Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2004, 2004
7th International Conference Saint-Malo, France, September 26-29, 2004, Proceedings, Part II
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 3217

The 7th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004, was held in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France at the ?Palais du Grand Large? conference center, September 26?29, 2004. The p- posaltohostMICCAI2004wasstronglyencouragedandsupportedbyIRISA, Rennes. IRISA is a publicly funded national research laboratory with a sta? of 370,including150full-timeresearchscientistsorteachingresearchscientistsand 115 postgraduate students. INRIA, the CNRS, and the University of Rennes 1 are all partners in this mixed research unit, and all three organizations were helpful in supporting MICCAI. MICCAI has become a premier international conference with in-depth - pers on the multidisciplinary ?elds of medical image computing, comput- assisted intervention and medical robotics. The conference brings together cl- icians, biological scientists, computer scientists, engineers, physicists and other researchers and o?ers them a forum to exchange ideas in these exciting and rapidly growing ?elds. The impact of MICCAI increases each year and the quality and quantity of submitted papers this year was very impressive. We received a record 516 full submissions (8 pages in length) and 101 short communications (2 pages) from 36 di?erent countries and 5 continents (see ?gures below). All submissions were reviewed by up to 4 external reviewers from the Scienti?c Review C- mittee and a primary reviewer from the Program Committee. All reviews were then considered by the MICCAI 2004 Program Committee, resulting in the acceptance of 235 full papers and 33 short communications.

Robotics.- MARGE Project: Design, Modeling and Control of Assistive Devices for Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Crawling on the Heart: A Mobile Robotic Device for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Interventions.- High Dexterity Snake-Like Robotic Slaves for Minimally Invasive Telesurgery of the Upper Airway.- Development of a Robotic Laser Surgical Tool with an Integrated Video Endoscope.- Micro-Neurosurgical System in the Deep Surgical Field.- Dense 3D Depth Recovery for Soft Tissue Deformation During Robotically Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery.- Vision-Based Assistance for Ophthalmic Micro-Surgery.- Robot-Assisted Distal Locking of Long Bone Intramedullary Nails: Localization, Registration, and In Vitro Experiments.- Liver Motion Due to Needle Pressure, Cardiac, and Respiratory Motion During the TIPS Procedure.- Visualization, Planning, and Monitoring Software for MRI-Guided Prostate Intervention Robot.- Robotic Strain Imaging for Monitoring Thermal Ablation of Liver.- A Tactile Magnification Instrument for Minimally Invasive Surgery.- A Study of Saccade Transition for Attention Segregation and Task Strategy in Laparoscopic Surgery.- Precision Freehand Sculpting of Bone.- Needle Force Sensor, Robust and Sensitive Detection of the Instant of Needle Puncture.- Handheld Laparoscopic Forceps Manipulator Using Multi-slider Linkage Mechanisms.- An MR-Compatible Optical Force Sensor for Human Function Modeling.- Flexible Needle Steering and Optimal Trajectory Planning for Percutaneous Therapies.- CT and MR Compatible Light Puncture Robot: Architectural Design and First Experiments.- Development of a Novel Robot-Assisted Orthopaedic System Designed for Total Knee Arthroplasty.- Needle Guiding Robot with Five-Bar Linkage for MR-Guided Thermotherapy of Liver Tumor.- Computer-Assisted Minimally Invasive Curettage and Reinforcement of Femoral Head Osteonecrosis with a Novel, Expandable Blade Tool.- A Parallel Robotic System with Force Sensors for Percutaneous Procedures Under CT-Guidance.