Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - MICCAI 2008 : 11th international conference, New York, NY, USA, September 6-10, 2008 ; proceedings : part I

The two-volume set LNCS 5241 and LNCS 5242 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2008, held in New York, NY, USA, in September 2008. The program committee carefully selected 258 revised papers from numerous submissions for presentation in two volumes, based on rigorous peer reviews. The first volume includes 127 papers related to medical image computing, segmentation, shape and statistics analysis, modeling, motion tracking and compensation, as well as registration. The second volume contains 131 contributions related to robotics and interventions, statistical analysis, segmentation, intervention, modeling, and registration. Front Matter....Pages - On Computing the Underlying Fiber Directions from the Diffusion Orientation Distribution Function....Pages 1-8 Extracting Tractosemas from a Displacement Probability Field for Tractography in DW-MRI....Pages 9-16 New Algorithms to Map Asymmetries of 3D Surfaces....Pages 17-25 A Distributed Spatio-temporal EEG/MEG Inverse Solver....Pages 26-34 Tracking the Swimming Motions of C. elegans Worms with Applications in Aging Studies....Pages 35-42 MR Brain Tissue Classification Using an Edge-Preserving Spatially Variant Bayesian Mixture Model....Pages 43-50 Semi-supervised Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Lesion Extraction from Magnetic Resonance Images Using Online Spectral Clustering with a Learned Metric....Pages 51-58 Multi-level Classification of Emphysema in HRCT Lung Images Using Delegated Classifiers....Pages 59-66 A Discriminative Model-Constrained Graph Cuts Approach to Fully Automated Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3-D MRI....Pages 67-75 Prostate Cancer Probability Maps Based on Ultrasound RF Time Series and SVM Classifiers....Pages 76-84 A Bayesian Approach for Liver Analysis: Algorithm and Validation Study....Pages 85-92 Classification of Suspected Liver Metastases Using fMRI Images: A Machine Learning Approach....Pages 93-100 Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm Using a Phantom....Pages 101-109 Automatic Recovery of the Left Ventricular Blood Pool in Cardiac Cine MR Images....Pages 110-118 MRI Bone Segmentation Using Deformable Models and Shape Priors....Pages 119-126 Segmentation of Vessels Cluttered with Cells Using a Physics Based Model....Pages 127-134 Streamline Flows for White Matter Fibre Pathway Segmentation in Diffusion MRI....Pages 135-143 Toward Unsupervised Classification of Calcified Arterial Lesions....Pages 144-152 Weights and Topology: A Study of the Effects of Graph Construction on 3D Image Segmentation....Pages 153-161 Level Set Based Surface Capturing in 3D Medical Images....Pages 162-169 Automatic Detection of Calcified Coronary Plaques in Computed Tomography Data Sets....Pages 170-177 Comprehensive Segmentation of Cine Cardiac MR Images....Pages 178-185 Segmentation of Pathologic Hearts in Long-Axis Late-Enhancement MRI....Pages 186-193 Automatic Subcortical Segmentation Using a Contextual Model....Pages 194-201 Lumbar Disc Localization and Labeling with a Probabilistic Model on Both Pixel and Object Features....Pages 202-210 Topology Preserving Warping of Binary Images: Application to Atlas-Based Skull Segmentation....Pages 211-218 Robust Segmentation and Anatomical Labeling of the Airway Tree from Thoracic CT Scans....Pages 219-226 Spine Segmentation Using Articulated Shape Models....Pages 227-234 Model-Based Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields in Ultra-High Resolution In Vivo MRI....Pages 235-243 Kinetic Modeling Based Probabilistic Segmentation for Molecular Images....Pages 244-252 Automatic Delineation of Sulci and Improved Partial Volume Classification for Accurate 3D Voxel-Based Cortical Thickness Estimation from MR....Pages 253-261 R-PLUS: A Riemannian Anisotropic Edge Detection Scheme for Vascular Segmentation....Pages 262-269 A Novel Method for Cortical Sulcal Fundi Extraction....Pages 270-278 Joint Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from a Population of Diffusion Tensor MR Images....Pages 279-286 Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection in Ultrasound Using 3D Local Phase Features....Pages 287-295 Interactive Separation of Segmented Bones in CT Volumes Using Graph Cut....Pages 296-304 A Comparison of Methods for Recovering Intra-voxel White Matter Fiber Architecture from Clinical Diffusion Imaging Scans....Pages 305-312 Active Scheduling of Organ Detection and Segmentation in Whole-Body Medical Images....Pages 313-321 A New Stochastic Framework for Accurate Lung Segmentation....Pages 322-330 Active Volume Models with Probabilistic Object Boundary Prediction Module....Pages 331-341 Improving Parenchyma Segmentation by Simultaneous Estimation of Tissue Property T 1 Map and Group-Wise Registration of Inversion Recovery MR Breast Images....Pages 342-350 Atlas-Based Segmentation of the Germinal Matrix from in Utero Clinical MRI of the Fetal Brain....Pages 