Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007

Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics - II.- Real-Time Tissue Tracking with B-Mode Ultrasound Using Speckle and Visual Servoing.- Intra-operative 3D Guidance in Prostate Brachytherapy Using a Non-isocentric C-arm.- A Multi-view Opto-Xray Imaging System.- Towards 3D Ultrasound Image Based Soft Tissue Tracking: A Transrectal Ultrasound Prostate Image Alignment System.- A Probabilistic Framework for Tracking Deformable Soft Tissue in Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Precision Targeting of Liver Lesions with a Needle-Based Soft Tissue Navigation System.- Dynamic MRI Scan Plane Control for Passive Tracking of Instruments and Devices.- Design and Preliminary Accuracy Studies of an MRI-Guided Transrectal Prostate Intervention System.- Thoracoscopic Surgical Navigation System for Cancer Localization in Collapsed Lung Based on Estimation of Lung Deformation.- Visualization and Interaction.- Clinical Evaluation of a Respiratory Gated Guidance System for Liver Punctures.- Rapid Voxel Classification Methodology for Interactive 3D Medical Image Visualization.- Towards Subject-Specific Models of the Dynamic Heart for Image-Guided Mitral Valve Surgery.- pq-space Based Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Augmented Reality.- Eye-Gaze Driven Surgical Workflow Segmentation.- Neuroscience Image Computing - I.- Prior Knowledge Driven Multiscale Segmentation of Brain MRI.- Longitudinal Cortical Registration for Developing Neonates.- Regional Homogeneity and Anatomical Parcellation for fMRI Image Classification: Application to Schizophrenia and Normal Controls.- Probabilistic Fiber Tracking Using Particle Filtering.- SMT: Split and Merge Tractography for DT-MRI.- Tract-Based Morphometry.- Towards Whole Brain Segmentation by a Hybrid Model.- Computational Anatomy - II.- A Family of Principal Component Analyses for Dealing with Outliers.- Automatic Segmentation of Articular Cartilage in Magnetic Resonance Images of the Knee.- Automated Model-Based Rib Cage Segmentation and Labeling in CT Images.- Efficient Selection of the Most Similar Image in a Database for Critical Structures Segmentation.- Unbiased White Matter Atlas Construction Using Diffusion Tensor Images.- Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications - II.- Real-Time SPECT and 2D Ultrasound Image Registration.- A Multiphysics Simulation of a Healthy and a Diseased Abdominal Aorta.- New Motion Correction Models for Automatic Identification of Renal Transplant Rejection.- Detecting Mechanical Abnormalities in Prostate Tissue Using FE-Based Image Registration.- Real-Time Fusion of Ultrasound and Gamma Probe for Navigated Localization of Liver Metastases.- Fast and Robust Analysis of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Datasets.- Spectroscopic and Cellular Imaging.- Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Novice and Expert Surgeons – A Manifold Embedding Approach.- A Hierarchical Unsupervised Spectral Clustering Scheme for Detection of Prostate Cancer from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS).- A Clinically Motivated 2-Fold Framework for Quantifying and Classifying Immunohistochemically Stained Specimens.- Cell Population Tracking and Lineage Construction with Spatiotemporal Context.- Spatio-Temporal Registration.- Spatiotemporal Normalization for Longitudinal Analysis of Gray Matter Atrophy in Frontotemporal Dementia.- Population Based Analysis of Directional Information in Serial Deformation Tensor Morphometry.- Non-parametric Diffeomorphic Image Registration with the Demons Algorithm.- Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing.- General Medical Image Computing - III.- Automated Extraction of Lymph Nodes from 3-D Abdominal CT Images Using 3-D Minimum Directional Difference Filter.- Non-Local Means Variants for Denoising of Diffusion-Weighted and Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Quantifying Calcification in the Lumbar Aorta on X-Ray Images.- Physically Motivated Enhancement of Color Images for Fiber Endoscopy.- Signal LMMSE Estimation from Multiple Samples in MRI and DT-MRI.- Quantifying Heterogeneity in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Parameter Maps.- Improving Temporal Fidelity in k-t BLAST MRI Reconstruction.- Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumor Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images.- Automatic Whole Heart Segmentation in Static Magnetic Resonance Image Volumes.- PCA-Based Magnetic Field Modeling : Application for On-Line MR Temperature Monitoring.- A Probabilistic Model for Haustral Curvatures with Applications to Colon CAD.- LV Motion Tracking from 3D Echocardiography Using Textural and Structural Information.- A Novel 3D Multi-scale Lineness Filter for Vessel Detection.- Live-Vessel: Extending Livewire for Simultaneous Extraction of Optimal Medial and Boundary Paths in Vascular Images.- A Point-Wise Quantification of Asymmetry Using Deformation Fields: Application to the Study of the Crouzon Mouse Model.- Object Localization Based on Markov Random Fields and Symmetry Interest Points.- 2D Motion Analysis of Long Axis Cardiac Tagged MRI.- MCMC Curve Sampling for Image Segmentation.- Automatic Centerline Extraction of Irregular Tubular Structures Using Probability Volumes from Multiphoton Imaging.- ?