Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2002

The fifth international Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2002) was held in Tokyo from September 25th to 28th, 2002. This was the first time that the conference was held in Asia since its foundation in 1998. The objective of the conference is to offer clinicians and scientists the opportunity to collaboratively create and explore the new medical field. Specifically, MICCAI offers a forum for the discussion of the state of art in computer-assisted interentions, medical robotics, and image processing among experts from multi-disciplinary professions, including but not limited to clinical doctors, computer scientists, and mechanical and biomedical engineers. The expectations of society are very high; the advancement of medicine will depend on computer and device technology in coming decades, as they did in the last decades. We received 321 manuscripts, of which 41 were chosen for oral presentation and 143 for poster presentation. Each paper has been included in these proceedings in eight-page full paper format, without any differentiation between oral and poster papers. Adherence to this full paper format, along with the increased number of manuscripts, surpassing all our expectations, has led us to issue two proceedings volumes for the first time in MICCAI’s history. Keeping to a single volume by assigning fewer pages to each paper was certainly an option for us considering our budget constraints. However, we decided to increase the volume to offer authors maximum opportunity to argue the state of art in their work and to initiate constructive discussions among the MICCAI audience.

Tubular Structures.- Automated Nomenclature Labeling of the Bronchial Tree in 3D-CT Lung Images.- Segmentation, Skeletonization, and Branchpoint Matching ― A Fully Automated Quantitative Evaluation of Human Intrathoracic Airway Trees.- Improving Virtual Endoscopy for the Intestinal Tract.- Finding a Non-continuous Tube by Fuzzy Inference for Segmenting the MR Cholangiography Image.- Level-Set Based Carotid Artery Segmentation for Stenosis Grading.- Interventions ― Augmented Reality.- PC-Based Control Unit for a Head Mounted Operating Microscope for Augmented Reality Visualization in Surgical Navigation.- Technical Developments for MR-Guided Microwave Thermocoagulation Therapy of Liver Tumors.- Robust Automatic C-Arm Calibration for Fluoroscopy-Based Navigation: A Practical Approach.- Application of a Population Based Electrophysiological Database to the Planning and Guidance of Deep Brain Stereotactic Neurosurgery.- An Image Overlay System with Enhanced Reality for Percutaneous Therapy Performed Inside CT Scanner.- High-Resolution Stereoscopic Surgical Display Using Parallel Integral Videography and Multi-projector.- Three-Dimensional Display for Multi-sourced Activities and Their Relations in the Human Brain by Information Flow between Estimated Dipoles.- Interventions ― Navigation.- 2D Guide Wire Tracking during Endovascular Interventions.- Specification Method of Surface Measurement for Surgical Navigation: Ridgeline Based Organ Registration.- An Augmented Reality Navigation System with a Single-Camera Tracker: System Design and Needle Biopsy Phantom Trial.- A Novel Laser Guidance System for Alignment of Linear Surgical Tools: Its Principles and Performance Evaluation as a Man―Machine System.- Navigation of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Applicator with an Integrated Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging System.- Robust Registration of Multi-modal Images: Towards Real-Time Clinical Applications.- 3D Ultrasound System Using a Magneto-optic Hybrid Tracker for Augmented Reality Visualization in Laparoscopic Liver Surgery.- Interactive Intra-operative 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction and Visualization.- Projection Profile Matching for Intraoperative MRI Registration Embedded in MR Imaging Sequence.- Simulation.- A New Tool for Surgical Training in Knee Arthroscopy.- Combining Volumetric Soft Tissue Cuts for Interventional Surgery Simulation.- Virtual Endoscopy Using Cubic QuickTime-VR Panorama Views.- High Level Simulation & Modeling for Medical Applications - Ultrasound Case.- Generation of Pathologies for Surgical Training Simulators.- Collision Detection Algorithm for Deformable Objects Using OpenGL.- Online Multiresolution Volumetric Mass Spring Model for Real Time Soft Tissue Deformation.- Orthosis Design System for Malformed Ears Based on Spline Approximation.- Cutting Simulation of Manifold Volumetric Meshes.- Simulation of Guide Wire Propagation for Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventions.- Needle Insertion Modelling for the Interactive Simulation of Percutaneous Procedures.