3. MIAR 2006: Shanghai, China

Invited Contributions

• Martin Styner, Kevin Gorczowski, P. Thomas Fletcher, Ja-Yeon Jeong, Stephen M. Pizer, Guido Gerig:
  Statistics of Pose and Shape in Multi-object Complexes Using Principal Geodesic Analysis. 1-8
  
• Brian B. Avants, Charles L. Epstein, James C. Gee:
  Geodesic Image Normalization and Temporal Parameterization in the Space of Diffeomorphisms. 9-16
  
• Gopikrishna Deshpande, Stephen LaConte, Scott Peltier, Xiaoping Hu:
  Connectivity Analysis of Human Functional MRI Data: From Linear to Nonlinear and Static to Dynamic. 17-24
  
• Hugues Duffau:
  Lessons from Brain Mapping in Surgery for Low-Grade Gliomas: Study of Cerebral Connectivity and Plasticity. 25-35
  

Shape Modeling and Morphometry

• Moo K. Chung, Li Shen, Kim M. Dalton, Richard J. Davidson:
  Multi-scale Voxel-Based Morphometry Via Weighted Spherical Harmonic Representation. 36-43
  
• Longfei Cong, Su-Lin Lee, Andrew Huntbatch, Tianzi Jiang, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  An Embedding Framework for Myocardial Velocity Processing with MRI. 44-51
  
• Kai Li, Allen D. Malony, Don M. Tucker:
  A Multiscale Morphological Approach to Topology Correction of Cortical Surfaces. 52-59
  
• Xiao Dong, Guoyan Zheng:
  Finding Deformable Shapes by Point Set Matching Through Nonparametric Belief Propagation. 60-67
  
• Guoyan Zheng, Xiao Dong, Lutz-Peter Nolte:
  Robust and Accurate Reconstruction of Patient-Specific 3D Surface Models from Sparse Point Sets: A Sequential Three-Stage Trimmed Optimization Approach. 68-75
  
• Nicholas J. Tustison, James C. Gee:
  Generalized n-D C^k B-Spline Scattered Data Approximation with Confidence Values. 76-83
  
• Toon Huysmans, Jan Sijbers, Filiep Vanpoucke, Brigitte Verdonk:
  Improved Shape Modeling of Tubular Objects Using Cylindrical Parameterization. 84-91
  

Patient Specific Modeling and Qualification

• Tao Jiang, Zixiao Li, Shouwei Li, Shaowu Li, Zhong Zhang:
  Role of 3T High Field BOLD fMRI in Brain Cortical Mapping for Glioma Involving Eloquent Areas. 92-99
  
• Su Zhang, Wei Yang, Rongqian Yang, Bo Ye, Lei Chen, Weiyin Ma, Yazhu Chen:
  Noninvasive Temperature Monitoring in a Wide Range Based on Textures of Ultrasound Images. 100-107
  
• Gang Chen, Lixu Gu:
  A Novel Liver Perfusion Analysis Based on Active Contours and Chamfer Matching. 108-115
  
• Tommy W. H. Tang, Albert C. S. Chung:
  Cerebral Vascular Tree Matching of 3D-RA Data Based on Tree Edit Distance. 116-123
  
• Min Huang, Songtao Lu:
  Application of SVD-Based Metabolite Quantification Methods in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging. 124-131
  
• Heye Zhang, Chun Lok Wong, Pengcheng Shi:
  An Inverse Recovery of Cardiac Electrical Propagation from Image Sequences. 132-139
  

Surgical Simulation and Skills Assessment

• Daniel Richard Leff, Peck Hui Koh, Rajesh Aggarwal, Julian J. H. Leong, Fani Deligianni, Clare Elwell, David T. Delpy, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  Optical Mapping of the Frontal Cortex During a Surgical Knot-Tying Task, a Feasibility Study. 140-147
  
• Stefanie Speidel, Michael Delles, Carsten Gutt, Rüdiger Dillmann:
  Tracking of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Surgical Skill Analysis. 148-155
  
• Marios Nicolaou, Louis Atallah, Adam James, Julian J. H. Leong, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  The Effect of Depth Perception on Visual-Motor Compensation in Minimal Invasive Surgery. 156-163
  
• Kai Xie, Jie Yang, Yue Min Zhu:
  Efficient and Accurate Collision Detection Based on Surgery Simulation. 164-170
  
• Sang-Youn Kim:
  Medical Simulation with Haptic and Graphic Feedback. 171-178
  

Surgical Guidance and Navigation

• Jörg Traub, Philipp Stefan, Sandro Michael Heining, Christian Riquarts, Tobias Sielhorst, Ekkehard Euler, Nassir Navab:
  Towards a Hybrid Navigation Interface: Comparison of a Slice Based Navigation System with In-Situ Visualization. 179-186
  
• Hongen Liao, Takashi Inomata, Ichiro Sakuma, Takeyoshi Dohi:
  Surgical Navigation of Integral Videography Image Overlay for Open MRI-Guided Glioma Surgery. 187-194
  