-Convergence Approximation to Piecewise Smooth Medical Image Segmentation.- Is a Single Energy Functional Sufficient? Adaptive Energy Functionals and Automatic Initialization.- A Duality Based Algorithm for TV-L 1-Optical-Flow Image Registration.- Deformable 2D-3D Registration of the Pelvis with a Limited Field of View, Using Shape Statistics.- Segmentation-Driven 2D-3D Registration for Abdominal Catheter Interventions.- Primal/Dual Linear Programming and Statistical Atlases for Cartilage Segmentation.- Similarity Metrics for Groupwise Non-rigid Registration.- A Comprehensive System for Intraoperative 3D Brain Deformation Recovery.- Bayesian Tracking of Tubular Structures and Its Application to Carotid Arteries in CTA.- Automatic Fetal Measurements in Ultrasound Using Constrained Probabilistic Boosting Tree.- Quantifying Effect-Specific Mammographic Density.- Revisiting the Evaluation of Segmentation Results: Introducing Confidence Maps.- Error Analysis of Calibration Materials on Dual-Energy Mammography.- Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics - III.- A MR Compatible Mechatronic System to Facilitate Magic Angle Experiments in Vivo .- Variational Guidewire Tracking Using Phase Congruency.- Endoscopic Navigation for Minimally Invasive Suturing.- On Fiducial Target Registration Error in the Presence of Anisotropic Noise.- Rotational Roadmapping: A New Image-Based Navigation Technique for the Interventional Room.- Bronchoscope Tracking Without Fiducial Markers Using Ultra-tiny Electromagnetic Tracking System and Its Evaluation in Different Environments.- Online Estimation of the Target Registration Error for n-Ocular Optical Tracking Systems.- Assessment of Perceptual Quality for Gaze-Contingent Motion Stabilization in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Prediction of Respiratory Motion with Wavelet-Based Multiscale Autoregression.- Multi-criteria Trajectory Planning for Hepatic Radiofrequency Ablation.- General Biological Imaging Computing.- A Bayesian 3D Volume Reconstruction for Confocal Micro-rotation Cell Imaging.- Bias Image Correction Via Stationarity Maximization.- Toward Optimal Matching for 3D Reconstruction of Brachytherapy Seeds.- Alignment of Large Image Series Using Cubic B-Splines Tessellation: Application to Transmission Electron Microscopy Data.- Quality-Based Registration and Reconstruction of Optical Tomography Volumes.- Simultaneous Segmentation, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, and Uncertainty Visualization of Dynamic PET Images.- Neuroscience Image Computing - II.- Nonlinear Analysis of BOLD Signal: Biophysical Modeling, Physiological States, and Functional Activation.- Effectiveness of the Finite Impulse Response Model in Content-Based fMRI Image Retrieval.- Sources of Variability in MEG.- Customised Cytoarchitectonic Probability Maps Using Deformable Registration: Primary Auditory Cortex.- Segmentation of Q-Ball Images Using Statistical Surface Evolution.- Evaluation of Shape-Based Normalization in the Corpus Callosum for White Matter Connectivity Analysis.- Accuracy Assessment of Global and Local Atrophy Measurement Techniques with Realistic Simulated Longitudinal Data.- Combinatorial Optimization for Electrode Labeling of EEG Caps.- Computational Anatomy - III.- Analysis of Deformation of the Human Ear and Canal Caused by Mandibular Movement.- Shape Registration by Simultaneously Optimizing Representation and Transformation.- Landmark Correspondence Optimization for Coupled Surfaces.- Mean Template for Tensor-Based Morphometry Using Deformation Tensors.- Shape-Based Myocardial Contractility Analysis Using Multivariate Outlier Detection.- Computational Physiology - II.- Orthopedics Surgery Trainer with PPU-Accelerated Blood and Tissue Simulation.- Interactive Contacts Resolution Using Smooth Surface Representation.- Using Statistical Shape Analysis for the Determination of Uterine Deformation States During Hydrometra.- Predictive K-PLSR Myocardial Contractility Modeling with Phase Contrast MR Velocity Mapping.- A Coupled Finite Element Model of Tumor Growth and Vascularization.- Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications - III.- Autism Diagnostics by 3D Texture Analysis of Cerebral White Matter Gyrifications.- 3-D Analysis of Cortical Morphometry in Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Plus Syndromes: Mapping Frontal Lobe Cortical Atrophy in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Patients.- Tissue Characterization Using Fractal Dimension of High Frequency Ultrasound RF Time Series.- Towards Intra-operative 3D Nuclear Imaging: Reconstruction of 3D Radioactive Distributions Using Tracked Gamma Probes.- Instrumentation for Epidural Anesthesia.- Small Animal Radiation Research Platform: Imaging, Mechanics, Control and Calibration.- Proof of Concept of a Simple Computer–Assisted Technique for Correcting Bone Deformities.- Global Registration of Multiple Point Sets: Feasibility and Applications in Multi-fragment Fracture Fixation.- Precise Estimation of Postoperative Cup Alignment from Single Standard X-Ray Radiograph with Gonadal Shielding.- Fully Automated and Adaptive Detection of Amyloid Plaques in Stained Brain Sections of Alzheimer Transgenic Mice.- Non-rigid Registration of Pre-procedural MR Images with Intra-procedural Unenhanced CT Images for Improved Targeting of Tumors During Liver Radiofrequency Ablations.