Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2001

Oral Sessions.- A Method for Tracking the Camera Motion of Real Endoscope by Epipolar Geometry Analysis and Virtual Endoscopy System.- Real-Time Visual Tracking of the Surgeon’s Face for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Computer-Based Periaxial Rotation Measurement for Aligning Fractured Femur Fragments: Method and Preliminary Results.- Shape versus Size: Improved Understanding of the Morphology of Brain Structures.- Hippocampal Shape Analysis Using Medial Surfaces.- Detecting Spatially Consistent Structural Differences in Alzheimer’s and Fronto Temporal Dementia Using Deformation Morphometry.- Quantifying Small Changes in Brain Ventricular Volume Using Non-rigid Registration.- An Efficient Method for Constructing Optimal Statistical Shape Models.- Deformable Organisms for Automatic Medical Image Analysis.- Automatic Construction of 3D Statistical Deformation Models Using Non-rigid Registration.- A Learning Method for Automated Polyp Detection.- A CAD System for 3D Locating of Lesions in Mammogram.- Analysis of Pulmonary Nodule Evolutions Using a Sequence of Three-Dimensional Thoracic CT Images.- Intensity-Based Non-rigid Registration Using Adaptive Multilevel Free-Form Deformation with an Incompressibility Constraint.- Mass Preserving Mappings and Image Registration.- Inverse Finite Element Characterization of Soft Tissues.- A Microsurgery Simulation System.- A Surgery Simulation Supporting Cuts and Finite Element Deformation.- Patient-Specific Simulation of Carotid Artery Stenting Using Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Volume Rendering of Segmented Tubular Objects.- Clinical Evaluation of an Automatic Path Tracker for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Evaluation of Diffusion Techniques for Improved Vessel Visualization and Quantification in Three-Dimensional Rotational Angiography.- Eddy-Current Distortion Correction and Robust Tensor Estimation for MR Diffusion Imaging.- Edge Preserving Regularization and Tracking for Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- A Statistical Framework for Partial Volume Segmentation.- From Sinograms to Surfaces: A Direct Approach to the Segmentation of Tomographic Data.- An Electro-mechanical Model of the Heart for Cardiac Image Analysis.- A Mechanical, Three-Dimensional, Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy Apparatus.- Augmented Reality Guidance for Needle Biopsies: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in Phantoms.- Robotic Kidney and Spine Percutaneous Procedures Using a New Laser-Based CT Registration Method.- Retrospective Evaluation of Inter-subject Brain Registration.- A Binary Entropy Measure to Assess Nonrigid Registration Algorithms.- A Methodology to Validate MRI/SPECT Registration Methods Using Realistic Simulated SPECT Data.- Correction of Probe Pressure Artifacts in Freehand 3D Ultrasound.- In-Vitro Validation of a Novel Model-Based Approach to the Measurement of Arterial Blood Flow Waveforms from Dynamic Digital X-ray Images.- Retrospective Correction of the Heel Effect in Hand Radiographs.- Posters.- SCALPP: A Safe Methodology to Robotize Skin Harvesting.- Surgical Motion Adaptive Robotic Technology (S.M.A.R.T): Taking the Motion out of Physiological Motion.- TER: A System for Robotic Tele-echography.- Digital Angioplasty Balloon Inflation Device for Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures.- A Computer-Assisted Robotic Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy System for Video-Assisted Surgery.- Dynamic Brachytherapy of the Prostate Under Active Image Guidance.- Computer-Assisted Soft-Tissue Surgery Training and Monitoring.- Towards Dynamic Planning and Guidance of Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Bypass Surgical Procedures.- Novel Real-Time Tremor Transduction Technique for Microsurgery.- Computer Assisted Dental Implantology: A New Method and a Clinical Validation.- Intra-operative Real-Time 3-D Information Display System Based on Integral Videography.- Towards Motion-Robust Magnetic Resonance Thermometry.- A Non-CT Based Total Knee Arthroplasty System Featuring Complete Soft-Tissue Balancing.- A Statistical Atlas of Prostate Cancer for Optimal Biopsy.