Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2009

Cardiovascular Image Guided Intervention and Robotics.- Optimal Transseptal Puncture Location for Robot-Assisted Left Atrial Catheter Ablation.- Towards Guidance of Electrophysiological Procedures with Real-Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography Fusion to C-arm CT.- Personalized Pulmonary Trunk Modeling for Intervention Planning and Valve Assessment Estimated from CT Data.- Robotic Force Stabilization for Beating Heart Intracardiac Surgery.- Non-rigid Reconstruction of the Beating Heart Surface for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.- Surgical Navigation and Tissue Interaction.- 3D Meshless Prostate Segmentation and Registration in Image Guided Radiotherapy.- A Computer Model of Soft Tissue Interaction with a Surgical Aspirator.- Optimal Matching for Prostate Brachytherapy Seed Localization with Dimension Reduction.- Prostate Biopsy Assistance System with Gland Deformation Estimation for Enhanced Precision.- Prediction of the Repair Surface over Cartilage Defects: A Comparison of Three Methods in a Sheep Model.- Intra-operative Optical Imaging and Endoscopic Navigation.- A Coaxial Laser Endoscope with Arbitrary Spots in Endoscopic View for Fetal Surgery.- Toward Video-Based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.- Correcting Motion Artifacts in Retinal Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography via Image Registration.- Single Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography Microsurgical Instruments for Computer and Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery.- Motion Modelling and Image Formation.- Coronary Tree Extraction Using Motion Layer Separation.- A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow.- Interventional 4-D Motion Estimation and Reconstruction of Cardiac Vasculature without Motion Periodicity Assumption.- Estimating Continuous 4D Wall Motion of Cerebral Aneurysms from 3D Rotational Angiography.- NIBART: A New Interval Based Algebraic Reconstruction Technique for Error Quantification of Emission Tomography Images.- Image Registration.- A Log-Euclidean Polyaffine Registration for Articulated Structures in Medical Images.- Nonrigid Registration of Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Pseudo Ground Truth.- Parallax-Free Long Bone X-ray Image Stitching.- Diffusion Tensor Field Registration in the Presence of Uncertainty.- Non-rigid Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion Images Represented by Gaussian Mixture Fields.- Modelling and Segmentation.- Toward Real-Time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolization.- A Dynamical Shape Prior for LV Segmentation from RT3D Echocardiography.- A Statistical Model of Right Ventricle in Tetralogy of Fallot for Prediction of Remodelling and Therapy Planning.- Bayesian Maximal Paths for Coronary Artery Segmentation from 3D CT Angiograms.- Image Segmentation and Classification.- Hierarchical Normalized Cuts: Unsupervised Segmentation of Vascular Biomarkers from Ovarian Cancer Tissue Microarrays.- Nonparametric Intensity Priors for Level Set Segmentation of Low Contrast Structures.- Improving Pit-Pattern Classification of Endoscopy Images by a Combination of Experts.- Fast Automatic Segmentation of the Esophagus from 3D CT Data Using a Probabilistic Model.- Automatic Segmentation of the Pulmonary Lobes from Fissures, Airways, and Lung Borders: Evaluation of Robustness against Missing Data.- Segmentation and Atlas Based Techniques.- Joint Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases.- Robust Medical Images Segmentation Using Learned Shape and Appearance Models.- A Spatio-temporal Atlas of the Human Fetal Brain with Application to Tissue Segmentation.- Spatiotemporal Atlas Estimation for Developmental Delay Detection in Longitudinal Datasets.- On the Manifold Structure of the Space of Brain Images.- Neuroimage Analysis.- Gyral Folding Pattern Analysis via Surface Profiling.- Constrained Data Decomposition and Regression for Analyzing Healthy Aging from Fiber Tract Diffusion Properties.- Two-Compartment Models of the Diffusion MR Signal in Brain White Matter.- Multivariate Tensor-Based Brain Anatomical Surface Morphometry via Holomorphic One-Forms.- Local White Matter Geometry Indices from Diffusion Tensor Gradients.- Surgical Navigation and Robotics.- i-BRUSH: A Gaze-Contingent Virtual Paintbrush for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Robotic Assisted Surgery.- Targeting Accuracy under Model-to-Subject Misalignments in Model-Guided Cardiac Surgery.- Patient Specific 4D Coronary Models from ECG-gated CTA Data for Intra-operative Dynamic Alignment of CTA with X-ray Images.- Towards Interactive Planning of Coil Embolization in Brain Aneurysms.- Temporal Estimation of the 3d Guide-Wire Position Using 2d X-ray Images.- 3-D Respiratory Motion Compensation during EP Procedures by Image-Based 3-D Lasso Catheter Model Generation and Tracking.- System Design of a Hand-Held Mobile Robot for Craniotomy.- Dynamic Active Constraints for Hyper-Redundant Flexible Robots.- Nonmagnetic Rigid and Flexible Outer Sheath with Pneumatic Interlocking Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach.- Data-Derived Models for Segmentation with Application to Surgical Assessment and Training.- Task versus Subtask Surgical Skill Evaluation of Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Development of the Ultra-Miniaturized Inertial Measurement Unit WB3 for Objective Skill Analysis and Assessment in Neurosurgery: Preliminary Results.- Novel Endoscope System with Plasma Flushing for Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery.- Endoscopic Orientation Correction.- Time-of-Flight 3-D Endoscopy.- In Vivo OCT Coronary Imaging Augmented with Stent Reendothelialization Score.