• Guoyan Zheng, Xuan Zhang, Lutz-Peter Nolte:
  Automatic Pose Recovery of the Distal Locking Holes from Single Calibrated Fluoroscopic Image for Computer-Assisted Intramedullary Nailing of Femoral Shaft Fractures. 195-202
  
• Timothy J. Carter, Christine Tanner, William R. Crum, Nicolas Beechey-Newman, David J. Hawkes:
  A Framework for Image-Guided Breast Surgery. 203-210
  
• Mingyue Ding, Xiaoan Luo, Chao Cai, Chengping Zhou, Aaron Fenster:
  3D US Imaging System for the Guidance of Uterine Adenoma and Uterine Bleeding RF Ablation. 211-218
  

Image Registration

• Guorong Wu, Feihu Qi, Dinggang Shen:
  A General Learning Framework for Non-rigid Image Registration. 219-227
  
• Rui Liao, Christoph Guetter, Chenyang Xu, Yiyong Sun, Ali Khamene, Frank Sauer:
  Learning-Based 2D/3D Rigid Registration Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence for Image-Guided Surgery. 228-235
  
• K. Y. Esther Leung, Marijn van Stralen, Gerard van Burken, Marco M. Voormolen, Attila Nemes, Folkert J. ten Cate, Nico de Jong, Anton F. W. van der Steen, Johan H. C. Reiber, Johan G. Bosch:
  Sparse Appearance Model Based Registration of 3D Ultrasound Images. 236-243
  
• Chunlan Yang, Tianzi Jiang, Jianzhe Wang, Lian Zheng:
  A Neighborhood Incorporated Method in Image Registration. 244-251
  
• Kazunori Okada, Xiaolei Huang, Xiang Zhou, Arun Krishnan:
  Robust Click-Point Linking for Longitudinal Follow-Up Studies. 252-260
  
• LinLin Shen, Dorothee Auer, Li Bai:
  3D Gabor Wavelets for Evaluating Medical Image Registration Algorithms. 261-268
  
• Chao Cai, Mingyue Ding, Hao Lei, Jie Cao, Ailing Liu:
  A Novel 3D Correspondence-Less Method for MRI and Paxinos-Watson Atlas of Rat Brain Registration. 269-276
  
• Yujun Guo, Chi-Hsiang Lo, Cheng-Chang Lu:
  Multi-modality Image Registration Using Gradient Vector Flow Intensity. 277-284
  
• Helen Hong, Jeongjin Lee:
  Multi-stage Registration for Quantification of Lung Perfusion in Chest CT Images. 285-292
  

PET Image Reconstruction

• Adrian James Chung, Paolo G. Camici, Guang-Zhong Yang:
  List-Mode Affine Rebinning for Respiratory Motion Correction in PET Cardiac Imaging. 293-300
  
• Huafeng Liu, Yi Tian, Pengcheng Shi:
  Simultaneous Estimation of PET Attenuation and Activity Images with Divided Difference Filters. 301-308
  
• Yang Chen, Wufan Chen, Yanqiu Feng, Qianjin Feng:
  Convergent Bayesian Reconstruction for PET Using New MRF Quadratic Membrane-Plate Hybrid Multi-order Prior. 309-316
  

Image Segmentation

• Tamás Kovács, Philippe C. Cattin, Hatem Alkadhi, Simon Wildermuth, Gábor Székely:
  Automatic Segmentation of the Aortic Dissection Membrane from 3D CTA Images. 317-324
  
• Shoujun Zhou, Wufan Chen, Jiangui Zhang, Yongtian Wang:
  Inferring Vascular Structures in Coronary Artery X-Ray Angiograms Based on Multi-Feature Fuzzy Recognition Algorithm. 325-332
  
• Yan Shang, Guangda Su, Olaf Dössel:
  Hierarchical 3D Shape Model for Segmentation of 4D MR Cardiac Images. 333-340
  
• J. T. Hao, M. L. Li, F. L. Tang:
  An Improved Statistical Approach for Cerebrovascular Tree Extraction. 341-347
  
• Jianzhong Wang, Jun Kong, Yinghua Lu, Jingdan Zhang, Baoxue Zhang:
  Segmentation of 3-D MRI Brain Images Using Information Propagation. 348-355
  
• Ali Gooya, Hongen Liao, Kiyoshi Matsumiya, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi:
  Pulsative Flow Segmentation in MRA Image Series by AR Modeling and EM Algorithm. 356-363
  
• Yongxin Zhou, Jing Bai:
  Abdominal Organ Identification Based on Atlas Registration and Its Application in Fuzzy Connectedness Segmentation. 364-371
  
• Dongqing Chen, M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, Robert Falk:
  An Improved 2D Colonic Polyp Segmentation Framework Based on Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Model. 372-379
  
• Wan Hyun Cho, Sang-Cheol Park, Myung-Eun Lee, Soon-Young Park:
  Segmentation for Medical Image Using a Statistical Initial Process and a Level Set Method. 380-388
  
• Daniela Mayumi Ushizima Sabino, Rodrigo T. Calado, Edgar Gil Rizzatti:
  Leukocyte Detection Using Nucleus Contour Propagation. 389-396