Medical Image Computing and Computer-assisted Intervention -- Miccai 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, Ca, USA, October 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II

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Robotics, Image-Guided Surgery and Interventions.- Sensor Guided Ablation Procedure of Left Atrial Endocardium.- A Method to Evaluate Human Spatial Coordination Interfaces for Computer-Assisted Surgery.- 3D TRUS Guided Robot Assisted Prostate Brachytherapy.- Invisible Shadow for Navigation and Planning in Minimal Invasive Surgery.- A Navigation System for Minimally Invasive CT-Guided Interventions.- Passive Markers for Ultrasound Tracking of Surgical Instruments.- Optimal Trajectories Computation Within Regions of Interest for Hepatic RFA Planning.- Effects of Latency on Telesurgery: An Experimental Study.- A Novel Phantom-Less Spatial and Temporal Ultrasound Calibration Method.- Electromagnetic Tracker Measurement Error Simulation and Tool Design.- Compact Forceps Manipulator Using Friction Wheel Mechanism and Gimbals Mechanism for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Spatial Motion Constraints for Robot Assisted Suturing Using Virtual Fixtures.- Contact Force Measurement of Instruments for Force-Feedback on a Surgical Robot: Acceleration Force Cancellations Based on Acceleration Sensor Readings.- Development of the Needle Insertion Robot for Percutaneous Vertebroplasty.- Laparoscope Self-calibration for Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.- A Hand-Eye Robotic Model for Total Knee Replacement Surgery.- Robot-Assisted Image-Guided Targeting for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery: Planning, Registration, and In-vitro Experiment.- Soft-Tissue Motion Tracking and Structure Estimation for Robotic Assisted MIS Procedures.- Image Registration II.- Mass Preserving Registration for Heart MR Images.- Liver Registration for the Follow-Up of Hepatic Tumors.- Maximum a Posteriori Local Histogram Estimation for Image Registration.- Dynamic 3D Ultrasound and MR Image Registration of the Beating Heart.- Learning Best Features for Deformable Registration of MR Brains.- Stochastic Inverse Consistency in Medical Image Registration.- A Novel Incremental Technique for Ultrasound to CT Bone Surface Registration Using Unscented Kalman Filtering.- Automatic 4-D Registration in Dynamic MR Renography Based on Over-Complete Dyadic Wavelet and Fourier Transforms.- Model of a Vascular C-Arm for 3D Augmented Fluoroscopy in Interventional Radiology.- 2D/3D Deformable Registration Using a Hybrid Atlas.- Reconstruction-Based 3D/2D Image Registration.- Comparison of Simultaneous and Sequential Two-View Registration for 3D/2D Registration of Vascular Images.- Interpolation Artefacts in Non-rigid Registration.- Learning Based Non-rigid Multi-modal Image Registration Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence.- Deformable Registration of Brain Tumor Images Via a Statistical Model of Tumor-Induced Deformation.- Myocardial Motion Estimation in Tagged MR Sequences by Using ?MI-Based Non Rigid Registration.- Iterative 3D Point-Set Registration Based on Hierarchical Vertex Signature (HVS).- Automatic Patient Registration for Port Placement in Minimally Invasixe Endoscopic Surgery.- Hybrid Formulation of the Model-Based Non-rigid Registration Problem to Improve Accuracy and Robustness.- Automatic Registration and Fusion of Ultrasound with CT for Radiotherapy.- Medical Image Computing - Atlases - Shape I.- Lung Deformation Estimation and Four-Dimensional CT Lung Reconstruction.- Automatic Parameter Optimization for De-noising MR Data.- Towards a Dynamic Model of Pulmonary Parenchymal Deformation: Evaluation of Methods for Temporal Reparameterization of Lung Data.- 4D MR Imaging Using Internal Respiratory Gating.- Anatomically Constrained Surface Parameterization for Cortical Localization.- Multiresolution Parametric Estimation of Transparent Motions and Denoising of Fluoroscopic Images.- Plaque and Stent Artifact Reduction in Subtraction CT Angiography Using Nonrigid Registration and a Volume Penalty.- Respiratory Motion Correction in Emission Tomography Image Reconstruction.- Optimal Embedding for Shape Indexing in Medical Image Databases.- Retrospective Cross-Evaluation of an Histological and Deformable 3D Atlas of the Basal Ganglia on Series of Parkinsonian Patients Treated by Deep Brain Stimulation.- Anatomical and Electrophysiological Validation of an Atlas for Neurosurgical Planning.- Construction of a 4D Statistical Atlas of the Cardiac Anatomy and Its Use in Classification.- Unbiased Atlas Formation Via Large Deformations Metric Mapping.- Least Biased Target Selection in Probabilistic Atlas Construction.- Automatic Selection of DBS Target Points Using Multiple Electrophysiological Atlases.- Nonrigid Shape Correspondence Using Landmark Sliding, Insertion and Deletion.- Statistical Face Models for the Prediction of Soft-Tissue Deformations After Orthognathic Osteotomies.- Fully Automatic Shape Modelling Using Growing Cell Neural Networks.- Multiscale 3D Shape Analysis Using Spherical Wavelets.- Structural and Functional Brain Analysis.- Discriminative Analysis of Brain Function at Resting-State for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.- Finding Landmarks in the Functional Brain: Detection and Use for Group Characterization.- Topology Correction Using Fast Marching Methods and Its Application to Brain Segmentation.