351-358 Segmenting Brain Tumors Using Pseudo–Conditional Random Fields....Pages 359-366 Localized Priors for the Precise Segmentation of Individual Vertebras from CT Volume Data....Pages 367-375 Cell Spreading Analysis with Directed Edge Profile-Guided Level Set Active Contours....Pages 376-383 Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Local and Global Intensity Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces....Pages 384-392 Model-Based Segmentation Using Graph Representations....Pages 393-400 3D Brain Segmentation Using Active Appearance Models and Local Regressors....Pages 401-408 Comparison and Evaluation of Segmentation Techniques for Subcortical Structures in Brain MRI....Pages 409-416 Hierarchical Shape Statistical Model for Segmentation of Lung Fields in Chest Radiographs....Pages 417-424 Sample Sufficiency and Number of Modes to Retain in Statistical Shape Modelling....Pages 425-433 Optimal Feature Point Selection and Automatic Initialization in Active Shape Model Search....Pages 434-441 MR-Less High Dimensional Spatial Normalization of 11 C PiB PET Images on a Population of Elderly, Mild Cognitive Impaired and Alzheimer Disease Patients....Pages 442-449 Computational Atlases of Severity of White Matter Lesions in Elderly Subjects with MRI....Pages 450-458 Simulation of Ground-Truth Validation Data Via Physically- and Statistically-Based Warps....Pages 459-467 Shape Analysis with Overcomplete Spherical Wavelets....Pages 468-476 Particle-Based Shape Analysis of Multi-object Complexes....Pages 477-485 Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Whole Brain Structural Networks Obtained Using Probabilistic Tractography....Pages 486-493 Optimized Conformal Parameterization of Cortical Surfaces Using Shape Based Matching of Landmark Curves....Pages 494-501 Construction of Hierarchical Multi-Organ Statistical Atlases and Their Application to Multi-Organ Segmentation from CT Images....Pages 502-509 Shape-Based Alignment of Hippocampal Subfields: Evaluation in Postmortem MRI....Pages 510-517 Customized Design of Hearing Aids Using Statistical Shape Learning....Pages 518-526 A Novel Explicit 2D+t Cyclic Shape Model Applied to Echocardiography....Pages 527-534 Spatial Consistency in 3D Tract-Based Clustering Statistics....Pages 535-542 Dynamic Probabilistic Atlas of Functional Brain Regions for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation....Pages 543-550 Unbiased Stratification of Left Ventricles....Pages 551-558 3D Cerebral Cortical Morphometry in Autism: Increased Folding in Children and Adolescents in Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal Lobes....Pages 559-567 Prediction of Biomechanical Parameters of the Proximal Femur Using Statistical Appearance Models and Support Vector Regression....Pages 568-575 Automatic Labeling of Anatomical Structures in MR FastView Images Using a Statistical Atlas....Pages 576-584 Conformal Slit Mapping and Its Applications to Brain Surface Parameterization....Pages 585-593 Automatic Determination of Arterial Input Function for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in Tumor Assessment....Pages 594-601 Robust Vessel Tree Modeling....Pages 602-611 Exploratory Identification of Image-Based Biomarkers for Solid Mass Pulmonary Tumors....Pages 612-619 Measuring Brain Lesion Progression with a Supervised Tissue Classification System....Pages 620-627 Regularized Discriminative Direction for Shape Difference Analysis....Pages 628-635 LV Motion and Strain Computation from tMRI Based on Meshless Deformable Models....Pages 636-644 Surface-Based Texture and Morphological Analysis Detects Subtle Cortical Dysplasia....Pages 645-652 Multi-Attribute Non-initializing Texture Reconstruction Based Active Shape Model (MANTRA)....Pages 653-661 A Comprehensive Segmentation, Registration, and Cancer Detection Scheme on 3 Tesla In Vivo Prostate DCE-MRI....Pages 662-669 A New Method for Creating Electrophysiological Maps for DBS Surgery and Their Application to Surgical Guidance....Pages 670-677 Cardiac Electrophysiology Model Adjustment Using the Fusion of MR and Optical Imaging....Pages 678-685 Dynamic Model-Driven Quantitative and Visual Evaluation of the Aortic Valve from 4D CT....Pages 686-694 Interactive Simulation of Embolization Coils: Modeling and Experimental Validation....Pages 695-702 Modelling Anisotropic Viscoelasticity for Real-Time Soft Tissue Simulation....Pages 703-710 3D Ultrasound-Guided Motion Compensation System for Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair....Pages 711-719 A Novel Algorithm for Heart Motion Analysis Based on Geometric Constraints....Pages 720-728 On-the-Fly Motion-Compensated Cone-Beam CT Using an a Priori Motion Model....Pages 729-736 A Statistical Motion Model Based on Biomechanical Simulations for Data Fusion during Image-Guided Prostate Interventions....Pages 737-744 Spherical Demons: Fast Surface Registration....Pages 745-753 Symmetric Log-Domain Diffeomorphic Registration: A Demons-Based Approach....Pages 754-761 EEG to MRI Registration Based on Global and Local Similarities of MRI Intensity