- System Design for Implementing Distributed Modular Architecture to Reliable Surgical Robotic System.- Precise Evaluation of Positioning Repeatability of MR-Compatible Manipulator Inside MRI.- Simulation and Rendering.- Simulation Model of Intravascular Ultrasound Images.- Vessel Driven Correction of Brain Shift.- Predicting Tumour Location by Simulating Large Deformations of the Breast Using a 3D Finite Element Model and Nonlinear Elasticity.- Modeling of Brain Tissue Retraction Using Intraoperative Data.- Physiopathology of Pulmonary Airways: Automated Facilities for Accurate Assessment.- A Framework for the Generation of Realistic Brain Tumor Phantoms and Applications.- Measuring Biomechanical Characteristics of Blood Vessels for Early Diagnostics of Vascular Retinal Pathologies.- A 4D-Optical Measuring System for the Dynamic Acquisition of Anatomical Structures.- An Anisotropic Material Model for Image Guided Neurosurgery.- Estimating Mechanical Brain Tissue Properties with Simulation and Registration.- Dynamic Measurements of Soft Tissue Viscoelastic Properties with a Torsional Resonator Device.- Simultaneous Topology and Stiffness Identification for Mass-Spring Models Based on FEM Reference Deformations.- Human Spine Posture Estimation Method from Human Images to Calculate Physical Forces Working on Vertebrae.- Modelling Surgical Cuts, Retractions, and Resections via Extended Finite Element Method.- A Collaborative Virtual Environment for the Simulation of Temporal Bone Surgery.- 3D Computational Mechanical Analysis for Human Atherosclerotic Plaques Using MRI-Based Models with Fluid-Structure Interactions.- In Silico Tumor Growth: Application to Glioblastomas.- An Event-Driven Framework for the Simulation of Complex Surgical Procedures.- Photorealistic Rendering of Large Tissue Deformation for Surgical Simulation.- BurnCase 3D – Realistic Adaptation of 3-Dimensional Human Body Models.- Fast Soft Tissue Deformation with Tetrahedral Mass Spring Model for Maxillofacial Surgery Planning Systems.- Generic Approach for Biomechanical Simulation of Typical Boundary Value Problems in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Planning.- Virtual Unfolding of the Stomach Based on Volumetric Image Deformation.- Interventional Imaging.- Cadaver Validation of the Use of Ultrasound for 3D Model Instantiation of Bony Anatomy in Image Guided Orthopaedic Surgery.- Correction of Movement Artifacts from 4-D Cardiac Short- and Long-Axis MR Data.- Scale-Invariant Registratiou of Monocular Endoscopic Images to CT-Scans for Sinus Surgery.- Patient-Specific Operative Planning for Aorto-Femoral Reconstruction Procedures.- Intuitive and Efficient Control of Real-Time MRI Scan Plane Using a Six-Degree-of-Freedom Hardware Plane Navigator.- Shape-Enhanced Surgical Visualizations and Medical Illustrations with Multi-flash Imaging.- Immediate Ultrasound Calibration with Three Poses and Minimal Image Processing.- Accuracy of Navigation on 3DRX Data Acquired with a Mobile Propeller C-Arm.- High Quality Autostereoscopic Surgical Display Using Anti-aliased Integral Videography Imaging.- Enhancing Fourier Volume Rendering Using Contour Extraction.- A Novel Approach to Anatomical Structure Morphing for Intraoperative Visualization.- Enhancement of Visual Realism with BRDF for Patient Specific Bronchoscopy Simulation.- Stereo-Based Endoscopic Tracking of Cardiac Surface Deformation.- Online Noninvasive Localization of Accessory Pathways in the EP Lab.- Performance Evaluation of a Stereoscopic Based 3D Surface Localiser for Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- Bite-Block Relocation Error in Image-Guided Otologic Surgery.- Characterization of Internal Organ Motion Using Skin Marker Positions.- Augmenting Intraoperative 3D Ultrasound with Preoperative Models for Navigation in Liver Surgery.