Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007: 10th International Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Real-Time Tissue Tracking with B-Mode Ultrasound Using Speckle and Visual Servoing....Pages 1-8
Intra-operative 3D Guidance in Prostate Brachytherapy Using a Non-isocentric C-arm....Pages 9-17
A Multi-view Opto-Xray Imaging System....Pages 18-25
Towards 3D Ultrasound Image Based Soft Tissue Tracking: A Transrectal Ultrasound Prostate Image Alignment System....Pages 26-33
A Probabilistic Framework for Tracking Deformable Soft Tissue in Minimally Invasive Surgery....Pages 34-41
Precision Targeting of Liver Lesions with a Needle-Based Soft Tissue Navigation System....Pages 42-49
Dynamic MRI Scan Plane Control for Passive Tracking of Instruments and Devices....Pages 50-58
Design and Preliminary Accuracy Studies of an MRI-Guided Transrectal Prostate Intervention System....Pages 59-67
Thoracoscopic Surgical Navigation System for Cancer Localization in Collapsed Lung Based on Estimation of Lung Deformation....Pages 68-76
Clinical Evaluation of a Respiratory Gated Guidance System for Liver Punctures....Pages 77-85
Rapid Voxel Classification Methodology for Interactive 3D Medical Image Visualization....Pages 86-93
Towards Subject-Specific Models of the Dynamic Heart for Image-Guided Mitral Valve Surgery....Pages 94-101
 pq -space Based Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Augmented Reality....Pages 102-109
Eye-Gaze Driven Surgical Workflow Segmentation....Pages 110-117
Prior Knowledge Driven Multiscale Segmentation of Brain MRI....Pages 118-126
Longitudinal Cortical Registration for Developing Neonates....Pages 127-135
Regional Homogeneity and Anatomical Parcellation for fMRI Image Classification: Application to Schizophrenia and Normal Controls....Pages 136-143
Probabilistic Fiber Tracking Using Particle Filtering....Pages 144-152
SMT: Split and Merge Tractography for DT-MRI....Pages 153-160
Tract-Based Morphometry....Pages 161-168
Towards Whole Brain Segmentation by a Hybrid Model....Pages 169-177
A Family of Principal Component Analyses for Dealing with Outliers....Pages 178-185
Automatic Segmentation of Articular Cartilage in Magnetic Resonance Images of the Knee....Pages 186-194
Automated Model-Based Rib Cage Segmentation and Labeling in CT Images....Pages 195-202
Efficient Selection of the Most Similar Image in a Database for Critical Structures Segmentation....Pages 203-210
Unbiased White Matter Atlas Construction Using Diffusion Tensor Images....Pages 211-218
Real-Time SPECT and 2D Ultrasound Image Registration....Pages 219-226
A Multiphysics Simulation of a Healthy and a Diseased Abdominal Aorta....Pages 227-234
New Motion Correction Models for Automatic Identification of Renal Transplant Rejection....Pages 235-243
Detecting Mechanical Abnormalities in Prostate Tissue Using FE-Based Image Registration....Pages 244-251
Real-Time Fusion of Ultrasound and Gamma Probe for Navigated Localization of Liver Metastases....Pages 252-260
Fast and Robust Analysis of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Datasets....Pages 261-269
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Novice and Expert Surgeons – A Manifold Embedding Approach....Pages 270-277
A Hierarchical Unsupervised Spectral Clustering Scheme for Detection of Prostate Cancer from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)....Pages 278-286
A Clinically Motivated 2-Fold Framework for Quantifying and Classifying Immunohistochemically Stained Specimens....Pages 287-294
Cell Population Tracking and Lineage Construction with Spatiotemporal Context....Pages 295-302
Spatiotemporal Normalization for Longitudinal Analysis of Gray Matter Atrophy in Frontotemporal Dementia....Pages 303-310
Population Based Analysis of Directional Information in Serial Deformation Tensor Morphometry....Pages 311-318
Non-parametric Diffeomorphic Image Registration with the Demons Algorithm....Pages 319-326
Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing....Pages 327-335
