MICCAI 2006 accepted papers

Oral program

109 Semi-parametric analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MR images using Bayesian P-Splines, Volker Schmid, Brandon Whitcher, Guang-Zhong Yang

150 Cardiac Motion Recovery: Continuous Dynamics, Discrete Measurements, and Optimal Estimation, Shan Tong, Pengcheng Shi

159 Segmenting Lung Fields in Serial Chest Radiographs Using Both Population and Patient-Specific Shape Statistics, Yonghong Shi, Feihu Qi, Zhong Xue, Kyouko  Itoh, Hidenori  Matsuo, Dinggang Shen

160 Pairwise active appearance model and its application to echocardiography tracking, S. Kevin Zhou, Jie Shao, Bogdan Georgescu, Dorin Comaniciu, Rama Chellappa

221 Automated Detection of Left Ventricle in 4D MR Images: Experience from a Large Study, Xiang Lin, Brett Cowan, Alistair Young

242 Numerical Simulation of Radio Frequency Ablation with State Dependent Material Parameters in Three Space Dimensions, Tim Kroeger, Inga Altrogge, Tobias Preusser, Philippe L. Pereira, Diethard Schmidt, Andreas Weihusen, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

262 Simulation of local and global atrophy in Alzheimer's disease studies, Oscar Camara, Martin Schweiger, Rachael Scahill, William Crum, Beatrix Sneller, Julia Schnabel, Gerard Ridgway, David Cash, Derek Hill, Nick Fox

306 Probabilistic Brain Atlas Encoding Using Bayesian Inference, Koen Van Leemput

308 Rawdata-based detection of the optimal reconstruction phase in ECG-gated cardiac image reconstruction, Dirk Ertel, Marc Kachelrieß, Tobias Pflederer, Stephan  Achenbach, Robert M.  Lapp, Markus  Nagel, Willi A. Kalender Kalender

331 Sensorless Reconstruction of Freehand 3D Ultrasound Data, James Housden, Andrew Gee, Graham Treece, Richard Prager

400 Anisotropy Creases Delineate White Matter Structure in Diffusion Tensor MRI, Gordon Kindlmann, Xavier Tricoche, Carl-Fredrik Westin

402 Logarithm Odds Maps for Shape Represention, Kilian Pohl, John  Fisher , Martha Shenton, Robert McCarley, Eric Grimson, Ron Kikinis, William Wells

436 Segmentation of Brain MRI  in Young Children, Maria Murgasova, Leigh Dyet, David Edwards, Mary Rutherford, Jo Hajnal, Daniel  Rueckert

437 Artificially enlarged training set in image segmentation, Tuomas Tölli, Juha Koikkalainen, Kirsi Lauerma, Jyrki Lötjönen

447 GPU Based Real-time Instrument Tracking with Three Dimensional Ultrasound, Paul Novotny, Jeff Stoll, Nikolay Vasilyev, Pedro Del Nido, Pierre Dupont, Robert Howe

485 Appearance Models for Robust Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in 3D LDCT Chest Images, Aly Farag, Ayman El-Baz, Georgy Gimel'farb, Robert Falk, Mohamed El-Ghar, Tarek  Eldiasty, Mohamed  Ghoneim

491 3D Histological Delineation of Individual Fiber Bundles and Direct Comparison with Diffusion Tensor MRI Tractography, Julien Dauguet, Sharon Peled, Vladimir Berezovskii, Thierry Delzescaux, Simon K. Warfield, Richard Born, Carl-Fredrik Westin

509 Shape-driven surface segmentation using spherical wavelets, Delphine Nain, Steven  Haker, Allen  Tannenbaum, Aaron  Bobick

527 Reconstruction of Patient-specific 3D Bone Surface from 2D Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images and Point Distribution Model, Guoyan Zheng, Miguel A. Gonzalez Ballester, Martin Styner, Lutz-Peter Nolte

533 Physiome Model Based State-Space Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Recovery, Ken C.L. Wong, Heye Zhang, Pengcheng Shi

557 A Learning-Based Algorithm for Automated Extraction of the Cortical Sulci, Songfeng Zheng, Zhuowen Tu, Alan Yuille, Allan L. Reiss, Rebecca A. Dutton, Agatha D. Lee, Albert M. Galaburda, Ivo Dinov, Paul M. Thompson, Authur Toga

577 Anatomically Constrained Deformation for Design of Cranial Implant: Methodology and Validation, Ting Wu, Lorenz  Fieten, Martin  Engelhardt, Klaus Radermacher

632 Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions, Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Tony Chan, Paul Thompson, Shing-Tung Yau

638 Recovery of liver motion and deformation due to respiration using laparoscopic freehand 3D ultrasound system, Masahiko Nakamoto, Hiroaki Hirayama, Yoshinobu Sato, Kozo Konishi, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Makoto Hashizume, Shinichi Tamura

640 Quantitative vertebral morphometry using neighbor-conditional shape models, Marleen de Bruijne, Michael  Lund, Paola  Pettersen, Laszlo  Tanko, Mads  Nielsen

666 Toward a Multi-Modal Atlas for Neurosurgical Planning, M. Mallar Chakravarty, Abbas F. Sadikot, Sanjay Mongia, D. Louis Collin