- A New Approach to Cutting into Finite Element Models.- Methodology of Precise Skull Model Creation.- Medial Axis Seeding of a Guided Evolutionary Simulated Annealing (GESA) Algorithm for Automated Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Treatment Planning.- A Software Framework for Creating Patient Specific Geometric Models from Medical Imaging Data for Simulation Based Medical Planning of Vascular Surgery.- Interactive Catheter Shape Modeling in Interventional Radiology Simulation.- Parametric Eyeball Model for Interactive Simulation of Ophthalmologic Surgery.- Improved 3D Osteotomy Planning in Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery.- Combining Edge, Region, and Shape Information to Segment the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MR Images.- Vessel Segmentation for Visualization of MRA with Blood Pool Contrast Agent.- Segmenting Articulated Structures by Hierarchical Statistical Modeling of Shape, Appearance, and Topology.- Validation of Nonlinear Spatial Filtering to Improve Tissue Segmentation of MR Brain Images.- Valmet: A New Validation Tool for Assessing and Improving 3D Object Segmentation.- A Dual Dynamic Programming Approach to the Detection of Spine Boundaries.- Geometrical Transformation Approximation for 2D/3D Intensity-Based Registration of Portal Images and CT Scan.- Elastic Matching Using a Deformation Sphere.- Affine Registration with Feature Space Mutual Information.- A New Method for the Registration of Cardiac PET and MR Images Using Deformable Model Based Segmentation of the Main Thorax Structures.- Modeling Surgical Procedures for Multimodal Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- A Generic Framework for Non-rigid Registration Based on Non-uniform Multi-level Free-Form Deformations.- Improving the Robustness in Extracting 3D Point Landmarks from 3D Medical Images Using Parametric Deformable Models.- Poster Session II.- Integration and Clinical Evaluation of an Interactive Controllable Robotic System for Anaplastology.- Smart Alignment Tool for Knee MosaicPlasty Surgery.- Multi-DOF Forceps Manipulator System for Laparoscopic Surgery – Mechanism Miniaturized & Evaluation of New Interface -.- The Development of a Haptic Robot to Take Blood Samples from the Forearm.- Computer Aided Diagnosis for Virtual Colonography.- Filtering h int Images for the Detection of Microcalcifications.- Using Optical Flow Fields for Polyp Detection in Virtual Colonoscopy.- A New Visualization Method for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Classification-Driven Pathological Neuroimage Retrieval Using Statistical Asymmetry Measures.- Classification of SPECT Images of Normal Subjects versus Images of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients.- Technologies for Augmented Reality: Calibration for Real-Time Superimposition on Rigid and Simple-Deformable Real Objects.- Magnified Real-Time Tomographic Reflection.- A System to Support Laparoscopic Surgery by Augmented Reality Visualization.- Blood Pool Agent CE-MRA: Improved Arterial Visualization of the Aortoiliac Vasculature in the Steady-State Using First-Pass Data.- A Head-Mounted Display System for Augmented Reality Image Guidance: Towards Clinical Evaluation for iMRI-guided Nuerosurgery.- Novel Algorithms for Robust Registration of Fiducials in CT and MRI.- Automatic 3D Registration of Lung Surfaces in Computed Tomography Scans.- Multisubject Non-rigid Registration of Brain MRI Using Intensity and Geometric Features.- Fusion of Histological Sections and MR Images: Towards the Construction of an Atlas of the Human Basal Ganglia.- Rigid Point-Surface Registration Using an EM Variant of ICP for Computer Guided Oral Implantology.- A Stochastic Iterative Closest Point Algorithm (stochastICP).- Shape Preserving Filament Enhancement Filtering.- 3D Freehand Echocardiography for Automatic Left Ventricle Reconstruction and Analysis Based on Multiple Acoustic Windows.- A Quantitative Vascular Analysis System for Evaluation of Atherosclerotic Lesions by MRI.- Imaging Metabolism with Light: Quantifying Local Fluorescence Lifetime Perturbation in Tissue-like Turbid Media.- Limits to the Accuracy of 3D Thickness Measurement in Magnetic Resonance Images.- Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Bias Field in MR Brain Images: Investigating Different Modelings of the Imaging Process.