- 3D Analysis of the Alignment of the Lower Extremity in High Tibial Osteotomy.- Simulation of Intra-operative 3D Coronary Angiography for Enhanced Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Intervention.- Computer Investigation into the Anatomical Location of the Axes of Rotation in the Normal Knee.- Modeling.- Macroscopic Modeling of Vascular Systems.- Spatio-temporal Directional Filtering for Improved Inversion of MR Elastography Images.- RBF-Based Representation of Volumetric Data: Application in Visualization and Segmentation.- An Anatomical Model of the Knee Joint Obtained by Computer Dissection.- Models for Planning and Simulation in Computer Assisted Orthognatic Surgery.- Simulation of the Exophthalmia Reduction Using a Finite Element Model of the Orbital Soft Tissues.- A Real-Time Deformable Model for Flexible Instruments Inserted into Tubular Structures.- Modeling of the Human Orbit from MR Images.- Accurate and High Quality Triangle Models from 3D Grey Scale Images.- Intraoperative Fast 3D Shape Recovery of Abdominal Organs in Laparoscopy.- Statistical Shape Modeling.- Integrated Approach for Matching Statistical Shape Models with Intra-operative 2D and 3D Data.- Building and Testing a Statistical Shape Model of the Human Ear Canal.- Shape Characterization of the Corpus Callosum in Schizophrenia Using Template Deformation.- 3D Prostate Surface Detection from Ultrasound Images Based on Level Set Method.- A Bayesian Approach to in vivo Kidney Ultrasound Contour Detection Using Markov Random Fields.- Level Set Based Integration of Segmentation and Computational Fluid Dynamics for Flow Correction in Phase Contrast Angiography.- Comparative Exudate Classification Using Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks.- A Statistical Shape Model for the Liver.- Statistical 2D and 3D Shape Analysis Using Non-Euclidean Metrics.- Kernel Fisher for Shape Based Classification in Epilepsy.- A Noise Robust Statistical Texture Model.- A Combined Statistical and Biomechanical Model for Estimation of Intra-operative Prostate Deformation.- Registration ― 2D/D Fusion.- “Gold Standard” 2D/3D Registration of X-Ray to CT and MR Images.- A Novel Image Similarity Measure for Registration of 3-D MR Images and X-Ray Projection Images.- Registration of Preoperative CTA and Intraoperative Fluoroscopic Images for Assisting Aortic Stent Grafting.- Preoperative Analysis of Optimal Imaging Orientation in Fluoroscopy for Voxel-Based 2-D/3-D Registration.- Registration ― Similarity Measures.- A New Similarity Measure for Nonrigid Volume Registration Using Known Joint Distribution of Target Tissue: Application to Dynamic CT Data of the Liver.- 2D-3D Intensity Based Registration of DSA and MRA - A Comparison of Similarity Measures.- Model Based Spatial and Temporal Similarity Measures between Series of Functional Magnetic Resonance Images.- A Comparison of 2D-3D Intensity-Based Registration and Feature-Based Registration for Neurointerventions.- Multi-modal Image Registration by Minimising Kullback-Leibler Distance.- Cortical Surface Registration Using Texture Mapped Point Clouds and Mutual Information.- Non-rigid Registration.- A Viscous Fluid Model for Multimodal Non-rigid Image Registration Using Mutual Information.- Non-rigid Registration with Use of Hardware-Based 3D Bézier Functions.- Brownian Warps: A Least Committed Prior for Non-rigid Registration.- Using Points and Surfaces to Improve Voxel-Based Non-rigid Registration.- Intra-patient Prone to Supine Colon Registration for Synchronized Virtual Colonoscopy.- Nonrigid Registration Using Regularized Matching Weighted by Local Structure.- Inter-subject Registration of Functional and Anatomical Data Using SPM.- Visualization.- Evaluation of Image Quality in Medical Volume Visualization: The State of the Art.- Shear-Warp Volume Rendering Algorithms Using Linear Level Octree for PC-Based Medical Simulation.- Line Integral Convolution for Visualization of Fiber Tract Maps from DTI.- On the Accuracy of Isosurfaces in Tomographic Volume Visualization.- A Method for Detecting Undisplayed Regions in Virtual Colonoscopy and Its Application to Quantitative Evaluation of Fly-Through Methods.- Novel Imaging Techniques.- 3D Respiratory Motion Compensation by Template Propagation.- An Efficient Observer Model for Assessing Signal Detection Performance of Lossy-Compressed Images.- Statistical Modeling of Pairs of Sulci in the Context of Neuroimaging Probabilistic Atlas.- Two-Stage Alignment of fMRI Time Series Using the Experiment Profile to Discard Activation-Related Bias.- Real-Time DRR Generation Using Cylindrical Harmonics.- Strengthening the Potential of Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) by a Combination of High-Resolution Data Acquisition and Omni-directional Stereoscopic Viewing.