Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2002

Robotics — Endoscopic Device.- Using an Endoscopic Solo Surgery Simulator for Quantitative Evaluation of Human-Machine Interface in Robotic Camera Positioning Systems.- Automatic 3-D Positioning of Surgical Instruments during Robotized Laparoscopic Surgery Using Automatic Visual Feedback.- Development of a Compact Cable-Driven Laparoscopic Endoscope Manipulator.- Flexible Calibration of Actuated Stereoscopic Endoscope for Overlay in Robot Assisted Surgery.- Metrics for Laparoscopic Skills Trainers: The Weakest Link!.- Surgical Skill Evaluation by Force Data for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System.- Development of a Master Slave Combined Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Development of Three-Dimensional Endoscopic Ultrasound System with Optical Tracking.- Real-Time Haptic Feedback in Laparoscopic Tools for Use in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery*.- Small Occupancy Robotic Mechanisms for Endoscopic Surgery.- Robotics in Image-Guided Surgery.- Development of MR Compatible Surgical Manipulator toward a Unified Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease.- Transrectal Prostate Biopsy Inside Closed MRI Scanner with Remote Actuation, under Real-Time Image Guidance.- A New, Compact MR-Compatible Surgical Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery.- Micro-grasping Forceps Manipulator for MR-Guided Neurosurgery.- Endoscope Manipulator for Trans-nasal Neurosurgery, Optimized for and Compatible to Vertical Field Open MRI.- A Motion Adaptable Needle Placement Instrument Based on Tumor Specific Ultrasonic Image Segmentation.- Robotics — Tele-operation.- Experiment of Wireless Tele-echography System by Controlling Echographic Diagnosis Robot.- Experiments with the TER Tele-echography Robot.- The Effect of Visual and Haptic Feedback on Manual and Teleoperated Needle Insertion.- Analysis of Suture Manipulation Forces for Teleoperation with Force Feedback.- Remote Microsurgery System for Deep and Narrow Space - Development of New Surgical Procedure and Micro-robotic Tool.- Hyper-finger for Remote Minimally Invasive Surgery in Deep Area.- Robotics — Device.- Safety-Active Catheter with Multiple-Segments Driven by Micro-hydraulic Actuators.- A Stem Cell Harvesting Manipulator with Flexible Drilling Unit for Bone Marrow Transplantation.- Liver Tumor Biopsy in a Respiring Phantom with the Assistance of a Novel Electromagnetic Navigation Device.- Non-invasive Measurement of Biomechanical Properties of in vivo Soft Tissues.- Measurement of the Tip and Friction Force Acting on a Needle during Penetration.- Contact Force Evaluation of Orthoses for the Treatment of Malformed Ears.- Computer-Assisted Correction of Bone Deformities Using a 6-DOF Parallel Spatial Mechanism.- Robotics — System.- Development of 4-Dimensional Human Model System for the Patient after Total Hip Arthroplasty.- Development of a Training System for Cardiac Muscle Palpation.- Preliminary Results of an Early Clinical Experience with the Acrobot™ System for Total Knee Replacement Surgery.- A Prostate Brachytherapy Training Rehearsal System — Simulation of Deformable Needle Insertion.- A Versatile System for Computer Integrated Mini-invasive Robotic Surgery.- Measurements of Soft-Tissue Mechanical Properties to Support Development of a Physically Based Virtual Animal Model.- Validation.- Validation of Tissue Modelization and Classification Techniques in T1-Weighted MR Brain Images.- Validation of Image Segmentation and Expert Quality with an Expectation-Maximization Algorithm.- Validation of Volume-Preserving Non-rigid Registration: Application to Contrast-Enhanced MR-Mammography.- Statistical Validation of Automated Probabilistic Segmentation against Composite Latent Expert Ground Truth in MR Imaging of Brain Tumors.- A Posteriori Validation of Pre-operative Planning in Functional Neurosurgery by Quantification of Brain Pneumocephalus.- Affine Transformations and Atlases: Assessing a New Navigation Tool for Knee Arthroplasty.- Effectiveness of the ROBODOC System during Total Hip Arthroplasty in Preventing Intraoperative Pulmonary Embolism.- Medical Image Synthesis via Monte Carlo Simulation.- Performance Issues in Shape Classification.- Brain-Tumor, Cortex, Vascular Structure.- Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal MRI Data: Applications for Detection of Disease Activity in MS.