671 A Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery Using Steerable Electrode Arrays, Jian  Zhang, Kai  Xu, Nabil Simaan, Spiros  Manolidis

674 Atlas stratification, Daniel Blezek, James Miller

684 Wound Cell Segmentation Using Coupled Level Sets and Graph-Vertex Coloring, Sumit Nath, Kannappan Palaniappan, Filiz Bunyak

699 Robot-Assisted Prostate Brachytherapy, Yan Yu, Tarun  Podder, Yongde  Zhang, Wan-Sing Ng, Vladimir Misic, Dave Fuller, Edward Messing, Deborah Rubens, John  strang, Ralph Brasacchio

702 Motion-Compensated MR Valve Imaging with COMB Tag Tracking and Super-Resolution Enhancement, Andrew Dowsey, Jennifer Keegan, Mirna Lerotic, Simon Thom, David Firmin, Guang-Zhong Yang

710 Rician Noise Removal in Diffusion Tensor MRI, Saurav Basu, P. Thomas Fletcher, Ross T. Whitaker

721 Intensity-Based Volumetric Registration of Contrast-Enhanced MR Breast Images, Yin Sun, Chye Hwang Yan, Sim Heng Ong, Ek Tsoon Tan, Shih Chang Wang

739 Multi-modal Image Registration using the Generalized Survival Exponential Entropy, Shu Liao, Albert C. S. Chung

743 Design and Validation of an Image-Guided Robot for Small Animal Research, Peter Kazanzides, Jenghwa Chang, Iulian Iordachita, Jack Li, Clifton Ling, Gabor Fichtinger

757 Using Registration Uncertainty Visualization in a User Study of a Simple Surgical Task, Amber Simpson, Burton  Ma, Elvis Chen, Randy Ellis, James Stewart

796 4D Shape Priors for Level Set Segmentation of the Left Myocardium in SPECT Sequences, Timo Kohlberger, Daniel Cremers, Mikael Rousson, Ramamani Ramaraj

815 Open-curve Shape Correspondence Without Endpoint Correspondence, Theodor Richardson, Song Wang

826 Ultrasound Monitoring of Tissue Ablation via Deformation Model and Shape Priors, Emad Boctor, Michelle Bonfim, Roger Ghanem, Russell Taylor, Michael Choti, Greg Hager, Gabor Fichtinger

Poster program

104 A Statistical Parts-based Appearance Model of Intersubject Variability, Matthew Toews, Louis Collins, Tal Arbel

106 Tumor Therapeutic Response and Vessel Tortuosity: Preliminary Report in Metastatic Breast Cancer, Elizabeth Bullitt, Nancy Lin, Matthew Ewend, Donglin Zeng, Eric Winer, Lisa Carey, Keith Smith

111 An Inverse Kinematics Model For Post-Operative Knee - Ligament Parameters Estimation From Knee Motion, Elvis C. S. Chen, Randy E. Ellis

120 On Mobility Analysis of functional sites from time lapse microscopic image sequences of living cell nucleus, Lopamudra Mukherjee, Vikas  Singh, Jinhui  Xu, Kishore S. Malyavantham, Ronald Berezney

128 Modeling of Intensity Priors for Knowledge-Based Level Set Algorithm in Calvarial Tumor Segmentation, Aleksandra Popovic, Martin Engelhardt, Ting Wu, Klaus  Radermacher

135 Feasibility of Patient Specific Aortic Blood Flow CFD Simulations, Johan Svensson, Roland  Gårdhagen, Einar Heiberg, Tino Ebbers, Dan Loyd, Toste  Länne, Matts Karlsson

141 A new cortical surface parcellation model and its automatic implementation, Cédric Clouchoux, Olivier Coulon, Jean-Luc Anton, Jean-François Mangin, Jean Régis

143 Modeling the Human Aorta for MR-driven Real-time Virtual Endoscopy, Klaus J. Kirchberg, Andreas Wimmer, Christine H. Lorenz

144 ``Virtual Touch": An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium, Hua Zhong, Takeo Kanade, David Schwartzman

146 Transformation Model and Constraints Cause Bias in Statistics on Deformation Fields, Torsten Rohlfing

153 A Fast and Automatic Method to Correct Intensity Inhomogeneity in MR Brain Images, Zujun Hou, Su Huang, Qingmao Hu, Wieslaw Nowinski

162 Semiautomatic Volume Conductor Modeling Pipeline for Imaging the Cardiac Electrophysiology Noninvasively, Bernhard Pfeifer, Michael Seger, Christoph Hintermüller, Gerald Fischer, Friedrich Hanser, Robert Modre, Hannes Mühlthaler, Bernhard Tilg

171 Improved Map-slice-to-volume Motion Correction with B0 Inhomogeneity Correction: Validation of Activation Detection Algorithms Using ROC Curve Analyses, Desmond Teck Beng Yeo, Roshni Bhagalia, Boklye Kim

172 Robust Active Shape Models: A Robust, Generic and Simple Automatic Segmentation Tool, Julien Abi Nahed, Marie-Pierre Jolly, Guang-Zhong  Yang

173 A New Closed-Form Information Metric for Shape Analysis, Adrian Peter, Anand Rangarajan

176 Evaluation of 3-D Shape Reconstruction of Retinal Fundus, Tae Eun Choe, Isaac Cohen, Gerard Medioni, Alexander Walsh, SriniVas  Sadda

