Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2009 : 12th International Conference, London, UK, September 20-24, 2009, Proceedings, Part I

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in London, UK, in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 259 revised papers from 804 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The first volume includes 125 papers divided in topical sections on cardiovascular image guided intervention and robotics; surgical navigation and tissue interaction; intra-operative imaging and endoscopic navigation; motion modelling and image formation; image registration; modelling and segmentation; image segmentation and classification; segmentation and atlas based techniques; neuroimage analysis; surgical navigation and robotics; image registration; and neuroimage analysis: structure and function. . Front Matter....Pages - Optimal Transseptal Puncture Location for Robot-Assisted Left Atrial Catheter Ablation....Pages 1-8 Towards Guidance of Electrophysiological Procedures with Real-Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography Fusion to C-arm CT....Pages 9-16 Personalized Pulmonary Trunk Modeling for Intervention Planning and Valve Assessment Estimated from CT Data....Pages 17-25 Robotic Force Stabilization for Beating Heart Intracardiac Surgery....Pages 26-33 Non-rigid Reconstruction of the Beating Heart Surface for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery....Pages 34-42 3D Meshless Prostate Segmentation and Registration in Image Guided Radiotherapy....Pages 43-50 A Computer Model of Soft Tissue Interaction with a Surgical Aspirator....Pages 51-58 Optimal Matching for Prostate Brachytherapy Seed Localization with Dimension Reduction....Pages 59-66 Prostate Biopsy Assistance System with Gland Deformation Estimation for Enhanced Precision....Pages 67-74 Prediction of the Repair Surface over Cartilage Defects: A Comparison of Three Methods in a Sheep Model....Pages 75-82 A Coaxial Laser Endoscope with Arbitrary Spots in Endoscopic View for Fetal Surgery....Pages 83-90 Toward Video-Based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery....Pages 91-99 Correcting Motion Artifacts in Retinal Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography via Image Registration....Pages 100-107 Single Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography Microsurgical Instruments for Computer and Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery....Pages 108-115 Coronary Tree Extraction Using Motion Layer Separation....Pages 116-123 A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow....Pages 124-131 Interventional 4-D Motion Estimation and Reconstruction of Cardiac Vasculature without Motion Periodicity Assumption....Pages 132-139 Estimating Continuous 4D Wall Motion of Cerebral Aneurysms from 3D Rotational Angiography....Pages 140-147 NIBART: A New Interval Based Algebraic Reconstruction Technique for Error Quantification of Emission Tomography Images....Pages 148-155 A Log-Euclidean Polyaffine Registration for Articulated Structures in Medical Images....Pages 156-164 Nonrigid Registration of Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Pseudo Ground Truth....Pages 165-172 Parallax-Free Long Bone X-ray Image Stitching....Pages 173-180 Diffusion Tensor Field Registration in the Presence of Uncertainty....Pages 181-189 Non-rigid Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion Images Represented by Gaussian Mixture Fields....Pages 190-197 Toward Real-Time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolization....Pages 198-205 A Dynamical Shape Prior for LV Segmentation from RT3D Echocardiography....Pages 206-213 A Statistical Model of Right Ventricle in Tetralogy of Fallot for Prediction of Remodelling and Therapy Planning....Pages 214-221 Bayesian Maximal Paths for Coronary Artery Segmentation from 3D CT Angiograms....Pages 222-229 Hierarchical Normalized Cuts: Unsupervised Segmentation of Vascular Biomarkers from Ovarian Cancer Tissue Microarrays....Pages 230-238 Nonparametric Intensity Priors for Level Set Segmentation of Low Contrast Structures....Pages 239-246 Improving Pit–Pattern Classification of Endoscopy Images by a Combination of Experts....Pages 247-254 Fast Automatic Segmentation of the Esophagus from 3D CT Data Using a Probabilistic Model....Pages 255-262 Automatic Segmentation of the Pulmonary Lobes from Fissures, Airways, and Lung Borders: Evaluation of Robustness against Missing Data....Pages 263-271 Joint Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases....Pages 272-280 Robust Medical Images Segmentation Using Learned Shape and Appearance