- Optical Biopsy Mapping for Minimally Invasive Cancer Screening.- Biopsy Site Re-localisation Based on the Computation of Epipolar Lines from Two Previous Endoscopic Images.- Probabilistic Region Matching in Narrow-Band Endoscopy for Targeted Optical Biopsy.- Tracked Regularized Ultrasound Elastography for Targeting Breast Radiotherapy.- Image Guidance for Spinal Facet Injections Using Tracked Ultrasound.- Cervical Vertebrae Tracking in Video-Fluoroscopy Using the Normalized Gradient Field.- Expertise Modeling for Automated Planning of Acetabular Cup in Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Combined Bone and Implant Statistical Atlases.- Wide-Angle Intraocular Imaging and Localization.- Inverse C-arm Positioning for Interventional Procedures Using Real-Time Body Part Detection.- A Method to Correct for Brain Shift When Building Electrophysiological Atlases for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery.- Image Registration.- Asymmetric Image-Template Registration.- A Demons Algorithm for Image Registration with Locally Adaptive Regularization.- A Meta Registration Framework for Lesion Matching.- Automatic Robust Medical Image Registration Using a New Democratic Vector Optimization Approach with Multiple Measures.- Task-Optimal Registration Cost Functions.- Hybrid Spline-Based Multimodal Registration Using Local Measures for Joint Entropy and Mutual Information.- A Robust Solution to Multi-modal Image Registration by Combining Mutual Information with Multi-scale Derivatives.- Multimodal Image Registration by Information Fusion at Feature Level.- Accelerating Feature Based Registration Using the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma.- Groupwise Registration and Atlas Construction of 4th-Order Tensor Fields Using the ??+? Riemannian Metric.- Closed-Form Jensen-Renyi Divergence for Mixture of Gaussians and Applications to Group-Wise Shape Registration.- Attribute Vector Guided Groupwise Registration.- Statistical Regularization of Deformation Fields for Atlas-Based Segmentation of Bone Scintigraphy Images.- Graphical Models and Deformable Diffeomorphic Population Registration Using Global and Local Metrics.- Efficient Large Deformation Registration via Geodesics on a Learned Manifold of Images.- A Non-rigid Registration Method for Serial microCT Mouse Hindlimb Images.- Non-rigid Image Registration with Uniform Gradient Spherical Patterns.- Methods for Tractography-Driven Surface Registration of Brain Structures.- A Combined Surface And VOlumetric Registration (SAVOR) Framework to Study Cortical Biomarkers and Volumetric Imaging Data.- Fast Tensor Image Morphing for Elastic Registration.- DISCO: A Coherent Diffeomorphic Framework for Brain Registration under Exhaustive Sulcal Constraints.- Evaluation of Lobar Biomechanics during Respiration Using Image Registration.- Evaluation of 4D-CT Lung Registration.- Slipping Objects in Image Registration: Improved Motion Field Estimation with Direction-Dependent Regularization.- Multi-modal Registration Based Ultrasound Mosaicing.- A Novel Method for Registration of US/MR of the Liver Based on the Analysis of US Dynamics.- Alignment of Viewing-Angle Dependent Ultrasound Images.- MR to Ultrasound Image Registration for Guiding Prostate Biopsy and Interventions.- Combining Multiple True 3D Ultrasound Image Volumes through Re-registration and Rasterization.- Biomechanically Constrained Groupwise US to CT Registration of the Lumbar Spine.- A General PDE-Framework for Registration of Contrast Enhanced Images.- Statistically Deformable 2D/3D Registration for Accurate Determination of Post-operative Cup Orientation from Single Standard X-ray Radiograph.- A Novel Intensity Similarity Metric with Soft Spatial Constraint for a Deformable Image Registration Problem in Radiation Therapy.- Intra-operative Multimodal Non-rigid Registration of the Liver for Navigated Tumor Ablation.- Neuroimage Analysis: Structure and Function.- A Novel Measure of Fractional Anisotropy Based on the Tensor Distribution Function.- Iterative Co-linearity Filtering and Parameterization of Fiber Tracts in the Entire Cingulum.- Think Global, Act Local; Projectome Estimation with BlueMatter.- Dual Tensor Atlas Generation Based on a Cohort of Coregistered non-HARDI Datasets.- Estimating Orientation Distribution Functions with Probability Density Constraints and Spatial Regularity.- Quantifying Brain Connectivity: A Comparative Tractography Study.- Two-Tensor Tractography Using a Constrained Filter.- Characterization of Anatomic Fiber Bundles for Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis.- A Riemannian Framework for Orientation Distribution Function Computing.- Bias of Least Squares Approaches for Diffusion Tensor Estimation from Array Coils in DT-MRI.- A Novel Global Tractography Algorithm Based on an Adaptive Spin Glass Model.- Tractography-Based Parcellation of the Cortex Using a Spatially-Informed Dimension Reduction of the Connectivity Matrix.- Belief Propagation Based Segmentation of White Matter Tracts in DTI.- Design and Construction of a Realistic DWI Phantom for Filtering Performance Assessment.- Statistical Detection of Longitudinal Changes between Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Images: Application to Multiple Sclerosis.- Tensor-Based Analysis of Genetic Influences on Brain Integrity Using DTI in 100 Twins.- Robust Extrapolation Scheme for Fast Estimation of 3D Ising Field Partition Functions: Application to Within-Subject fMRI Data Analysis.- Parcellation of fMRI Datasets with ICA and PLS-A Data Driven Approach.- Adjusting the Neuroimaging Statistical Inferences for Nonstationarity.- Using Real-Time fMRI to Control a Dynamical System by Brain Activity Classification.- Modeling Adaptation Effects in fMRI Analysis.- A Cluster Overlap Measure for Comparison of Activations in fMRI Studies.