- Control System for MR-Guided Cryotherapy – Short-Term Prediction of Therapy Boundary Using Automatic Segmentation and 3D Optical Flow –.- Fast and Accurate Bronchoscope Tracking Using Image Registration and Motion Prediction.- Virtual Pneumoperitoneum for Generating Virtual Laparoscopic Views Based on Volumetric Deformation.- Soft Tissue Resection for Prostatectomy Simulation.- Precalibration Versus 2D-3D Registration for 3D Guide Wire Display in Endovascular Interventions.- Patient and Probe Tracking During Freehand Ultrasound.- Real-Time 4D Tumor Tracking and Modeling from Internal and External Fiducials in Fluoroscopy.- Augmented Vessels for Pre-operative Preparation in Endovascular Treatments.- A CT-Free Intraoperative Planning and Navigation System for High Tibial Dome Osteotomy.- A Phantom Based Approach to Fluoroscopic Navigation for Orthopaedic Surgery.- Real-Time Estimation of Hip Range of Motion for Total Hip Replacement Surgery.- Correction of Accidental Patient Motion for Online MR Thermometry.- Brain Imaging Applications.- Determining Malignancy of Brain Tumors by Analysis of Vessel Shape.- Automatic Classification of SPECT Images of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Control Subjects.- Estimation of Anatomical Connectivity by Anisotropic Front Propagation and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- A Statistical Shape Model of Individual Fiber Tracts Extracted from Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Co-analysis of Maps of Atrophy Rate and Atrophy State in Neurodegeneration.- Regional Structural Characterization of the Brain of Schizophrenia Patients.- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgical Outcome Prediction.- Exact MAP Activity Detection in fMRI Using a GLM with an Ising Spatial Prior.- Bias in Resampling-Based Thresholding of Statistical Maps in fMRI.- Solving Incrementally the Fitting and Detection Problems in fMRI Time Series.- Extraction of Discriminative Functional MRI Activation Patterns and an Application to Alzheimer’s Disease.- Functional Brain Image Analysis Using Joint Function-Structure Priors.- Improved Motion Correction in fMRI by Joint Mapping of Slices into an Anatomical Volume.- Motion Correction in fMRI by Mapping Slice-to-Volume with Concurrent Field-Inhomogeneity Correction.- Cardiac and Other Applications.- Towards Optical Biopsies with an Integrated Fibered Confocal Fluorescence Microscope.- A Prospective Multi-institutional Study of the Reproducibility of fMRI: A Preliminary Report from the Biomedical Informatics Research Network.- Real-Time Multi-model Tracking of Myocardium in Echocardiography Using Robust Information Fusion.- Simulation of the Electromechanical Activity of the Heart Using XMR Interventional Imaging.- Needle Insertion in CT Scanner with Image Overlay – Cadaver Studies.- Computer Aided Detection in CT Colonography, via Spin Images.- Foveal Algorithm for the Detection of Microcalcification Clusters: A FROC Analysis.- Pulmonary Micronodule Detection from 3D Chest CT.- SVM Optimization for Hyperspectral Colon Tissue Cell Classification.- Pulmonary Nodule Classification Based on Nodule Retrieval from 3-D Thoracic CT Image Database.- Physics Based Contrast Marking and Inpainting Based Local Texture Comparison for Clustered Microcalcification Detection.- Automatic Detection and Recognition of Lung Abnormalities in Helical CT Images Using Deformable Templates.- A Multi-resolution CLS Detection Algorithm for Mammographic Image Analysis.- Cervical Cancer Detection Using SVM Based Feature Screening.- Robust 3D Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in Multislice CT Images.- The Automatic Identification of Hibernating Myocardium.- A Spatio-temporal Analysis of Contrast Ultrasound Image Sequences for Assessment of Tissue Perfusion.