Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2008

Medical Image Computing.- On Computing the Underlying Fiber Directions from the Diffusion Orientation Distribution Function.- Extracting Tractosemas from a Displacement Probability Field for Tractography in DW-MRI.- New Algorithms to Map Asymmetries of 3D Surfaces.- A Distributed Spatio-temporal EEG/MEG Inverse Solver.- Tracking the Swimming Motions of C. elegans Worms with Applications in Aging Studies.- Segmentation I.- MR Brain Tissue Classification Using an Edge-Preserving Spatially Variant Bayesian Mixture Model.- Semi-supervised Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Lesion Extraction from Magnetic Resonance Images Using Online Spectral Clustering with a Learned Metric.- Multi-level Classification of Emphysema in HRCT Lung Images Using Delegated Classifiers.- A Discriminative Model-Constrained Graph Cuts Approach to Fully Automated Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3-D MRI.- Prostate Cancer Probability Maps Based on Ultrasound RF Time Series and SVM Classifiers.- A Bayesian Approach for Liver Analysis: Algorithm and Validation Study.- Classification of Suspected Liver Metastases Using fMRI Images: A Machine Learning Approach.- Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm Using a Phantom.- Automatic Recovery of the Left Ventricular Blood Pool in Cardiac Cine MR Images.- MRI Bone Segmentation Using Deformable Models and Shape Priors.- Segmentation of Vessels Cluttered with Cells Using a Physics Based Model.- Streamline Flows for White Matter Fibre Pathway Segmentation in Diffusion MRI.- Toward Unsupervised Classification of Calcified Arterial Lesions.- Weights and Topology: A Study of the Effects of Graph Construction on 3D Image Segmentation.- Level Set Based Surface Capturing in 3D Medical Images.- Automatic Detection of Calcified Coronary Plaques in Computed Tomography Data Sets.- Comprehensive Segmentation of Cine Cardiac MR Images.- Segmentation of Pathologic Hearts in Long-Axis Late-Enhancement MRI.- Automatic Subcortical Segmentation Using a Contextual Model.- Lumbar Disc Localization and Labeling with a Probabilistic Model on Both Pixel and Object Features.- Topology Preserving Warping of Binary Images: Application to Atlas-Based Skull Segmentation.- Robust Segmentation and Anatomical Labeling of the Airway Tree from Thoracic CT Scans.- Spine Segmentation Using Articulated Shape Models.- Model-Based Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields in Ultra-High Resolution In Vivo MRI.- Kinetic Modeling Based Probabilistic Segmentation for Molecular Images.- Automatic Delineation of Sulci and Improved Partial Volume Classification for Accurate 3D Voxel-Based Cortical Thickness Estimation from MR.- R-PLUS: A Riemannian Anisotropic Edge Detection Scheme for Vascular Segmentation.- A Novel Method for Cortical Sulcal Fundi Extraction.- Joint Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from a Population of Diffusion Tensor MR Images.- Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection in Ultrasound Using 3D Local Phase Features.- Interactive Separation of Segmented Bones in CT Volumes Using Graph Cut.- A Comparison of Methods for Recovering Intra-voxel White Matter Fiber Architecture from Clinical Diffusion Imaging Scans.- Active Scheduling of Organ Detection and Segmentation in Whole-Body Medical Images.- A New Stochastic Framework for Accurate Lung Segmentation.- Active Volume Models with Probabilistic Object Boundary Prediction Module.- Improving Parenchyma Segmentation by Simultaneous Estimation of Tissue Property T 1 Map and Group-Wise Registration of Inversion Recovery MR Breast Images.- Atlas-Based Segmentation of the Germinal Matrix from in Utero Clinical MRI of the Fetal Brain.- Segmenting Brain Tumors Using Pseudo–Conditional Random Fields.- Localized Priors for the Precise Segmentation of Individual Vertebras from CT Volume Data.- Cell Spreading Analysis with Directed Edge Profile-Guided Level Set Active Contours.- Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Local and Global Intensity Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces.- Model-Based Segmentation Using Graph Representations.- 3D Brain Segmentation Using Active Appearance Models and Local Regressors.- Comparison and Evaluation of Segmentation Techniques for Subcortical Structures in Brain MRI.- Shape and Statistics Analysis.- Hierarchical Shape Statistical Model for Segmentation of Lung Fields in Chest Radiographs.- Sample Sufficiency and Number of Modes to Retain in Statistical Shape Modelling.- Optimal Feature Point Selection and Automatic Initialization in Active Shape Model Search.- MR-Less High Dimensional Spatial Normalization of 11C PiB PET Images on a Population of Elderly, Mild Cognitive Impaired and Alzheimer Disease Patients.- Computational Atlases of Severity of White Matter Lesions in Elderly Subjects with MRI.- Simulation of Ground-Truth Validation Data Via Physically- and Statistically-Based Warps.- Shape Analysis with Overcomplete Spherical Wavelets.- Particle-Based Shape Analysis of Multi-object Complexes.- Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Whole Brain Structural Networks Obtained Using Probabilistic Tractography.- Optimized Conformal Parameterization of Cortical Surfaces Using Shape Based Matching of Landmark Curves.- Construction of Hierarchical Multi-Organ Statistical Atlases and Their Application to Multi-Organ Segmentation from CT Images.- Shape-Based Alignment of Hippocampal Subfields: Evaluation in Postmortem MRI.- Customized Design of Hearing Aids Using Statistical Shape Learning.