177 Asymmetry of SPECT Perfusion Image Patterns as a Diagnostic Feature for Alzheimer's Disease, Vassili Kovalev, Lennart Thurfjel, Roger Lundqvist, Marco Pagani, Marco Pagani

181 Multivariate Statistics of the Jacobian Matrices in Tensor Based  Morphometry and their application to HIV/AIDS, Natasha Lepore, Caroline A.  Brun, Ming-Chang Chiang, Yi-Yu Chou, Oscar L. Lopez, Howard J.  Aizenstein, Arthur W.  Toga, James T. Becker, Paul M. Thompson

188 Anatomical modelling of the musculoskeletal system from MRI, Benjamin Gilles, Laurent Moccozet, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

189 Limits on Estimating the Width of Thin Tubular Structures in 3D Images, Stefan Wörz, Karl Rohr

190 Adaptive script based animations for intervention planning, Konrad Muehler, Ragnar Bade, Bernhard Preim

205 Atrial Septal Defect Tracking in 3D Cardiac Ultrasound, Marius George Linguraru, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Pedro J. del Nido, Robert D.  Howe

209 Image Diffusion using Saliency Bilateral Filter, Jun Xie

216 Tissue Characterization using Dimensionality Reduction and Fluorescence Imaging, Karim Lekadir, Daniel S. Elson, Jose Requejo-Isidro, Christopher Dunsby, James McGinty, Neil Galletly, Gordon Stamp, Paul M. W. French, Guang-Zhong Yang

220 Predicting the effects of deep brain stimulation with diffusion tensor based electric field models, Christopher Butson, Scott Cooper, Jaimie Henderson, Cameron McIntyre

228 Fast and Accurate Connectivity Analysis between Functional Regions based on DT-MRI, Dorit Merhof, Mirco Richter, Frank Enders, Peter Hastreiter, Oliver Ganslandt, Michael Buchfelder, Christopher Nimsky, Günther Greiner

229 A comparison of breast tissue classification techniques, Arnau Oliver, Jordi Freixenet, Robert Martí, Reyer Zwiggelaar

232 Detection of Electrophysiology Catheters in Noisy Fluoroscopy Images, Erik Franken, Peter Rongen, Markus van Almsick, Bart ter Haar Romeny

243 Online Parameter Estimation for Surgical Needle Steering Model, kaiguo yan, Tarun  Podder, Di Xiao , Yan  Yu, Tien-I  Liu, Keck Voon  Ling, Wan Sing  Ng

245 New CTA Protocol and 2D-3D Registration Method for Liver Catheterization, Martin Groher, Nicolas Padoy, Tobias F. Jakobs, Nassir Navab

246 Intensity gradient based registration and fusion of multi-modal images, Eldad Haber, Jan Modersitzki

247 Shape Filtering for False Positive Reduction at Computed Tomography Colonography, Abhilash Miranda, Tarik Chowdhury, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul Whelan

251 Automatic IVUS Segmentation of Atherosclerotic Plaque with Stop & Go Snake, Ellen Brunenberg, Oriol Pujol, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Petia Radeva

258 Development of MRI and SPECT simulated databases with realistic anatomical and functional variabilities - Application to SPECT/MRI registration evaluation, Bérengère Aubert-Broche, Christophe Grova, Anthonin Reilhac, Alan C. Evans, D. Louis Collins

264 Towards Optimization of Probe Placement for Radio-Frequency Ablation, Inga Altrogge, Tim Kröger, Tobias Preusser, Christof Büskens, Philippe L. Pereira, Diethard Schmidt, Andreas Weihusen, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

265 Toward Interactive User Guiding Vessel Axis Extraction from Gray-scale Angiograms: An Optimization Framework, Wilbur C. K. Wong, Albert C. S. Chung

267 Towards a Statistical Atlas of Cardiac Fibre Structure, Jean-Marc Peyrat, Maxime Sermesant, Xavier Pennec, Herve Delingette, Chenyang Xu, Elliot McVeigh, Nicholas Ayache

269 Fast and Robust Clinical Triple-region Image Segmentation using One Level Set Function, Shuo Li, Thomas  Fevens, Adam Krzyzak, Song Li

274 Segmentation of the Surfaces of the Retinal Layer from OCT Images, Mona Haeker, Michael  Abramoff, Randy Kardon, Milan Sonka

276 Backward-Warping Ultrasound Reconstruction for Improving Diagnostic Value and Registration, Wolfgang Wein, Fabian Pache, Barbara Röper, Nassir Navab

282 Discriminative analysis of early Alzheimer’s disease based on two intrinsically anti-correlated networks with resting-state fMRI, Kun Wang, Tianzi Jiang, Meng Liang, Liang Wang, Lixia Tian, Xinqing Zhang, Kuncheng Li, Zhening Liu

284 Robust Approach for Medical Image Registration Based on Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model, Asem Ali, Ayman El-Baz, Aly Farag, Georgy Gimel’farb

288 Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique For Virtual Colonoscopy, M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A.  Farag, Robert Falk, Lowell Katz

290 A Model Based Approach for Multi-Lead ECG Array Layout Selection, Christoph Hintermüller, Michael Seger, Bernhard Pfeifer, Gerald Fischer, Bernhard Tilg