Automated Extraction of Lymph Nodes from 3-D Abdominal CT Images Using 3-D Minimum Directional Difference Filter....Pages 336-343
Non-Local Means Variants for Denoising of Diffusion-Weighted and Diffusion Tensor MRI....Pages 344-351
Quantifying Calcification in the Lumbar Aorta on X-Ray Images....Pages 352-359
Physically Motivated Enhancement of Color Images for Fiber Endoscopy....Pages 360-367
Signal LMMSE Estimation from Multiple Samples in MRI and DT-MRI....Pages 368-375
Quantifying Heterogeneity in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Parameter Maps....Pages 376-384
Improving Temporal Fidelity in k-t BLAST MRI Reconstruction....Pages 385-392
Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumor Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images....Pages 393-401
Automatic Whole Heart Segmentation in Static Magnetic Resonance Image Volumes....Pages 402-410
PCA-Based Magnetic Field Modeling : Application for On-Line MR Temperature Monitoring....Pages 411-419
A Probabilistic Model for Haustral Curvatures with Applications to Colon CAD....Pages 420-427
LV Motion Tracking from 3D Echocardiography Using Textural and Structural Information....Pages 428-435
A Novel 3D Multi-scale Lineness Filter for Vessel Detection....Pages 436-443
Live-Vessel: Extending Livewire for Simultaneous Extraction of Optimal Medial and Boundary Paths in Vascular Images....Pages 444-451
A Point-Wise Quantification of Asymmetry Using Deformation Fields: Application to the Study of the Crouzon Mouse Model....Pages 452-459
Object Localization Based on Markov Random Fields and Symmetry Interest Points....Pages 460-468
2D Motion Analysis of Long Axis Cardiac Tagged MRI....Pages 469-476
MCMC Curve Sampling for Image Segmentation....Pages 477-485
Automatic Centerline Extraction of Irregular Tubular Structures Using Probability Volumes from Multiphoton Imaging....Pages 486-494
 Γ -Convergence Approximation to Piecewise Smooth Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 495-502
Is a Single Energy Functional Sufficient? Adaptive Energy Functionals and Automatic Initialization....Pages 503-510
A Duality Based Algorithm for TV- L 1 -Optical-Flow Image Registration....Pages 511-518
Deformable 2D-3D Registration of the Pelvis with a Limited Field of View, Using Shape Statistics....Pages 519-526
Segmentation-Driven 2D-3D Registration for Abdominal Catheter Interventions....Pages 527-535
Primal/Dual Linear Programming and Statistical Atlases for Cartilage Segmentation....Pages 536-543
Similarity Metrics for Groupwise Non-rigid Registration....Pages 544-552
A Comprehensive System for Intraoperative 3D Brain Deformation Recovery....Pages 553-561
Bayesian Tracking of Tubular Structures and Its Application to Carotid Arteries in CTA....Pages 562-570
Automatic Fetal Measurements in Ultrasound Using Constrained Probabilistic Boosting Tree....Pages 571-579
Quantifying Effect-Specific Mammographic Density....Pages 580-587
Revisiting the Evaluation of Segmentation Results: Introducing Confidence Maps....Pages 588-595
Error Analysis of Calibration Materials on Dual-Energy Mammography....Pages 596-603
A MR Compatible Mechatronic System to Facilitate Magic Angle Experiments in Vivo ....Pages 604-611
Variational Guidewire Tracking Using Phase Congruency....Pages 612-619
Endoscopic Navigation for Minimally Invasive Suturing....Pages 620-627
On Fiducial Target Registration Error in the Presence of Anisotropic Noise....Pages 628-635
Rotational Roadmapping: A New Image-Based Navigation Technique for the Interventional Room....Pages 636-643
Bronchoscope Tracking Without Fiducial Markers Using Ultra-tiny Electromagnetic Tracking System and Its Evaluation in Different Environments....Pages 644-651
Online Estimation of the Target Registration Error for n -Ocular Optical Tracking Systems....Pages 652-659
Assessment of Perceptual Quality for Gaze-Contingent Motion Stabilization in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery....Pages 660-667
