Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2007 Pt. 1: 10th International Conference, Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

The 10th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted ntervention,MICCAI 2007, was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia from 29th October to 2nd November 2007.MICCAI has become a premier international conference in this domain, with in-depth papers on the multidisciplinary fields of biomedical image computing, computer assisted intervention and medical robotics. The conference brings together biological scientists, clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and other interested researchers and offers them a forum to exchange ideas in these exciting and rapidly growing fields.The conference is both very selective and very attractive: this year we received a record number of 637 submissions from 35 countries and 6 continents, from which 237 papers were selected for publication. Some interesting facts about the distribution of submitted and accepted papers are shown graphically at the end of this preface. Front Matter....Pages - Geodesic-Loxodromes for Diffusion Tensor Interpolation and Difference Measurement....Pages 1-9 Quantification of Measurement Error in DTI: Theoretical Predictions and Validation....Pages 10-17 In-utero Three Dimension High Resolution Fetal Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging....Pages 18-26 Real-Time MR Diffusion Tensor and Q-Ball Imaging Using Kalman Filtering....Pages 27-35 Finsler Tractography for White Matter Connectivity Analysis of the Cingulum Bundle....Pages 36-43 Segmentation of Myocardial Volumes from Real-Time 3D Echocardiography Using an Incompressibility Constraint....Pages 44-51 Localized Shape Variations for Classifying Wall Motion in Echocardiograms....Pages 52-59 Image Guidance of Intracardiac Ultrasound with Fusion of Pre-operative Images....Pages 60-67 3D Reconstruction of Internal Organ Surfaces for Minimal Invasive Surgery....Pages 68-77 Cardiolock: An Active Cardiac Stabilizer....Pages 78-85 Automated Segmentation of the Liver from 3D CT Images Using Probabilistic Atlas and Multi-level Statistical Shape Model....Pages 86-93 Statistical and Topological Atlas Based Brain Image Segmentation....Pages 94-101 A Boosted Segmentation Method for Surgical Workflow Analysis....Pages 102-109 Detection of Spatial Activation Patterns as Unsupervised Segmentation of fMRI Data....Pages 110-118 Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy....Pages 119-127 Closed-Loop Control in Fused MR-TRUS Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy....Pages 128-135 Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound....Pages 136-143 Medical and Technical Protocol for Automatic Navigation of a Wireless Device in the Carotid Artery of a Living Swine Using a Standard Clinical MRI System....Pages 144-152 Improving the Contrast of Breast Cancer Masses in Ultrasound Using an Autoregressive Model Based Filter....Pages 153-160 Outlier Rejection for Diffusion Weighted Imaging....Pages 161-168 Generating Fiber Crossing Phantoms Out of Experimental DWIs....Pages 169-176 Motion and Positional Error Correction for Cone Beam 3D-Reconstruction with Mobile C-Arms....Pages 177-185 Cortical Hemisphere Registration Via Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Curve Mapping....Pages 186-193 Tagged Volume Rendering of the Heart....Pages 194-201 One-Class Acoustic Characterization Applied to Blood Detection in IVUS....Pages 202-209 Phase Sensitive Reconstruction for Water/Fat Separation in MR Imaging Using Inverse Gradient....Pages 210-218 LOCUS: LOcal Cooperative Unified Segmentation of MRI Brain Scans....Pages 219-227 Spline Based Inhomogeneity Correction for 11 C-PIB PET Segmentation Using Expectation Maximization....Pages 228-235 Hyperspherical von Mises-Fisher Mixture (HvMF) Modelling of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI....Pages 236-243 Use of Varying Constraints in Optimal 3-D Graph Search for Segmentation of Macular Optical Coherence Tomography Images....Pages 244-251 Automatic Segmentation of Bladder and Prostate Using Coupled 3D Deformable Models....Pages 252-260 Characterizing Spatio-temporal Patterns for Disease Discrimination in Cardiac Echo Videos....Pages 261-269 Integrating Functional and Structural Images for Simultaneous Cardiac Segmentation and Deformation Recovery....Pages 270-277 Statistical Shape Modeling Using MDL Incorporating Shape, Appearance, and Expert Knowledge....Pages 278-285 False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection Using Local Binary Patterns....Pages 286-293 Fuzzy Nonparametric DTI Segmentation for Robust Cingulum-Tract Extraction....Pages 294-301 Adaptive Metamorphs Model for 3D Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 302-310 Coronary Artery Segmentation and Skeletonization Based on Competing Fuzzy Connectedness Tree....Pages 311-318 Mixtures of Gaussians on Tensor Fields for DT-MRI Segmentation....Pages 319-326 Soft Level Set Coupling for LV Segmentation in Gated Perfusion SPECT....Pages 327-334 Nonrigid Image