MICCAI 2008 Proceedings, Part I

Dimitris Metaxas, Leon Axel, Gabor Fichtinger, and Gábor Székely (Eds.): Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2008 11th International Conference, New York, NY, USA, September 6-10, 2008, Proceedings, Part I   LNCS 5241   Ordering Information   BibTeX   Table of Contents Title Pages in PDF Preface in PDF Organization in PDF Table of Contents in PDF Medical Image Computing On Computing the Underlying Fiber Directions from the Diffusion Orientation Distribution Function Luke Bloy and Ragini Verma LNCS 5241, p. 1 ff. Full article in PDF Extracting Tractosemas from a Displacement Probability Field for Tractography in DW-MRI Angelos Barmpoutis, Baba C. Vemuri, Dena Howland, and John R. Forder LNCS 5241, p. 9 ff. Full article in PDF New Algorithms to Map Asymmetries of 3D Surfaces Benoît Combès and Sylvain Prima LNCS 5241, p. 17 ff. Full article in PDF A Distributed Spatio-temporal EEG/MEG Inverse Solver Wanmei Ou, Polina Golland, and Matti Hämäläinen LNCS 5241, p. 26 ff. Full article in PDF Tracking the Swimming Motions of C. elegans Worms with Applications in Aging Studies Christophe Restif and Dimitris Metaxas LNCS 5241, p. 35 ff. Full article in PDF Segmentation I MR Brain Tissue Classification Using an Edge-Preserving Spatially Variant Bayesian Mixture Model Giorgos Sfikas, Christophoros Nikou, Nikolaos Galatsanos, and Christian Heinrich LNCS 5241, p. 43 ff. Full article in PDF Semi-supervised Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Lesion Extraction from Magnetic Resonance Images Using Online Spectral Clustering with a Learned Metric Wei Huang, Kap Luk Chan, Yan Gao, Jiayin Zhou, and Vincent Chong LNCS 5241, p. 51 ff. Full article in PDF Multi-level Classification of Emphysema in HRCT Lung Images Using Delegated Classifiers Mithun Prasad and Arcot Sowmya LNCS 5241, p. 59 ff. Full article in PDF A Discriminative Model-Constrained Graph Cuts Approach to Fully Automated Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation in 3-D MRI Michael Wels, Gustavo Carneiro, Alexander Aplas, Martin Huber, Joachim Hornegger, and Dorin Comaniciu LNCS 5241, p. 67 ff. Full article in PDF Prostate Cancer Probability Maps Based on Ultrasound RF Time Series and SVM Classifiers Mehdi Moradi, Parvin Mousavi, Robert Siemens, Eric Sauerbrei, Alexander Boag, and Purang Abolmaesumi LNCS 5241, p. 76 ff. Full article in PDF A Bayesian Approach for Liver Analysis: Algorithm and Validation Study Moti Freiman, Ofer Eliassaf, Yoav Taieb, Leo Joskowicz, and Jacob Sosna LNCS 5241, p. 85 ff. Full article in PDF Classification of Suspected Liver Metastases Using fMRI Images: A Machine Learning Approach Moti Freiman, Yifat Edrei, Yehonatan Sela, Yitzchak Shmidmayer, Eitan Gross, Leo Joskowicz, and Rinat Abramovitch LNCS 5241, p. 93 ff. Full article in PDF Evaluation of a Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation Algorithm Using a Phantom Yong Yue, Hemant D. Tagare, Ernest L. Madsen, Gary R. Frank, and Maritza A. Hobson LNCS 5241, p. 101 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Recovery of the Left Ventricular Blood Pool in Cardiac Cine MR Images Marie-Pierre Jolly LNCS 5241, p. 110 ff. Full article in PDF MRI Bone Segmentation Using Deformable Models and Shape Priors Jérôme Schmid and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann LNCS 5241, p. 119 ff. Full article in PDF Segmentation of Vessels Cluttered with Cells Using a Physics Based Model Stephen J. Schmugge, Steve Keller, Nhat Nguyen, Richard Souvenir, Toan Huynh, Mark Clemens, and Min C. Shin LNCS 5241, p. 127 ff. Full article in PDF Streamline Flows for White Matter Fibre Pathway Segmentation in Diffusion MRI Peter Savadjiev, Jennifer S.W. Campbell, G. Bruce Pike, and Kaleem Siddiqi LNCS 5241, p. 135 ff. Full article in PDF Toward Unsupervised Classification of Calcified Arterial Lesions Gerd Brunner, Uday Kurkure, Deepak R. Chittajallu, Raja P. Yalamanchili, and Ioannis