Models....Pages 281-288 A Spatio-temporal Atlas of the Human Fetal Brain with Application to Tissue Segmentation....Pages 289-296 Spatiotemporal Atlas Estimation for Developmental Delay Detection in Longitudinal Datasets....Pages 297-304 On the Manifold Structure of the Space of Brain Images....Pages 305-312 Gyral Folding Pattern Analysis via Surface Profiling....Pages 313-320 Constrained Data Decomposition and Regression for Analyzing Healthy Aging from Fiber Tract Diffusion Properties....Pages 321-328 Two-Compartment Models of the Diffusion MR Signal in Brain White Matter....Pages 329-336 Multivariate Tensor-Based Brain Anatomical Surface Morphometry via Holomorphic One-Forms....Pages 337-344 Local White Matter Geometry Indices from Diffusion Tensor Gradients....Pages 345-352 i -BRUSH: A Gaze-Contingent Virtual Paintbrush for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Robotic Assisted Surgery....Pages 353-360 Targeting Accuracy under Model-to-Subject Misalignments in Model-Guided Cardiac Surgery....Pages 361-368 Patient Specific 4D Coronary Models from ECG-gated CTA Data for Intra-operative Dynamic Alignment of CTA with X-ray Images....Pages 369-376 Towards Interactive Planning of Coil Embolization in Brain Aneurysms....Pages 377-385 Temporal Estimation of the 3d Guide-Wire Position Using 2d X-ray Images....Pages 386-393 3-D Respiratory Motion Compensation during EP Procedures by Image-Based 3-D Lasso Catheter Model Generation and Tracking....Pages 394-401 System Design of a Hand-Held Mobile Robot for Craniotomy....Pages 402-409 Dynamic Active Constraints for Hyper-Redundant Flexible Robots....Pages 410-417 Nonmagnetic Rigid and Flexible Outer Sheath with Pneumatic Interlocking Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach....Pages 418-425 Data-Derived Models for Segmentation with Application to Surgical Assessment and Training....Pages 426-434 Task versus Subtask Surgical Skill Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery....Pages 435-442 Development of the Ultra-Miniaturized Inertial Measurement Unit WB3 for Objective Skill Analysis and Assessment in Neurosurgery: Preliminary Results....Pages 443-450 Novel Endoscope System with Plasma Flushing for Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery....Pages 451-458 Endoscopic Orientation Correction....Pages 459-466 Time-of-Flight 3-D Endoscopy....Pages 467-474 In Vivo OCT Coronary Imaging Augmented with Stent Reendothelialization Score....Pages 475-482 Optical Biopsy Mapping for Minimally Invasive Cancer Screening....Pages 483-490 Biopsy Site Re-localisation Based on the Computation of Epipolar Lines from Two Previous Endoscopic Images....Pages 491-498 Probabilistic Region Matching in Narrow-Band Endoscopy for Targeted Optical Biopsy....Pages 499-506 Tracked Regularized Ultrasound Elastography for Targeting Breast Radiotherapy....Pages 507-515 Image Guidance for Spinal Facet Injections Using Tracked Ultrasound....Pages 516-523 Cervical Vertebrae Tracking in Video-Fluoroscopy Using the Normalized Gradient Field....Pages 524-531 Expertise Modeling for Automated Planning of Acetabular Cup in Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Combined Bone and Implant Statistical Atlases....Pages 532-539 Wide-Angle Intraocular Imaging and Localization....Pages 540-548 Inverse C-arm Positioning for Interventional Procedures Using Real-Time Body Part Detection....Pages 549-556 A Method to Correct for Brain Shift When Building Electrophysiological Atlases for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery....Pages 557-564 Asymmetric Image-Template Registration....Pages 565-573 A Demons Algorithm for Image Registration with Locally Adaptive Regularization....Pages 574-581 A Meta Registration Framework for Lesion Matching....Pages 582-589 Automatic Robust Medical Image Registration Using a New Democratic Vector Optimization Approach with Multiple Measures....Pages 590-597 Task-Optimal Registration Cost Functions....Pages 598-606 Hybrid Spline-Based Multimodal Registration Using Local Measures for Joint Entropy and Mutual Information....Pages 607-615 A Robust Solution to Multi-modal Image Registration by Combining Mutual Information with Multi-scale Derivatives....Pages 616-623 Multimodal Image Registration by Information Fusion at Feature Level....Pages 624-631 Accelerating Feature Based Registration Using the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma....Pages 632-639 Groupwise Registration and Atlas Construction of 4th-Order Tensor Fields Using the R + Riemannian Metric....Pages 640-647 Closed-Form Jensen-Renyi Divergence for Mixture of Gaussians and Applications to Group-Wise Shape Registration....Pages 648-655 Attribute Vector Guided Groupwise Registration....Pages 656-663 Statistical Regularization of Deformation Fields for Atlas-Based Segmentation of Bone Scintigraphy Images....Pages 664-671 Graphical Models and Deformable Diffeomorphic Population Registration Using Global and Local Metrics....Pages 672-679 Efficient Large Deformation Registration via Geodesics on a Learned Manifold of Images....Pages 680-687 A Non-rigid Registration Method for Serial microCT Mouse Hindlimb Images....Pages 688-695 Non-rigid Image Registration with Uniform Gradient Spherical Patterns....Pages 696-704 Methods for Tractography-Driven Surface Registration of Brain Structures....Pages 705-712 A Combined Surface And VOlumetric Registration (SAVOR) Framework to Study Cortical Biomarkers and Volumetric Imaging Data....Pages 713-720 Fast Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration....Pages 721-729 DISCO: A Coherent Diffeomorphic Framework for Brain Registration under Exhaustive Sulcal Constraints....Pages 730-738 Evaluation of Lobar Biomechanics during Respiration Using Image Registration....Pages 739-746 Evaluation of 4D-CT Lung Registration....Pages 747-754 Slipping Objects in Image Registration: Improved Motion Field Estimation with Direction-Dependent Regularization....Pages 755-762 Multi-modal Registration Based Ultrasound Mosaicing....Pages 763-770 A Novel Method for Registration of US/MR of the Liver Based on the Analysis of US Dynamics....Pages 771-778 Alignment of Viewing-Angle Dependent Ultrasound Images....Pages 779-786 MR to Ultrasound Image Registration for Guiding Prostate Biopsy and Interventions....Pages 787-794 Combining Multiple True 3D Ultrasound Image Volumes through Re-registration and Rasterization....Pages 795-802 Biomechanically Constrained Groupwise US to CT Registration of the Lumbar Spine....Pages 803-810 A General PDE-Framework for Registration of Contrast Enhanced Images....Pages 811-819 Statistically Deformable 2D/3D Registration for Accurate Determination of Post-operative Cup Orientation from Single Standard X-ray Radiograph....Pages 820-827 A Novel Intensity Similarity Metric with Soft Spatial Constraint for a Deformable Image Registration Problem in Radiation Therapy....Pages 828-836 Intra-operative Multimodal Non-rigid Registration of the Liver for Navigated Tumor Ablation....Pages 837-844 A Novel Measure of Fractional Anisotropy Based on the Tensor Distribution Function....Pages 845-852 Iterative Co-linearity Filtering and Parameterization of Fiber Tracts in the Entire Cingulum....Pages 853-860 Think Global, Act Local; Projectome Estimation with BlueMatter....Pages 861-868 Dual Tensor Atlas Generation Based on a Cohort of Coregistered non-HARDI Datasets....Pages 869-876 Estimating Orientation Distribution Functions with Probability Density Constraints and Spatial Regularity....Pages 877-885 Quantifying Brain Connectivity: A Comparative Tractography Study....Pages 886-893 Two-Tensor Tractography Using a Constrained Filter....Pages 894-902 Characterization of Anatomic Fiber Bundles for Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis....Pages 903-910 A Riemannian Framework for Orientation Distribution Function Computing....Pages 911-918 Bias of Least Squares Approaches for Diffusion Tensor Estimation from Array Coils in DT–MRI....Pages 919-926 A Novel Global Tractography Algorithm Based on an Adaptive Spin Glass Model....Pages 927-934 Tractography-Based Parcellation of the Cortex Using a Spatially-Informed Dimension Reduction of the Connectivity Matrix....Pages 935-942 Belief Propagation Based Segmentation of White Matter Tracts in DTI....Pages 943-950 Design and Construction of a Realistic DWI Phantom for Filtering Performance Assessment....Pages 951-958 Statistical Detection of Longitudinal Changes between Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Images: Application to Multiple Sclerosis....Pages 959-966 Tensor-Based Analysis of Genetic Influences on Brain Integrity Using DTI in 100 Twins....Pages 967-974 Robust Extrapolation Scheme for Fast Estimation of 3D Ising Field Partition Functions: Application to Within-Subject fMRI Data Analysis....Pages 975-983 Parcellation of fMRI Datasets with ICA and PLS-A Data Driven Approach....Pages 984-991 Adjusting the Neuroimaging Statistical Inferences for Nonstationarity....Pages 992-999 Using Real-Time fMRI to Control a Dynamical System by Brain Activity Classification....Pages 1000-1008 Modeling Adaptation Effects in fMRI Analysis....Pages 1009-1017 A Cluster Overlap Measure for Comparison of Activations in fMRI Studies....Pages 1018-1025 Back Matter....Pages -