Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications: 6th International Workshop, ABDI 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 14, 2014.

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Parameter Estimation for Personalization of Liver Tumor Radiofrequency Ablation....Pages 3-12
Automatic Identification and Localisation of Potential Malignancies in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Liver Scans Using Spatio-Temporal Features....Pages 13-22
A Semi-automated Toolkit for Analysis of Liver Cancer Treatment Response Using Perfusion CT....Pages 23-32
Parameter Comparison Between Fast-Water-Exchange-Limit-Constrained Standard and Water-Exchange-Modified Dual-Input Tracer Kinetic Models for DCE-MRI in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma....Pages 33-47
Kinetic Textural Biomarker for Predicting Survival of Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Antiangiogenic Therapy by Use of Baseline First-Pass Perfusion CT....Pages 48-61
Feasibility of Single-Input Tracer Kinetic Modeling with Continuous-Time Formalism in Liver 4-Phase Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced CT....Pages 62-73
Metastatic Liver Tumor Segmentation Using Texture-Based Omni-Directional Deformable Surface Models....Pages 74-83
Automated Navigator Tracker Placement for MRI Liver Scans....Pages 84-93
Pancreatic Blood Flow Measurements in the Pig Pancreatitis Model Using Perfusion CT with Deconvolution Method....Pages 94-102
A Bottom-Up Approach for Automatic Pancreas Segmentation in Abdominal CT Scans....Pages 103-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Spatially-Constrained Probability Distribution Model of Incoherent Motion (SPIM) in Diffusion Weighted MRI Signals of Crohn’s Disease....Pages 117-127
Semi-automatic Crohn’s Disease Severity Estimation on MR Imaging....Pages 128-138
Combining Multiple Expert Annotations Using Semi-supervised Learning and Graph Cuts for Crohn’s Disease Segmentation....Pages 139-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Automatic Assessment of Image Informativeness in Colonoscopy....Pages 151-158
Information-Preserving Pseudo-Enhancement Correction for Non-Cathartic Low-Dose Dual-Energy CT Colonography....Pages 159-168
Application of Pseudo-enhancement Correction to Virtual Monochromatic CT Colonography....Pages 169-178
A Novel Minimal Surface Overlay Model for the Whole Colon Wall Segmentation....Pages 179-187
A Unified Framework for Automated Colon Segmentation....Pages 188-198
A Novel Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy Using One-Sided Transparency....Pages 199-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Total Variation Regularization of Displacements in Parametric Image Registration....Pages 211-220
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
A Bilinear Model for Temporally Coherent Respiratory Motion....Pages 221-228
A New Tube Detection Filter for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms....Pages 229-238
Total Variation Based 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Laparoscopic Sequences....Pages 239-247
MRI-Based Thickness Analysis of Bladder Cancer: A Pilot Study....Pages 248-256
Three-Dimensional Respiratory Deformation Processing for CT Vessel Images Using Angiographic Images....Pages 257-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Reconstruction Method by Using Sparse and Low-Rank Structures for Fast 4D-MRI Acquisition....Pages 269-277
Combined Homogeneous Region Localization and Automated Evaluation of Radiation Dose Dependent Contrast-to-Noise Ratio in Dual Energy Abdominal CT....Pages 278-286
Modeling and Analysis of Bioimpedance Measurements....Pages 287-294
Back Matter....Pages 295-296