292 Depth perception - a major issue in medical AR:Evaluation study by twenty surgeons, Tobias Sielhorst, Christoph  Bichlmeier, Sandro Heining, Nassir  Navab

311 Fast and robust semi-automatic liver segmentation with haptic interaction, Erik Vidholm, Ingela Nyström, Sven Nilsson

318 Analysis of skeletal microstructure with clinical multislice CT, Joel Petersson, Torkel Brismar, Örjan Smedby

323 Comparing the similarity of statistical shape models using the Bhattacharya metric, Kolawole Babalola, Tim Cootes, Brian Patenaude, Mark Jenkinson, Anil Rao

324 Non-rigid registration of 3D multi-channel microscopy images of cell nuclei, Siwei Yang, Daniela  Köhler, Kathrin Teller, Thomas Cremer, Patricia Le Baccon, Edith Heard, Roland Eils, Karl Rohr

326 Physics-Based Elastic Image Registration Using Splines and Including Landmark Localization Uncertainties, Stefan Wörz, Karl Rohr

328 A Digital Pediatric Brain Structure Atlas from T1-Weighted MR Images, Zuyao Shan, Carlos  Parra, Qing Ji, Robert Ogg, Yong Zhang, Fred Laningham, Wilburn Reddick

343 Riemannian Graph Diffusion for DT-MRI Regularization, Fan Zhang, Edwin Hancock

344 A Method for Registering Diffusion Weighted  Magnetic Resonance Images, Xiaodong Tao, James Miller

350 Automated topology correction for human brain segmentation, Lin Chen

355 Anatomically informed convolution kernels for the projection of fMRI data on the cortical surface, Grégory Operto, Rémy Bulot, Jean-Luc Anton, Olivier Coulon

356 Combined Endo- and Exoscopic Semi-Robotic Manipulator System for Image Guided Operations, Stefanos Serefoglou, Wolfgang Lauer, Axel Perneczky, Theodor Lutze, Klaus Radermacher

359 Assessment of airway remodeling in asthma: volumetric versus surface quantification approaches, Amaury Saragaglia, Catalin Fetita, Françoise Prêteux, Philippe Grenier

364 Data Weighting for Principal Component Noise Reduction in Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound, Gord Lueck, Peter Burns, Anne Martel

374 Real-time Tracking of Contrast Bolus Propagation in Continuously Moving Table MR Angiography, Joshua Trzasko, Stephen Riederer, Armando Manduca

375 Evaluation of Texture Features for Analysis of Ovarian Follicular Development, Na Bian, Mark Eramian, Roger Pierson

376 Spline-based Probabilistic Model for Anatomical Landmark Detection, Camille Izard, Bruno Jedynak

378 Comparison of Control Modes for a Hand-Held Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery, Oliver Tonet, Francesco Focacci, Marco Piccigallo, Filippo Cavallo, Miyuki Uematsu, Giuseppe Megali, Paolo Dario

386 A Fast Method of Generating  Pharmacokinetic Maps from Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Images of the Breast., Anne L. Martel

387 CFD Analysis Incorporating the Influence of Wall Motion: Application to Intracranial Aneurysms, Laura Dempere-Marco, Estanislao  Oubel, Marcelo Castro, Christopher  Putman, Alejandro Frangi, Juan Cebral

388 An Energy Minimization Approach to the Data Driven Editing of Presegmented Images/Volumes, Leo Grady, Gareth  Funka-Lea

389 Objective PET Lesion Segmentation using a Spherical Mean Shift Algorithm, Thomas Sebastian, Ravindra Manjeshwar, Timothy Akhurst, James Miller

390 Accurate Banded Graph Cut Segmentation of Thin Structures Using Laplacian Pyramids, Ali Kemal Sinop, Leo Grady

394 A New CAD System for the Evaluation of Kidney Diseases Using DCE-MRI, William Miller, Aly Farag, Seniha E. Yuksel  Yuksel, Rachid Fahmi, Ayman El-Baz, Mohamed El-Ghar, Tarek  Eldiasty, Mohamed Ghoneim

396 Piecewise-Quadrilateral Registration by Optical Flow -- Applications in Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of the Breast, Michael S. Froh, David C. Barber, Kristy K. Brock, Donald B.  Plewes, Anne L. Martel

399 Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Scaphoid Pinning: Operator Variability and Comparison with Traditional Fluoroscopic Procedure, Maarten Beek, Purang Abolmaesumi, Suriya Luenam, Richard Sellens, David Pichora

403 Multilevel Segmentation and Integrated Bayesian Model Classification with an Application to Brain Tumor Segmentation, Jason Corso, Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Alan Yuille

407 A High-Order Solution for the Distribution of Target Registration Error in Rigid-Body Point-Based Registration, Mehdi Moghari, Purang Abolmaesumi

410 Prostate Segmentation in 2D Ultrasound Images Using Image Warping and Ellipse Fitting, Sara Badiei, Septimiu E.  Salcudean , Jim Varah, James Morris

415 Probabilistic Modeling of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images, Ayman El-Baz, Aly Farag, Georgy Gimel’farb, Mohamed El-Ghar,, Tarek  Eldiasty, Robert  Falk