- Inferring Vascular Structure from 2D and 3D Imagery.- Statistical and Deformable Model Approaches to the Segmentation of MR Imagery and Volume Estimation of Stroke Lesions.- Q-MAF Shape Decomposition.- Vessel Axis Determination Using Wave Front Propagation Analysis.- Size Independent Active Contour Model for Blood Vessel Lumen Quantification in High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Images.- Segmentation of Single-Figure Objects by Deformable M-reps.- Poster Session III.- Half Fourier Acquisition Applied to Time Series Analysis of Contrast Agent Uptake.- Analysis of Brain Functional MRI Time Series Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform and Stimulation-Response Coupling Distance.- Cardiac Motion Analysis from Ultrasound Sequences Using Non-rigid Registration.- A Mean Curvature Based Primal Sketch to Study the Cortical Folding Process from Antenatal to Adult Brain.- Adaptive Entropy Rates for fMRI Time-Series Analysis.- Automatic Non-linear MRI-Ultrasound Registration for the Correction of Intra-operative Brain Deformations.- A Novel Nonrigid Registration Algorithm and Applications.- Analysis of the Parameter Space of a Metric for Registering 3D Vascular Images.- Calibration Method for Determining the Physical Location of the Ultrasound Image Plane.- Non-linear Local Registration of Functional Data.- Registration of Reconstructed Post Mortem Optical Data with MR Scans of the Same Patient.- A Model for Relations Between Needle Deflection, Force, and Thickness on Needle Penetration.- In Vivo Data Acquisition Instrument for Solid Organ Mechanical Property Measurement.- Patient-Specific Simulation of Internal Defibrillation.- Registration of 3D Photographs with Spiral CT Images for Soft Tissue Simulation in Maxillofacial Surgery.- TBNA-protocols Guiding TransBronchial Needle Aspirations Without a Computer in the Operating Room.- 3D Reconstruction of the Human Jaw: A New Approach and Improvements.- Real-Time Surgical Simulation with Haptic Sensation as Collaborated Works between Japan and Germany.- Phase-Based User-Steered Image Segmentation.- Comparison of Two Restoration Techniques in the Context of 3D Medical Imaging.- Robust Segmentation of Medical Images Using Geometric Deformable Models and a Dynamic Speed Function.- Hybrid Segmentation of Anatomical Data.- Segmentation of Dynamic N-D Data Sets via Graph Cuts Using Markov Models.- Unsupervised and Adaptive Segmentation of Multispectral 3D Magnetic Resonance Images of Human Brain: A Generic Approach.- Image Guided Radiotherapy of the Prostate.- A Quantitative Comparison of Edges in 3D Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative MR Images of the Brain.- Constructing Patient Specific Models for Correcting Intraoperative Brain Deformation.- Interface Design and Evaluation for CAS Systems.- Independent Registration and Virtual Controlled Reduction of Pelvic Ring Fractures.- Optimization in Prostate Cancer Detection.- Automated Identification and B-spline Approximation of a Profiling Coil Centerline from Magnetic Resonance Images.- Performance and Robustness of Automatic Fluoroscopic Image Calibration in a New Computer Assisted Surgery System.- An Architecture for Simulating Needle-Based Surgical Procedures.- Short Posters.- Computer-Aided Hepatic Tumour Ablation.- Intra-operative Transfer of Planned Zygomatic Fixtures by Personalized Templates: A Cadaver Validation Study.- A PVA-C Brain Phantom Derived from a High Quality 3D MR Data Set.- 3D Ultrasound Image Acquisition Using a Magneto-optic Hybrid Sensor for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Minimally Invasive Excision of Deep Bone Tumors.- A Multimodal Navigation System for Interventional MRI.- A Biomechanical Model of Muscle Contraction.- A Framework for Patient-Specific Physics-Based Simulation and Interactive Visualization of Cardiac Dynamics.- A Pulsating Coronary Vessel Phantom for Two- and Three-Dimensional Intravascular Ultrasound Studies.- Repeatability and Accuracy of Ankle Centre Location Estimates Using a Biaxial Joint Model.- A Whole Body Atlas Based Segmentation for Delineation of Organs in Radiation Therapy Planning.- Automatic Modeling of Anatomical Structures for Biomechanical Analysis and Visualization in a Virtual Spine Workstation.