Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI 2002 : 5th international conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 25-28, 2002 : proceedings / Part I

The ?fth international Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2002) was held in Tokyo from September 25th to 28th, 2002. This was the ?rst time that the conference was held in Asia since its foundation in 1998. The objective of the conference is to o?er clinicians and scientists the opportunity to collaboratively create and explore the new medical ?eld. Speci?cally, MICCAI o?ers a forum for the discussion of the state ofartincomputer-assistedinterventions,medicalrobotics,andimageprocessing among experts from multi-disciplinary professions, including but not limited to clinical doctors, computer scientists, and mechanical and biomedical engineers. The expectations of society are very high; the advancement of medicine will depend on computer and device technology in coming decades, as they did in the last decades. We received 321 manuscripts, of which 41 were chosen for oral presentation and 143 for poster presentation. Each paper has been included in these proce- ings in eight-page full paper format, without any di?erentiation between oral and poster papers. Adherence to this full paper format, along with the increased number of manuscripts, surpassing all our expectations, has led us to issue two proceedings volumes for the ?rst time in MICCAI’s history. Keeping to a single volume by assigning fewer pages to each paper was certainly an option for us considering our budget constraints. However, we decided to increase the volume to o?er authors maximum opportunity to argue the state of art in their work and to initiate constructive discussions among the MICCAI audience. Using an Endoscopic Solo Surgery Simulator for Quantitative Evaluation of Human-Machine Interface in Robotic Camera Positioning Systems....Pages 1-8 Automatic 3-D Positioning of Surgical Instruments during Robotized Laparoscopic Surgery Using Automatic Visual Feedback....Pages 9-16 Development of a Compact Cable-Driven Laparoscopic Endoscope Manipulator....Pages 17-24 Flexible Calibration of Actuated Stereoscopic Endoscope for Overlay in Robot Assisted Surgery....Pages 25-34 Metrics for Laparoscopic Skills Trainers: The Weakest Link!....Pages 35-43 Surgical Skill Evaluation by Force Data for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System....Pages 44-51 Development of a Master Slave Combined Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery....Pages 52-59 Development of Three-Dimensional Endoscopic Ultrasound System with Optical Tracking....Pages 60-65 Real-Time Haptic Feedback in Laparoscopic Tools for Use in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery*....Pages 66-74 Small Occupancy Robotic Mechanisms for Endoscopic Surgery....Pages 75-82 Development of MR Compatible Surgical Manipulator toward a Unified Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease....Pages 83-90 Transrectal Prostate Biopsy Inside Closed MRI Scanner with Remote Actuation, under Real-Time Image Guidance....Pages 91-98 A New, Compact MR-Compatible Surgical Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery....Pages 99-106 Micro-grasping Forceps Manipulator for MR-Guided Neurosurgery....Pages 107-113 Endoscope Manipulator for Trans-nasal Neurosurgery, Optimized for and Compatible to Vertical Field Open MRI....Pages 114-121 A Motion Adaptable Needle Placement Instrument Based on Tumor Specific Ultrasonic Image Segmentation....Pages 122-129 Experiment of Wireless Tele-echography System by Controlling Echographic Diagnosis Robot....Pages 130-137 Experiments with the TER Tele-echography Robot....Pages 138-146 The Effect of Visual and Haptic Feedback on Manual and Teleoperated Needle Insertion....Pages 147-154 Analysis of Suture Manipulation Forces for Teleoperation with Force Feedback....Pages 155-162 Remote Microsurgery System for Deep and Narrow Space - Development of New Surgical Procedure and Micro-robotic Tool....Pages 163-172 Hyper-finger for Remote Minimally Invasive Surgery in Deep Area....Pages 173-181 Safety-Active Catheter with Multiple-Segments Driven by Micro-hydraulic Actuators....Pages 182-191 A Stem Cell Harvesting Manipulator with Flexible Drilling Unit for Bone Marrow Transplantation....Pages 192-199 Liver Tumor Biopsy in a Respiring Phantom with the Assistance of a Novel Electromagnetic Navigation Device....Pages 200-207 Non-invasive Measurement of Biomechanical Properties of in vivo Soft Tissues....Pages 208-215 Measurement of the Tip and Friction Force Acting on a Needle during Penetration....Pages 216-223 Contact Force Evaluation