419 Statistical Finite Element Model for Bone Shape and Biomechanical Properties, Laura Belenguer Querol, Philippe Buechler, Daniel Rueckert, Lutz P. Nolte, Miguel Ángel González Ballester

423 Segmentation of Neck Lymph Nodes in CT Datasets with Stable 3D Mass-Spring Models, Jana Dornheim, Heiko Seim, Bernhard Preim, Ilka Hertel, Gero Strauss

429 Development of a Master-Slave MRI Compatible Prostate Biopsy Manipulator, Haytham Elhawary, Aleksander Zivanovic, Ian Young, Nandita De Souza, Marc Rea, Donald McRobbie, Collin Besant, Brian Davies, Michael Lampérth

431 Iconic feature registration with sparse wavelet coefficients, Pascal Cathier

435 High-Dimensional White Matter Atlas Generation and Group Analysis, Lauren O'Donnell, Carl-Fredrik Westin

439 Fast Elastic Registration for Adaptive Radiotherapy, Urban Malsch, Christian Thieke, Rolf Bendl

441 Intra-operative volume imaging of the left atrium and pulmonary veins with rotational X-ray angiography, Robert Manzke, Vivek  Reddy, Sandeep Dalal, Annemarie Hanekamp, Volker Rasche, Raymond Chan

443 Phase-based registration of multi-view real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic sequences, Vicente Grau, Harald Becher, J. Alison Noble

444 Navigated three dimensional beta probe for optimal cancer resection, Thomas Wendler, Joerg Traub, Sibylle Ziegler, Nassir Navab

445 Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from DTI Using Spectral Clustering, Ulas Ziyan, David Tuch, Carl-Fredrik Westin

450 Performance evaluation of grid-enabled registration algorithms using bronze-standards, Tristan Glatard, Xavier  Pennec, Johan Montagnat

462 Fast Deformable Registration of 3D-Ultrasound Data Using a Variational Approach, Darko Zikic, Wolfgang Wein, Ali Khamene, Dirk-André Clevert, Nassir Navab

463 Objective Outcome Evaluation of Breast Surgery, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gaetano Impoco, Giovanni Gallo, Salvatore Spoto, Giuseppe Catanuto, Maurizio Nava

473 A system for measuring regional surface folding of the neonatal brain from MRI, Claudia Rodriguez-Carranza, Pratik Mukherjee, Daniel Vigneron, James Barkovich, Colin Studholme

474 A Comparison of Needle Bending Models, Ehsan Dehghan, Orcun Goksel, Septimiu E. Salcudean

476 Bronchoscope tracking based on image registration using multiple initial starting points estimated by motion prediction, Kensaku Mori, Daisuke  Deguchi, Takayuki Kitasaka, Yasuhito Suenaga, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Masak Mori, Hiroshi Natori

480 Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein Tracking and Differentiation using Spatiotemporal Analysis, David Wang, George Stetten, Roberta Klatsky

487 A novel MRI texture analysis of demyelination and inflammation in relapsing remitting experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, Yunyan Zhang, Jennifer Wells, Richard Buist, James Peeling, V. Wee Yong, J. Ross MItchell

492 Generation and Application of a Probabilistic Breast Cancer Atlas, Daniel Russakoff, Akira Hasegawa

498 Rigid-Flexible Outer Seath Model using Slider Linkage Locking Mechanism by Airpressure for Endoscopic Surgery, Akihiko Yagi, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Ken Masamune, Hongen Liao, Takeyoshi Dohi

502 Improving Segmentation of the Left Ventricle using a Two-Component Statistical Model, Sebastian Zambal, Jiri Hladuvka, Katja Bühler

504 Fetus Support Manipulator with Flexible Balloon-based Stabilizer for Endoscopic Intrauterine Surgery, Hongen Liao, Hirokazu Suzuki, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi, Toshio Chiba

505 Fast Non Local Means Denoising for 3D MR Images, Pierrick Coupe, Pierre Yger, Christian Barillot

510 Atlas Guided Identification of Brain Structures by Combining 3D Segmentation and SVM Classification, Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin, Meirav Galun, John Moshe Gomori, Ronen Basri, Achi Brandt

511 Hierarchical Part-Based Detection of 3D flexible tubes: Application to CT Colonoscopy, Adrian Barbu, Luca Bogoni, Dorin Comaniciu

512 Recovery of surgical workflow without explicit models, Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi, Tobias Sielhorst, Ralf Stauder, Martin Horn, Hubertus Feussner, Nassir Navab

514 Harvesting the Thermal Cardiac Pulse Signal, Nanfei Sun, Ioannis Pavlidis, Marc Garbey, Jin Fei

517 Anisotropic feature extraction from endoluminal images for detection of intestinal contractions, Panagiota  Spyridonous, Fernando Vilariño, Jordi Vitrià, Fernando Azpiroz, Petia  Radeva

518 Development of Safe Mechanism for Surgical Robots Using Equilibrium Point Control Method, Shinsuk Park, Hyukjin Yim, Byungsang Kim, Jae-bok Song

524 A Log-Euclidean Framework for Statistics on Diffeomorphisms, Vincent ARSIGNY, Olivier COMMOWICK, Xavier PENNEC, Nicholas AYACHE