- Automatic Brain and Tumor Segmentation.- Atlas-Based Segmentation of Pathological Brains Using a Model of Tumor Growth.- Recognizing Deviations from Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation.- 3D-Visualization and Registration for Neurovascular Compression Syndrome Analysis.- 3D Guide Wire Reconstruction from Biplane Image Sequences for 3D Navigation in Endovascular Interventions.- Standardized Analysis of Intracranial Aneurysms Using Digital Video Sequences.- Demarcation of Aneurysms Using the Seed and Cull Algorithm.- Gyral Parcellation of the Cortical Surface Using Geodesic Voronoï Diagrams.- Regularized Stochastic White Matter Tractography Using Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Sulcal Segmentation for Cortical Thickness Measurements.- Labeling the Brain Surface Using a Deformable Multiresolution Mesh.- Brain — Imaging and Analysis.- New Approaches to Estimation of White Matter Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor MRI: Elliptic PDEs and Geodesics in a Tensor-Warped Space.- Improved Detection Sensitivity in Functional MRI Data Using a Brain Parcelling Technique.- A Spin Glass Based Framework to Untangle Fiber Crossing in MR Diffusion Based Tracking.- Automated Approximation of Lateral Ventricular Shape in Magnetic Resonance Images of Multiple Sclerosis Patients.- An Intensity Consistent Approach to the Cross Sectional Analysis of Deformation Tensor Derived Maps of Brain Shape.- Detection of Inter-hemispheric Asymmetries of Brain Perfusion in SPECT.- Discriminative Analysis for Image-Based Studies.- Automatic Generation of Training Data for Brain Tissue Classification from MRI.- The Putamen Intensity Gradient in CJD Diagnosis.- A Dynamic Brain Atlas.- Model Library for Deformable Model-Based Segmentation of 3-D Brain MR-Images.- Co-registration of Histological, Optical and MR Data of the Human Brain.- Segmentation.- An Automated Segmentation Method of Kidney Using Statistical Information.- Incorporating Non-rigid Registration into Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Segment MR Images.- Segmentation of 3D Medical Structures Using Robust Ray Propagation.- MAP MRF Joint Segmentation and Registration.- Statistical Neighbor Distance Influence in Active Contours.- Active Watersheds: Combining 3D Watershed Segmentation and Active Contours to Extract Abdominal Organs from MR Images.- Cardiac Application.- Coronary Intervention Planning Using Hybrid 3D Reconstruction.- ormation Modelling Based on PLSR for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging.- Automated Segmentation of the Left and Right Ventricles in 4D Cardiac SPAMM Images.- Stochastic Finite Element Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Function and Material Property Analysis.- Atlas-Based Segmentation and Tracking of 3D Cardiac MR Images Using Non-rigid Registration.- Myocardial Delineation via Registration in a Polar Coordinate System.- Integrated Image Registration for Cardiac MR Perfusion Data.- 4D Active Surfaces for Cardiac Analysis.- A Computer Diagnosing System of Dementia Using Smooth Pursuit Oculogyration.- Combinative Multi-scale Level Set Framework for Echocardiographic Image Segmentation.- Automatic Hybrid Segmentation of Dual Contrast Cardiac MR Data.- Efficient Partial Volume Tissue Classification in MRI Scans.- In-vivo Strain and Stress Estimation of the Left Ventricle from MRI Images.- Biomechanical Model Construction from Different Modalities: Application to Cardiac Images.- Comparison of Cardiac Motion Across Subjects Using Non-rigid Registration.- Computer Assisted Diagnosis.- From Colour to Tissue Histology: Physics Based Interpretation of Images of Pigmented Skin Lesions.- In-vivo Molecular Investigations of Live Tissues Using Diffracting Sources.- Automatic Detection of Nodules Attached to Vessels in Lung CT by Volume Projection Analysis.- LV-RV Shape Modeling Based on a Blended Parameterized Model.- Characterization of Regional Pulmonary Mechanics from Serial MRI Data.- Using Voxel-Based Morphometry to Examine Atrophy-Behavior Correlates in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia.- Detecting Wedge Shaped Defects in Polarimetric Images of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer.- Automatic Statistical Identification of Neuroanatomical Abnormalities between Different Populations.- Example-Based Assisting Approach for Pulmonary Nodule Classification in 3-D Thoracic CT Images.