of Orthoses for the Treatment of Malformed Ears....Pages 224-231 Computer-Assisted Correction of Bone Deformities Using a 6-DOF Parallel Spatial Mechanism....Pages 232-240 Development of 4-Dimensional Human Model System for the Patient after Total Hip Arthroplasty....Pages 241-247 Development of a Training System for Cardiac Muscle Palpation....Pages 248-255 Preliminary Results of an Early Clinical Experience with the AcrobotTM System for Total Knee Replacement Surgery....Pages 256-263 A Prostate Brachytherapy Training Rehearsal System — Simulation of Deformable Needle Insertion....Pages 264-271 A Versatile System for Computer Integrated Mini-invasive Robotic Surgery....Pages 272-281 Measurements of Soft-Tissue Mechanical Properties to Support Development of a Physically Based Virtual Animal Model....Pages 282-289 Validation of Tissue Modelization and Classification Techniques in T1-Weighted MR Brain Images....Pages 290-297 Validation of Image Segmentation and Expert Quality with an Expectation-Maximization Algorithm....Pages 298-306 Validation of Volume-Preserving Non-rigid Registration: Application to Contrast-Enhanced MR-Mammography....Pages 307-314 Statistical Validation of Automated Probabilistic Segmentation against Composite Latent Expert Ground Truth in MR Imaging of Brain Tumors....Pages 315-322 A Posteriori Validation of Pre-operative Planning in Functional Neurosurgery by Quantification of Brain Pneumocephalus....Pages 323-330 Affine Transformations and Atlases: Assessing a New Navigation Tool for Knee Arthroplasty....Pages 331-338 Effectiveness of the ROBODOC System during Total Hip Arthroplasty in Preventing Intraoperative Pulmonary Embolism....Pages 339-346 Medical Image Synthesis via Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 347-354 Performance Issues in Shape Classification....Pages 355-362 Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal MRI Data: Applications for Detection of Disease Activity in MS....Pages 363-371 Automatic Brain and Tumor Segmentation....Pages 372-379 Atlas-Based Segmentation of Pathological Brains Using a Model of Tumor Growth....Pages 380-387 Recognizing Deviations from Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation....Pages 388-395 3D-Visualization and Registration for Neurovascular Compression Syndrome Analysis....Pages 396-403 3D Guide Wire Reconstruction from Biplane Image Sequences for 3D Navigation in Endovascular Interventions....Pages 404-410 Standardized Analysis of Intracranial Aneurysms Using Digital Video Sequences....Pages 411-418 Demarcation of Aneurysms Using the Seed and Cull Algorithm....Pages 419-426 Gyral Parcellation of the Cortical Surface Using Geodesic Voronoï Diagrams....Pages 427-434 Regularized Stochastic White Matter Tractography Using Diffusion Tensor MRI....Pages 435-442 Sulcal Segmentation for Cortical Thickness Measurements....Pages 443-450 Labeling the Brain Surface Using a Deformable Multiresolution Mesh....Pages 451-458 New Approaches to Estimation of White Matter Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor MRI: Elliptic PDEs and Geodesics in a Tensor-Warped Space....Pages 459-466 Improved Detection Sensitivity in Functional MRI Data Using a Brain Parcelling Technique....Pages 467-474 A Spin Glass Based Framework to Untangle Fiber Crossing in MR Diffusion Based Tracking....Pages 475-482 Automated Approximation of Lateral Ventricular Shape in Magnetic Resonance Images of Multiple Sclerosis Patients....Pages 483-491 An Intensity Consistent Approach to the Cross Sectional Analysis of Deformation Tensor Derived Maps of Brain Shape....Pages 492-499 Detection of Inter-hemispheric Asymmetries of Brain Perfusion in SPECT....Pages 500-507 Discriminative Analysis for Image-Based Studies....Pages 508-515 Automatic Generation of Training Data for Brain Tissue Classification from MRI....Pages 516-523 The Putamen Intensity Gradient in CJD Diagnosis....Pages 524-531 A Dynamic Brain Atlas....Pages 532-539 Model Library for Deformable Model-Based Segmentation of 3-D Brain MR-Images....Pages 540-547 Co-registration of Histological, Optical and MR Data of the Human Brain....Pages 548-555 An Automated Segmentation Method of Kidney Using Statistical Information....Pages 556-563 Incorporating Non-rigid Registration into Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Segment MR Images....Pages 564-571 Segmentation of 3D Medical Structures Using Robust Ray Propagation....Pages 572-579 MAP MRF Joint Segmentation and Registration....Pages 580-587 Statistical Neighbor Distance Influence in Active Contours....Pages 588-595 Active Watersheds: Combining 3D Watershed Segmentation and Active Contours to Extract