Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI'98

Planning and evaluation of reorienting osteotomies of the proximal femur in cases of SCFE using virtual three-dimensional models.- Computer-aided planning of patellofemoral joint OA surgery: Developing physical models from patient MRI.- Computer assisted orthognathic surgery.- Computer-aided image-guided bone fracture surgery: Modeling, visualization, and preoperative planning.- A surgical planning and guidance system for high tibial osteotomies.- Measurement of intraoperative brain surface deformation under a craniotomy.- Clinical experience with a high precision image-guided neurosurgery system.- Three-dimensional reconstruction and surgical navigation in padiatric epilepsy surgery.- Treatment of pelvic ring fractures: Percutaneous computer assisted iliosacral screwing.- Model tags: Direct 3D tracking of heart wall motion from tagged MR images.- Quantitative three dimensional echocardiography: Methodology, validation, and clinical applications.- Measurement of 3D motion of myocardialmaterial points from explicit B-surface reconstruction of tagged MRI data.- 3D reconstruction from projection matrices in a C-arm based 3D-angiography system.- Multiscale vessel enhancement filtering.- Fast quantification of abdominal aortic aneurysms from CTA volumes.- 3-D fusion of biplane angiography and intravascular ultrasound for accurate visualization and volumetry.- Patient-specific analysis of left ventricular blood flow.- Dense 2D displacement reconstruction from SPAMM-MRI with constrained elastic splines: Implementation and validation.- Motion analysis of the right ventricle from MRI Images.- Magnetic resonance guided radiofrequency ablation: Creation and visualization of cardiac lesions.- Human versus robotic organ retraction during laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication.- A new laparoscope manipulator with an optical zoom.- A newly developed stereotactic robot with detachable drive for neurosurgery.- Calibration of video cameras to the coordinate system of a radiation therapytreatment machine.- An image overlay system for medical data visualization.- Volumetric image guidance via a stereotactic endoscope.- The application accuracy of the frameless implantable marker system and analysis of related affecting factors.- Multi-level strategy for Computer-Assisted Transbronchial Biopsy.- A fast, accurate and easy method to position oral implant using computed tomography.- Experimental protocol of accuracy evaluation of 6-D localizers for computer-integrated surgery: Application to four optical localizers.- Visualization and evaluation of prostate needle biopsy.- Virtual endoscope system with force sensation.- Using region-of-interest based finite element modelling for brain-surgery simulation.- An image processing environment for guiding vascular MR interventions.- Fluoroscopic image processing for computer-aided orthopaedic surgery.- Probe design to robustly locate anatomical features.- Concepts and results in the development of a hybrid tracking system for CAS.- Computer-assisted interstitial brachytherapy.- 3-D model supported prostate biopsy simulation and evaluation.- Human factors in tele-inspection and tele-surgery: Cooperative manipulation under asynchronous video and control feedback.- Computer assisted coronary intervention by use of on-line 3D reconstruction and optimal view strategy.- A robotic approach to HIFU based neurosurgery.- Virtual surgery system using deformable organ models and force feedback system with three fingers.- A modular surgical robotic system for image guided percutaneous procedures.- Optimum designed micro active forceps with built-in fiberscope for retinal microsurgery.- Gauging clinical practice: Surgical navigation for total hip replacement.- Adaptive template moderated spatially varying statistical classification.- Automatic quantification of MS lesions in 3D MRI brain data sets: Validation of INSECT.- Computer-aided diagnostic system for pulmonary nodules using helical CT images.- Enhanced spatial priors for segmentation of magnetic resonance imagery.- Exploring the discrimination power of the time domain for segmentation and characterization of lesions in serial MR data.- Reconstruction of the central layer of the human cerebral cortex from MR images.- Regularization of MR diffusion tensor maps for tracking brain white matter bundles.- Measurement of brain structures based on statistical and geometrical 3D segmentation.- Automatic identificaiton of cortical sulci using a 3D probabilistic atlas.- Segmentation and measurement of the cortex from 3D MR images.- A biomechanical model of soft tissue deformation, with applications to non-rigid registration of brain images with tumor pathology.- Building biomechanical models based on medical image data: An assessment of model accuracy.- Modelling of soft tissue deformation for laparoscopic surgery simulation.- A colour image processing method for melanoma detection.- Abnormal masses in mammograms: Detection using scale-orientation signatures.- Detecting and inferring brain activation from functional MRI by hypothesis-testing based on the likelihood ratio.- A fast technique for motion correction in DAS using a feature-based, irregular grid.- Autofocusing of clinical shoulder MR images for correction of motion artifacts.- Reconstruction of elasticity and attenuation maps in shear wave imaging: An inverse approach.- Understanding intensity non-uniformity in MRI.- An automatic threshold-based scaling method for enhancing the usefulness of Tc-HMPAO SPECT in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.- Automatic computation of average brain models.- Brain shift modeling for use in neurosurgery.