- Matching Breast Lesions in Multiple Mammographic Views.- Automatic Detection of Large Misregistrations of Multimodality Medical Images.- Registration of the Spine Using a Physically-Based Image Model for Ultrasound.- Computing Match Functions for Curves in ?2 and ?3 by Refining Polyline Approximations.- A Multi-modal Approach to Segmentation of Tubular Structures.- Segmentation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in MR Images Using Information Fusion — A Preliminary Study for a Computed-Aided Surgery of Parkinson.s Disease.- Collaborative Multi-agent IVUS Image Segmentation.- Segmentation of Chemical Shift Images with Mixture Modeling.- Analysis of 3D Deformation Fields for Appearance-Based Segmentation.- 3D Markov Random Fields and Region Growing for Interactive Segmentation of MR Data.- Long Bone Panoramas from Fluoroscopic X-ray Images.- Augmented Reality in the Operating Theatre of the Future.- Volume Visualization Using Gradient-Based Distance among Voxels.- The Evaluation of the Color Blending Function for the Texture Generation from Photographs.- Anisotropic Volume Rendering Using Intensity Interpolation.- MRI Inter-slice Reconstruction Using Super-Resolution.- Assessment of Center of Rotation of the Glenohumeral Joint.- PET Studies of the Effects of ECT on Cerebral Physiology.- Fuzzy C-means Clustering Analysis to Monitor Tissue Perfusion with Near Infrared Imaging.- A Method for µCT Based Assessment of Root Canal Instrumentation in Endodontics Research.- Reconstruction of Subcortical Brain Activity by Spatially Filtered MEG During Epileptic Seizures.- Exploiting Voxel Correlation for Automated MRI Bias Field Correction by Conditional Entropy Minimization.- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography and 3 Dimensional Quantitative Evaluation in Renal Scintigraphy.- Automatic Analysis of the Left Ventricle in the Time Sequences of 3D Echo-Cardiographic Images.- Displacement Field Estimation from CSPAMM Images without Segmentation of the Myocardium.- Automatic Detection of Myocardial Boundaries in MR Cardio Perfusion Images.- Using SPM to Detect Evolving MS Lesions.- Spherical Navigator Echoes for Full 3-D Rigid Body Motion Measurement in MRI.- Phase Unwrapping for Magnetic Resonance Thermometry.- A Simplified Field-of-View Calibration Technique for an Operating Microscope.- Trans-urethral Ultrasound: A New Tool for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging in Prostate Cancer.- Resection of Recurrent Carcinomas in the Pelvis - A New Field of Computer Aided Surgery.- Remote Analysis for Brain Shift Compensation.- Development of a New Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy System.- Intraoperative Tracking of Anatomical Structures Using Fluoroscopy and a Vascular Balloon Catheter.- Clinical Use of a Mutual Information-Based Automated Image Registration System for Conformal Radiotherapy Treatment Planning.- Validation Methods for Soft Tissue Prediction in Maxillofacial Planning Environments.- Dental Implant Planning in Easy Vision.- Real-Time Simulation of Minimally-Invasive Surgery with Cutting Based on Boundary Element Methods.- 3-D Reconstruction and Functional Analysis of the Temporomandibular Joint.- Methods for Modeling and Predicting Mechanical Deformations of the Breast Under External Perturbations.- Non-linear Soft Tissue Deformations for the Simulation of Percutaneous Surgeries.- The Continuous Tabu Search as an Optimizer for 2D-to-3D Biomedical Image Registration.- Modally Controlled Free Form Deformation for Non-rigid Registration in Image-Guided Liver Surgery.- Two-Step Registration of Subacute to Hyperacute Stroke MRIs.- The Effect of Organ Motion and Image Artifacts on Monomodal Volume Registration.- A Maximum Likelihood Approach for 2-D to 3-D Registration.- How to Trade Off between Regularization and Image Similarity in Non-rigid Registration ?.- A Virtual Exploring Robot for Adaptive Left Ventricle Contour Detection in Cardiac MR Images.- A Mesh-Based Shape Analysis Framework.- Clinical MRI Based Volumetry: The Cerebral Ventricles.- The Importance of Partial Voluming in Multi-dimensional Medical Image Segmentation.- Volume Definition Tools for Medical Imaging Applications.