4. MICCAI 2001: Utrecht, The Netherlands

Oral Sessions

Image-Guided Surgery I

• Kensaku Mori, Daisuke Deguchi, Jun-ichi Hasegawa, Yasuhito Suenaga, Jun-ichiro Toriwaki, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Hiroshi Natori:
  A Method for Tracking the Camera Motion of Real Endoscope by Epipolar Geometry Analysis and Virtual Endoscopy System. 1-8
  
• Atsushi Nishikawa, Toshinori Hosoi, Kengo Koara, Daiji Negoro, Ayae Hikita, Shuichi Asano, Fumio Miyazaki, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Yasuhiro Miyake, Masayoshi Yasui, Morito Monden:
  Real-Time Visual Tracking of the Surgeon's Face for Laparoscopic Surgery. 9-16
  
• Ofer Ron, Leo Joskowicz, Ariel Simkin, Charles Milgrom:
  Computer-Based Periaxial Rotation Measurement for Aligning Fractured Femur Fragments: Method and Preliminary Results. 17-23
  

Shape Analysis

• Guido Gerig, Martin Styner, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Jeffrey A. Lieberman:
  Shape versus Size: Improved Understanding of the Morphology of Brain Structures. 24-32
  
• Sylvain Bouix, Jens C. Pruessner, D. Louis Collins, Kaleem Siddiqi:
  Hippocampal Shape Analysis Using Medial Surfaces. 33-40
  
• Colin Studholme, Valerie Cardenas, Norbert Schuff, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Michael Weiner:
  Detecting Spatially Consistent Structural Differences in Alzheimer's and Fronto Temporal Dementia Using Deformation Morphometry. 41-48
  
• Mark Holden, Julia A. Schnabel, Derek L. G. Hill:
  Quantifying Small Changes in Brain Ventricular Volume Using Non-rigid Registration. 49-56
  

Segmentation I

• Rhodri H. Davies, Timothy F. Cootes, John C. Waterton, Christopher J. Taylor:
  An Efficient Method for Constructing Optimal Statistical Shape Models. 57-65
  
• Ghassan Hamarneh, Tim McInerney, Demetri Terzopoulos:
  Deformable Organisms for Automatic Medical Image Analysis. 66-76
  
• Daniel Rueckert, Alejandro F. Frangi, Julia A. Schnabel:
  Automatic Construction of 3D Statistical Deformation Models Using Non-rigid Registration. 77-84
  

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

• Salih Burak Göktürk, Carlo Tomasi, Burak Acar, David S. Paik, Christopher F. Beaulieu, Sandy Napel:
  A Learning Method for Automated Polyp Detection. 85-93
  
• Yasuyo Kita, Eriko Tohno, Ralph Highnam, Michael Brady:
  A CAD System for 3D Locating of Lesions in Mammogram. 94-102
  
• Yoshiki Kawata, Noboru Niki, Hironobu Ohmatsu, Masahiko Kusumoto, Ryutaro Kakinuma, Kensaku Mori, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Kenji Eguchi, Masahiro Kaneko, Noriyuki Moriyama:
  Analysis of Pulmonary Nodule Evolutions Using a Sequence of Three-Dimensional Thoracic CT Images. 103-110
  

Registration I

• Torsten Rohlfing, Calvin R. Maurer Jr.:
  Intensity-Based Non-rigid Registration Using Adaptive Multilevel Free-Form Deformation with an Incompressibility Constraint. 111-119
  
• Steven Haker, Allen Tannenbaum, Ron Kikinis:
  Mass Preserving Mappings and Image Registration. 120-127
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling

• M. Kauer, V. Vuskovic, J. Dual, Gábor Székely, Michael Bajka:
  Inverse Finite Element Characterization of Soft Tissues. 128-136
  
• Joel Brown, Kevin Montgomery, Jean-Claude Latombe, Michael Stephanides:
  A Microsurgery Simulation System. 137-144
  
• Han-Wen Nienhuys, A. Frank van der Stappen:
  A Surgery Simulation Supporting Cuts and Finite Element Deformation. 145-152
  
• Juan R. Cebral, Rainald Löhner, Orlando Soto, Peter L. Choyke, Peter J. Yim:
  Patient-Specific Simulation of Carotid Artery Stenting Using Computational Fluid Dynamics. 153-160
  

Visualization

• Elizabeth Bullitt, Stephen R. Aylward:
  Volume Rendering of Segmented Tubular Objects. 161-168
  
• Roel Truyen, Thomas Deschamps, Laurent D. Cohen:
  Clinical Evaluation of an Automatic Path Tracker for Virtual Colonoscopy. 169-176
  
• Erik H. W. Meijering, Wiro J. Niessen, Joachim Weickert, Max A. Viergever:
  Evaluation of Diffusion Techniques for Improved Vessel Visualization and Quantification in Three-Dimensional Rotational Angiography. 177-185
  

Quantitative Image Analysis I

• Jean-Francois Mangin, Cyril Poupon, C. A. Clark, Denis Le Bihan, Isabelle Bloch:
  Eddy-Current Distortion Correction and Robust Tensor Estimation for MR Diffusion Imaging. 186-194
  
• Klaus Hahn, Sergei Prigarin, Benno Pütz:
  Edge Preserving Regularization and Tracking for Diffusion Tensor Imaging. 195-203
  

Segmentation II

• Koen Van Leemput, Frederik Maes, Dirk Vandermeulen, Paul Suetens:
  A Statistical Framework for Partial Volume Segmentation. 204-212
  
• Vidya Elangovan, Ross T. Whitaker:
  From Sinograms to Surfaces: A Direct Approach to the Segmentation of Tomographic Data. 213-223
  
• Maxime Sermesant, Yves Coudière, Hervé Delingette, Nicholas Ayache, Jean-Antoine Désidéri:
  An Electro-mechanical Model of the Heart for Cardiac Image Analysis. 224-231
  

Image-Guided Surgery II

• Kathleen J. M. Surry, Wendy L. Smith, Gregory R. Mills, Dónal B. Downey, Aaron Fenster:
  A Mechanical, Three-Dimensional, Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy Apparatus. 232-239
  
• Michael Rosenthal, Andrei State, Joohi Lee, Gentaro Hirota, Jeremy Ackerman, Kurtis Keller, Etta D. Pisano, Michael R. Jiroutek, Keith E. Muller, Henry Fuchs:
  Augmented Reality Guidance for Needle Biopsies: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in Phantoms. 240-248
  
• Alexandru Patriciu, Stephen B. Solomon, Louis R. Kavoussi, Dan Stoianovici:
  Robotic Kidney and Spine Percutaneous Procedures Using a New Laser-Based CT Registration Method. 249-257
  

Registration II

• Pierre Hellier, Christian Barillot, Isabelle Corouge, Bernard Gibaud, Georges Le Goualher, D. Louis Collins, Alan C. Evans, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache:
  Retrospective Evaluation of Inter-subject Brain Registration. 258-265
  
• Simon K. Warfield, Jan Rexilius, Petra S. Huppi, Terrie E. Inder, Erik G. Miller, William M. Wells III, Gary P. Zientara, Ferenc A. Jolesz, Ron Kikinis:
  A Binary Entropy Measure to Assess Nonrigid Registration Algorithms. 266-274
  
