Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2006: 9th International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006. Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Robust Active Shape Models: A Robust, Generic and Simple Automatic Segmentation Tool....Pages 1-8
Automatic IVUS Segmentation of Atherosclerotic Plaque with Stop & Go Snake....Pages 9-16
Prostate Segmentation in 2D Ultrasound Images Using Image Warping and Ellipse Fitting....Pages 17-24
Detection of Electrophysiology Catheters in Noisy Fluoroscopy Images....Pages 25-32
Fast Non Local Means Denoising for 3D MR Images....Pages 33-40
Active Shape Models for a Fully Automated 3D Segmentation of the Liver – An Evaluation on Clinical Data....Pages 41-48
Patient Position Detection for SAR Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 49-57
Symmetric Atlasing and Model Based Segmentation: An Application to the Hippocampus in Older Adults....Pages 58-66
Image Diffusion Using Saliency Bilateral Filter....Pages 67-75
Data Weighting for Principal Component Noise Reduction in Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound....Pages 76-83
Shape Filtering for False Positive Reduction at Computed Tomography Colonography....Pages 84-92
Evaluation of Texture Features for Analysis of Ovarian Follicular Development....Pages 93-100
A Fast Method of Generating Pharmacokinetic Maps from Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Images of the Breast....Pages 101-108
Investigating Cortical Variability Using a Generic Gyral Model....Pages 109-116
Blood Flow and Velocity Estimation Based on Vessel Transit Time by Combining 2D and 3D X-Ray Angiography....Pages 117-124
Accurate Airway Wall Estimation Using Phase Congruency....Pages 125-134
Generation of Curved Planar Reformations from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Spine....Pages 135-143
Automated Analysis of Multi Site MRI Phantom Data for the NIHPD Project....Pages 144-151
Performance Evaluation of Grid-Enabled Registration Algorithms Using Bronze-Standards....Pages 152-160
Anisotropic Feature Extraction from Endoluminal Images for Detection of Intestinal Contractions....Pages 161-168
Symmetric Curvature Patterns for Colonic Polyp Detection....Pages 169-176
3D Reconstruction of Coronary Stents in Vivo Based on Motion Compensated X-Ray Angiograms....Pages 177-184
Retina Mosaicing Using Local Features....Pages 185-192
A New Cortical Surface Parcellation Model and Its Automatic Implementation....Pages 193-200
A System for Measuring Regional Surface Folding of the Neonatal Brain from MRI....Pages 201-208
Atlas Guided Identification of Brain Structures by Combining 3D Segmentation and SVM Classification....Pages 209-216
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Detecting Spatial Activation Patterns in fMRI Data....Pages 217-224
Fast and Accurate Connectivity Analysis Between Functional Regions Based on DT-MRI....Pages 225-233
Riemannian Graph Diffusion for DT-MRI Regularization....Pages 234-242
High-Dimensional White Matter Atlas Generation and Group Analysis....Pages 243-251
Fiber Bundle Estimation and Parameterization....Pages 252-259
Improved Correspondence for DTI Population Studies Via Unbiased Atlas Building....Pages 260-267
Diffusion k -tensor Estimation from Q-ball Imaging Using Discretized Principal Axes....Pages 268-275
Improved Map-Slice-to-Volume Motion Correction with B0 Inhomogeneity Correction: Validation of Activation Detection Algorithms Using ROC Curve Analyses....Pages 276-283
Hippocampus-Specific fMRI Group Activation Analysis with Continuous M-Reps....Pages 284-291
Particle Filtering for Nonlinear BOLD Signal Analysis....Pages 292-299
Anatomically Informed Convolution Kernels for the Projection of fMRI Data on the Cortical Surface....Pages 300-307
A Landmark-Based Brain Conformal Parametrization with Automatic Landmark Tracking Technique....Pages 308-315
Automated Topology Correction for Human Brain Segmentation....Pages 316-323