Prediction of Respiratory Motion with Wavelet-Based Multiscale Autoregression....Pages 668-675
Multi-criteria Trajectory Planning for Hepatic Radiofrequency Ablation....Pages 676-684
A Bayesian 3D Volume Reconstruction for Confocal Micro-rotation Cell Imaging....Pages 685-692
Bias Image Correction Via Stationarity Maximization....Pages 693-700
Toward Optimal Matching for 3D Reconstruction of Brachytherapy Seeds....Pages 701-709
Alignment of Large Image Series Using Cubic B-Splines Tessellation: Application to Transmission Electron Microscopy Data....Pages 710-717
Quality-Based Registration and Reconstruction of Optical Tomography Volumes....Pages 718-725
Simultaneous Segmentation, Kinetic Parameter Estimation, and Uncertainty Visualization of Dynamic PET Images....Pages 726-733
Nonlinear Analysis of BOLD Signal: Biophysical Modeling, Physiological States, and Functional Activation....Pages 734-741
Effectiveness of the Finite Impulse Response Model in Content-Based fMRI Image Retrieval....Pages 742-750
Sources of Variability in MEG....Pages 751-759
Customised Cytoarchitectonic Probability Maps Using Deformable Registration: Primary Auditory Cortex....Pages 760-768
Segmentation of Q-Ball Images Using Statistical Surface Evolution....Pages 769-776
Evaluation of Shape-Based Normalization in the Corpus Callosum for White Matter Connectivity Analysis....Pages 777-784
Accuracy Assessment of Global and Local Atrophy Measurement Techniques with Realistic Simulated Longitudinal Data....Pages 785-792
Combinatorial Optimization for Electrode Labeling of EEG Caps....Pages 793-800
Analysis of Deformation of the Human Ear and Canal Caused by Mandibular Movement....Pages 801-808
Shape Registration by Simultaneously Optimizing Representation and Transformation....Pages 809-817
Landmark Correspondence Optimization for Coupled Surfaces....Pages 818-825
Mean Template for Tensor-Based Morphometry Using Deformation Tensors....Pages 826-833
Shape-Based Myocardial Contractility Analysis Using Multivariate Outlier Detection....Pages 834-841
Orthopedics Surgery Trainer with PPU-Accelerated Blood and Tissue Simulation....Pages 842-849
Interactive Contacts Resolution Using Smooth Surface Representation....Pages 850-857
Using Statistical Shape Analysis for the Determination of Uterine Deformation States During Hydrometra....Pages 858-865
Predictive K-PLSR Myocardial Contractility Modeling with Phase Contrast MR Velocity Mapping....Pages 866-873
A Coupled Finite Element Model of Tumor Growth and Vascularization....Pages 874-881
Autism Diagnostics by 3D Texture Analysis of Cerebral White Matter Gyrifications....Pages 882-890
3-D Analysis of Cortical Morphometry in Differential Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Plus Syndromes: Mapping Frontal Lobe Cortical Atrophy in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Patients....Pages 891-899
Tissue Characterization Using Fractal Dimension of High Frequency Ultrasound RF Time Series....Pages 900-908
Towards Intra-operative 3D Nuclear Imaging: Reconstruction of 3D Radioactive Distributions Using Tracked Gamma Probes....Pages 909-917
Instrumentation for Epidural Anesthesia....Pages 918-925
Small Animal Radiation Research Platform: Imaging, Mechanics, Control and Calibration....Pages 926-934
Proof of Concept of a Simple Computer–Assisted Technique for Correcting Bone Deformities....Pages 935-942
Global Registration of Multiple Point Sets: Feasibility and Applications in Multi-fragment Fracture Fixation....Pages 943-950
Precise Estimation of Postoperative Cup Alignment from Single Standard X-Ray Radiograph with Gonadal Shielding....Pages 951-959
Fully Automated and Adaptive Detection of Amyloid Plaques in Stained Brain Sections of Alzheimer Transgenic Mice....Pages 960-968
Non-rigid Registration of Pre-procedural MR Images with Intra-procedural Unenhanced CT Images for Improved Targeting of Tumors During Liver Radiofrequency Ablations....Pages 969-977
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