- A Novel Explicit 2D+t Cyclic Shape Model Applied to Echocardiography.- Spatial Consistency in 3D Tract-Based Clustering Statistics.- Dynamic Probabilistic Atlas of Functional Brain Regions for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.- Unbiased Stratification of Left Ventricles.- 3D Cerebral Cortical Morphometry in Autism: Increased Folding in Children and Adolescents in Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal Lobes.- Prediction of Biomechanical Parameters of the Proximal Femur Using Statistical Appearance Models and Support Vector Regression.- Automatic Labeling of Anatomical Structures in MR FastView Images Using a Statistical Atlas.- Conformal Slit Mapping and Its Applications to Brain Surface Parameterization.- Automatic Determination of Arterial Input Function for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in Tumor Assessment.- Robust Vessel Tree Modeling.- Exploratory Identification of Image-Based Biomarkers for Solid Mass Pulmonary Tumors.- Measuring Brain Lesion Progression with a Supervised Tissue Classification System.- Regularized Discriminative Direction for Shape Difference Analysis.- LV Motion and Strain Computation from tMRI Based on Meshless Deformable Models.- Surface-Based Texture and Morphological Analysis Detects Subtle Cortical Dysplasia.- Multi-Attribute Non-initializing Texture Reconstruction Based Active Shape Model (MANTRA).- A Comprehensive Segmentation, Registration, and Cancer Detection Scheme on 3 Tesla In Vivo Prostate DCE-MRI.- Modeling I.- A New Method for Creating Electrophysiological Maps for DBS Surgery and Their Application to Surgical Guidance.- Cardiac Electrophysiology Model Adjustment Using the Fusion of MR and Optical Imaging.- Dynamic Model-Driven Quantitative and Visual Evaluation of the Aortic Valve from 4D CT.- Interactive Simulation of Embolization Coils: Modeling and Experimental Validation.- Modelling Anisotropic Viscoelasticity for Real-Time Soft Tissue Simulation.- Motion Tracking and Compensation.- 3D Ultrasound-Guided Motion Compensation System for Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair.- A Novel Algorithm for Heart Motion Analysis Based on Geometric Constraints.- On-the-Fly Motion-Compensated Cone-Beam CT Using an a Priori Motion Model.- A Statistical Motion Model Based on Biomechanical Simulations for Data Fusion during Image-Guided Prostate Interventions.- Registration I.- Spherical Demons: Fast Surface Registration.- Symmetric Log-Domain Diffeomorphic Registration: A Demons-Based Approach.- EEG to MRI Registration Based on Global and Local Similarities of MRI Intensity Distributions.- Nonrigid Registration of Dynamic Renal MR Images Using a Saliency Based MRF Model.- A Constrained Non-rigid Registration Algorithm for Use in Prostate Image-Guided Radiotherapy.- Miscellaneous I.- Identifying Regional Cardiac Abnormalities from Myocardial Strains Using Spatio-temporal Tensor Analysis.- Volume Reconstruction by Inverse Interpolation: Application to Interleaved MR Motion Correction.- A Hybrid System for the Semantic Annotation of Sulco-Gyral Anatomy in MRI Images.- Towards Multi-Directional OCT for Speckle Noise Reduction.- Automatic Tracking of Escherichia Coli Bacteria.- Automatic Image Analysis of Histopathology Specimens Using Concave Vertex Graph.- Analysis of Surfaces Using Constrained Regression Models.- A Global Approach for Automatic Fibroscopic Video Mosaicing in Minimally Invasive Diagnosis.- Riemannian Framework for Estimating Symmetric Positive Definite 4th Order Diffusion Tensors.- Non-uniform Gradient Prescription for Precise Angular Measurements Using DTI.- Spatial Weighed Element Based FEM Incorporating a Priori Information on Bioluminescence Tomography.- Geometric Deformable Model Driven by CoCRFs: Application to Optical Coherence Tomography.- Contractile Analysis with Kriging Based on MR Myocardial Velocity Imaging.- Averaging Centerlines: Mean Shift on Paths.- On Classifying Disease-Induced Patterns in the Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Images.- Findings in Schizophrenia by Tract-Oriented DT-MRI Analysis.- Task-Specific Functional Brain Geometry from Model Maps.- Texture Classification in Lung CT Using Local Binary Patterns.- A Symmetry-Based Method for the Determination of Vertebral Rotation in 3D.- Spatio-temporal Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Sequences.- Surface-Based Structural Group Analysis of fMRI Data.- Dynamic Cardiac Mapping on Patient-Specific Cardiac Models.- Detection of DTI White Matter Abnormalities in Multiple Sclerosis Patients.- Automatic Mitral Valve Inflow Measurements from Doppler Echocardiography.- Motion Robust Magnetic Susceptibility and Field Inhomogeneity Estimation Using Regularized Image Restoration Techniques for fMRI.- Cortical Surface Thickness as a Classifier: Boosting for Autism Classification.- Surface-Based Vector Analysis Using Heat Equation Interpolation: A New Approach to Quantify Local Hippocampal Volume Changes.- Discovering Structure in the Space of Activation Profiles in fMRI.- Left Ventricle Tracking Using Overlap Priors.- Mean q-Ball Strings Obtained by Constrained Procrustes Analysis with Point Sliding.- Noninvasive Functional Imaging of Volumetric Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Human Study on Myocardial Infarction.- A Slicing-Based Coherence Measure for Clusters of DTI Integral Curves.- Brain Fiber Architecture, Genetics, and Intelligence: A High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Study.- Group Statistics of DTI Fiber Bundles Using Spatial Functions of Tensor Measures.