Registration with Subdivision Lattices: Application to Cardiac MR Image Analysis....Pages 335-342 Spatio-temporal Registration of Real Time 3D Ultrasound to Cardiovascular MR Sequences....Pages 343-350 Nonlinear Registration of Diffusion MR Images Based on Fiber Bundles....Pages 351-358 Multivariate Normalization with Symmetric Diffeomorphisms for Multivariate Studies....Pages 359-366 Non-rigid Surface Registration Using Spherical Thin-Plate Splines....Pages 367-374 A Study of Hippocampal Shape Difference Between Genders by Efficient Hypothesis Test and Discriminative Deformation....Pages 375-383 Graph Cuts Framework for Kidney Segmentation with Prior Shape Constraints....Pages 384-392 Attenuation Resilient AIF Estimation Based on Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for First Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI....Pages 393-400 Real-Time Synthesis of Image Slices in Deformed Tissue from Nominal Volume Images....Pages 401-408 Quantitative Comparison of Two Cortical Surface Extraction Methods Using MRI Phantoms....Pages 409-416 Stabilization of Image Motion for Robotic Assisted Beating Heart Surgery....Pages 417-424 Robotic Assistant for Transperineal Prostate Interventions in 3T Closed MRI....Pages 425-433 Virtually Extended Surgical Drilling Device: Virtual Mirror for Navigated Spine Surgery....Pages 434-441 Improved Statistical TRE Model When Using a Reference Frame....Pages 442-449 3D/2D Image Registration: The Impact of X-Ray Views and Their Number....Pages 450-457 Magneto-Optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Laparoscope Augmentation....Pages 458-466 Evaluation of a Novel Calibration Technique for Optically Tracked Oblique Laparoscopes....Pages 467-474 Fiducial-Free Registration Procedure for Navigated Bronchoscopy....Pages 475-482 Automatic Target and Trajectory Identification for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Procedures....Pages 483-490 Application of Open Source Image Guided Therapy Software in MR-guided Therapies....Pages 491-498 Statistical Atlases of Bone Anatomy: Construction, Iterative Improvement and Validation....Pages 499-506 A New Benchmark for Shape Correspondence Evaluation....Pages 507-514 Automatic Inference of Sulcus Patterns Using 3D Moment Invariants....Pages 515-522 Classifier Selection Strategies for Label Fusion Using Large Atlas Databases....Pages 523-531 Groupwise Combined Segmentation and Registration for Atlas Construction....Pages 532-540 Subject-Specific Biomechanical Simulation of Brain Indentation Using a Meshless Method....Pages 541-548 Towards an Identification of Tumor Growth Parameters from Time Series of Images....Pages 549-556 Real-Time Modeling of Vascular Flow for Angiography Simulation....Pages 557-565 A Training System for Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion Procedures....Pages 566-574 Anisotropic Wave Propagation and Apparent Conductivity Estimation in a Fast Electrophysiological Model: Application to XMR Interventional Imaging....Pages 575-583 Automatic Trajectory Planning for Deep Brain Stimulation: A Feasibility Study....Pages 584-592 Automatic Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Dynamic MRI Datasets....Pages 593-600 Automated Planning of Scan Geometries in Spine MRI Scans....Pages 601-608 Cardiac-Motion Compensated MR Imaging and Strain Analysis of Ventricular Trabeculae....Pages 609-616 High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid....Pages 617-625 Thoracic CT-PET Registration Using a 3D Breathing Model....Pages 626-633 Quantification of Blood Flow from Rotational Angiography....Pages 634-641 Modeling Glioma Growth and Mass Effect in 3D MR Images of the Brain....Pages 642-650 Towards Tracking Breast Cancer Across Medical Images Using Subject-Specific Biomechanical Models....Pages 651-658 Inter-subject Modelling of Liver Deformation During Radiation Therapy....Pages 659-666 Contributions to 3D Diffeomorphic Atlas Estimation: Application to Brain Images....Pages 667-674 Measuring Brain Variability Via Sulcal Lines Registration: A Diffeomorphic Approach....Pages 675-682 Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy....Pages 683-691 Generalized Surface Flows for Deformable Registration and Cortical Matching....Pages 692-700 Real-Time Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis for Surgical Simulation Using Graphics Processing Units....Pages 701-708 Modeling of Needle-Tissue Interaction Using Ultrasound-Based Motion Estimation....Pages 709-716 Modelling Intravasation of Liquid Distension Media in Surgical Simulators....Pages 717-724 Registration of Cardiac SPECT/CT Data Through Weighted Intensity Co-occurrence Priors....Pages 725-733 Prostate Implant Reconstruction with Discrete Tomography....Pages 734-742 A New and General Method for Blind Shift-Variant Deconvolution of Biomedical Images....Pages 743-750 Registration of Lung Tissue Between Fluoroscope and CT Images: Determination of Beam Gating Parameters in Radiotherapy....Pages 751-758 Null Point Imaging: A Joint Acquisition/Analysis Paradigm for MR Classification....Pages 759-766 Characterizing