1-8

Quantitative Vertebral Morphometry Using Neighbor-Conditional Shape Models

9-16

Anatomically Constrained Deformation for Design of Cranial Implant: Methodology and Validation

17-24

Open-Curve Shape Correspondence Without Endpoint Correspondence

25-32

Reconstruction of Patient-Specific 3D Bone Surface from 2D Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images and Point Distribution Model

33-40

A Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery Using Steerable Electrode Arrays

41-49

Robot-Assisted Prostate Brachytherapy

50-57

Design and Validation of an Image-Guided Robot for Small Animal Research

58-65

GPU Based Real-Time Instrument Tracking with Three Dimensional Ultrasound

66-74

Shape-Driven 3D Segmentation Using Spherical Wavelets

75-82

Artificially Enlarged Training Set in Image Segmentation

83-91

Segmenting Lung Fields in Serial Chest Radiographs Using Both Population and Patient-Specific Shape Statistics

92-100

4D Shape Priors for a Level Set Segmentation of the Left Myocardium in SPECT Sequences

101-108

Cell Segmentation Using Coupled Level Sets and Graph-Vertex Coloring

109-116

3D Histological Reconstruction of Fiber Tracts and Direct Comparison with Diffusion Tensor MRI Tractography

117-125

Rician Noise Removal in Diffusion Tensor MRI

126-133

Anisotropy Creases Delineate White Matter Structure in Diffusion Tensor MRI

134-141

Evaluation of 3-D Shape Reconstruction of Retinal Fundus

142-150

Comparing the Similarity of Statistical Shape Models Using the Bhattacharya Metric

151-158

Improving Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Using a Two-Component Statistical Model

159-166

An Approach for the Automatic Cephalometric Landmark Detection Using Mathematical Morphology and Active Appearance Models

167-174

Automatic Segmentation of Jaw Tissues in CT Using Active Appearance Models and Semi-automatic Landmarking

175-182

Morphometric Analysis for Pathological Abnormality Detection in the Skull Vaults of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Girls

183-190

A Novel Quantitative Validation of the Cortical Surface Reconstruction Algorithm Using MRI Phantom: Issues on Local Geometric Accuracy and Cortical Thickness

191-198

Multivariate Statistics of the Jacobian Matrices in Tensor Based Morphometry and Their Application to HIV/AIDS

199-206

Highly Accurate Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Subcortical Gray Matter from Newborn MRI

207-214

Transformation Model and Constraints Cause Bias in Statistics on Deformation Fields

215-222

Limits on Estimating the Width of Thin Tubular Structures in 3D Images

223-231

Toward Interactive User Guiding Vessel Axis Extraction from Gray-scale Angiograms: An Optimization Framework

232-240

A Statistical Parts-Based Appearance Model of Inter-subject Variability

241-248

The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Domain Description

249-256

A New Closed-Form Information Metric for Shape Analysis

257-263

Feasibility of Patient Specific Aortic Blood Flow CFD Simulation

264-271

A Model Based Approach for Multi-lead ECG Array Layout Selection

272-280

Simulation of Acquisition Artefacts in MR Scans: Effects on Automatic Measures of Brain Atrophy

281-288

Non-rigid 2D-3D Registration with Catheter Tip EM Tracking for Patient Specific Bronchoscope Simulation

289-296

Anatomical Modelling of the Musculoskeletal System from MRI

297-304

Towards a Statistical Atlas of Cardiac Fiber Structure

305-312

A Comparison of Needle Bending Models

313-320

An Inverse Kinematics Model For Post-operative Knee

321-329

Online Parameter Estimation for Surgical Needle Steering Model

330-337

Realistic Simulated MRI and SPECT Databases

338-346

Extrapolating Tumor Invasion Margins for Physiologically Determined Radiotherapy Regions

347-354

Simultaneous Stereoscope Localization and Soft-Tissue Mapping for Minimal Invasive Surgery

355-363

Real-Time Endoscopic Mosaicking

364-372

Depth Perception – A Major Issue in Medical AR: Evaluation Study by Twenty Surgeons

373-380

Hybrid Navigation Interface for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery

381-388

Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy

389-396

Viscoelasticity Modeling of the Prostate Region Using Vibro-elastography

397-404

Simultaneous Reconstruction of Tissue Attenuation and Radioactivity Maps in SPECT

405-411

Statistical Finite Element Model for Bone Shape and Biomechanical Properties

412-419

Fetus Support Manipulator with Flexible Balloon-Based Stabilizer for Endoscopic Intrauterine Surgery

420-428

Recovery of Surgical Workflow Without Explicit Models

429-436

Comparison of Control Modes of a Hand-Held Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery

437-444

“Virtual Touch”: An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium

445-453

Towards Scarless Surgery: An Endoscopic-Ultrasound Navigation System for Transgastric Access Procedures

454-461

New 4-D Imaging for Real-Time Intraoperative MRI: Adaptive 4-D Scan

462-469

The Use of Super Resolution in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

