Information Processing in Medical Imaging: 20th International Conference, IPMI 2007, Kerkrade, The Netherlands, July 2-6, 2007. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Shape-Guided Deformable Model with Evolutionary Algorithm Initialization for 3D Soft Tissue Segmentation....Pages 1-12
Shape Regression Machine....Pages 13-25
Active Mean Fields: Solving the Mean Field Approximation in the Level Set Framework....Pages 26-37
Liver Segmentation Using Sparse 3D Prior Models with Optimal Data Support....Pages 38-49
Adaptive Non-rigid Registration of Real Time 3D Ultrasound to Cardiovascular MR Images....Pages 50-61
Multi-slice Three-Dimensional Myocardial Strain Tensor Quantification Using z HARP....Pages 62-73
Bayesian Tracking of Elongated Structures in 3D Images....Pages 74-85
Effective Statistical Edge Integration Using a Flux Maximizing Scheme for Volumetric Vascular Segmentation in MRA....Pages 86-97
Joint Sulci Detection Using Graphical Models and Boosted Priors....Pages 98-109
Rao-Blackwellized Marginal Particle Filtering for Multiple Object Tracking in Molecular Bioimaging....Pages 110-121
Spine Detection and Labeling Using a Parts-Based Graphical Model....Pages 122-133
Lung Nodule Detection Via Bayesian Voxel Labeling....Pages 134-146
Functional Interactivity in fMRI Using Multiple Seeds’ Correlation Analyses – Novel Methods and Comparisons....Pages 147-159
Learning Best Features and Deformation Statistics for Hierarchical Registration of MR Brain Images....Pages 160-171
Information-Theoretic Analysis of Brain White Matter Fiber Orientation Distribution Functions....Pages 172-182
Segmentation of Sub-cortical Structures by the Graph-Shifts Algorithm....Pages 183-197
High-Quality Consistent Meshing of Multi-label Datasets....Pages 198-210
Digital Homeomorphisms in Deformable Registration....Pages 211-222
Incorporating DTI Data as a Constraint in Deformation Tensor Morphometry Between T1 MR Images....Pages 223-232
LV Segmentation Through the Analysis of Radio Frequency Ultrasonic Images....Pages 233-244
Chestwall Segmentation in 3D Breast Ultrasound Using a Deformable Volume Model....Pages 245-256
Automatic Cortical Segmentation in the Developing Brain....Pages 257-269
Comparing Pairwise and Simultaneous Joint Registrations of Decorrelating Interval Exams Using Entropic Graphs....Pages 270-282
Combining Radiometric and Spatial Structural Information in a New Metric for Minimal Surface Segmentation....Pages 283-295
A Fuzzy, Nonparametric Segmentation Framework for DTI and MRI Analysis....Pages 296-307
Symmetric Positive 4 th Order Tensors & Their Estimation from Diffusion Weighted MRI....Pages 308-319
Atlas-to-Image Non-rigid Registration by Minimization of Conditional Local Entropy....Pages 320-332
Shape Modeling and Analysis with Entropy-Based Particle Systems....Pages 333-345
A Volumetric Approach to Quantifying Region-to-Region White Matter Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor MRI....Pages 346-358
Brain Image Registration Using Cortically Constrained Harmonic Mappings....Pages 359-371
Probabilistic Clustering and Quantitative Analysis of White Matter Fiber Tracts....Pages 372-383
Multi-fiber Reconstruction from Diffusion MRI Using Mixture of Wisharts and Sparse Deconvolution....Pages 384-395
A Hamiltonian Particle Method for Diffeomorphic Image Registration....Pages 396-407
Inter and Intra-modal Deformable Registration: Continuous Deformations Meet Efficient Optimal Linear Programming....Pages 408-420
Tracer Kinetics Guided Dynamic PET Reconstruction....Pages 421-433
Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 434-445
Quantifying Metabolic Asymmetry Modulo Structure in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 446-457
Adaptive Time-Frequency Models for Single-Trial M/EEG Analysis....Pages 458-469
Imaging Brain Activation Streams from Optical Flow Computation on 2-Riemannian Manifolds....Pages 470-481
High Level Group Analysis of FMRI Data Based on Dirichlet Process Mixture Models....Pages 482-494
Insight into Efficient Image Registration Techniques and the Demons Algorithm....Pages 495-506
Divergence-Based Framework for Diffusion Tensor Clustering, Interpolation, and Regularization....Pages 507-518
Localized Components Analysis....Pages 519-531
Regional Appearance in Deformable Model Segmentation....Pages 532-543
Fully Automated Registration of First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Independent Component Analysis....Pages 544-555
Octree Grid Topology Preserving Geometric Deformable Model for Three-Dimensional Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 556-568
High-Dimensional Entropy Estimation for Finite Accuracy Data: R -NN Entropy Estimator....Pages 569-580
Kernel-Based Manifold Learning for Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Images....Pages 581-593
An Anatomical Equivalence Class Based Joint Transformation-Residual Descriptor for Morphological Analysis....Pages 594-606
Incorporation of Regional Information in Optimal 3-D Graph Search with Application for Intraretinal Layer Segmentation of Optical Coherence Tomography Images....Pages 607-618
Localized Maximum Entropy Shape Modelling....Pages 619-629
Computer Aided Detection of Pulmonary Embolism with Tobogganing and Mutiple Instance Classification in CT Pulmonary Angiography....Pages 630-641
Measures for Pathway Analysis in Brain White Matter Using Diffusion Tensor Images....Pages 642-649
Estimating the Mesorectal Fascia in MRI....Pages 650-661
A Marginalized MAP Approach and EM Optimization for Pair-Wise Registration....Pages 662-674
Geometry Driven Volumetric Registration....Pages 675-686
A Recursive Anisotropic Fast Marching Approach to Reaction Diffusion Equation: Application to Tumor Growth Modeling....Pages 687-699
Population-Based Fitting of Medial Shape Models with Correspondence Optimization....Pages 700-712
Robust Parametric Modeling Approach Based on Domain Knowledge for Computer Aided Detection of Vertebrae Column Metastases in MRI....Pages 713-724
Nonrigid Image Registration Using Conditional Mutual Information....Pages 725-737
Non-parametric Surface-Based Regularisation for Building Statistical Shape Models....Pages 738-750
Geometrically Proper Models in Statistical Training....Pages 751-762
Registration-Derived Estimates of Local Lung Expansion as Surrogates for Regional Ventilation....Pages 763-774
Back Matter....Pages -