• Christophe Grova, Arnaud Biraben, Jean-Marie Scarabin, Pierre Jannin, Irène Buvat, Habib Benali, Bernard Gibaud:
  A Methodology to Validate MRI/SPECT Registration Methods Using Realistic Simulated SPECT Data. 275-282
  

Quantitative Image Analysis II

• Graham M. Treece, Richard W. Prager, Andrew H. Gee, Laurence H. Berman:
  Correction of Probe Pressure Artifacts in Freehand 3D Ultrasound. 283-290
  
• Kawal S. Rhode, Gareth Ennew, Tryphon Lambrou, Alexander M. Seifalian, David J. Hawkes:
  In-Vitro Validation of a Novel Model-Based Approach to the Measurement of Arterial Blood Flow Waveforms from Dynamic Digital X-ray Images. 291-300
  
• Gert Behiels, Frederik Maes, Dirk Vandermeulen, Paul Suetens:
  Retrospective Correction of the Heel Effect in Hand Radiographs. 301-308
  

Posters

Medical Robotics and Devices I

• Gilles Duchemin, Etienne Dombre, François Pierrot, Philippe Poignet, Eric Dégoulange:
  SCALPP: A Safe Methodology to Robotize Skin Harvesting. 309-316
  
• Anshul Thakral, Jeffrey Wallace, Damian Tomlin, Nikesh Seth, Nitish V. Thakor:
  Surgical Motion Adaptive Robotic Technology (S.M.A.R.T): Taking the Motion out of Physiological Motion. 317-325
  
• Adriana Vilchis Gonzales, Philippe Cinquin, Jocelyne Troccaz, Agnès Guerraz, Bernard Hennion, Franck Pellissier, Pierre Thorel, Fabien Courreges, Alain Gourdon, Gérard Poisson, Pierre Vieyres, Pierre Caron, Olivier Mérigeaux, Loïc Urbain, Cédric Daimo, Stéphane Lavallée, Philippe Arbeille, Marc Althuser, Jean-Marc Ayoubi, Bertrand Tondu, Serge Ippolito:
  TER: A System for Robotic Tele-echography. 326-334
  
• Xin Ma, Zhong Fan, Chee-Kong Chui, Yiyu Cai, James H. Anderson, Wieslaw Lucjan Nowinski:
  Digital Angioplasty Balloon Inflation Device for Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures. 335-342
  
• Giuseppe Megali, Oliver Tonet, Cesare Stefanini, Mauro Boccadoro, Vassilios Papaspyropoulos, Licinio Angelini, Paolo Dario:
  A Computer-Assisted Robotic Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy System for Video-Assisted Surgery. 343-350
  

Image-Guided Surgery I

• Gang Cheng, Haisong Liu, Lydia Liao, Yan Yu:
  Dynamic Brachytherapy of the Prostate Under Active Image Guidance. 351-359
  
• M. P. S. F. Gomes, Adrian R. W. Barrett, Brian L. Davies:
  Computer-Assisted Soft-Tissue Surgery Training and Monitoring. 360-367
  
• Glen Lehmann, A. Chiu, David G. Gobbi, Yves P. Starreveld, Douglas Boyd, Maria Drangova, Terry M. Peters:
  Towards Dynamic Planning and Guidance of Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Bypass Surgical Procedures. 368-375
  
• Damian Tomlin, Jeffrey Wallace, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Nitish V. Thakor:
  Novel Real-Time Tremor Transduction Technique for Microsurgery. 376-383
  
• Julien Dutreuil, François Goulette, Claude Laurgeau, Jaime Clavero Zoreda, Stefan Lundgren:
  Computer Assisted Dental Implantology: A New Method and a Clinical Validation. 384-391
  
• Hongen Liao, Susumu Nakajima, Makoto Iwahara, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma, Naoki Yahagi, Takeyoshi Dohi:
  Intra-operative Real-Time 3-D Information Display System Based on Integral Videography. 392-400
  
• M. W. Vogel, S. Suprijanto, Frans Vos, Henri A. Vrooman, Albert M. Vossepoel, P. M. T. Pattynama:
  Towards Motion-Robust Magnetic Resonance Thermometry. 401-408
  
• Manuela Kunz, Matthias Strauss, Frank Langlotz, Georg Deuretzbacher, Wolfgang Rüther, Lutz-Peter Nolte:
  A Non-CT Based Total Knee Arthroplasty System Featuring Complete Soft-Tissue Balancing. 409-415
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling I

• Dinggang Shen, Zhiqiang Lao, Jianchao Zeng, Edward Herskovits, Gabor Fichtinger, Christos Davatzikos:
  A Statistical Atlas of Prostate Cancer for Optimal Biopsy. 416-424
  
• D. Serby, Matthias Harders, Gábor Székely:
  A New Approach to Cutting into Finite Element Models. 425-433
  
• James Xia, Jaime Gateno, John Teichgraeber, Andrew Rosen:
  Methodology of Precise Skull Model Creation. 434-440
  
• David Dean, Pengpeng Zhang, Andrew Metzger, Claudio Sibata, Robert J. Maciunas:
  Medial Axis Seeding of a Guided Evolutionary Simulated Annealing (GESA) Algorithm for Automated Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Treatment Planning. 441-448
  
• Nathan Wilson, Kenneth Wang, Robert W. Dutton, Charles Taylor:
  A Software Framework for Creating Patient Specific Geometric Models from Medical Imaging Data for Simulation Based Medical Planning of Vascular Surgery. 449-456
  
• Zirui Li, Chee-Kong Chui, Yiyu Cai, James H. Anderson, Wieslaw Lucjan Nowinski:
  Interactive Catheter Shape Modeling in Interventional Radiology Simulation. 457-464
  
• Yiyu Cai, Chee-Kong Chui, Yaoping Wang, Zhenlan Wang, James H. Anderson:
  Parametric Eyeball Model for Interactive Simulation of Ophthalmologic Surgery. 465-472
  
• Stefan Zachow, Evgeny Gladilin, Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, Robert Sader:
  Improved 3D Osteotomy Planning in Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery. 473-481
  

Segmentation I

• Marie-Pierre Jolly:
  Combining Edge, Region, and Shape Information to Segment the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MR Images. 482-490
  
• Stewart Young, Vladimir Pekar, Jürgen Weese:
  Vessel Segmentation for Visualization of MRA with Blood Pool Contrast Agent. 491-498
  
• Rok Bernard, Bostjan Likar, Franjo Pernus:
  Segmenting Articulated Structures by Hierarchical Statistical Modeling of Shape, Appearance, and Topology. 499-506
  
• Siddharth Srivastava, Koen Van Leemput, Frederik Maes, Dirk Vandermeulen, Paul Suetens:
  Validation of Nonlinear Spatial Filtering to Improve Tissue Segmentation of MR Brain Images. 507-515
  
• Guido Gerig, Matthieu Jomier, Miranda Chakos:
  Valmet: A New Validation Tool for Assessing and Improving 3D Object Segmentation. 516-523
  
• Guo-Qing Wei, Jian Zhong Qian, Helmuth Schramm:
  A Dual Dynamic Programming Approach to the Detection of Spine Boundaries. 524-531
  