525 Automated 3D Freehand Ultrasound Calibration with Real-Time Accuracy Control, Kuiran Chen, Purang Abolmaesumi, Adrian Thurston, Randy Ellis

531 Patient Position Detection for SAR Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Andreas Keil, Christian Wachinger, Gerhard Brinker, Stefan Thesen, Nassir Navab

539 Extrapolating Tumor Invasion Margins for Physiologically Determined Radiotherapy Regions, Ender Konukoglu, Olivier  Clatz, Pierre-Yves Bondiau, Herve Delingette, Nicholas Ayache

540 Evaluation on similarity measures of a surface-to-image registration technique for ultrasound images, Wei Shao, Ruoyun Wu, Choon Hua Thng, Henry Sun Sien  Ho, Christopher Wai Sam  Cheng, Wan Sing Ng

541 Registering Histological and MR Images of Prostate for Image-based Cancer Detection, Yiqiang Zhan, Michael Feldman, John Tomaszewski, Christos Davatzikos, Dinggang Shen

545 The Role of Insertion Points in the Detection and Positioning of Instruments in Laparoscopy for Robotic Tasks, Christophe Doignon, Florent Nageotte, Michel de Mathelin

546 Detection of Protrusions on Curved Surfaces Applied to Automated Polyp Detection, Kees van Wijk, Vincent van Ravestijn, Roel Truyen, Frans Vos, Lucas van Vliet

549 Imaging of 3D Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Model-Based Recovery Framework, Linwei Wang, Heye Zhang, Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu

551 Automated analysis of the mitotic phases of human cells in 3D fluorescence microscopy image sequences, Nathalie Harder, Felipe Mora-Bermudez, William  Godinez Navarro, Jan Ellenberg, Roland Eils, Karl Rohr

552 Fiber Bundle Estimation and Parameterization, Marc Niethammer, Sylvain Bouix, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Martha Shenton

558 Investigating cortical variability using a generic gyral model, Gabriele Lohmann, D.Yves von Cramon, Alan C. Colchester

563 The Use of Super Resolution in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery, Mirna Lerotic, Guang-Zhong  Yang

566 HMM Assessment of Quality of Movement Trajectory in Laparoscopic Surgery, Julian Leong, Marios Nicolaou, Louis Atallah, George Mylonas, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang

568 Blood Flow and Velocity Estimation Based on Vessel Transit Time by Combining 2D and 3D X-ray Angiography, Hrvoje Bogunovic, Sven Loncaric

569 Automated analysis of Multi Site MRI phantom data for the NIHPD project, Luke Fu, Vladimir  Fonov, Bruce Pike, Alan Evans, Louis Collins

570 Cosmology Inspired Design of Biomimetic Tissue Engineering Templates with Gaussian Random Fields, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Richard Robb

571 Optimal Sensor Placement for Predictive Cardiac Motion Modeling, Qian Wu, Adrian J. Chung, Guang-Zhong Yang

572 Simulation of Acquisition Artefacts in MR Scans: Effects on Automatic Measures of Brain Atrophy, Oscar Camara-Rey, Beatrix Sneller, Gerard Ridgway, Ellen Garde, Nick Fox, Derek Hill

574 Multiclassifier fusion in human brain MR segmentation: modelling convergence, Rolf A. Heckemann, Joseph V. Hajnal, Paul Aljabar, Daniel Rueckert, Alexander Hammers

576 Diffeomorphic Registration using B-Splines, Daniel Rueckert, Paul Aljabar, Rolf Heckemann, Joseph Hajnal, Alexander Hammers

581 Automatic Point Landmark Matching for Regularizing Nonlinear Intensity Registration: Application to Thoracic CT Images, Martin Urschler, Christopher Zach, Hendrik Ditt, Horst Bischof

583 Supervised probabilistic segmentation of pulmonary nodules in CT scans, Bram van Ginneken

586 Nonrigid 3D Brain Registration Using Intensity/Feature Information, Christine DeLorenzo, Xenophon  Papademetris, Kenneth P. Vives, Dennis Spencer, James S. Duncan

587 Carotid Artery Segmentation using an Outlier Immune 3D Active Shape Models Framework, Karim Lekadir, Guang-Zhong Yang

588 Affine registration of diffusion tensor MR images, Mika Pollari, Tuomas Neuvonen, Jyrki Lötjönen

595 SYMMETRIC ATLASING AND MODEL BASED SEGMENTATION: AN APPLICATION TO THE HIPPOCAMPUS IN OLDER ADULTS, Günther Grabner, Andrew L. Janke, Marc M. Budge, Jens  Pruessner, D. Louis Collins

598 ``Spinal Crawlers'': Deformable Organisms for Spinal Cord Segmentation and Analysis, Chris McIntosh, Ghassan Hamarneh

599 An Approach for the Automatic Cephalometric Landmark Detection Using Mathematical Morphology and Active Appearance Models, Sylvia Rueda, Mariano Alcañiz

601 Biomechanically Based Elastic Breast Registration Using Mass Tensor Simulation, Liesbet Roose, Wouter Mollemans, Dirk Loeckx, Frederik Maes, Paul Suetens

603 Improved Correspondence for DTI Population Studies via Unbiased Atlas Building, Casey Goodlett, Brad Davis, Remi Jean, John Gilmore, Guido Gerig