A Fast and Automatic Method to Correct Intensity Inhomogeneity in MR Brain Images....Pages 324-331
A Digital Pediatric Brain Structure Atlas from T1-Weighted MR Images....Pages 332-339
Discriminative Analysis of Early Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Two Intrinsically Anti-correlated Networks with Resting-State fMRI....Pages 340-347
Rawdata-Based Detection of the Optimal Reconstruction Phase in ECG-Gated Cardiac Image Reconstruction....Pages 348-355
Sensorless Reconstruction of Freehand 3D Ultrasound Data....Pages 356-363
Motion-Compensated MR Valve Imaging with COMB Tag Tracking and Super-Resolution Enhancement....Pages 364-371
Recovery of Liver Motion and Deformation Due to Respiration Using Laparoscopic Freehand 3D Ultrasound System....Pages 372-379
Numerical Simulation of Radio Frequency Ablation with State Dependent Material Parameters in Three Space Dimensions....Pages 380-388
Towards a Multi-modal Atlas for Neurosurgical Planning....Pages 389-396
Using Registration Uncertainty Visualization in a User Study of a Simple Surgical Task....Pages 397-404
Ultrasound Monitoring of Tissue Ablation Via Deformation Model and Shape Priors....Pages 405-412
Assessment of Airway Remodeling in Asthma: Volumetric Versus Surface Quantification Approaches....Pages 413-420
Asymmetry of SPECT Perfusion Image Patterns as a Diagnostic Feature for Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 421-428
Predicting the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation with Diffusion Tensor Based Electric Field Models....Pages 429-437
CFD Analysis Incorporating the Influence of Wall Motion: Application to Intracranial Aneurysms....Pages 438-445
A New CAD System for the Evaluation of Kidney Diseases Using DCE-MRI....Pages 446-453
Generation and Application of a Probabilistic Breast Cancer Atlas....Pages 454-461
Hierarchical Part-Based Detection of 3D Flexible Tubes: Application to CT Colonoscopy....Pages 462-470
Detection of Protrusions in Curved Folded Surfaces Applied to Automated Polyp Detection in CT Colonography....Pages 471-478
Part-Based Local Shape Models for Colon Polyp Detection....Pages 479-486
An Analysis of Early Studies Released by the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC)....Pages 487-494
Detecting Acromegaly: Screening for Disease with a Morphable Model....Pages 495-503
A Boosting Cascade for Automated Detection of Prostate Cancer from Digitized Histology....Pages 504-511
Optimal Sensor Placement for Predictive Cardiac Motion Modeling....Pages 512-519
4D Shape Registration for Dynamic Electrophysiological Cardiac Mapping....Pages 520-527
Estimation of Cardiac Electrical Propagation from Medical Image Sequence....Pages 528-535
Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Scaphoid Pinning: Operator Variability and Comparison with Traditional Fluoroscopic Procedure....Pages 536-543
Cosmology Inspired Design of Biomimetic Tissue Engineering Templates with Gaussian Random Fields....Pages 544-552
Registration of Microscopic Iris Image Sequences Using Probabilistic Mesh....Pages 553-560
Tumor Therapeutic Response and Vessel Tortuosity: Preliminary Report in Metastatic Breast Cancer....Pages 561-568
Harvesting the Thermal Cardiac Pulse Signal....Pages 569-576
On Mobility Analysis of Functional Sites from Time Lapse Microscopic Image Sequences of Living Cell Nucleus....Pages 577-585
Tissue Characterization Using Dimensionality Reduction and Fluorescence Imaging....Pages 586-593
A Method for Registering Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 594-602
A High-Order Solution for the Distribution of Target Registration Error in Rigid-Body Point-Based Registration....Pages 603-611
Fast Elastic Registration for Adaptive Radiotherapy....Pages 612-619
Registering Histological and MR Images of Prostate for Image-Based Cancer Detection....Pages 620-628
Affine Registration of Diffusion Tensor MR Images....Pages 629-636
Analytic Expressions for Fiducial and Surface Target Registration Error....Pages 637-644