Registration I

• David Sarrut, Sébastien Clippe:
  Geometrical Transformation Approximation for 2D/3D Intensity-Based Registration of Portal Images and CT Scan. 532-540
  
• Jyrki Lötjönen, Timo Mäkelä:
  Elastic Matching Using a Deformation Sphere. 541-548
  
• Torsten Butz, Jean-Philippe Thiran:
  Affine Registration with Feature Space Mutual Information. 549-556
  
• Timo Mäkelä, Patrick Clarysse, Jyrki Lötjönen, Outi Sipilä, Kirsi Lauerma, Helena Hänninen, Esa-Pekka Pyökkimies, Jukka Nenonen, Juhani Knuuti, Toivo Katila, Isabelle E. Magnin:
  A New Method for the Registration of Cardiac PET and MR Images Using Deformable Model Based Segmentation of the Main Thorax Structures. 557-564
  
• Pierre Jannin, M. Raimbault, Xavier Morandi, Bernard Gibaud:
  Modeling Surgical Procedures for Multimodal Image-Guided Neurosurgery. 565-572
  
• Julia A. Schnabel, Daniel Rueckert, Marcel Quist, Jane M. Blackall, Andy D. Castellano-Smith, Thomas Hartkens, Graeme P. Penney, Walter A. Hall, Haiying Liu, Charles L. Truwit, Frans A. Gerritsen, Derek L. G. Hill, David J. Hawkes:
  A Generic Framework for Non-rigid Registration Based on Non-uniform Multi-level Free-Form Deformations. 573-581
  
• Manfred Alker, Sönke Frantz, Karl Rohr, H. Siegfried Stiehl:
  Improving the Robustness in Extracting 3D Point Landmarks from 3D Medical Images Using Parametric Deformable Models. 582-590
  

Poster Session II

Medical Robotics and Devices II

• Andreas Hein, Martin Klein, Tim Lüth, Jochen Queck, Malte Stien, Olaf Schermeier, Jürgen Bier:
  Integration and Clinical Evaluation of an Interactive Controllable Robotic System for Anaplastology. 591-598
  
• Albert W. Brzeczko, Randal P. Goldberg, Russell H. Taylor, Peter Evans:
  Smart Alignment Tool for Knee MosaicPlasty Surgery. 599-605
  
• Ryoichi Nakamura, Takeshi Oura, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma, Takeyoshi Dohi, Naoki Yahagi, Takayuki Tsuji, Mitsuo Shimada, Makoto Hashizume:
  Multi-DOF Forceps Manipulator System for Laparoscopic Surgery - Mechanism Miniaturized & Evaluation of New Interface. 606-613
  
• Aleksandar Zivanovic, Brian L. Davies:
  The Development of a Haptic Robot to Take Blood Samples from the Forearm. 614-620
  

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

• Gabriel Kiss, Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Maarten Thomeer, Paul Suetens, Guy Marchal:
  Computer Aided Diagnosis for Virtual Colonography. 621-628
  
• Marius George Linguraru, Michael Brady, Margaret Yam:
  Filtering h_int Images for the Detection of Microcalcifications. 629-636
  
• Burak Acar, Sandy Napel, David S. Paik, Salih Burak Göktürk, Carlo Tomasi, Christopher F. Beaulieu:
  Using Optical Flow Fields for Polyp Detection in Virtual Colonoscopy. 637-644
  
• Frans Vos, Iwo Serlie, Rogier E. van Gelder, Frits H. Post, Roel Truyen, Frans A. Gerritsen, Jaap Stoker, Albert M. Vossepoel:
  A New Visualization Method for Virtual Colonoscopy. 645-654
  
• Yanxi Liu, Frank Dellaert, William E. Rothfus, Andrew W. Moore, Jeff G. Schneider, Takeo Kanade:
  Classification-Driven Pathological Neuroimage Retrieval Using Statistical Asymmetry Measures. 655-665
  
• Jonathan Stoeckel, Grégoire Malandain, Octave Migneco, Pierre Malick Koulibaly, Philippe Robert, Nicholas Ayache, Jacques Darcourt:
  Classification of SPECT Images of Normal Subjects versus Images of Alzheimer's Disease Patients. 666-674
  

Visualization and Augmented Reality

• Yann Argotti, Valerie Outters, Larry S. Davis, Ami Sun, Jannick P. Rolland:
  Technologies for Augmented Reality: Calibration for Real-Time Superimposition on Rigid and Simple-Deformable Real Objects. 675-682
  
• George D. Stetten, Vikram S. Chib:
  Magnified Real-Time Tomographic Reflection. 683-690
  
• Stijn De Buck, Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Indra Geys, Thomas P. Koninckx, Philippe R. Koninck, Paul Suetens:
  A System to Support Laparoscopic Surgery by Augmented Reality Visualization. 691-698
  
• Cornelis M. van Bemmel, Wiro J. Niessen, Onno Wink, Bert Verdonck, Max A. Viergever:
  Blood Pool Agent CE-MRA: Improved Arterial Visualization of the Aortoiliac Vasculature in the Steady-State Using First-Pass Data. 699-706
  
• Frank Sauer, Ali Khamene, Benedicte Bascle, G. J. Rubino:
  A Head-Mounted Display System for Augmented Reality Image Guidance: Towards Clinical Evaluation for iMRI-guided Neurosurgery. 707-716
  

Registration II

• Sangyoon Lee, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory S. Chirikjian:
  Novel Algorithms for Robust Registration of Fiducials in CT and MRI. 717-724
  
• Margrit Betke, Harrison Hong, Jane P. Ko:
  Automatic 3D Registration of Lung Surfaces in Computed Tomography Scans. 725-733
  
• Pascal Cachier, Jean-Francois Mangin, Xavier Pennec, Denis Rivière, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos, Jean Régis, Nicholas Ayache:
  Multisubject Non-rigid Registration of Brain MRI Using Intensity and Geometric Features. 734-742
  
• Sébastien Ourselin, Eric Bardinet, Didier Dormont, Grégoire Malandain, Alexis Roche, Nicholas Ayache, D. Tandé, K. Parain, Jérôme Yelnik:
  Fusion of Histological Sections and MR Images: Towards the Construction of an Atlas of the Human Basal Ganglia. 743-751
  
• Sébastien Granger, Xavier Pennec, Alexis Roche:
  Rigid Point-Surface Registration Using an EM Variant of ICP for Computer Guided Oral Implantology. 752-761
  
• Graeme P. Penney, Philip J. Edwards, Andrew P. King, Jane M. Blackall, Philipp G. Batchelor, David J. Hawkes:
  A Stochastic Iterative Closest Point Algorithm (stochastICP). 762-769
  

Quantitative Image Analysis

• Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Michel A. Westenberg:
  Shape Preserving Filament Enhancement Filtering. 770-777
  
• Xujiong Ye, J. Alison Noble, Jérôme Declerck:
  3D Freehand Echocardiography for Automatic Left Ventricle Reconstruction and Analysis Based on Multiple Acoustic Windows. 778-785
  