- New Ratios for the Detection and Classification of CJD in Multisequence MRI of the Brain.- Model-Based Image Analysis.- Statistical Representation and Simulation of High-Dimensional Deformations: Application to Synthesizing Brain Deformations.- Model-Based Parameter Recovery from Uncalibrated Optical Images.- MRI Tissue Classification with Neighborhood Statistics: A Nonparametric, Entropy-Minimizing Approach.- Image-Guided Intervention: Simulation, Modeling and Display.- Robotic Assisted Radio-Frequency Ablation of Liver Tumors – Randomized Patient Study.- New Approaches to Catheter Navigation for Interventional Radiology Simulation.- Hybrid Bronchoscope Tracking Using a Magnetic Tracking Sensor and Image Registration.- Toward Robotized Beating Heart TECABG: Assessment of the Heart Dynamics Using High-Speed Vision.- Data-Fusion Display System with Volume Rendering of Intraoperatively Scanned CT Images.- Simulation and Modeling II.- A Hybrid Cutting Approach for Hysteroscopy Simulation.- Hydrometra Simulation for VR-Based Hysteroscopy Training.- Brain Shift Computation Using a Fully Nonlinear Biomechanical Model.- Finite Element Model of Cornea Deformation.- Characterization of Viscoelastic Soft Tissue Properties from In Vivo Animal Experiments and Inverse FE Parameter Estimation.- A Fast-Marching Approach to Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation for XMR Interventional Imaging.- An Inverse Problem Approach to the Estimation of Volume Change.- A Velocity-Dependent Model for Needle Insertion in Soft Tissue.- Material Properties Estimation of Layered Soft Tissue Based on MR Observation and Iterative FE Simulation.- Simulating Vascular Systems in Arbitrary Anatomies.- Medical Image Computing - Shape II.- Physiological System Identification with the Kalman Filter in Diffuse Optical Tomography.- Brain Surface Parameterization Using Riemann Surface Structure.- Automated Surface Matching Using Mutual Information Applied to Riemann Surface Structures.- Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping with Landmarks.- A New Method for SPECT Quantification of Targeted Radiotracers Uptake in the Myocardium.- Tracking and Analysis of Cine-Delayed Enhancement MR.- Characterizing Vascular Connectivity from microCT Images.- Shape Modeling Using Automatic Landmarking.- A Computer-Aided Design System for Revision of Segmentation Errors.- Statistical Modeling of Shape and Appearance Using the Continuous Medial Representation.- Vertebral Shape: Automatic Measurement with Dynamically Sequenced Active Appearance Models.- Geodesic Active Contours with Adaptive Neighboring Influence.- A Construction of an Averaged Representation of Human Cortical Gyri Using Non-linear Principal Component Analysis.- Efficient Kernel Density Estimation of Shape and Intensity Priors for Level Set Segmentation.- Corpus Callosum Subdivision Based on a Probabilistic Model of Inter-hemispheric Connectivity.- Image Segmentation and Analysis II.- Random Walks for Interactive Organ Segmentation in Two and Three Dimensions: Implementation and Validation.- Robust Pulmonary Nodule Segmentation in CT: Improving Performance for Juxtapleural Cases.- Tissue Classification of Noisy MR Brain Images Using Constrained GMM.- Automatic Left Atrium Segmentation by Cutting the Blood Pool at Narrowings.- Automatic Vascular Tree Formation Using the Mahalanobis Distance.- The Use of Unwrapped Phase in MR Image Segmentation : A Preliminary Study.- 2D and 3D Shape Based Segmentation Using Deformable Models.- CT Hepatic Venography: 3D Vascular Segmentation for Preoperative Evaluation.- Shape-Based Averaging for Combination of Multiple Segmentations.- Automatic Initialization Algorithm for Carotid Artery Segmentation in CTA Images.- Automated Nomenclature of Bronchial Branches Extracted from CT Images and Its Application to Biopsy Path Planning in Virtual Bronchoscopy.- Spectral Clustering Algorithms for Ultrasound Image Segmentation.- Using the Fast Marching Method to Extract Curves with Given Global Properties.- Robust Tissue Boundary Detection for Cerebral Cortical Thickness Estimation.- Statistical Analysis of Pharmacokinetic Models in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Image Registration III.- Inter-breath-hold Registration for the Production of High Resolution Cardiac MR Volumes.- Consistent Estimation of Cardiac Motions by 4D Image Registration.- Multispectral MR to X-Ray Registration of Vertebral Bodies by Generating CT-Like Data.- Articulated Rigid Registration for Serial Lower-Limb Mouse Imaging.- Incorporating Statistical Measures of Anatomical Variability in Atlas-to-Subject Registration for Conformal Brain Radiotherapy.- Accurate Image Registration for Quadrature Tomographic Microscopy.- Riemannian Elasticity: A Statistical Regularization Framework for Non-linear Registration.- 3D Model-Based Approach to Lung Registration and Prediction of Respiratory Cardiac Motion.- Fast DRR Generation for 2D/3D Registration.- Validation of PET Imaging by Alignment to Histology Slices.- Adaptive Subdivision for Hierarchical Non-rigid Registration of Multi-modal Images Using Mutual Information.- 3-D Diffeomorphic Shape Registration on Hippocampal Data Sets.- Two-Stage Registration for Real-Time Deformable Compensation Using an Electromagnetic Tracking Device.- Cadaver Validation of Intensity-Based Ultrasound to CT Registration.- Erratum.- Automatic Patient Registration for Port Placement in Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Surgery.