470-477

Modeling the Human Aorta for MR-Driven Real-Time Virtual Endoscopy

478-485

Adaptive Script Based Animations for Intervention Planning

486-493

Towards Optimization of Probe Placement for Radio-Frequency Ablation

494-502

C-arm Tracking and Reconstruction Without an External Tracker

503-510

Rigid-Flexible Outer Sheath Model Using Slider Linkage Locking Mechanism and Air Pressure for Endoscopic Surgery

511-518

Combined Endo- and Exoscopic Semi-robotic Manipulator System for Image Guided Operations

519-526

The Feasibility of MR-Image Guided Prostate Biopsy Using Piezoceramic Motors Inside or Near to the Magnet Isocentre

527-534

The Role of Insertion Points in the Detection and Positioning of Instruments in Laparoscopy for Robotic Tasks

535-542

Automatic Localization of Laparoscopic Instruments for the Visual Servoing of an Endoscopic Camera Holder

543-550

A Novel Robotic Laser Ablation System for Precision Neurosurgery with Intraoperative 5-ALA-Induced PpIX Fluorescence Detection

551-560

Visual Servoing for Intraoperative Positioning and Repositioning of Mobile C-arms

561-569

Navigated Three Dimensional Beta Probe for Optimal Cancer Resection

570-577

Development of Safe Mechanism for Surgical Robots Using Equilibrium Point Control Method

578-587

Real Time Adaptive Filtering for Digital X-Ray Applications

588-595

Semiautomatic Volume Conductor Modeling Pipeline for Imaging the Cardiac Electrophysiology Noninvasively

596-603

Atrial Septal Defect Tracking in 3D Cardiac Ultrasound

604-611

Intra-operative Volume Imaging of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins with Rotational X-Ray Angiography

612-619

Phase-Based Registration of Multi-view Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Sequences

620-627

Carotid Artery Segmentation Using an Outlier Immune 3D Active Shape Models Framework

628-635

Estimation of Cardiac Hyperelastic Material Properties from MRI Tissue Tagging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

636-644

Boosting and Nonparametric Based Tracking of Tagged MRI Cardiac Boundaries

645-653

A Region Based Algorithm for Vessel Detection in Retinal Images

654-661

Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein Tracking and Differentiation Using Spatiotemporal Analysis

662-670

Appearance Models for Robust Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in 3D LDCT Chest Images

671-678

Intensity-Based Volumetric Registration of Contrast-Enhanced MR Breast Images

679-686

Semi-parametric Analysis of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Bayesian P-Splines

687-694

Segmentation of Brain MRI in Young Children

695-703

A Learning Based Algorithm for Automatic Extraction of the Cortical Sulci

704-711

Probabilistic Brain Atlas Encoding Using Bayesian Inference

712-719

Atlas Stratification

720-727

Physiome Model Based State-Space Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Recovery

728-735

Automated Detection of Left Ventricle in 4D MR Images: Experience from a Large Study

736-743

Pairwise Active Appearance Model and Its Application to Echocardiography Tracking

744-751

Cardiac Motion Recovery: Continuous Dynamics, Discrete Measurements, and Optimal Estimation

752-759

HMM Assessment of Quality of Movement Trajectory in Laparoscopic Surgery

760-767

A Novel MRI Texture Analysis of Demyelination and Inflammation in Relapsing-Remitting Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis

768-775

Comparison of Different Targeting Methods for Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation

776-783

Objective Outcome Evaluation of Breast Surgery

784-791

Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Ground Glass Opacity Nodules

792-799

Imaging of 3D Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Model-Based Recovery Framework

800-807

Segmentation of the Surfaces of the Retinal Layer from OCT Images

808-815

Spinal Crawlers: Deformable Organisms for Spinal Cord Segmentation and Analysis

816-823

Markerless Endoscopic Registration and Referencing

824-831

Real-Time Tracking of Contrast Bolus Propagation in Continuously Moving Table MR Angiography

832-839

Preventing Signal Degradation During Elastic Matching of Noisy DCE-MR Eye Images

840-848

Automated Analysis of the Mitotic Phases of Human Cells in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy Image Sequences

849-856

Spline-Based Probabilistic Model for Anatomical Landmark Detection

857-864

Affine and Deformable Registration Based on Polynomial Expansion

865-872

Simultaneous Multiple Image Registration Method for T₁ Estimation in Breast MRI Images

873-881

New CTA Protocol and 2D-3D Registration Method for Liver Catheterization

882-890

A New Registration/Visualization Paradigm for CT-Fluoroscopy Guided RF Liver Ablation

891-898

A New Method for CT to Fluoroscope Registration Based on Unscented Kalman Filter

899-906

Automated 3D Freehand Ultrasound Calibration with Real-Time Accuracy Control

907-914

Non-rigid Registration of 3D Multi-channel Microscopy Images of Cell Nuclei

915-923

Fast Deformable Registration of 3D-Ultrasound Data Using a Variational Approach

924-931

A Log-Euclidean Framework for Statistics on Diffeomorphisms

932-939

Nonrigid 3D Brain Registration Using Intensity/Feature Information