• William S. Kerwin, Chao Han, Baocheng Chu, Dongxiang Xu, Ying Luo, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Thomas S. Hatsukami, Chun Yuan:
  A Quantitative Vascular Analysis System for Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Lesions by MRI. 786-794
  
• David Hattery, Victor Chernomordik, Amir Gandjbakhche, Murray H. Loew:
  Imaging Metabolism with Light: Quantifying Local Fluorescence Lifetime Perturbation in Tissue-like Turbid Media. 795-802
  
• Yoshinobu Sato, Katsuyuki Nakanishi, Hisashi Tanaka, Takashi Nishii, Nobuhiko Sugano, Hironobu Nakamura, Takahiro Ochi, Shinichi Tamura:
  Limits to the Accuracy of 3D Thickness Measurement in Magnetic Resonance Images. 803-810
  
• Sylvain Prima, Nicholas Ayache, Tom Barrick, Neil Roberts:
  Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Bias Field in MR Brain Images: Investigating Different Modelings of the Imaging Process. 811-819
  

Segmentation II

• Abhir Bhalerao, Elke Thönnes, Wilfrid Kendall, Roland Wilson:
  Inferring Vascular Structure from 2D and 3D Imagery. 820-828
  
• Benjamin Stein, Dimitri Lisin, Joseph Horowitz, Edward M. Riseman, Gary Whitten:
  Statistical and Deformable Model Approaches to the Segmentation of MR Imagery and Volume Estimation of Stroke Lesions. 829-836
  
• Rasmus Larsen, Hrafnkell Eiriksson, Mikkel B. Stegmann:
  Q-MAF Shape Decomposition. 837-844
  
• Onno Wink, Wiro J. Niessen, Bert Verdonck, Max A. Viergever:
  Vessel Axis Determination Using Wave Front Propagation Analysis. 845-853
  
• Catherine Desbleds-Mansard, Alfred Anwander, Linda Chaabane, Maciej Orkisz, Bruno Neyran, Philippe Douek, Isabelle E. Magnin:
  Size Independent Active Contour Model for Blood Vessel Lumen Quantification in High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Images. 854-861
  
• Stephen M. Pizer, Sarang C. Joshi, P. Thomas Fletcher, Martin Styner, Gregg Tracton, James Z. Chen:
  Segmentation of Single-Figure Objects by Deformable M-reps. 862-871
  

Poster Session III

Time Series Analysis

• Andreas Degenhard, Christine Tanner, Carmel Hayes, David J. Hawkes, Martin O. Leach:
  Half Fourier Acquisition Applied to Time Series Analysis of Contrast Agent Uptake. 872-880
  
• Laurent Thoraval, Jean-Paul Armspach, Izzie Namer:
  Analysis of Brain Functional MRI Time Series Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform and Stimulation-Response Coupling Distance. 881-888
  
• María J. Ledesma-Carbayo, Jan Kybic, Manuel Desco, Andrés Santos, Michael Unser:
  Cardiac Motion Analysis from Ultrasound Sequences Using Non-rigid Registration. 889-896
  
• Arnaud Cachia, Jean-Francois Mangin, Denis Rivière, Nathalie Boddaert, Alexandre Andrade, Ferath Kherif, P. Sonigo, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos, Monica Zilbovicius, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Isabelle Bloch, Francis Brunelle, Jean Régis:
  A Mean Curvature Based Primal Sketch to Study the Cortical Folding Process from Antenatal to Adult Brain. 897-904
  
• John W. Fisher III, Eric R. Cosman Jr., Cindy Wible, William M. Wells III:
  Adaptive Entropy Rates for f MRI Time-Series Analysis. 905-912
  

Registration III

• Tal Arbel, Xavier Morandi, Roch M. Comeau, D. Louis Collins:
  Automatic Non-linear MRI-Ultrasound Registration for the Correction of Intra-operative Brain Deformations. 913-922
  
• Jan Rexilius, Simon K. Warfield, Charles R. G. Guttmann, X. Wei, R. Benson, L. Wolfson, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Heinz Handels, Ron Kikinis:
  A Novel Nonrigid Registration Algorithm and Applications. 923-931
  
• Stephen R. Aylward, Susan Weeks, Elizabeth Bullitt:
  Analysis of the Parameter Space of a Metric for Registering 3D Vascular Images. 932-939
  
• Devin V. Amin, Takeo Kanade, Branislav Jaramaz, Anthony M. DiGioia, Constantinos Nikou, Richard S. LaBarca, James E. Moody Jr.:
  Calibration Method for Determining the Physical Location of the Ultrasound Image Plane. 940-947
  
• Isabelle Corouge, Christian Barillot, Pierre Hellier, Pierre Toulouse, Bernard Gibaud:
  Non-linear Local Registration of Functional Data. 948-956
  
• Eric Bardinet, Alan C. F. Colchester, Alexis Roche, Yonggen Zhu, Yang He, Sébastien Ourselin, Bill Nailon, S. A. Hojjat, James Ironside, Safa Al-Sarraj, Nicholas Ayache, Joanna M. Wardlaw:
  Registration of Reconstructed Post Mortem Optical Data with MR Scans of the Same Patient. 957-965
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling II

• Hiroyuki Kataoka, Toshikatsu Washio, Michel A. Audette, Kazuyuki Mizuhara:
  A Model for Relations between Needle Deflection, Force, and Thickness on Needle Penetration. 966-974
  
• Mark P. Ottensmeyer, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.:
  In Vivo Data Acquisition Instrument for Solid Organ Mechanical Property Measurement. 975-982
  
• Daniel Mocanu, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael O. Sweeney, Bruce H. KenKnight, Ron Kikinis, Solomon R. Eisenberg:
  Patient-Specific Simulation of Internal Defibrillation. 983-990
  
• Pieter De Groeve, Filip Schutyser, Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Paul Suetens:
  Registration of 3D Photographs with Spiral CT Images for Soft Tissue Simulation in Maxillofacial Surgery. 991-996
  
• Markus Kukuk, Bernhard Geiger, Heinrich Müller:
  TBNA-protocols - Guiding Trans Bronchial Needle Aspirations Without a Computer in the Operating Room. 997-1006
  
• Moumen T. Ahmed, Ahmed Eid, Aly A. Farag:
  3D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw: A New Approach and Improvements. 1007-1014
  
• Naoki Suzuki, Asaki Hattori, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Max P. Baur, Andreas Hirner, Susumu Kobayashi, Yoji Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Adachi:
  Real-Time Surgical Simulation with Haptic Sensation as Collaborated Works between Japan and Germany. 1015-1021
  

Segmentation III

• Lauren O'Donnell, Carl-Fredrik Westin, W. Eric L. Grimson, Juan Ruiz-Alzola, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Ron Kikinis:
  Phase-Based User-Steered Image Segmentation. 1022-1030
  
• Miguel A. Rodríguez-Florido, Karl Krissian, Juan Ruiz-Alzola, Carl-Fredrik Westin:
  Comparison of Two Restoration Techniques in the Context of 3D Medical Imaging. 1031-1039
  
• Benoit M. Dawant, Shiyan Pan, Rui Li:
  Robust Segmentation of Medical Images Using Geometric Deformable Models and a Dynamic Speed Function. 1040-1047
  
• Celina Imielinska, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Jayaram K. Udupa, Yinpeng Jin, Ting Chen:
  Hybrid Segmentation of Anatomical Data. 1048-1057
  
• Yuri Boykov, Vivian S. Lee, Henry Rusinek, Ravi Bansal:
  Segmentation of Dynamic N-D Data Sets via Graph Cuts Using Markov Models. 1058-1066
  
• Chahin Pachai, Yue Min Zhu, Charles R. G. Guttmann, Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jolesz, Gérard Gimenez, Jean-Claude Froment, Christian Confavreux, Simon K. Warfield:
  Unsupervised and Adaptive Segmentation of Multispectral 3D Magnetic Resonance Images of Human Brain: A Generic Approach. 1067-1074
  

Image-Guided Surgery II

• David Jaffray, Marcel van Herk, Joos Lebesque, Alvaro Martinez:
  Image Guided Radiotherapy of the Prostate. 1075-1080
  
• Karen E. Lunn, Alex Hartov, Eric W. Hansen, Hai Sun, David W. Roberts, Keith D. Paulsen:
  A Quantitative Comparison of Edges in 3D Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative MR Images of the Brain. 1081-1090
  
• Andy D. Castellano-Smith, Thomas Hartkens, Julia A. Schnabel, D. Rodney Hose, Haiying Liu, Walter A. Hall, Charles L. Truwit, David J. Hawkes, Derek L. G. Hill:
  Constructing Patient Specific Models for Correcting Intraoperative Brain Deformation. 1091-1098
  
• Cristiano Paggetti, Sandra Martelli, Laura Nofrini, Paolo Vendruscolo:
  Interface Design and Evaluation for CAS Systems. 1099-1106
  
• Tobias Hüfner, Musa Citak, Ségolène M. Tarte, Jens Geerling, Tim Pohlemann, H. Rosenthal, Lutz-Peter Nolte, Christian Krettek:
  Independent Registration and Virtual Controlled Reduction of Pelvic Ring Fractures. 1107-1113
  
• Ariela Sofer, Jianchao Zeng, Seong K. Mun:
  Optimization in Prostate Cancer Detection. 1114-1121
  
• S. Taivalkoski, Lasse J. Jyrkinen, Olli Silvén:
  Automated Identification and B-spline Approximation of a Profiling Coil Centerline from Magnetic Resonance Images. 1122-1129
  
• Peter M. Tate, Vladimir Lachine, Liqun Fu, Haniel Croitoru, Marwan Sati:
  Performance and Robustness of Automatic Fluoroscopic Image Calibration in a New Computer Assisted Surgery System. 1130-1136
  
• Alan Liu, Christoph Kaufmann, Daigo Tanaka:
  An Architecture for Simulating Needle-Based Surgical Procedures. 1137-1144
  

Short Posters

Image-Guided Surgery I

• David Voirin, Yohan Payan, Miriam Amavizca, Antoine Leroy, Christian Létoublon, Jocelyne Troccaz:
  Computer-Aided Hepatic Tumour Ablation. 1145-1146
  
• Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Filip Schutyser, Chantal Malevez, Ellen Dhoore, Charbel BouSerhal, Reinhilde Jacobs, Paul Suetens, Daniel van Steenberghe:
  Intra-operative Transfer of Planned Zygomatic Fixtures by Personalized Templates: A Cadaver Validation Study. 1147-1148
  
• Kathleen J. M. Surry, Terry M. Peters:
  A PVA-C Brain Phantom Derived from a High Quality 3D MR Data Set. 1149-1150
  
• Yoshinobu Sato, Masaki Miyamoto, Masahiko Nakamoto, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Mitsuo Shimada, Makoto Hashizume, Shinichi Tamura:
  3D Ultrasound Image Acquisition Using a Magneto-optic Hybrid Sensor for Laparoscopic Surgery. 1151-1153
  
• Randy E. Ellis, D. Kerr, J. Rudan, L. Davidson:
  Minimally Invasive Excision of Deep Bone Tumors. 1154-1156
  
• Klaus Kansy, Arno Schmitgen, Martin Bublat, Gernoth Grunst, Matthias Jungmann, Peter Wißkirchen, Michael Moche, Gero Strauß, Christos Trantakis, Thomas Kahn:
  A Multimodal Navigation System for Interventional MRI. 1157-1158
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling I

• J. Bestel, Frédérique Clément, Michel Sorine:
  A Biomechanical Model of Muscle Contraction. 1159-1161
  
• Wei-te Lin, Richard A. Robb:
  A Framework for Patient-Specific Physics-Based Simulation and Interactive Visualization of Cardiac Dynamics. 1162-1163
  
• Seemantini K. Nadkarni, Gregory R. Mills, Derek R. Boughner, Aaron Fenster:
  A Pulsating Coronary Vessel Phantom for Two- and Three-Dimensional Intravascular Ultrasound Studies. 1164-1165
  
• Cameron A. Shute, Antony J. Hodgson:
  Repeatability and Accuracy of Ankle Centre Location Estimates Using a Biaxial Joint Model. 1166-1167
  
• Sharif M. Qatarneh, Simo Hyödynmaa, Marilyn E. Noz, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Elissa L. Kramer, Joakim Crafoord:
  A Whole Body Atlas Based Segmentation for Delineation of Organs in Radiation Therapy Planning. 1168-1169
  
• Xuesong Chen, Chee-Kong Chui, Swee-Hin Teoh, Sim Heng Ong, Wieslaw Lucjan Nowinski:
  Automatic Modeling of Anatomical Structures for Biomechanical Analysis and Visualization in a Virtual Spine Workstation. 1170-1171
  

Registration I

• Saskia van Engeland, Nico Karssemeijer:
  Matching Breast Lesions in Multiple Mammographic Views. 1172-1173
  
• Claudia E. Rodríguez-Carranza, Murray H. Loew:
  Automatic Detection of Large Misregistrations of Multimodality Medical Images. 1174-1175
  
• Jason Trobaugh, R. Martin Arthur:
  Registration of the Spine Using a Physically-Based Image Model for Ultrasound. 1176-1177
  
• Brian B. Avants, Marcelo Siqueira, James C. Gee:
  Computing Match Functions for Curves in R² and R³ by Refining Polyline Approximations. 1178-1179
  

Segmentation and Shape Analysis I

• Matthias Harders, Gábor Székely:
  A Multi-modal Approach to Segmentation of Tubular Structures. 1180-1182
  
• Vincent Barra, Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Franck Durif, Jean-Yves Boire:
  Segmentation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in MR Images Using Information Fusion - A Preliminary Study for a Computed-Aided Surgery of Parkinson's Disease. 1183-1184
  
• Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp, Jouke Dijkstra, Johan G. Bosch, Johan H. C. Reiber:
  Collaborative Multi-agent IVUS Image Segmentation. 1185-1186
  
• A. W. Simonetti, Ron Wehrens, Lutgarde M. C. Buydens:
  Segmentation of Chemical Shift Images with Mixture Modeling. 1187-1188
  
• Simon Duchesne, D. Louis Collins:
  Analysis of 3D Deformation Fields for Appearance-Based Segmentation. 1189-1190
  
