Modeling Using MDL Incorporating Shape, Appearance, and Expert Knowledge.- False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection Using Local Binary Patterns.- Fuzzy Nonparametric DTI Segmentation for Robust Cingulum-Tract Extraction.- Adaptive Metamorphs Model for 3D Medical Image Segmentation.- Coronary Artery Segmentation and Skeletonization Based on Competing Fuzzy Connectedness Tree.- Mixtures of Gaussians on Tensor Fields for DT-MRI Segmentation.- Soft Level Set Coupling for LV Segmentation in Gated Perfusion SPECT.- Nonrigid Image Registration with Subdivision Lattices: Application to Cardiac MR Image Analysis.- Spatio-temporal Registration of Real Time 3D Ultrasound to Cardiovascular MR Sequences.- Nonlinear Registration of Diffusion MR Images Based on Fiber Bundles.- Multivariate Normalization with Symmetric Diffeomorphisms for Multivariate Studies.- Non-rigid Surface Registration Using Spherical Thin-Plate Splines.- A Study of Hippocampal Shape Difference Between Genders by Efficient Hypothesis Test and Discriminative Deformation.- Graph Cuts Framework for Kidney Segmentation with Prior Shape Constraints.- Attenuation Resilient AIF Estimation Based on Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for First Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI.- Real-Time Synthesis of Image Slices in Deformed Tissue from Nominal Volume Images.- Quantitative Comparison of Two Cortical Surface Extraction Methods Using MRI Phantoms.- Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics - I.- Stabilization of Image Motion for Robotic Assisted Beating Heart Surgery.- Robotic Assistant for Transperineal Prostate Interventions in 3T Closed MRI.- Virtually Extended Surgical Drilling Device: Virtual Mirror for Navigated Spine Surgery.- Improved Statistical TRE Model When Using a Reference Frame.- 3D/2D Image Registration: The Impact of X-Ray Views and Their Number.- Magneto-Optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Laparoscope Augmentation.- Evaluation of a Novel Calibration Technique for Optically Tracked Oblique Laparoscopes.- Fiducial-Free Registration Procedure for Navigated Bronchoscopy.- Automatic Target and Trajectory Identification for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Procedures.- Application of Open Source Image Guided Therapy Software in MR-guided Therapies.- Computational Anatomy - I.- Statistical Atlases of Bone Anatomy: Construction, Iterative Improvement and Validation.- A New Benchmark for Shape Correspondence Evaluation.- Automatic Inference of Sulcus Patterns Using 3D Moment Invariants.- Classifier Selection Strategies for Label Fusion Using Large Atlas Databases.- Groupwise Combined Segmentation and Registration for Atlas Construction.- Computational Physiology - I.- Subject-Specific Biomechanical Simulation of Brain Indentation Using a Meshless Method.- Towards an Identification of Tumor Growth Parameters from Time Series of Images.- Real-Time Modeling of Vascular Flow for Angiography Simulation.- A Training System for Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion Procedures.- Anisotropic Wave Propagation and Apparent Conductivity Estimation in a Fast Electrophysiological Model: Application to XMR Interventional Imaging.- Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications - I.- Automatic Trajectory Planning for Deep Brain Stimulation: A Feasibility Study.- Automatic Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Dynamic MRI Datasets.- Automated Planning of Scan Geometries in Spine MRI Scans.- Cardiac-Motion Compensated MR Imaging and Strain Analysis of Ventricular Trabeculae.- High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid.- Physiology and Physics-based Image Computing.- Thoracic CT-PET Registration Using a 3D Breathing Model.- Quantification of Blood Flow from Rotational Angiography.- Modeling Glioma Growth and Mass Effect in 3D MR Images of the Brain.- Towards Tracking Breast Cancer Across Medical Images Using Subject-Specific Biomechanical Models.- Inter-subject Modelling of Liver Deformation During Radiation Therapy.- Brain Atlas Computing.- Contributions to 3D Diffeomorphic Atlas Estimation: Application to Brain Images.- Measuring Brain Variability Via Sulcal Lines Registration: A Diffeomorphic Approach.- Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy.- Generalized Surface Flows for Deformable Registration and Cortical Matching.- Simulation of Therapy.- Real-Time Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis for Surgical Simulation Using Graphics Processing Units.- Modeling of Needle-Tissue Interaction Using Ultrasound-Based Motion Estimation.- Modelling Intravasation of Liquid Distension Media in Surgical Simulators.- General Medical Image Computing - II.- Registration of Cardiac SPECT/CT Data Through Weighted Intensity Co-occurrence Priors.- Prostate Implant Reconstruction with Discrete Tomography.- A New and General Method for Blind Shift-Variant Deconvolution of Biomedical Images.- Registration of Lung Tissue Between Fluoroscope and CT Images: Determination of Beam Gating Parameters in Radiotherapy.- Null Point Imaging: A Joint Acquisition/Analysis Paradigm for MR Classification.- Characterizing Task-Related Temporal Dynamics of Spatial Activation Distributions in fMRI BOLD Signals.- Contraction Detection in Small Bowel from an Image Sequence of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy.- Boundary-Specific Cost Functions for Quantitative Airway Analysis.- Automatic Dry Eye Detection.- Ultrasound Myocardial Elastography and Registered 3D Tagged MRI: Quantitative Strain Comparison.- Robust Kernel Methods for Sparse MR Image Reconstruction.- How Do Registration Parameters Affect Quantitation of Lung Kinematics?.- Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases: 3D Automated Detection in MDCT.- Unsupervised Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model of a Proximal Femur from Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images.- A New Method for Spherical Object Detection and Its Application to Computer Aided Detection of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Images.- Global Medical Shape Analysis Using the Laplace-Beltrami Spectrum.- Real-Time Tracking of the Left Ventricle in 3D Echocardiography Using a State Estimation Approach.- Vessel and Intracranial Aneurysm Segmentation Using Multi-range Filters and Local Variances.- Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus and the Amygdala from MRI Using Hybrid Prior Knowledge.- Clinical Neonatal Brain MRI Segmentation Using Adaptive Nonparametric Data Models and Intensity-Based Markov Priors.- Active-Contour-Based Image Segmentation Using Machine Learning Techniques.- Methods for Inverting Dense Displacement Fields: Evaluation in Brain Image Registration.- Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI Images Using 4 th Order Tensors.- Non-rigid Image Registration Using Graph-cuts.- Probabilistic Speckle Decorrelation for 3D Ultrasound.- De-enhancing the Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI for Robust Registration.- Deformable Density Matching for 3D Non-rigid Registration of Shapes.- Robust Computation of Mutual Information Using Spatially Adaptive Meshes.- Shape Analysis Using a Point-Based Statistical Shape Model Built on Correspondence Probabilities.- Robust Autonomous Model Learning from 2D and 3D Data Sets.- On Simulating Subjective Evaluation Using Combined Objective Metrics for Validation of 3D Tumor Segmentation.- Detection and Segmentation of Pathological Structures by the Extended Graph-Shifts Algorithm.- Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics - II.- Cutting Tool System to Minimize Soft Tissue Damage for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery.