Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2012: 15th International Conference, Nice, France, October 1-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7510)

The three-volume set LNCS 7510, 7511, and 7512 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012, held in Nice, France, in October 2012. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 252 revised papers from 781 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The first volume includes 91 papers organized in topical sections on abdominal imaging, computer-assisted interventions and robotics; computer-aided diagnosis and planning; image reconstruction and enhancement; analysis of microscopic and optical images; computer-assisted interventions and robotics; image segmentation; cardiovascular imaging; and brain imaging: structure, function and disease evolution. Front Matter....Pages - Reliable Assessment of Perfusivity and Diffusivity from Diffusion Imaging of the Body....Pages 1-9 Multi-organ Abdominal CT Segmentation Using Hierarchically Weighted Subject-Specific Atlases....Pages 10-17 Radiation-Free Drill Guidance in Interlocking of Intramedullary Nails....Pages 18-25 Developing Essential Rigid-Flexible Outer Sheath to Enable Novel Multi-piercing Surgery....Pages 26-33 Surgical Gesture Classification from Video Data....Pages 34-41 Remote Ultrasound Palpation for Robotic Interventions Using Absolute Elastography....Pages 42-49 Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of a Vascularized Liver Tissue....Pages 50-57 Efficient Optic Cup Detection from Intra-image Learning with Retinal Structure Priors....Pages 58-65 Population-Based Design of Mandibular Plates Based on Bone Quality and Morphology....Pages 66-73 Thoracic Abnormality Detection with Data Adaptive Structure Estimation....Pages 74-81 Domain Transfer Learning for MCI Conversion Prediction....Pages 82-90 Simulation of Pneumoperitoneum for Laparoscopic Surgery Planning....Pages 91-98 Incremental Kernel Ridge Regression for the Prediction of Soft Tissue Deformations....Pages 99-106 Fuzzy Multi-class Statistical Modeling for Efficient Total Lesion Metabolic Activity Estimation from Realistic PET Images....Pages 107-114 Structure and Context in Prostatic Gland Segmentation and Classification....Pages 115-123 Quantitative Characterization of Trabecular Bone Micro-architecture Using Tensor Scale and Multi-Detector CT Imaging....Pages 124-131 Genetic, Structural and Functional Imaging Biomarkers for Early Detection of Conversion from MCI to AD....Pages 132-140 Robust MR Spine Detection Using Hierarchical Learning and Local Articulated Model....Pages 141-148 Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of the Breathing Function....Pages 149-156 A Visual Latent Semantic Approach for Automatic Analysis and Interpretation of Anaplastic Medulloblastoma Virtual Slides....Pages 157-164 Detection of Spontaneous Vesicle Release at Individual Synapses Using Multiple Wavelets in a CWT-Based Algorithm....Pages 165-172 An Adaptive Method of Tracking Anatomical Curves in X-Ray Sequences....Pages 173-180 Directional Interpolation for Motion Weighted 4D Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction....Pages 181-188 Accurate and Efficient Linear Structure Segmentation by Leveraging Ad Hoc Features with Learned Filters....Pages 189-197 Compensating Motion Artifacts of 3D in vivo SD-OCT Scans....Pages 198-205 Classification of Ambiguous Nerve Fiber Orientations in 3D Polarized Light Imaging....Pages 206-213 Non-local Means Resolution Enhancement of Lung 4D-CT Data....Pages 214-222 Compressed Sensing Dynamic Reconstruction in Rotational Angiography....Pages 223-230 Bi-exponential Magnetic Resonance Signal Model for Partial Volume Computation....Pages 231-238 3D Lung Tumor Motion Model Extraction from 2D Projection Images of Mega-voltage Cone Beam CT via Optimal Graph Search....Pages 239-246 Atlas Construction via Dictionary Learning and Group Sparsity....Pages 247-255 Dictionary Learning and Time Sparsity in Dynamic MRI....Pages 256-263 Joint Reconstruction of Image and Motion in MRI: Implicit Regularization Using an Adaptive 3D Mesh....Pages 264-271 Sparsity-Based Deconvolution of Low-Dose Perfusion CT Using Learned Dictionaries....Pages 272-280 Fast Multi-contrast MRI Reconstruction....Pages 281-288 Steady-State Model of the Radio-Pharmaceutical Uptake for MR-PET....Pages 289-297 Oriented Pattern Analysis for Streak Detection in Dermoscopy Images....Pages 298-306 Automated Foveola Localization in Retinal 3D-OCT Images Using Structural Support Vector Machine Prediction....Pages 307-314 Intrinsic Melanin and Hemoglobin Colour Components for Skin Lesion Malignancy Detection....Pages 315-322 Anisotropic ssTEM Image Segmentation Using Dense Correspondence across Sections....Pages 323-330 Apoptosis Detection for Adherent Cell Populations in Time-Lapse Phase-Contrast Microscopy Images....Pages 331-339 Modeling Dynamic Cellular Morphology in Images....Pages 340-347 Learning to Detect Cells Using Non-overlapping Extremal Regions....Pages 348-356 Application of the IMM-JPDA Filter to Multiple Target Tracking in Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy Images....Pages 357-364 Image Segmentation with Implicit Color Standardization Using Spatially Constrained Expectation Maximization: Detection of Nuclei....Pages 365-372 Detecting and Tracking Motion of Myxococcus xanthus Bacteria in Swarms....Pages 373-380 Signal and Noise Modeling in Confocal Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 381-388 Hierarchical Partial Matching and Segmentation of Interacting Cells....Pages 389-396 Hybrid Tracking and Mosaicking for Information Augmentation in Retinal Surgery....Pages 397-404 Real Time Assistance for Stent Positioning and Assessment by Self-initialized Tracking....Pages 405-413 Marker-Less Reconstruction of Dense 4-D Surface Motion Fields Using Active Laser Triangulation for Respiratory Motion Management....Pages 414-421 Modeling of Multi-View 3D Freehand Radio Frequency Ultrasound....Pages 422-429 Towards Intra-operative PET for Head and Neck Cancer: Lymph Node Localization Using High-Energy Probes....Pages 430-437 Data-Driven Breast Decompression and Lesion Mapping from Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 438-446 Real Time Image-Based Tracking of 4D Ultrasound Data....Pages 447-454 Development of an MRI-Compatible Device for Prostate Focal Therapy....Pages 455-462 Intraoperative Ultrasound Guidance for Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery....Pages 463-470 Robotic Path Planning for Surgeon Skill Evaluation in Minimally-Invasive Sinus Surgery....Pages 471-478 Stereoscopic Scene Flow for Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery....Pages 479-486 Towards Computer-Assisted Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting with Multiple Active Contacts....Pages 487-494 Multi-object Spring Level Sets (MUSCLE)....Pages 495-503 Combining CRF and Multi-hypothesis Detection for Accurate Lesion Segmentation in Breast Sonograms....Pages 504-511 Hierarchical Manifold Learning....Pages 512-519 Vertebral Body Segmentation in MRI via Convex Relaxation and Distribution Matching....Pages 520-527 Evaluating Segmentation Error without Ground Truth....Pages 528-536 Rotational-Slice-Based Prostate Segmentation Using Level Set with Shape Constraint for 3D End-Firing TRUS Guided Biopsy....Pages 537-544 Segmentation of Biological Target Volumes on Multi-tracer PET Images Based on Information Fusion for Achieving Dose Painting in Radiotherapy....Pages 545-552 Local Implicit Modeling of Blood Vessels for Interactive Simulation....Pages 553-560 Real-Time 3D Image Segmentation by User-Constrained Template Deformation....Pages 561-568 Prior Knowledge, Random Walks and Human Skeletal Muscle Segmentation....Pages 569-576 Similarity-Based Appearance-Prior for Fitting a Subdivision Mesh in Gene Expression Images....Pages 577-584 Learning Context Cues for Synapse Segmentation in EM Volumes....Pages 585-592 Estimation of the Prior Distribution of Ground Truth in the STAPLE Algorithm: An Empirical Bayesian Approach....Pages 593-600 Unified Geometry and Topology Correction for Cortical Surface Reconstruction with Intrinsic Reeb Analysis....Pages 601-608 Automatic Detection and Classification of Teeth in CT Data....Pages 609-616 Strain-Based Regional Nonlinear Cardiac Material Properties Estimation from Medical Images....Pages 617-624 Frangi Goes US : Multiscale Tubular Structure Detection Adapted to 3D Ultrasound....Pages 625-633 Limited Angle C-Arm Tomography and Segmentation for Guidance of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedures....Pages 634-641 Automatic Non-rigid Temporal Alignment of IVUS Sequences....Pages 642-650 Stochastic 3D Motion Compensation of Coronary Arteries from Monoplane Angiograms....Pages 651-658 A Fast Convex Optimization Approach to Segmenting 3D Scar Tissue from Delayed-Enhancement Cardiac MR Images....Pages 659-666 Robust Motion Correction in the Frequency Domain of Cardiac MR Stress Perfusion Sequences....Pages 667-674 Localization of Sparse Transmural Excitation Stimuli from Surface Mapping....Pages 675-682 Automated Intraventricular Septum Segmentation Using Non-local Spatio-temporal Priors....Pages 683-690 Active Shape Model with Inter-profile Modeling Paradigm for Cardiac Right Ventricle Segmentation....Pages 691-698 Tractometer: Online Evaluation System for Tractography....Pages 699-706 A Novel Sparse Graphical Approach for Multimodal Brain Connectivity Inference....Pages 707-714 From Brain Connectivity Models to Identifying Foci of a Neurological Disorder....Pages 715-722 Deriving Statistical Significance Maps for SVM Based Image Classification and Group Comparisons....Pages 723-730 Analysis of Longitudinal Shape Variability via Subject Specific Growth Modeling....Pages 731-738 Regional Flux Analysis of Longitudinal Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease....Pages 739-746 Erratum: Localization of Sparse Transmural Excitation Stimuli from Surface Mapping....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter....Pages - The three-volume set LNCS 7510, 7511, and 7512 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012, held in Nice, France, in October 2012. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 252 revised papers from 781 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The third volume includes 79 papers organized in topical sections on diffusion imaging: from acquisition to tractography; image acquisition, segmentation and recognition; image registration; neuroimage analysis; analysis of microscopic and optical images; image segmentation; diffusion weighted imaging; computer-aided diagnosis and planning; and microscopic image analysis. The three-volume set LNCS 7510, 7511, and 7512 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012, held in Nice, France, in October 2012. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 252 revised papers from 781 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The second volume includes 82 papers organized in topical sections on cardiovascular imaging: planning, intervention and simulation; image registration; neuroimage analysis; diffusion weighted imaging; image segmentation; computer-assisted interventions and robotics; and image registration: new methods and results.