- Detecting Functional Connectivity of the Cerebellum Using Low Frequency Fluctuations (LFFs).- Independent Component Analysis of Four-Phase Abdominal CT Images.- Volumetric Deformation Model for Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy.- Fast Automated Segmentation and Reproducible Volumetry of Pulmonary Metastases in CT-Scans for Therapy Monitoring.- Bone Motion Analysis from Dynamic MRI: Acquisition and Tracking.- Cartilage Thickness Measurement in the Sub-millimeter Range.- A Method to Monitor Local Changes in MR Signal Intensity in Articular Cartilage: A Potential Marker for Cartilage Degeneration in Osteoarthritis.- Tracing Based Segmentation for the Labeling of Individual Rib Structures in Chest CT Volume Data.- Automated 3D Segmentation of the Lung Airway Tree Using Gain-Based Region Growing Approach.- Real-Time Dosimetry for Prostate Brachytherapy Using TRUS and Fluoroscopy.- Fiducial-Less Respiration Tracking in Radiosurgery.- A Dynamic Model of Average Lung Deformation Using Capacity-Based Reparameterization and Shape Averaging of Lung MR Images.- Prostate Shape Modeling Based on Principal Geodesic Analysis Bootstrapping.- Estimation of Organ Motion from 4D CT for 4D Radiation Therapy Planning of Lung Cancer.- Three-Dimensional Shape-Motion Analysis of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery in EBCT Images.- Short Communications.- Automatic Detection and Removal of Fiducial Markers Embedded in Fluoroscopy Images for Online Calibration.- Increasing Accuracy of Atrophy Measures from Serial MR Scans Using Parameter Analysis of the Boundary Shift Integral.- Evaluating Automatic Brain Tissue Classifiers.- Wrist Kinematics from Computed Tomography Data.- 3D Analysis of Radiofrequency-Ablated Tumors in Liver: A Computer-Aided Diagnosis Tool for Early Detection of Local Recurrences.- Fast Streaking Artifact Reduction in CT Using Constrained Optimization in Metal Masks.- Towards an Anatomically Meaningful Parameterization of the Cortical Surface.- Nodule Detection in Postero Anterior Chest Radiographs.- Texture-Based Classification of Hepatic Primary Tumors in Multiphase CT.- Construction of a 3D Volumetric Probabilistic Model of the Mouse Kidney from MRI.- Fluid Deformation of Serial Structural MRI for Low-Grade Glioma Growth Analysis.- Cardiac Motion Extraction Using 3D Surface Matching in Multislice Computed Tomography.- Automatic Assessment of Cardiac Perfusion MRI.- Texture Based Mammogram Registration Using Geodesic Interpolating Splines.- Gabor Filter-Based Automated Strain Computation from Tagged MR Images.- Non-invasive Derivation of 3D Systolic Nonlinear Wall Stress in a Biventricular Model from Tagged MRI.- MRI Compatible Modular Designed Robot for Interventional Navigation – Prototype Development and Evaluation –.- A Model for Some Subcortical DTI Planar and Linear Anisotropy.- A 3D Model of the Human Lung.- Color Rapid Prototyping for Diffusion-Tensor MRI Visualization.- Process of Interpretation of Two-Dimensional Densitometry Images for the Prediction of Bone Mechanical Strength.- Transient MR Elastography: Modeling Traumatic Brain Injury.- Study on Evaluation Indexes of Surgical Manipulations with a Stereoscopic Endoscope.- A Modular Scalable Approach to Occlusion-Robust Low-Latency Optical Tracking.- Distance Measurement for Sensorless 3D US.- An Analysis Tool for Quantification of Diffusion Tensor MRI Data.- A Cross-Platform Software Framework for Medical Image Processing.- Detection of Micro- to Nano-Sized Particles in Soft Tissue.- Hardware-Assisted 2D/3D Intensity-Based Registration for Assessing Patellar Tracking.- Multiple Coils for Reduction of Flow Artefacts in MR Images.- Freely Available Software for 3D RF Ultrasound.- A Study of Dosimetric Evaluation and Feasibility of Image Guided Intravascular Brachytherapy in Peripheral Arteries.- 3D Elastography Using Freehand Ultrasound.