Abdominal Organs from MR Images....Pages 596-603 Coronary Intervention Planning Using Hybrid 3D Reconstruction....Pages 604-611 ormation Modelling Based on PLSR for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Imaging....Pages 612-619 Automated Segmentation of the Left and Right Ventricles in 4D Cardiac SPAMM Images....Pages 620-633 Stochastic Finite Element Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Function and Material Property Analysis....Pages 634-641 Atlas-Based Segmentation and Tracking of 3D Cardiac MR Images Using Non-rigid Registration....Pages 642-650 Myocardial Delineation via Registration in a Polar Coordinate System....Pages 651-658 Integrated Image Registration for Cardiac MR Perfusion Data....Pages 659-666 4D Active Surfaces for Cardiac Analysis....Pages 667-673 A Computer Diagnosing System of Dementia Using Smooth Pursuit Oculogyration....Pages 674-681 Combinative Multi-scale Level Set Framework for Echocardiographic Image Segmentation....Pages 682-689 Automatic Hybrid Segmentation of Dual Contrast Cardiac MR Data....Pages 690-697 Efficient Partial Volume Tissue Classification in MRI Scans....Pages 698-705 In-vivo Strain and Stress Estimation of the Left Ventricle from MRI Images....Pages 706-713 Biomechanical Model Construction from Different Modalities: Application to Cardiac Images....Pages 714-721 Comparison of Cardiac Motion Across Subjects Using Non-rigid Registration....Pages 722-729 From Colour to Tissue Histology: Physics Based Interpretation of Images of Pigmented Skin Lesions....Pages 730-738 In-vivo Molecular Investigations of Live Tissues Using Diffracting Sources....Pages 739-745 Automatic Detection of Nodules Attached to Vessels in Lung CT by Volume Projection Analysis....Pages 746-752 LV-RV Shape Modeling Based on a Blended Parameterized Model....Pages 753-761 Characterization of Regional Pulmonary Mechanics from Serial MRI Data....Pages 762-769 Using Voxel-Based Morphometry to Examine Atrophy-Behavior Correlates in Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia....Pages 770-776 Detecting Wedge Shaped Defects in Polarimetric Images of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer....Pages 777-784 Automatic Statistical Identification of Neuroanatomical Abnormalities between Different Populations....Pages 785-792 Example-Based Assisting Approach for Pulmonary Nodule Classification in 3-D Thoracic CT Images....Pages 793-800 The fifth international Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2002) was held in Tokyo from September 25th to 28th, 2002. This was the first time that the conference was held in Asia since its foundation in 1998. The objective of the conference is to offer clinicians and scientists the opportunity to collaboratively create and explore the new medical field. Specifically, MICCAI offers a forum for the discussion of the state of art in computer-assisted interventions, medical robotics, and image processing among experts from multi-disciplinary professions, including but not limited to clinical doctors, computer scientists, and mechanical and biomedical engineers. The expectations of society are very high; the advancement of medicine will depend on computer and device technology in coming decades, as they did in the last decades. We received 321 manuscripts, of which 41 were chosen for oral presentation and 143 for poster presentation. Each paper has been included in these proceedings in eight-page full paper format, without any differentiation between oral and poster papers. Adherence to this full paper format, along with the increased number of manuscripts, surpassing all our expectations, has led us to issue two proceedings volumes for the first time in MICCAI’s history. Keeping to a single volume by assigning fewer pages to each paper was certainly an option for us considering our budget constraints. However, we decided to increase the volume to offer authors maximum opportunity to argue the state of art in their work and to initiate constructive discussions among the MICCAI audience.

Together with the companion volume LNCS 2488 this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2002, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2002.
The 184 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 321 submissions. The two-volume proceedings offers main topical sections on medical robotics and endoscopic devices; validation; brain tumor, cortex, vascular, and imaging and analysis; segmentation; cardiac applications; computer-assisted diagnosis; tubular structures; interventions; simulation; modelling; statistical shape modelling; image registration; visualization; and novel imaging techniques.