Medical Image Computing MICCAI 2006 /1

Quantitative Validation of the Cortical Surface Reconstruction Algorithm Using MRI Phantom: Issues on Local Geometric Accuracy and Cortical Thickness.- Multivariate Statistics of the Jacobian Matrices in Tensor Based Morphometry and Their Application to HIV/AIDS.- Highly Accurate Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Subcortical Gray Matter from Newborn MRI.- Transformation Model and Constraints Cause Bias in Statistics on Deformation Fields.- Limits on Estimating the Width of Thin Tubular Structures in 3D Images.- Toward Interactive User Guiding Vessel Axis Extraction from Gray-scale Angiograms: An Optimization Framework.- A Statistical Parts-Based Appearance Model of Inter-subject Variability.- The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Domain Description.- A New Closed-Form Information Metric for Shape Analysis.- Simulation and Interaction.- Feasibility of Patient Specific Aortic Blood Flow CFD Simulation.- A Model Based Approach for Multi-lead ECG Array Layout Selection.- Simulation of Acquisition Artefacts in MR Scans: Effects on Automatic Measures of Brain Atrophy.- Non-rigid 2D-3D Registration with Catheter Tip EM Tracking for Patient Specific Bronchoscope Simulation.- Anatomical Modelling of the Musculoskeletal System from MRI.- Towards a Statistical Atlas of Cardiac Fiber Structure.- A Comparison of Needle Bending Models.- An Inverse Kinematics Model For Post-operative Knee.- Online Parameter Estimation for Surgical Needle Steering Model.- Realistic Simulated MRI and SPECT Databases.- Extrapolating Tumor Invasion Margins for Physiologically Determined Radiotherapy Regions.- Simultaneous Stereoscope Localization and Soft-Tissue Mapping for Minimal Invasive Surgery.- Real-Time Endoscopic Mosaicking.- Depth Perception - A Major Issue in Medical AR: Evaluation Study by Twenty Surgeons.- Hybrid Navigation Interface for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery.- Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Viscoelasticity Modeling of the Prostate Region Using Vibro-elastography.- Simultaneous Reconstruction of Tissue Attenuation and Radioactivity Maps in SPECT.- Statistical Finite Element Model for Bone Shape and Biomechanical Properties.- Robotics and Intervention.- Fetus Support Manipulator with Flexible Balloon-Based Stabilizer for Endoscopic Intrauterine Surgery.- Recovery of Surgical Workflow Without Explicit Models.- Comparison of Control Modes of a Hand-Held Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery.- "Virtual Touch": An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium.- Towards Scarless Surgery: An Endoscopic-Ultrasound Navigation System for Transgastric Access Procedures.- New 4-D Imaging for Real-Time Intraoperative MRI: Adaptive 4-D Scan.- The Use of Super Resolution in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Modeling the Human Aorta for MR-Driven Real-Time Virtual Endoscopy.- Adaptive Script Based Animations for Intervention Planning.- Towards Optimization of Probe Placement for Radio-Frequency Ablation.- C-arm Tracking and Reconstruction Without an External Tracker.- Rigid-Flexible Outer Sheath Model Using Slider Linkage Locking Mechanism and Air Pressure for Endoscopic Surgery.- Combined Endo- and Exoscopic Semi-robotic Manipulator System for Image Guided Operations.- The Feasibility of MR-Image Guided Prostate Biopsy Using Piezoceramic Motors Inside or Near to the Magnet Isocentre.- The Role of Insertion Points in the Detection and Positioning of Instruments in Laparoscopy for Robotic Tasks.- Automatic Localization of Laparoscopic Instruments for the Visual Servoing of an Endoscopic Camera Holder.- A Novel Robotic Laser Ablation System for Precision Neurosurgery with Intraoperative 5-ALA-Induced PpIX Fluorescence Detection.- Visual Servoing for Intraoperative Positioning and Repositioning of Mobile C-arms.- Navigated Three Dimensional Beta Probe for Optimal Cancer Resection.- Development of Safe Mechanism for Surgical Robots Using Equilibrium Point Control Method.- Real Time Adaptive Filtering for Digital X-Ray Applications.- Cardio-vascular Applications.- Semiautomatic Volume Conductor Modeling Pipeline for Imaging the Cardiac Electrophysiology Noninvasively.- Atrial Septal Defect Tracking in 3D Cardiac Ultrasound.- Intra-operative Volume Imaging of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins with Rotational X-Ray Angiography.- Phase-Based Registration of Multi-view Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Sequences.- Carotid Artery Segmentation Using an Outlier Immune 3D Active Shape Models Framework.- Estimation of Cardiac Hyperelastic Material Properties from MRI Tissue Tagging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- Boosting and Nonparametric Based Tracking of Tagged MRI Cardiac Boundaries.- A Region Based Algorithm for Vessel Detection in Retinal Images.- Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein Tracking and Differentiation Using Spatiotemporal Analysis.- Image Analysis in Oncology.- Appearance Models for Robust Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in 3D LDCT Chest Images.- Intensity-Based Volumetric Registration of Contrast-Enhanced MR Breast Images.- Semi-parametric Analysis of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Bayesian P-Splines.- Brain Atlases and Segmentation.- Segmentation of Brain MRI in Young Children.- A Learning Based Algorithm for Automatic Extraction of the Cortical Sulci.- Probabilistic Brain Atlas Encoding Using Bayesian Inference.- Atlas Stratification.- Cardiac Motion Analysis.- Physiome Model Based State-Space Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Recovery.- Automated Detection of Left Ventricle in 4D MR Images: Experience from a Large Study.- Pairwise Active Appearance Model and Its Application to Echocardiography Tracking.- Cardiac Motion Recovery: Continuous Dynamics, Discrete Measurements, and Optimal Estimation.- Clinical Applications I.- HMM Assessment of Quality of Movement Trajectory in Laparoscopic Surgery.- A Novel MRI Texture Analysis of Demyelination and Inflammation in Relapsing-Remitting Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis.- Comparison of Different Targeting Methods for Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation.- Objective Outcome Evaluation of Breast Surgery.- Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Ground Glass Opacity Nodules.- Imaging of 3D Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Model-Based Recovery Framework.- Segmentation of the Surfaces of the Retinal Layer from OCT Images.- Spinal Crawlers: Deformable Organisms for Spinal Cord Segmentation and Analysis.- Markerless Endoscopic Registration and Referencing.- Real-Time Tracking of Contrast Bolus Propagation in Continuously Moving Table MR Angiography.- Preventing Signal Degradation During Elastic Matching of Noisy DCE-MR Eye Images.- Automated Analysis of the Mitotic Phases of Human Cells in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy Image Sequences.- Registration I.- Spline-Based Probabilistic Model for Anatomical Landmark Detection.- Affine and Deformable Registration Based on Polynomial Expansion.- Simultaneous Multiple Image Registration Method for T 1 Estimation in Breast MRI Images.- New CTA Protocol and 2D-3D Registration Method for Liver Catheterization.- A New Registration/Visualization Paradigm for CT-Fluoroscopy Guided RF Liver Ablation.- A New Method for CT to Fluoroscope Registration Based on Unscented Kalman Filter.- Automated 3D Freehand Ultrasound Calibration with Real-Time Accuracy Control.- Non-rigid Registration of 3D Multi-channel Microscopy Images of Cell Nuclei.- Fast Deformable Registration of 3D-Ultrasound Data Using a Variational Approach.- A Log-Euclidean Framework for Statistics on Diffeomorphisms.- Nonrigid 3D Brain Registration Using Intensity/Feature Information.