• Marc Liévin, Nils Hanssen, Peter Zerfass, Erwin Keeve:
  3D Markov Random Fields and Region Growing for Interactive Segmentation of MR Data. 1191-1192
  

Visualization and Augmented Reality I

• Ziv Yaniv, Leo Joskowicz:
  Long Bone Panoramas from Fluoroscopic X-ray Images. 1193-1194
  
• Heinz Wörn, Harald Hoppe:
  Augmented Reality in the Operating Theatre of the Future. 1195-1196
  
• Shinobu Mizuta, Ken-ichi Kanda, Tetsuya Matsuda:
  Volume Visualization Using Gradient-Based Distance among Voxels. 1197-1198
  
• Daigo Tanaka, Alan Liu, Christoph Kaufmann:
  The Evaluation of the Color Blending Function for the Texture Generation from Photographs. 1199-1200
  
• Tae-Young Kim, Byeong-Seok Shin, Yeong-Gil Shin:
  Anisotropic Volume Rendering Using Intensity Interpolation. 1201-1203
  
• Hayit Greenspan, Sharon Peled, Gal Oz, Nahum Kiryati:
  MRI Inter-slice Reconstruction Using Super-Resolution. 1204-1206
  

Quantitative Image Analysis I

• Marjolein van der Glas, Frans Vos, Albert M. Vossepoel:
  Assessment of Center of Rotation of the Glenohumeral Joint. 1207-1209
  
• M. Nobler, S. Yu, B. Mensh, S. Lisanby, L. Alkalay, R. Van Heertum, E. Heyer, H. Sackeim:
  PET Studies of the Effects of ECT on Cerebral Physiology. 1210-1212
  
• Jeffrey Wallace, Homayoun Mozaffari-Naeini, Li Pan, Nitish V. Thakor:
  Fuzzy C-means Clustering Analysis to Monitor Tissue Perfusion with Near Infrared Imaging. 1213-1214
  
• Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Lars Bergmans, Martine Wevers, Paul Lambrechts:
  A Method for µCT Based Assessment of Root Canal Instrumentation in Endodontics Research. 1215-1217
  
• Helmut Kober, Oliver Ganslandt, Christopher Nimsky, Michael Buchfelder, Rudolf Fahlbusch:
  Reconstruction of Subcortical Brain Activity by Spatially Filtered MEG During Epileptic Seizures. 1218-1219
  
• Eduardo Solanas, Jean-Philippe Thiran:
  Exploiting Voxel Correlation for Automated MRI Bias Field Correction by Conditional Entropy Minimization. 1220-1221
  
• M. Lyra, K. Skouroliakou, C. Georgosopoulos, C. Stefanides, J. Jordanou:
  Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography and 3 Dimensional Quantitative Evaluation in Renal Scintigraphy. 1222-1223
  

Time Series Analysis I

• Olivier Gérard, Maxim Fradkin, Antoine Collet Billon, Miarie Jacob, Jean-Michel Rouet, Shérif Makram-Ebeid:
  Automatic Analysis of the Left Ventricle in the Time Sequences of 3D Echo-Cardiographic Images. 1224-1225
  
• Sabine Dippel:
  Displacement Field Estimation from CSPAMM Images without Segmentation of the Myocardium. 1226-1227
  
• Luuk J. Spreeuwers, Marcel Breeuwer:
  Automatic Detection of Myocardial Boundaries in MR Cardio Perfusion Images. 1228-1231
  
• David Rey, Jonathan Stoeckel, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache:
  Using SPM to Detect Evolving MS Lesions. 1232-1234
  
• E. Brian Welch, Armando Manduca, Roger C. Grimm, Heidi A. Ward, Clifford R. Jack Jr.:
  Spherical Navigator Echoes for Full 3-D Rigid Body Motion Measurement in MRI. 1235-1236
  

Image-Guided Surgery II

• S. Suprijanto, Frans Vos, M. W. Vogel, Albert M. Vossepoel, Henri A. Vrooman:
  Phase Unwrapping for Magnetic Resonance Thermometry. 1237-1239
  
• Alex Hartov, Hai Sun, David W. Roberts, Keith D. Paulsen:
  A Simplified Field-of-View Calibration Technique for an Operating Microscope. 1240-1242
  
• David R. Holmes III, Brian J. Davis, Richard A. Robb:
  Trans-urethral Ultrasound: A New Tool for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging in Prostate Cancer. 1243-1244
  
• Jens Geerling, Tobias Hüfner, R. Raab, Musa Citak, Tim Pohlemann, H. Rosenthal, Christian Krettek:
  Resection of Recurrent Carcinomas in the Pelvis - A New Field of Computer Aided Surgery. 1245-1247
  
• Peter Hastreiter, Klaus Engel, Grzegorz Soza, Michael Bauer, Matthias Wolf, Oliver Ganslandt, Rudolf Fahlbusch, Günther Greiner, Thomas Ertl, Christopher Nimsky:
  Remote Analysis for Brain Shift Compensation. 1248-1249
  
• Jianchao Zeng, Ariela Sofer, Seong K. Mun:
  Development of a New Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy System. 1250-1252
  
• Michael Rosenthal, Susan Weeks, Stephen R. Aylward, Elizabeth Bullitt, Henry Fuchs:
  Intraoperative Tracking of Anatomical Structures Using Fluoroscopy and a Vascular Balloon Catheter. 1253-1254
  
• Marc Kessler, Janelle Solock, Paul Archer, Charles R. Meyer:
  Clinical Use of a Mutual Information-Based Automated Image Registration System for Conformal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. 1255-1257
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling II

• Filip Schutyser, Johan Van Cleynenbreugel, Paul Suetens:
  Validation Methods for Soft Tissue Prediction in Maxillofacial Planning Environments. 1258-1260
  
• Steven Lobregt, Ted Vuurberg, Joost J. Schillings:
  Dental Implant Planning in EasyVision. 1261-1262
  
• Ullrich Meier, Carlos Monserrat, Nils-Christian Parr, Francisco Javier García, José Antonio Gil:
  Real-Time Simulation of Minimally-Invasive Surgery with Cutting Based on Boundary Element Methods. 1263-1264
  
• Reza Arbab Chirani, Jean-José Jacq, Christian Roux, Philippe Meriot:
  3-D Reconstruction and Functional Analysis of the Temporomandibular Joint. 1265-1266
  
• Fred S. Azar, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Mitchell D. Schnall:
  Methods for Modeling and Predicting Mechanical Deformations of the Breast Under External Perturbations. 1267-1270
  
• Jean-Marc Schwartz, Ève Langelier, Christian Moisan, Denis Laurendeau:
  Non-linear Soft Tissue Deformations for the Simulation of Percutaneous Surgeries. 1271-1272
  

Registration II

• Mark P. Wachowiak, Adel Said Elmaghraby:
  The Continuous Tabu Search as an Optimizer for 2D-to-3D Biomedical Image Registration. 1273-1274
  
• Yoshitaka Masutani, Fumihiko Kimura:
  Modally Controlled Free Form Deformation for Non-rigid Registration in Image-Guided Liver Surgery. 1275-1278
  
• Petronella Anbeek, Koen L. Vincken, Matthias J. P. van Osch, Josien P. W. Pluim, Jeroen van der Grond, Max A. Viergever:
  Two-Step Registration of Subacute to Hyperacute Stroke MRIs. 1279-1280
  
