Information processing in medical imaging : 17th International Conference, IPMI 2001, Davis, CA, USA, June 18-22, 2001 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2001, held in Davis, CA, USA, in June 2001. The 54 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on objective assessment of image quality, shape modeling, molecular and diffusion tensor imaging, registration and structural analysis, functional image analysis, fMRI/EEG/MEG, deformable registration, shape analysis, and analysis of brain structure. On the Difficulty of Detecting Tumors in Mammograms....Pages 1-11 Objective Comparison of Quantitative Imaging Modalities Without the Use of a Gold Standard....Pages 12-23 Theory for Estimating Human-Observer Templates in Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Experiments....Pages 24-35 The Active Elastic Model....Pages 36-49 A Minimum Description Length Approach to Statistical Shape Modelling....Pages 50-63 Multi-scale 3-D Deformable Model Segmentation Based on Medial Description....Pages 64-77 Automatic 3D ASM Construction via Atlas-Based Landmarking and Volumetric Elastic Registration....Pages 78-91 A Regularization Scheme for Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 92-105 Distributed Anatomical Brain Connectivity Derived from Diffusion Tensor Imaging....Pages 106-120 Study of Connectivity in the Brain Using the Full Diffusion Tensor from MRI....Pages 121-133 Incorporating Image Processing in a Clinical Decision support system....Pages 134-140 Automated Estimation of Brain Volume in Multiple Sclerosis with BICCR....Pages 141-147 Automatic Image Registration for MR and Ultrasound Cardiac Images....Pages 148-154 Estimating Sparse Deformation Fields Using Multiscale Bayesian Priors and 3-D Ultrasound....Pages 155-161 Automatic Registration of Mammograms Based on Linear Structures....Pages 162-168 Tracking Brain Deformations in Time-Sequences of 3D US Images....Pages 169-175 Robust Multimodal Image Registration Using Local Frequency Representations....Pages 176-182 Steps Toward a Stereo-Camera-Guided Biomechanical Model for Brain Shift Compensation....Pages 183-189 Spatiotemporal Analysis of Functional Images Using the Fixed Effect Model....Pages 190-196 Spatio-Temporal Covariance Model for Medical Images Sequences: Application to Functional MRI Data....Pages 197-203 Microvascular Dynamics in the Nailfolds of Scleroderma Patients Studied Using Na-Fluorescein dye....Pages 204-210 Time Curve Analysis Techniques for Dynamic Contrast MRI Studies....Pages 211-217 Detecting Functionally Coherent Networks in fMRI Data of the Human Brain Using Replicator Dynamics....Pages 218-224 Smoothness Prior Information in Principal Component Analysis of Dynamic Image Data....Pages 225-231 Estimation of Baseline Drifts in fMRI....Pages 232-238 Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure....Pages 239-245 Motion Correction Algorithms of the Brain Mapping Community Create Spurious Functional Activations....Pages 246-258 Estimability of Spatio-Temporal Activation in fMRI....Pages 259-271 A New Approach to the MEG/EEG Inverse Problem for the Recovery of Cortical Phase-Synchrony....Pages 272-285 Neural Field Dynamics on the Folded Three-Dimensional Cortical Sheet and Its Forward EEG and MEG....Pages 286-299 A Unified Feature Registration Method for Brain Mapping....Pages 300-314 Cooperation between Local and Global Approaches to Register Brain Images....Pages 315-328 Landmark and Intensity-Based, Consistent Thin-Plate Spline Image Registration....Pages 329-343 Validation of Non-rigid Registration Using Finite Element Methods....Pages 344-357 A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing the Euclidean Distance Transform in Arbitrary Dimensions....Pages 358-364 An Elliptic Operator for Constructing Conformal Metrics in Geometric Deformable Models....Pages 365-371 Using a Linear Diagnostic Function and Non-rigid Registration to Search for Morphological Differences Between Populations: An Example Involving the Male and Female Corpus Callosum....Pages 372-379 Shape Constrained Deformable Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 380-387 Stenosis Detection Using a New Shape Space for Second Order 3D-Variations....Pages 388-394 Graph-Based Topology Correction for Brain Cortex Segmentation....Pages 395-401 Intuitive, Localized Analysis of Shape Variability....Pages 402-408 A Sequential 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Medical Applications....Pages 409-415 An Adaptive Level Set Method for Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 416-422 Partial Volume Segmentation of Cerebral MRI Scans with Mixture Model Clustering....Pages 423-430 Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing and Segmentation of 4-D Medical Images via Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis....Pages 431-437 Spatio-Temporal Segmentation of Active Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Serial MRI Data....Pages 438-445 Time-Continuous Segmentation of Cardiac Image Sequences Using Active Appearance Motion Models....Pages 446-452 Feature Enhancement in Low Quality Images with Application to Echocardiography....Pages 453-460 3D Vascular Segmentation Using MRA Statistics and Velocity Field Information in PC-MRA....Pages 461-467 Markov Random Field Models for Segmentation of PET Images....Pages 468-474 Statistical Study on Cortical Sulci of Human Brains....Pages 475-487 Detecting Sisease-Specific Patterns of Brain Structure Using Cortical Pattern Matching and a Population-Based Probabilistic Brain Atlas....Pages 488-501 Medial Models Incorporating Object Variability for 3D Shape Analysis....Pages 502-516 Deformation Analysis for Shape Based Classification....Pages 517-530