Bronchoscope Tracking Based on Image Registration Using Multiple Initial Starting Points Estimated by Motion Prediction....Pages 645-652
2D/3D Registration for Measurement of Implant Alignment After Total Hip Replacement....Pages 653-661
3D/2D Model-to-Image Registration Applied to TIPS Surgery....Pages 662-669
Ray-Tracing Based Registration for HRCT Images of the Lungs....Pages 670-677
Physics-Based Elastic Image Registration Using Splines and Including Landmark Localization Uncertainties....Pages 678-685
Piecewise-Quadrilateral Registration by Optical Flow – Applications in Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of the Breast....Pages 686-693
Iconic Feature Registration with Sparse Wavelet Coefficients....Pages 694-701
Diffeomorphic Registration Using B-Splines....Pages 702-709
Automatic Point Landmark Matching for Regularizing Nonlinear Intensity Registration: Application to Thoracic CT Images....Pages 710-717
Biomechanically Based Elastic Breast Registration Using Mass Tensor Simulation....Pages 718-725
Intensity Gradient Based Registration and Fusion of Multi-modal Images....Pages 726-733
A Novel Approach for Image Alignment Using a Markov–Gibbs Appearance Model....Pages 734-741
Evaluation on Similarity Measures of a Surface-to-Image Registration Technique for Ultrasound Images....Pages 742-749
Backward-Warping Ultrasound Reconstruction for Improving Diagnostic Value and Registration....Pages 750-757
Integrated Four Dimensional Registration and Segmentation of Dynamic Renal MR Images....Pages 758-765
Fast and Robust Clinical Triple-Region Image Segmentation Using One Level Set Function....Pages 766-773
Fast and Robust Semi-automatic Liver Segmentation with Haptic Interaction....Pages 774-781
Objective PET Lesion Segmentation Using a Spherical Mean Shift Algorithm....Pages 782-789
Multilevel Segmentation and Integrated Bayesian Model Classification with an Application to Brain Tumor Segmentation....Pages 790-798
A New Adaptive Probabilistic Model of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images....Pages 799-806
Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from DTI Using Spectral Clustering....Pages 807-814
Multiclassifier Fusion in Human Brain MR Segmentation: Modelling Convergence....Pages 815-822
Active Surface Approach for Extraction of the Human Cerebral Cortex from MRI....Pages 823-830
Integrated Graph Cuts for Brain MRI Segmentation....Pages 831-838
Validation of Image Segmentation by Estimating Rater Bias and Variance....Pages 839-847
A General Framework for Image Segmentation Using Ordered Spatial Dependency....Pages 848-855
Constructing a Probabilistic Model for Automated Liver Region Segmentation Using Non-contrast X-Ray Torso CT images....Pages 856-863
Modeling of Intensity Priors for Knowledge-Based Level Set Algorithm in Calvarial Tumors Segmentation....Pages 864-871
A Comparison of Breast Tissue Classification Techniques....Pages 872-879
Analysis of Skeletal Microstructure with Clinical Multislice CT....Pages 880-887
An Energy Minimization Approach to the Data Driven Editing of Presegmented Images/Volumes....Pages 888-895
Accurate Banded Graph Cut Segmentation of Thin Structures Using Laplacian Pyramids....Pages 896-903
Segmentation of Neck Lymph Nodes in CT Datasets with Stable 3D Mass-Spring Models....Pages 904-911
Supervised Probabilistic Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Scans....Pages 912-919
MR Image Segmentation Using Phase Information and a Novel Multiscale Scheme....Pages 920-927
Multi-resolution Vessel Segmentation Using Normalized Cuts in Retinal Images....Pages 928-936
Simulation of Local and Global Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease Studies....Pages 937-945
Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions....Pages 946-954
Logarithm Odds Maps for Shape Representation....Pages 955-963
Multi-modal Image Registration Using the Generalized Survival Exponential Entropy....Pages 964-971
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