• M. van Herk, Jan C. de Munck, M. T. J. G. Groenewegen, A. R. Peters, A. Touw:
  The Effect of Organ Motion and Image Artifacts on Monomodal Volume Registration. 1281-1282
  
• Jay B. West, Rasool Khadem, Shao Chin, Ramin Shahidi:
  A Maximum Likelihood Approach for 2-D to 3-D Registration. 1283-1284
  
• Pascal Cachier:
  How to Trade Off between Regularization and Image Similarity in Non-rigid Registration? 1285-1286
  

Segmentation and Shape Analysis II

• Faiza Behloul, Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt, Rob J. van der Geest, Johan H. C. Reiber:
  A Virtual Exploring Robot for Adaptive Left Ventricle Contour Detection in Cardiac MR Images. 1287-1288
  
• Jean-José Jacq, Christian Roux:
  A Mesh-Based Shape Analysis Framework. 1289-1290
  
• Horst K. Hahn, Markus G. Lentschig, Burckhard Terwey, Heinz-Otto Peitgen:
  Clinical MRI Based Volumetry: The Cerebral Ventricles. 1291-1292
  
• Maja Pokric, Neil A. Thacker, Marietta L. J. Scott, Alan Jackson:
  The Importance of Partial Voluming in Multi-dimensional Medical Image Segmentation. 1293-1294
  
• Grigorios Karangelis, Stelios Zimeras, Evelyn Firle, Min Wang, Georgios Sakas:
  Volume Definition Tools for Medical Imaging Applications. 1295-1297
  
• Rachael I. Scahill, William R. Crum, Nick C. Fox:
  Automated Hippocampal Segmentation by Regional Fluid Registration of Serial MRI: Validation and Application in Alzheimer's Disease. 1298-1299
  
• Hui Luo, Thomas O'Donnell:
  A 3D Statistical Shape Model for the Left Ventricle of the Heart. 1300-1301
  

Medical Robotics and Devices I

• Robert Boesecke, Jakob Brief, Jörg Raczkowsky, Oliver Schorr, S. Daueber, Robert Krempien, Martina Treiber, Thomas Wetter, Stefan Haßfeld:
  Robot Assistant for Dental Implantology. 1302-1303
  
• J. P. Ruurda, I. A. M. J. Broeders, R. K. J. Simmermacher, I. H. M. Borel Rinkes, Th. J. M. V. van Vroonhoven:
  Feasibility of Laparoscopic Surgery Assisted by a Robotic Telemanipulation System. 1304-1305
  
• Alexandre Krupa, Michel de Mathelin, Christophe Doignon, Jacques Gangloff, Guillaume Morel, Luc Soler, Jacques Marescaux:
  Development of Semi-autonomous Control Modes in Laparoscopic Surgery Using Automatic Visual Servoing. 1306-1307
  
• Dirk Engel, Jörg Raczkowsky, Heinz Wörn:
  A Supervising System for Robot Application in Surgery. 1308-1309
  
• Xuemin Shi, Yi Guo, Shogo Fukushima, Kenshi Suzuki, Hisashi Uchiyama, Ichiro Fukumoto:
  A New Diagnostic Method for Alzheimer's Disease Using Pupillary Light Reflex. 1310-1211
  
• Kiyoshi Yoshinaka, Ryo Sakamoto, Ken Ikeuchi:
  Reduction of Insertion Resistance by Means of Vibration for Catheters and Endoscopes. 1312-1313
  
• Charlie Sim, Ming Yeong Teo, Wan Sing Ng, Carl Yap, Yong-Chong Loh, Tseng-Tsai Yeo, Shaoping Bai, Charles Lo:
  Hexapod Intervention Planning for a Robotic Skull-Base Surgery System. 1314-1315
  
• Stephen Starkie, Brian L. Davies:
  Advances in Active Constraints and Their Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery. 1316-1317
  

Time Series Analysis II

• E. Brian Welch, Armando Manduca:
  Motion Correction of MRI from Orthogonal k-Space Phase Difference. 1318-1319
  
• Fabien Mourgues, Frederic Devernay, Grégoire Malandain, Ève Coste-Manière:
  3D+t Modeling of Coronary Artery Tree from Standard Non Simultaneous Angiograms. 1320-1322
  
• Julian Mattes, Johannes Fieres, Joël Beaudouin, Daniel Gerlich, Jan Ellenberg, Roland Eils:
  New Tools for Visualization and Quantification in Dynamic Processes: Application to the Nuclear Envelope Dynamics During Mitosis. 1323-1325
  
• Yi Su, Armando Manduca, Clifford R. Jack Jr., E. Brian Welch, Richard L. Ehman:
  Full 3D Rigid Body Automatic Motion Correction of MRI Images. 1326-1327
  
• Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Amol Pednekar, G. Zouridakis, K. Grigoriadis:
  Estimating the Motion of the LAD: A Simulation-Based Study. 1328-1331
  
• Idith Haber, Ron Kikinis, Carl-Fredrik Westin:
  Phase-Driven Finite Element Model for Spatio-temporal Tracking in Cardiac Tagged MRI. 1332-1335
  

Simulation, Planning, and Modelling III

• Erwin Keeve, Thomas Jansen, Zdzislaw Król, Lutz Ritter, Bartosz von Rymon-Lipinski, Robert Sader, Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, Peter Zerfass:
  JULIUS - An Extendable Software Framework for Surgical Planning and Image-Guided Navigation. 1336-1337
  
• Jane M. Blackall, Andrew P. King, Graeme P. Penney, A. Adam, David J. Hawkes:
  A Statistical Model of Respiratory Motion and Deformation of the Liver. 1338-1340
  
• Matthias Teschner, Sabine Girod, Kevin Montgomery:
  Evaluation of Soft-Tissue Model Parameters. 1341-1342
  
• David J. Stahl Jr., Norberto Ezquerra:
  Bag-of-Particles Model for Simulating Tissue, Organs, and Flow. 1343-1344
  
• Cynthia Bruyns, Simon Wildermuth, Kevin Montgomery:
  Simulated Animal Dissection. 1345-1346
  
• Simon Wildermuth, Cynthia Bruyns, Kevin Montgomery, Borut Marincek:
  Virtual Polypectomy. 1347-1348
  
• Cynthia Bruyns, Steven Senger, Simon Wildermuth, Kevin Montgomery, Richard Boyle:
  Real-Time Interactions Using Virtual Tools. 1349-1351
  

Registration III

• Matthieu Ferrant, Olivier Cuisenaire, Benoit M. Macq, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Ron Kikinis, Simon K. Warfield:
  Surface Based Atlas Matching of the Brain Using Deformable Surfaces and Volumetric Finite Elements. 1352-1353
  
• Niels Dekker, Lennert S. Ploeger, Marcel van Herk:
  Evaluation of Cost Functions for Gray Value Matching of 2D Images in Radiotherapy. 1354-1357
  
• Christian P. Behrenbruch, Timor Kadir, Michael Brady:
  Mutual Scale. 1356-1357
  