Task-Related Temporal Dynamics of Spatial Activation Distributions in fMRI BOLD Signals....Pages 767-774 Contraction Detection in Small Bowel from an Image Sequence of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy....Pages 775-783 Boundary-Specific Cost Functions for Quantitative Airway Analysis....Pages 784-791 Automatic Dry Eye Detection....Pages 792-799 Ultrasound Myocardial Elastography and Registered 3D Tagged MRI: Quantitative Strain Comparison....Pages 800-808 Robust Kernel Methods for Sparse MR Image Reconstruction....Pages 809-816 How Do Registration Parameters Affect Quantitation of Lung Kinematics?....Pages 817-824 Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases: 3D Automated Detection in MDCT....Pages 825-833 Unsupervised Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model of a Proximal Femur from Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images....Pages 834-841 A New Method for Spherical Object Detection and Its Application to Computer Aided Detection of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Images....Pages 842-849 Global Medical Shape Analysis Using the Laplace-Beltrami Spectrum....Pages 850-857 Real-Time Tracking of the Left Ventricle in 3D Echocardiography Using a State Estimation Approach....Pages 858-865 Vessel and Intracranial Aneurysm Segmentation Using Multi-range Filters and Local Variances....Pages 866-874 Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus and the Amygdala from MRI Using Hybrid Prior Knowledge....Pages 875-882 Clinical Neonatal Brain MRI Segmentation Using Adaptive Nonparametric Data Models and Intensity-Based Markov Priors....Pages 883-890 Active-Contour-Based Image Segmentation Using Machine Learning Techniques....Pages 891-899 Methods for Inverting Dense Displacement Fields: Evaluation in Brain Image Registration....Pages 900-907 Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI Images Using 4 th Order Tensors....Pages 908-915 Non-rigid Image Registration Using Graph-cuts....Pages 916-924 Probabilistic Speckle Decorrelation for 3D Ultrasound....Pages 925-932 De-enhancing the Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI for Robust Registration....Pages 933-941 Deformable Density Matching for 3D Non-rigid Registration of Shapes....Pages 942-949 Robust Computation of Mutual Information Using Spatially Adaptive Meshes....Pages 950-958 Shape Analysis Using a Point-Based Statistical Shape Model Built on Correspondence Probabilities....Pages 959-967 Robust Autonomous Model Learning from 2D and 3D Data Sets....Pages 968-976 On Simulating Subjective Evaluation Using Combined Objective Metrics for Validation of 3D Tumor Segmentation....Pages 977-984 Detection and Segmentation of Pathological Structures by the Extended Graph-Shifts Algorithm....Pages 985-993 Cutting Tool System to Minimize Soft Tissue Damage for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery....Pages 994-1001 Back Matter....Pages - The two-volume set LNCS 4791 and LNCS 4792 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007, held in Brisbane, Australia, in October/November 2007. The program committee carefully selected 38 revised full papers and 199 revised poster papers from 637 submissions for presentation in two volumes, based on rigorous peer reviews. The first volume contains 120 contributions related to diffusion tensor imaging and computing, cardiac imaging and robotics, image segmentation and classification, image guided intervention and robotics, general medical image computing, computer assisted intervention and robotics, computational anatomy, computational physiology, innovative clinical and biological applications, physiology and physics-based image computing, brain atlas computing, and simulation of therapy. The second volume includes 117 papers related to computer assisted intervention and robotics, visualization and interaction, neuroscience image computing, computational anatomy, innovative clinical and biological applications, spectroscopic and cellular imaging, spatio-temporal registration, general medical image computing, general biological imaging computing, computational physiology Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007, held in Brisbane, Australia, in October/November 2007. The first volume contains 120 contributions related to diffusion tensor imaging and computing, cardiac imaging and robotics, image segmentation and classification, image guided intervention and robotics, general medical image computing, computer assisted intervention and robotics, computational anatomy, computational physiology, innovative clinical and biological applications, physiology and physics-based image computing, brain atlas computing, and simulation of therapy. The second volume includes 117 papers related to computer assisted intervention and robotics, visualization and interaction, neuroscience image computing, computational anatomy, innovative clinical and biological applications, spectroscopic and cellular imaging, spatio-temporal registration, general medical image computing, general biological imaging computing, computational physiology