- Automated Hippocampal Segmentation by Regional Fluid Registration of Serial MRI: Validation and Application in Alzheimer.s Disease.- A 3D Statistical Shape Model for the Left Ventricle of the Heart.- Robot Assistant for Dental Implantology.- Feasibility of Laparoscopic Surgery Assisted by a Robotic Telemanipulation System.- Development of Semi-autonomous Control Modes in Laparoscopic Surgery Using Automatic Visual Servoing.- A Supervising System for Robot Application in Surgery.- A New Diagnostic Method for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Pupillary Light Reflex.- Reduction of Insertion Resistance by Means of Vibration for Catheters and Endoscopes.- Hexapod Intervention Planning for a Robotic Skull-Base Surgery System.- Advances in Active Constraints and Their Application to Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Motion Correction of MRI from Orthogonal k-Space Phase Difference.- 3D+t Modeling of Coronary Artery Tree from Standard Non Simultaneous Angiograms.- New Tools for Visualization and Quantification in Dynamic Processes: Application to the Nuclear Envelope Dynamics During Mitosis.- Full 3D Rigid Body Automatic Motion Correction of MRI Images.- Estimating the Motion of the LAD: A Simulation-Based Study.- Phase-Driven Finite Element Model for Spatio-temporal Tracking in Cardiac Tagged MRI.- JULIUS — An Extendable Software Framework for Surgical Planning and Image-Guided Navigation.- A Statistical Model of Respiratory Motion and Deformation of the Liver.- Evaluation of Soft-Tissue Model Parameters.- Bag-of-Particles Model for Simulating Tissue, Organs, and Flow.- Simulated Animal Dissection.- Virtual Polypectomy.- Real-Time Interactions Using Virtual Tools.- Surface Based Atlas Matching of the Brain Using Deformable Surfaces and Volumetric Finite Elements.- Evaluation of Cost Functions for Gray Value Matching of 2D Images in Radiotherapy.- Mutual Scale.- Fast Linear Elastic Matching Without Landmarks.- Endoscope Calibration and Accuracy Testing for 3D/2D Image Registration.- Fast Non-rigid Multimodal Image Registration Using Local Frequency Maps.- Accuracy Validation of Cone-Beam CT Based Registration.- Morphogenesis-Based Deformable Models Application to 3D Medical Image Segmentation and Analysis.- Grey-Level Morphology Based Segmentation of T1-MRI of the Human Cortex.- An Active Contour Model for Segmentation Based on Cubic B-splines and Gradient Vector Flow.- Approximate Volumetric Reconstruction from Projected Images.- Implicit Snakes: Active Constrained Implicit Models.- Towards a Robust Path Growing Algorithm for Semi-automatic MRI Segmentation.- Integrated System for Objective Assessment of Global and Regional Lung Structure.- Computer Aided Diagnosis for the Alzheimer Type Dementia.- CAD System for the Assistance of Comparative Reading for Lung Cancer Using Serial Helical CT Images.- Classification of Breast Tumors on Digital Mammograms Using Laws’ Texture Features.- Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules Using Three-Dimensional Thoracic CT Images.- Ophthalmic Slitlamp-Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Image Processing Foundations.- Multiresolution Signal Processing on Meshes for Automatic Pathological Shape Characterization.- Interactive Visualisation of MRI Vector and Tensor Fields.- Tracking Methods for Medical Augmented Reality.- Toward Application of Virtual Reality to Visualization of DT-MRI Volumes.- Registration and Visualization of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on MR Images.- Automated Image Rectification in Video-Endoscopy.- Java Internet Viewer: A WWW Tool for Remote 3D Medical Image Data Visualization and Comparison.- Cooperative Fine Manipulation Tasks in Surgery.- Virtual Fixtures for Robotic Cardiac Surgery.- The Clinical Use of Multi-modal Resources (2D/3D/Statistics) for Robot Assisted Functional Neurosurgery.- Application of Compact Pneumatic Actuators to Laparoscopic Manipulator.- Performance Evaluation of a Cooperative Manipulation Microsurgical Assistant Robot Applied to Stapedotomy.- A Modular Robotic System for Ultrasound Image Acquisition.- A Mechatronic System for the Implantation of the Acetabular Component in Total Hip Alloarthroplasty.- Optimal Port Placement in Robot-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.