- Proximity constraints in deformable models for cortical surface identification.- Fast analysis of intracranical aneurysms based on interactive direct volume rendering and CTA.- Visualizing spatial resolution of linear estimation techniques of electromagnetic brain activity localization.- Biomechanical simulation of the vitreous humor in theeye using an Enhanced ChainMail Algorithm.- A biomechanical model of the human tongue and its clinical implications.- Three-dimensional joit kinematics using bone surface registration: A computer assisted approach with an application to the wrist joint in vivo.- Range of motion after total hip arthroplasty: Simulation of non-axisymmetric implants.- 4D shape-preserving modelling of bone growth.- AnatomyBrowser: A framework for integration of medical information.- Automatic, accurate surface model inference for dental CAD/CAM.- Initial in-vivo analysis of 3D heterogeneous brain computations for model-updated image-guided neurosurgery.- A new dynamic FEM-based subdivision surface model for shape recovery and tracking in medical images.- Automatic quantification of changes in the volume of brain structures.- Automatic analysis of normal brain dissymmetry of males and females in MR images.- Marching optimal-parameter ridges: An algorithm to extract shape loci in 3D images.- Singularities asfeatures of deformation grids.- Morphological analysis of terminal air spaces by means of micro-CT and confocal microscopy and simulation within a functional model of lung.- 2D+T acoustic boundary detection in echocardiography.- Automatically finding optimal working projections for the endovascular coiling of intracranical aneurysms.- Computer assisted quantitative analysis of deformities of the human spine.- Motion measurements in low-contrast X-ray imagery.- Pitfalls in comparing functional magnetic resonance imaging and invasive electrophysiology recordings.- Specification, modelling and visualization of arbitrarily shaped cut surfaces in the volume model.- An object-based volumetric deformable atlas for the improved localization of neuroanatomy in MR images.- Automated labeling of bronchial branches in virtual bronchoscopy system.- Building a complete surface model from sparse data using statistical shape models: Application to computer assisted knee surgery.- Constrained elasticsurface nets: Generating smooth surfaces from binary segmented data.- Assessing skill and learning in surgeons and medical students using a force feedback surgical simulator.- Virtual reality vitrectomy simulator.- An experimental image guided surgery simulator for hemicricolaryngectomy and reconstruction by tracheal autotransplantation.- Virtual endoscopy of mucin-producing pancreas tumors.- Augmented reality visualization for laparoscopic surgery.- Evaluation of control point selection in automatic, mutual information driven, 3D warping.- 3D/2D registration via skeletal near projective invariance in tubular objects.- Measuring global and local spatial correspondence using information theory.- Non-linear cerebral registration with sulcal constraints.- A double scanning procedure for visualisation of radiolucent objects in soft tissues: Application to oral implant surgery planning.- Interactive pre-operative selection of cutting constraints, and interactive force controlled knee surgery by a surgical robot.- Multimodal volume-based tumor neurosurgery planning in the virtual workbench.- Real-time tools for freehand 3D ultrasound.- Computer-based determination of the newborn's femoral head coverage using three-dimensional ultrasound scans.- Ultrasound imaging simulation: Application to the diagnosis of deep venous thromboses of lower limbs.- Isolating moving anatomy in ultrasound without anatomical knowledge: Application to computer-assisted pericardial punctures.- A new branching model: Application to carotid ultrasonic data.- Multi-modal volume registration using joint intensity distributions.- Multimodality deformable registration of pre- and intraoperative images for MRI-guided brain surgery.- A novel approach for the registration of 2D portal and 3D CT images for treatment setup verification in radiotherapy.- Multimodality imaging for epilepsy diagnosis and surgical focus localization: Three-dimensional image correlation and dual isotope SPECT.- Non-rigid multimodal image registration using mutual information.- Feature-based registration of medical images: Estimation and validation of the pose accuracy.- The correlation ratio as a new similarity measure for multimodal image registration.- Real-time registration of 3D cerebral vessels to X-ray angiograms.- Multi-object deformable templates dedicated to the segmentation of brain deep structures.- Non-rigid registration of breast MR images using mutual information.- A comparison of similarity measures for use in 2D-3D medical image registration.- Elastic model based non-rigid registration incorporating statistical shape information.- Image registration based on thin-plate splines and local estimates of anisotropic landmark localization uncertainties.- Segmentation of carpal bones from 3D CT images using skeletally coupled deformable models.- Segmentation of bone in clinical knee MRI using texture-based geodesic active contours.- Tensor controlled local structure enhancement of CT images for bonesegmentation.- Segmentation of magnetic resonance images using 3D deformable models.- Automatic segmentation of brain tissues and MR bias field correction using a digital brain atlas.- Robust brain segmentation using histogram scale-space analysis and mathematical morphology.- Vascular shape segmentation and structure extraction using a shape-based region-growing model.