• Samson J. Timoner, W. Eric L. Grimson, Ron Kikinis, William M. Wells III:
  Fast Linear Elastic Matching Without Landmarks. 1358-1360
  
• Rasool Khadem, Michael R. Bax, Jeremy A. Johnson, Eric P. Wilkinson, Ramin Shahidi:
  Endoscope Calibration and Accuracy Testing for 3D/2D Image Registration. 1361-1362
  
• Baba C. Vemuri, Jundong Liu:
  Fast Non-rigid Multimodal Image Registration Using Local Frequency Maps. 1363-1365
  
• Yoshikazu Nakajima, Toshihiko Sasama, Yoshinobu Sato, Takashi Nishii, Nobuhiko Sugano, Takashi Ishikawa, Kazuo Yonenobu, Takahiro Ochi, Shinichi Tamura:
  Accuracy Validation of Cone-Beam CT Based Registration. 1366-1368
  

Segmentation and Shape Analysis III

• Luis Ibáñez, Chafiaâ Hamitouche, Martial Boniou, Christian Roux:
  Morphogenesis-Based Deformable Models Application to 3D Medical Image Segmentation and Analysis. 1369-1370
  
• Roger Hult, Ewert Bengtsson:
  Grey-Level Morphology Based Segmentation of T1-MRI of the Human Cortex. 1371-1372
  
• Matthias Gebhard, Julian Mattes, Roland Eils:
  An Active Contour Model for Segmentation Based on Cubic B-splines and Gradient Vector Flow. 1373-1375
  
• Gabor Fichtinger, Sheng Xu, Attila Tanács, Kieran Murphy, Lee Myers, Jeffery Williams:
  Approximate Volumetric Reconstruction from Projected Images. 1376-1378
  
• Terry S. Yoo, Kalpathi R. Subramanian:
  Implicit Snakes: Active Constrained Implicit Models. 1379-1381
  
• Casper F. Nielsen, Peter J. Passmore:
  Towards a Robust Path Growing Algorithm for Semi-automatic MRI Segmentation. 1382-1383
  

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

• Joseph M. Reinhardt, Junfeng Guo, Li Zhang, D. Bilgen, Shiying Hu, R. Uppaluri, Ryan M. Long, O. I. Saba, Geoffrey McLennan, Milan Sonka, Eric A. Hoffman:
  Integrated System for Objective Assessment of Global and Regional Lung Structure. 1384-1385
  
• Ichiro Fukumoto:
  Computer Aided Diagnosis for the Alzheimer Type Dementia. 1386-1387
  
• Mitsuru Kubo, T. Yamamoto, Yoshiki Kawata, Noboru Niki, Kenji Eguchi, Hironobu Ohmatsu, Ryutaro Kakinuma, Masahiro Kaneko, Masahiko Kusumoto, Noriyuki Moriyama, Kensaku Mori, Hiroyuki Nishiyama:
  CAD System for the Assistance of Comparative Reading for Lung Cancer Using Serial Helical CT Images. 1388-1390
  
• Celia Varela, Nico Karssemeijer, Pablo G. Tahoces:
  Classification of Breast Tumors on Digital Mammograms Using Laws' Texture Features. 1391-1392
  
• Yoshiki Kawata, Noboru Niki, Hironobu Ohmatsu, Masahiko Kusumoto, Ryutaro Kakinuma, Kensaku Mori, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Kenji Eguchi, Masahiro Kaneko, Noriyuki Moriyama:
  Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules Using Three-Dimensional Thoracic CT Images. 1393-1394
  
• Luca Bogoni, Jane C. Asmuth, David J. Hirvonen, Bojidar D. Madjarov, Jeffrey W. Berger:
  Ophthalmic Slitlamp-Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Image Processing Foundations. 1395-1397
  
• Sylvain Jaume, Matthieu Ferrant, Andreas Schreyer, Lennox Hoyte, Benoit M. Macq, Julia Fielding, Ron Kikinis, Simon K. Warfield:
  Multiresolution Signal Processing on Meshes for Automatic Pathological Shape Characterization. 1398-1400
  

Visualization and Augmented Reality II

• Abhir Bhalerao, Paul E. Summers:
  Interactive Visualisation of MRI Vector and Tensor Fields. 1401-1403
  
• Abhilash Pandya, Mohamad Siadat, Lucia Zamorano, Jainxing Gong, Qinghang Li, James Maida, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris:
  Tracking Methods for Medical Augmented Reality. 1404-1405
  
• Song Zhang, Çagatay Demiralp, M. DaSilva, Daniel F. Keefe, David H. Laidlaw, B. D. Greenberg, Peter J. Basser, Carlo Pierpaoli, E. A. Chiocca, Thomas S. Deisboeck:
  Toward Application of Virtual Reality to Visualization of DT-MRI Volumes. 1406-1408
  
• Olivier Cuisenaire, Matthieu Ferrant, Yves Vandermeeren, Etienne Olivier, Benoit M. Macq:
  Registration and Visualization of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on MR Images. 1409-1411
  
• Dan Koppel, Yuan-Fang Wang, Hua Lee:
  Automated Image Rectification in Video-Endoscopy. 1412-1414
  
• Chris A. Cocosco, Alan C. Evans:
  Java Internet Viewer: A WWW Tool for Remote 3D Medical Image Data Visualization and Comparison. 1415-1416
  

Medical Robotics and Devices II

• Rajesh Kumar, Aaron C. Barnes, Gregory D. Hager, Patrick S. Jensen, Russell H. Taylor:
  Applications of Task-Level Augmentation for Cooperative Fine Manipulation Tasks in Surgery. 1417-1418
  
• Shinsuk Park, Robert D. Howe, David F. Torchiana:
  Virtual Fixtures for Robotic Cardiac Surgery. 1419-1420
  
• Alim-Louis Benabid, Dominque Hoffmann, Luc Court, Vincent Robert, Sébastien Burtin, Patrick Pittet, Jörg Fischer:
  The Clinical Use of Multi-modal Resources (2D/3D/Statistics) for Robot Assisted Functional Neurosurgery. 1421-1423
  
• Daeyoung Kim, Ryoichi Nakamura, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ichiro Sakuma, Takeyoshi Dohi:
  Application of Compact Pneumatic Actuators to Laparoscopic Manipulator. 1424-1425
  
• Peter J. Berkelman, Daniel L. Rothbaum, Jaydeep Roy, Sam Lang, Louis L. Whitcomb, Gregory D. Hager, Patrick S. Jensen, Eugene de Juan, Russell H. Taylor, John K. Niparko:
  Performance Evaluation of a Cooperative Manipulation Microsurgical Assistant Robot Applied to Stapedotomy. 1426-1429
  
• Randal P. Goldberg, Dumitru Mazilu, Russell H. Taylor, Dan Stoianovici:
  A Modular Robotic System for Ultrasound Image Acquisition. 1430-1432
  
• Fridun Kerschbaumer, Juergen Wahrburg, Stephan Künzler:
  A Mechatronic System for the Implantation of the Acetabular Component in Total Hip Alloarthroplasty. 1433-1434
  
• Shaun Selha, Pierre E. Dupont, Robert D. Howe, David F. Torchiana:
  Optimal Port Placement in Robot-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 1435-1436
  

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