610 Automatic Segmentation of Jaw Tissues in CT Using Active Appearance Models and Semi-Automatic Landmarking, Sylvia Rueda, José Antonio Gil, Raphaël Pichery, Mariano Alcañiz

611 Hippocampus-Specific fMRI Group Activation Analysis with Continuous M-Reps, Paul A. Yushkevich, John A. Detre, Kathy Z. Tang, Angela Hoang, Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, Maria Fernandez-Seara, Marc Korczykowski, Hui Zhang, James C. Gee

618 4D Shape Registration For Dynamic Electrophysiological Cardiac Mapping, Kevin Wilson, Gerard Guiraudon, Doug Jones, Terry Peters

620 Accurate Airway Wall Estimation using Phase Congruency, Raul San Jose Estepar, George R. Washko, Edwin Silverman, John Joseph Reilly, Kikinis Ron, Carl-Fredrik Westin

626 Part-based Local Shape Models for Colon Polyp Detection, Rahul Bhotika, Paulo Mendonca, Saad Sirohey, Wesley Turner, Julie McCoy, Rebecca Brown, James Miller

627 Towards Scarless Surgery: An Endoscopic-Ultrasound Navigation System for Transgastric Access Procedures, Raul San Jose Estepar, Nicholas Stylopoulos, Randy Ellis, Eigil Samset, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Christopher Thompson, Kirby Vosburgh

628 Estimation of Cardiac Electrical Propagation from Medical Image Sequence, Heye ZHANG, Chun Lok  WONG, Pengcheng SHI

629 Markerless Endoscopic Registration and Referencing, Christian Wengert, Philippe Cattin, Gabor Szekely, John Duff, Charles Baur

630 Viscoelasticity modelling of the prostate region using vibro-elastography, Septimiu Salcudean, Daniel French, Simon Bachmann, Reza  Zahiri-Azar, Xu Wen, James Morris

631 Particle filtering for nonlinear BOLD signal analysis, Leigh A. Johnston, Eugene Duff, Gary Egan

634 Reconstructing the Outer Boundary of the Human Cerebral Cortex from MRI, Simon Eskildsen, Lasse Østergaard

644 A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Detecting Spatial Activation Patterns in fMRI Data, Seyoung Kim, Padhraic Smyth, Hal Stern

649 Preventing signal degradation during elastic matching of noisy DCE-MR eye images, Kishore Mosaliganti, Guang Jia, Johannes Heverhagen, Raghu Machiraju, Michael Knopp, Joel Saltz

650 Comparison of Different Targeting Methods for Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation, Ting Guo, Kirk W. Finnis, Sean C. L. Deoni, Andrew G. Parrent, Terry M. Peters

653 Affine and Deformable Registration Based on Polynomial Expansion, Gunnar Farnebäck, Carl-Fredrik Westin

655 Simultaneous Reconstruction of Tissue Attenuation and Radioactivity Maps in SPECT, Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu, Yi Tian

656 Simultaneous Stereoscope Localization and Soft-Tissue Mapping for Minimal Invasive Surgery, Peter Mountney, Danial  Stoyanov, Andrew  Davison, Guang Zhong  Yang

657 Registration of Microscopic Iris Image Sequences Using Probabilistic Mesh, Xubo Song, Andriy  Myronenko, Stephen  Plank, James Rosenbaum

660 An Analysis of Early Studies Released by the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC), James Ross, Wesley Turner, Timothy Kelliher , James Miller

669 Simultaneous Multiple Image Registration Method for T1 Estimation in Breast MRI Images, Jonathan Lok Chuen Lo, Michael Brady, Niall Moore

672 Retina Mosaicing Using Local Features, Philippe C. Cattin, Herbert Bay Bay, Luc Van Gool, Gabor Szekely

673 A new registration/visualization paradigm for CT-Fluoroscopy guided RF liver ablation, Ruxandra Micu, Tobias F.  Jakobs, Martin Urschler, Nassir Navab

677 2D/3D Registration for Measurement of Implant Alignment After Total Hip Replacement, Branislav Jaramaz, Kort Eckman

680 Active Shape Models for a fully automated 3D segmentation of the liver - an evaluation on clinical data, Tobias Heimann, Ivo Wolf, Hans-Peter Meinzer

681 Automatic localization of laparoscopic instruments for the visual servoing of an endoscopic camera holder, Sandrine Voros, Jean-Alexandre Long, Philippe Cinquin

685 The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Domain Description, Karl Sjöstrand, Rasmus Larsen

686 Highly Accurate Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Subcortical Gray Matter from Newborn MRI, Neil Weisenfeld, Andrea Mewes, Simon Warfield

687 Integrated Graph-Based Brain MRI Segmentation, Zhuang Song, Nicholas Tustison, Brian  Avants, James Gee

690 A Landmark-based Brain Conformal Parametrization with Automatic Landmark Tracking Technique, Lok Ming Lui, Yalin  Wang, Tony F. Chan, Paul M.  Thompson

693 Hybrid navigation interface for orthopedic and trauma surgery, Joerg Traub, Philipp Stefan, Sandro Michael Heining, Tobias Sielhorst, Christian  Riquarts, Ekkehard  Euler, Nassir  Navab

