Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2006 : 9th International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1-6, 2006, Proceedings, Part II

Segmentation I.- Robust Active Shape Models: A Robust, Generic and Simple Automatic Segmentation Tool.- Automatic IVUS Segmentation of Atherosclerotic Plaque with Stop & Go Snake.- Prostate Segmentation in 2D Ultrasound Images Using Image Warping and Ellipse Fitting.- Detection of Electrophysiology Catheters in Noisy Fluoroscopy Images.- Fast Non Local Means Denoising for 3D MR Images.- Active Shape Models for a Fully Automated 3D Segmentation of the Liver – An Evaluation on Clinical Data.- Patient Position Detection for SAR Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Symmetric Atlasing and Model Based Segmentation: An Application to the Hippocampus in Older Adults.- Image Diffusion Using Saliency Bilateral Filter.- Data Weighting for Principal Component Noise Reduction in Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound.- Shape Filtering for False Positive Reduction at Computed Tomography Colonography.- Validation and Quantitative Image Analysis.- Evaluation of Texture Features for Analysis of Ovarian Follicular Development.- A Fast Method of Generating Pharmacokinetic Maps from Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Images of the Breast.- Investigating Cortical Variability Using a Generic Gyral Model.- Blood Flow and Velocity Estimation Based on Vessel Transit Time by Combining 2D and 3D X-Ray Angiography.- Accurate Airway Wall Estimation Using Phase Congruency.- Generation of Curved Planar Reformations from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Spine.- Automated Analysis of Multi Site MRI Phantom Data for the NIHPD Project.- Performance Evaluation of Grid-Enabled Registration Algorithms Using Bronze-Standards.- Anisotropic Feature Extraction from Endoluminal Images for Detection of Intestinal Contractions.- Symmetric Curvature Patterns for Colonic Polyp Detection.- 3D Reconstruction of Coronary Stents in Vivo Based on Motion Compensated X-Ray Angiograms.- Retina Mosaicing Using Local Features.- Brain Image Processing.- A New Cortical Surface Parcellation Model and Its Automatic Implementation.- A System for Measuring Regional Surface Folding of the Neonatal Brain from MRI.- Atlas Guided Identification of Brain Structures by Combining 3D Segmentation and SVM Classification.- A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Detecting Spatial Activation Patterns in fMRI Data.- Fast and Accurate Connectivity Analysis Between Functional Regions Based on DT-MRI.- Riemannian Graph Diffusion for DT-MRI Regularization.- High-Dimensional White Matter Atlas Generation and Group Analysis.- Fiber Bundle Estimation and Parameterization.- Improved Correspondence for DTI Population Studies Via Unbiased Atlas Building.- Diffusion k-tensor Estimation from Q-ball Imaging Using Discretized Principal Axes.- Improved Map-Slice-to-Volume Motion Correction with B0 Inhomogeneity Correction: Validation of Activation Detection Algorithms Using ROC Curve Analyses.- Hippocampus-Specific fMRI Group Activation Analysis with Continuous M-Reps.- Particle Filtering for Nonlinear BOLD Signal Analysis.- Anatomically Informed Convolution Kernels for the Projection of fMRI Data on the Cortical Surface.- A Landmark-Based Brain Conformal Parametrization with Automatic Landmark Tracking Technique.- Automated Topology Correction for Human Brain Segmentation.- A Fast and Automatic Method to Correct Intensity Inhomogeneity in MR Brain Images.- A Digital Pediatric Brain Structure Atlas from T1-Weighted MR Images.- Discriminative Analysis of Early Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Two Intrinsically Anti-correlated Networks with Resting-State fMRI.- Motion in Image Formation.- Rawdata-Based Detection of the Optimal Reconstruction Phase in ECG-Gated Cardiac Image Reconstruction.- Sensorless Reconstruction of Freehand 3D Ultrasound Data.- Motion-Compensated MR Valve Imaging with COMB Tag Tracking and Super-Resolution Enhancement.- Recovery of Liver Motion and Deformation Due to Respiration Using Laparoscopic Freehand 3D Ultrasound System.- Image Guided Intervention.- Numerical Simulation of Radio Frequency Ablation with State Dependent Material Parameters in Three Space Dimensions.- Towards a Multi-modal Atlas for Neurosurgical Planning.- Using Registration Uncertainty Visualization in a User Study of a Simple Surgical Task.- Ultrasound Monitoring of Tissue Ablation Via Deformation Model and Shape Priors.- Clinical Applications II.- Assessment of Airway Remodeling in Asthma: Volumetric Versus Surface Quantification Approaches.- Asymmetry of SPECT Perfusion Image Patterns as a Diagnostic Feature for Alzheimer’s Disease.- Predicting the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation with Diffusion Tensor Based Electric Field Models.- CFD Analysis Incorporating the Influence of Wall Motion: Application to Intracranial Aneurysms.- A New CAD System for the Evaluation of Kidney Diseases Using DCE-MRI.- Generation and Application of a Probabilistic Breast Cancer Atlas.- Hierarchical Part-Based Detection of 3D Flexible Tubes: Application to CT Colonoscopy.