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

The 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2006, was held in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Tivoli Concert Hall with satellite workshops and tutorials at the IT University of Copenhagen, October 1-6, 2006. The conference has become the premier international conference with - depth full length papers in the multidisciplinary ?elds of medical image c- puting, computer-assisted intervention, and medical robotics. The conference brings together clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, physicists, and other researchers and o?ers a forum for the exchange of ideas in a multidisciplinary setting. MICCAI papers are of high standard and have a long lifetime. In this v- ume as well as in the latest journal issues of Medical Image Analysis and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging papers cite previous MICCAIs including the ?rst MICCAI conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998. It is obvious that the community requires the MICCAI papers as archive material. Therefore the proceedingsofMICCAIarefrom2005andhenceforthbeing indexedbyMedline. Acarefulreviewandselectionprocesswasexecutedinordertosecurethebest possible program for the MICCAI 2006 conference. We received 578 scienti?c papers from which 39 papers were selected for the oral program and 193 papers for the poster program.

Bone Shape Analysis.- Quantitative Vertebral Morphometry Using Neighbor-Conditional Shape Models.- Anatomically Constrained Deformation for Design of Cranial Implant: Methodology and Validation.- Open-Curve Shape Correspondence Without Endpoint Correspondence.- Reconstruction of Patient-Specific 3D Bone Surface from 2D Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images and Point Distribution Model.- Robotics and Tracking.- A Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery Using Steerable Electrode Arrays.- Robot-Assisted Prostate Brachytherapy.- Design and Validation of an Image-Guided Robot for Small Animal Research.- GPU Based Real-Time Instrument Tracking with Three Dimensional Ultrasound.- Segmentation.- Shape-Driven 3D Segmentation Using Spherical Wavelets.- Artificially Enlarged Training Set in Image Segmentation.- Segmenting Lung Fields in Serial Chest Radiographs Using Both Population and Patient-Specific Shape Statistics.- 4D Shape Priors for a Level Set Segmentation of the Left Myocardium in SPECT Sequences.- Cell Segmentation Using Coupled Level Sets and Graph-Vertex Coloring.- Analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI.- 3D Histological Reconstruction of Fiber Tracts and Direct Comparison with Diffusion Tensor MRI Tractography.- Rician Noise Removal in Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Anisotropy Creases Delineate White Matter Structure in Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Shape Analysis and Morphometry.- Evaluation of 3-D Shape Reconstruction of Retinal Fundus.- Comparing the Similarity of Statistical Shape Models Using the Bhattacharya Metric.- Improving Segmentation of the Left Ventricle Using a Two-Component Statistical Model.- An Approach for the Automatic Cephalometric Landmark Detection Using Mathematical Morphology and Active Appearance Models.- Automatic Segmentation of Jaw Tissues in CT Using Active Appearance Models and Semi-automatic Landmarking.- Morphometric Analysis for Pathological Abnormality Detection in the Skull Vaults of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Girls.- A Novel Quantitative Validation of the Cortical Surface Reconstruction Algorithm Using MRI Phantom: Issues on Local Geometric Accuracy and Cortical Thickness.- Multivariate Statistics of the Jacobian Matrices in Tensor Based Morphometry and Their Application to HIV/AIDS.- Highly Accurate Segmentation of Brain Tissue and Subcortical Gray Matter from Newborn MRI.- Transformation Model and Constraints Cause Bias in Statistics on Deformation Fields.- Limits on Estimating the Width of Thin Tubular Structures in 3D Images.- Toward Interactive User Guiding Vessel Axis Extraction from Gray-scale Angiograms: An Optimization Framework.- A Statistical Parts-Based Appearance Model of Inter-subject Variability.- The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Domain Description.- A New Closed-Form Information Metric for Shape Analysis.- Simulation and Interaction.- Feasibility of Patient Specific Aortic Blood Flow CFD Simulation.- A Model Based Approach for Multi-lead ECG Array Layout Selection.- Simulation of Acquisition Artefacts in MR Scans: Effects on Automatic Measures of Brain Atrophy.- Non-rigid 2D-3D Registration with Catheter Tip EM Tracking for Patient Specific Bronchoscope Simulation.- Anatomical Modelling of the Musculoskeletal System from MRI.- Towards a Statistical Atlas of Cardiac Fiber Structure.- A Comparison of Needle Bending Models.- An Inverse Kinematics Model For Post-operative Knee.- Online Parameter Estimation for Surgical Needle Steering Model.- Realistic Simulated MRI and SPECT Databases.- Extrapolating Tumor Invasion Margins for Physiologically Determined Radiotherapy Regions.- Simultaneous Stereoscope Localization and Soft-Tissue Mapping for Minimal Invasive Surgery.- Real-Time Endoscopic Mosaicking.- Depth Perception – A Major Issue in Medical AR: Evaluation Study by Twenty Surgeons.- Hybrid Navigation Interface for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery.- Virtual Fly-Over: A New Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Viscoelasticity Modeling of the Prostate Region Using Vibro-elastography.- Simultaneous Reconstruction of Tissue Attenuation and Radioactivity Maps in SPECT.- Statistical Finite Element Model for Bone Shape and Biomechanical Properties.- Robotics and Intervention.- Fetus Support Manipulator with Flexible Balloon-Based Stabilizer for Endoscopic Intrauterine Surgery.- Recovery of Surgical Workflow Without Explicit Models.- Comparison of Control Modes of a Hand-Held Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery.- “Virtual Touch”: An Efficient Registration Method for Catheter Navigation in Left Atrium.- Towards Scarless Surgery: An Endoscopic-Ultrasound Navigation System for Transgastric Access Procedures.- New 4-D Imaging for Real-Time Intraoperative MRI: Adaptive 4-D Scan.- The Use of Super Resolution in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Modeling the Human Aorta for MR-Driven Real-Time Virtual Endoscopy.- Adaptive Script Based Animations for Intervention Planning.- Towards Optimization of Probe Placement for Radio-Frequency Ablation.- C-arm Tracking and Reconstruction Without an External Tracker.- Rigid-Flexible Outer Sheath Model Using Slider Linkage Locking Mechanism and Air Pressure for Endoscopic Surgery.- Combined Endo- and Exoscopic Semi-robotic Manipulator System for Image Guided Operations.- The Feasibility of MR-Image Guided Prostate Biopsy Using Piezoceramic Motors Inside or Near to the Magnet Isocentre.- The Role of Insertion Points in the Detection and Positioning of Instruments in Laparoscopy for Robotic Tasks.- Automatic Localization of Laparoscopic Instruments for the Visual Servoing of an Endoscopic Camera Holder.- A Novel Robotic Laser Ablation System for Precision Neurosurgery with Intraoperative 5-ALA-Induced PpIX Fluorescence Detection.- Visual Servoing for Intraoperative Positioning and Repositioning of Mobile C-arms.- Navigated Three Dimensional Beta Probe for Optimal Cancer Resection.- Development of Safe Mechanism for Surgical Robots Using Equilibrium Point Control Method.- Real Time Adaptive Filtering for Digital X-Ray Applications.- Cardio-vascular Applications.- Semiautomatic Volume Conductor Modeling Pipeline for Imaging the Cardiac Electrophysiology Noninvasively.- Atrial Septal Defect Tracking in 3D Cardiac Ultrasound.- Intra-operative Volume Imaging of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins with Rotational X-Ray Angiography.- Phase-Based Registration of Multi-view Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Sequences.- Carotid Artery Segmentation Using an Outlier Immune 3D Active Shape Models Framework.- Estimation of Cardiac Hyperelastic Material Properties from MRI Tissue Tagging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- Boosting and Nonparametric Based Tracking of Tagged MRI Cardiac Boundaries.- A Region Based Algorithm for Vessel Detection in Retinal Images.- Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein Tracking and Differentiation Using Spatiotemporal Analysis.- Image Analysis in Oncology.- Appearance Models for Robust Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in 3D LDCT Chest Images.- Intensity-Based Volumetric Registration of Contrast-Enhanced MR Breast Images.- Semi-parametric Analysis of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Using Bayesian P-Splines.- Brain Atlases and Segmentation.- Segmentation of Brain MRI in Young Children.- A Learning Based Algorithm for Automatic Extraction of the Cortical Sulci.- Probabilistic Brain Atlas Encoding Using Bayesian Inference.- Atlas Stratification.- Cardiac Motion Analysis.- Physiome Model Based State-Space Framework for Cardiac Kinematics Recovery.- Automated Detection of Left Ventricle in 4D MR Images: Experience from a Large Study.- Pairwise Active Appearance Model and Its Application to Echocardiography Tracking.- Cardiac Motion Recovery: Continuous Dynamics, Discrete Measurements, and Optimal Estimation.- Clinical Applications I.- HMM Assessment of Quality of Movement Trajectory in Laparoscopic Surgery.- A Novel MRI Texture Analysis of Demyelination and Inflammation in Relapsing-Remitting Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis.- C