694 Generation of Curved Planar Reformations from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Spine, Tomaž Vrtovec, Sebastien Ourselin, Lavier Gomes, Boštjan Likar, Franjo Pernuš

697 Integrated Four Dimensional Registration and Segmentation of Dynamic Renal MR Images, Ting Song, Vivian Lee, Henry Rusinek, Samson Wong, Andrew Laine

708 3D/2D Model-to-Image Registration Applied to TIPS Surgery, Julien Jomier, Elizabeth Bullitt, Mark Van Horn, Chetna Pathak, Stephen Aylward

709 MR image segmentation using phase information and a novel multiscale scheme, Pierrick Bourgeat, Jurgen Fripp, Peter Stanwell, Saadallah Ramadan, Sebastien Ourselin

713 Estimation of Cardiac Hyperelastic Material Properties from MRI Tissue Tagging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Kevin Augenstein, Brett Cowan, Ian LeGrice, Alistair Young

717 Boosting and Nonparametric Based Tracking of Tagged MRI Cardiac Boundaries, Zhen Qian, Dimitris Metaxas, Leon Axel

719 C-arm Tracking and Reconstruction without an External Tracker, Ameet Jain, Gabor Fichtinger

723 ƒn Symmetric Curvature Patterns for Colonic Polyp Detection, Anna Jerebko, Sarang  Lakare, Pascal Cathier, Senthil Periaswamy, Luca  Bogoni

724 Non-Rigid 2D-3D Registration with Catheter Tip EM Tracking for Patient Specific Bronchoscope Simulation, Fani Deligianni, Adrian Chung, Guang-Zhong Yang

725 Visual Servoing for Intraoperative Positioning and Repositioning of Mobile C-arms, Nassir Navab, Stefan Wiesner, Selim Benhimane, Ekkehard Euler, Sandro Heining

726 A Novel Robotic Laser Ablation System &#65350, masafumi noguchi, eisuke aoki, daiki yoshida, etsuko kobayashi, shigeru omori, yoshihiro muragaki, hiroshi iseki, katsushige nakamura, ichiro  sakuma

728 Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Ground Glass Opacity Nodules, Jinghao Zhou, Sukmoon Chang, Dimitris Metaxas, Binsheng Zhao, Michelle Ginsberg, Lawrence Schwartz

732 Validation of Image Segmentation by Estimating Rater Bias and Variance, Simon Warfield, Kelly Zou, William Wells

734 Detecting acromegaly: Screening for disease with a morphable model, Erik Learned-Miller, Qifeng Lu, Angela  Paisley, Peter Trainer, Volker  Blanz, Katrin Dedden, Ralph Miller

735 A Region Based Algorithm for Vessel Detection in Retinal Images, Ke Huang, Michelle Yan

737 Ray-Tracing based Registration for HRCT Images of the Lungs, Sata Busayarat, Tatjana Zrimec

741 Multi-resolution Vessel Segmentation Using Normalized Cuts in Retinal Images, Wenchao CAI, Albert C.S.  Chung

746 Diffusion k-tensor estimation from Q-ball imaging using discretized principal axes, Ørjan Bergmann, Gordon  Kindlmann, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Arvid Lundervold

751 A General Framework for Image Segmentation Using Ordered Spatial Dependency, Mikael Rousson, Chenyang Xu

763 Real Time Adaptive Filtering for Digital X-Ray Applications, Olivier Bockenbach, Michel Mangin, Sebastian Schuberth

764 New 4-D Imaging for Real-time Intraoperative MRI: Adaptive 4-D Scan, Junichi Tokuda, Shigehiro Morikawa, Hasnine Haque, Tetsuji Tsukamoto, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Hongen Liao, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi

766 3D reconstruction of coronary stents in vivo based on motion compensated X-ray angiograms, Babak Movassaghi, Dirk Schaefer, Michael  Grass, Volker  Rasche, Raoul  Florent, Onno Wink, John Messenger, John Carroll

769 Real-time Endoscopic Mosaicking, Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Gregory Hager

778 Analytic Expressions for Fiducial and Surface Target Registration Error, Burton Ma, Randy Ellis

785 Morphometric Analysis for Pathological Abnormality Detection in the Calvariums of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients, Lin Shi, Pheng Ann Heng, Tien-Tsin Wong, JCY Cheng, Winnie Chu

791 Constructing a Probabilistic Model for Automated Liver Region Segmentation Using Non-contrast X-ray Torso CT images, Xiangrong Zhou, Teruhiko  Kitagawa, Takeshi Hara, Hiroshi  Fujita, Xuejun Zhang, Ryujiro  Yokoyama, Hiroshi  Kondo, Masayuki  Kanematsu, Hiroaki  Hoshi

795 A Boosting Cascade for Automatically Detecting Prostate Cancer from Digitized Histology, Scott Doyle, Anant Madabhushi, John  Tomaszeweski, Michael Feldman

799 A novel quantitative validation of the cortical surface reconstruction algorithm using MRI phantom: issues on local geometric accuracy and cortical thickness, Junki  Lee, Jong-Min Lee, Jae-Hun  Kim, In Young  Kim, Alan C.  Evans, Sun I.  Kim

803 A New Method for CT to Fluoroscopes Registration Based on Unscented Kalman Filter, Ren Hui Gong, James Stewart, Purang Abolmaesumi