- Detection of Protrusions in Curved Folded Surfaces Applied to Automated Polyp Detection in CT Colonography.- Part-Based Local Shape Models for Colon Polyp Detection.- An Analysis of Early Studies Released by the Lung Imaging Database Consortium (LIDC).- Detecting Acromegaly: Screening for Disease with a Morphable Model.- A Boosting Cascade for Automated Detection of Prostate Cancer from Digitized Histology.- Optimal Sensor Placement for Predictive Cardiac Motion Modeling.- 4D Shape Registration for Dynamic Electrophysiological Cardiac Mapping.- Estimation of Cardiac Electrical Propagation from Medical Image Sequence.- Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Scaphoid Pinning: Operator Variability and Comparison with Traditional Fluoroscopic Procedure.- Cosmology Inspired Design of Biomimetic Tissue Engineering Templates with Gaussian Random Fields.- Registration of Microscopic Iris Image Sequences Using Probabilistic Mesh.- Tumor Therapeutic Response and Vessel Tortuosity: Preliminary Report in Metastatic Breast Cancer.- Harvesting the Thermal Cardiac Pulse Signal.- On Mobility Analysis of Functional Sites from Time Lapse Microscopic Image Sequences of Living Cell Nucleus.- Tissue Characterization Using Dimensionality Reduction and Fluorescence Imaging.- Registration II.- A Method for Registering Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images.- A High-Order Solution for the Distribution of Target Registration Error in Rigid-Body Point-Based Registration.- Fast Elastic Registration for Adaptive Radiotherapy.- Registering Histological and MR Images of Prostate for Image-Based Cancer Detection.- Affine Registration of Diffusion Tensor MR Images.- Analytic Expressions for Fiducial and Surface Target Registration Error.- Bronchoscope Tracking Based on Image Registration Using Multiple Initial Starting Points Estimated by Motion Prediction.- 2D/3D Registration for Measurement of Implant Alignment After Total Hip Replacement.- 3D/2D Model-to-Image Registration Applied to TIPS Surgery.- Ray-Tracing Based Registration for HRCT Images of the Lungs.- Physics-Based Elastic Image Registration Using Splines and Including Landmark Localization Uncertainties.- Piecewise-Quadrilateral Registration by Optical Flow – Applications in Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of the Breast.- Iconic Feature Registration with Sparse Wavelet Coefficients.- Diffeomorphic Registration Using B-Splines.- Automatic Point Landmark Matching for Regularizing Nonlinear Intensity Registration: Application to Thoracic CT Images.- Biomechanically Based Elastic Breast Registration Using Mass Tensor Simulation.- Intensity Gradient Based Registration and Fusion of Multi-modal Images.- A Novel Approach for Image Alignment Using a Markov–Gibbs Appearance Model.- Evaluation on Similarity Measures of a Surface-to-Image Registration Technique for Ultrasound Images.- Backward-Warping Ultrasound Reconstruction for Improving Diagnostic Value and Registration.- Integrated Four Dimensional Registration and Segmentation of Dynamic Renal MR Images.- Segmentation II.- Fast and Robust Clinical Triple-Region Image Segmentation Using One Level Set Function.- Fast and Robust Semi-automatic Liver Segmentation with Haptic Interaction.- Objective PET Lesion Segmentation Using a Spherical Mean Shift Algorithm.- Multilevel Segmentation and Integrated Bayesian Model Classification with an Application to Brain Tumor Segmentation.- A New Adaptive Probabilistic Model of Blood Vessels for Segmenting MRA Images.- Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from DTI Using Spectral Clustering.- Multiclassifier Fusion in Human Brain MR Segmentation: Modelling Convergence.- Active Surface Approach for Extraction of the Human Cerebral Cortex from MRI.- Integrated Graph Cuts for Brain MRI Segmentation.- Validation of Image Segmentation by Estimating Rater Bias and Variance.- A General Framework for Image Segmentation Using Ordered Spatial Dependency.- Constructing a Probabilistic Model for Automated Liver Region Segmentation Using Non-contrast X-Ray Torso CT images.- Modeling of Intensity Priors for Knowledge-Based Level Set Algorithm in Calvarial Tumors Segmentation.- A Comparison of Breast Tissue Classification Techniques.- Analysis of Skeletal Microstructure with Clinical Multislice CT.- An Energy Minimization Approach to the Data Driven Editing of Presegmented Images/Volumes.- Accurate Banded Graph Cut Segmentation of Thin Structures Using Laplacian Pyramids.- Segmentation of Neck Lymph Nodes in CT Datasets with Stable 3D Mass-Spring Models.- Supervised Probabilistic Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in CT Scans.- MR Image Segmentation Using Phase Information and a Novel Multiscale Scheme.- Multi-resolution Vessel Segmentation Using Normalized Cuts in Retinal Images.- Brain Analysis and Registration.- Simulation of Local and Global Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease Studies.- Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions.- Logarithm Odds Maps for Shape Representation.- Multi-modal Image Registration Using the Generalized Survival Exponential Entropy.