Distributions....Pages 762-770 Nonrigid Registration of Dynamic Renal MR Images Using a Saliency Based MRF Model....Pages 771-779 A Constrained Non-rigid Registration Algorithm for Use in Prostate Image-Guided Radiotherapy....Pages 780-788 Identifying Regional Cardiac Abnormalities from Myocardial Strains Using Spatio-temporal Tensor Analysis....Pages 789-797 Volume Reconstruction by Inverse Interpolation: Application to Interleaved MR Motion Correction....Pages 798-806 A Hybrid System for the Semantic Annotation of Sulco-Gyral Anatomy in MRI Images....Pages 807-814 Towards Multi-Directional OCT for Speckle Noise Reduction....Pages 815-823 Automatic Tracking of Escherichia Coli Bacteria....Pages 824-832 Automatic Image Analysis of Histopathology Specimens Using Concave Vertex Graph....Pages 833-841 Analysis of Surfaces Using Constrained Regression Models....Pages 842-849 A Global Approach for Automatic Fibroscopic Video Mosaicing in Minimally Invasive Diagnosis....Pages 850-857 Riemannian Framework for Estimating Symmetric Positive Definite 4th Order Diffusion Tensors....Pages 858-865 Non-uniform Gradient Prescription for Precise Angular Measurements Using DTI....Pages 866-873 Spatial Weighed Element Based FEM Incorporating a Priori Information on Bioluminescence Tomography....Pages 874-882 Geometric Deformable Model Driven by CoCRFs: Application to Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 883-891 Contractile Analysis with Kriging Based on MR Myocardial Velocity Imaging....Pages 892-899 Averaging Centerlines: Mean Shift on Paths....Pages 900-907 On Classifying Disease-Induced Patterns in the Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Images....Pages 908-916 Findings in Schizophrenia by Tract-Oriented DT-MRI Analysis....Pages 917-924 Task-Specific Functional Brain Geometry from Model Maps....Pages 925-933 Texture Classification in Lung CT Using Local Binary Patterns....Pages 934-941 A Symmetry-Based Method for the Determination of Vertebral Rotation in 3D....Pages 942-950 Spatio-temporal Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Sequences....Pages 951-958 Surface-Based Structural Group Analysis of fMRI Data....Pages 959-966 Dynamic Cardiac Mapping on Patient-Specific Cardiac Models....Pages 967-974 Detection of DTI White Matter Abnormalities in Multiple Sclerosis Patients....Pages 975-982 Automatic Mitral Valve Inflow Measurements from Doppler Echocardiography....Pages 983-990 Motion Robust Magnetic Susceptibility and Field Inhomogeneity Estimation Using Regularized Image Restoration Techniques for fMRI....Pages 991-998 Cortical Surface Thickness as a Classifier: Boosting for Autism Classification....Pages 999-1007 Surface-Based Vector Analysis Using Heat Equation Interpolation: A New Approach to Quantify Local Hippocampal Volume Changes....Pages 1008-1015 Discovering Structure in the Space of Activation Profiles in fMRI....Pages 1016-1024 Left Ventricle Tracking Using Overlap Priors....Pages 1025-1033 Mean q-Ball Strings Obtained by Constrained Procrustes Analysis with Point Sliding....Pages 1034-1041 Noninvasive Functional Imaging of Volumetric Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Human Study on Myocardial Infarction....Pages 1042-1050 A Slicing-Based Coherence Measure for Clusters of DTI Integral Curves....Pages 1051-1059 Brain Fiber Architecture, Genetics, and Intelligence: A High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Study....Pages 1060-1067 Group Statistics of DTI Fiber Bundles Using Spatial Functions of Tensor Measures....Pages 1068-1075 Back Matter....Pages - The 11th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2008, was held at the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of New York University, New York City, USA on September 6–10, 2008. MICCAI is the premier international conference in this domain, with - depth papers on the multidisciplinary ?elds of biomedical image computing and analysis, computer assisted intervention and medical robotics. The conference brings together biological scientists, clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists and other interested researchers and o?ers them a forum to exchange ideas in these exciting and rapidly growing ?elds. The conference is both very selective and very attractive: this year we - ceived a record number of 700 submissions from 34 countries and 6 continents, fromwhich258papers were selectedfor publication,whichcorrespondsto a s- cess rate of approximately 36%. Some interesting facts about the distribution of submitted and accepted papers are shown graphically at the end of this preface. The paper selection process this year was based on the following procedure, which included the introduction of several novelties over previous years. 1. A ProgramCommittee (PC) of 49 members was recruited by the Program Chairs,to getthenecessarybody ofexpertiseandgeographicalcoverage.All PC members agreed in advance to participate in the ?nal paper selection process. 2. Key words grouped in 7 categories were used to describe the content of the submissions and the expertise of the reviewers.