A. Kakadiaris LNCS 5241, p. 144 ff. Full article in PDF Weights and Topology: A Study of the Effects of Graph Construction on 3D Image Segmentation Leo Grady and Marie-Pierre Jolly LNCS 5241, p. 153 ff. Full article in PDF Level Set Based Surface Capturing in 3D Medical Images Bin Dong, Aichi Chien, Yu Mao, Jian Ye, and Stanley Osher LNCS 5241, p. 162 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Detection of Calcified Coronary Plaques in Computed Tomography Data Sets Stefan C. Saur, Hatem Alkadhi, Lotus Desbiolles, Gábor Székely, and Philippe C. Cattin LNCS 5241, p. 170 ff. Full article in PDF Comprehensive Segmentation of Cine Cardiac MR Images Maxim Fradkin, Cybèle Ciofolo, Benoit Mory, Gilion Hautvast, and Marcel Breeuwer LNCS 5241, p. 178 ff. Full article in PDF Segmentation of Pathologic Hearts in Long-Axis Late-Enhancement MRI Cybèle Ciofolo and Maxim Fradkin LNCS 5241, p. 186 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Subcortical Segmentation Using a Contextual Model Jonathan H. Morra, Zhuowen Tu, Liana G. Apostolova, Amity E. Green, Arthur W. Toga, and Paul M. Thompson LNCS 5241, p. 194 ff. Full article in PDF Lumbar Disc Localization and Labeling with a Probabilistic Model on Both Pixel and Object Features Jason J. Corso, Raja’ S. Alomari, and Vipin Chaudhary LNCS 5241, p. 202 ff. Full article in PDF Topology Preserving Warping of Binary Images: Application to Atlas-Based Skull Segmentation Sylvain Faisan, Nicolas Passat, Vincent Noblet, Renée Chabrier, and Christophe Meyer LNCS 5241, p. 211 ff. Full article in PDF Robust Segmentation and Anatomical Labeling of the Airway Tree from Thoracic CT Scans Bram van Ginneken, Wouter Baggerman, and Eva M. van Rikxoort LNCS 5241, p. 219 ff. Full article in PDF Spine Segmentation Using Articulated Shape Models Tobias Klinder, Robin Wolz, Cristian Lorenz, Astrid Franz, and Jörn Ostermann LNCS 5241, p. 227 ff. Full article in PDF Model-Based Segmentation of Hippocampal Subfields in Ultra-High Resolution In Vivo MRI Koen Van Leemput, Akram Bakkour, Thomas Benner, Graham Wiggins, Lawrence L. Wald, Jean Augustinack, Bradford C. Dickerson, Polina Golland, and Bruce Fischl LNCS 5241, p. 235 ff. Full article in PDF Kinetic Modeling Based Probabilistic Segmentation for Molecular Images Ahmed Saad, Ghassan Hamarneh, Torsten Möller, and Ben Smith LNCS 5241, p. 244 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Delineation of Sulci and Improved Partial Volume Classification for Accurate 3D Voxel-Based Cortical Thickness Estimation from MR Oscar Acosta, Pierrick Bourgeat, Jurgen Fripp, Erik Bonner, Sébastien Ourselin, and Olivier Salvado LNCS 5241, p. 253 ff. Full article in PDF R-PLUS: A Riemannian Anisotropic Edge Detection Scheme for Vascular Segmentation Ali Gooya, Takeyoshi Dohi, Ichiro Sakuma, and Hongen Liao LNCS 5241, p. 262 ff. Full article in PDF A Novel Method for Cortical Sulcal Fundi Extraction Gang Li, Tianming Liu, Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, and Stephen T.C. Wong LNCS 5241, p. 270 ff. Full article in PDF Joint Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei from a Population of Diffusion Tensor MR Images Ulas Ziyan and Carl-Fredrik Westin LNCS 5241, p. 279 ff. Full article in PDF Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection in Ultrasound Using 3D Local Phase Features Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Antony Hodgson, and Robert Rohling LNCS 5241, p. 287 ff. Full article in PDF Interactive Separation of Segmented Bones in CT Volumes Using Graph Cut Lu Liu, David Raber, David Nopachai, Paul Commean, David Sinacore, Fred Prior, Robert Pless, and Tao Ju LNCS 5241, p. 296 ff. Full article in PDF A Comparison of Methods for Recovering Intra-voxel White Matter Fiber Architecture from Clinical Diffusion Imaging Scans Alonso Ramirez-Manzanares, Philip A. Cook, and James C. Gee LNCS 5241, p. 305 ff. Full article in PDF Active Scheduling of Organ Detection and Segmentation in Whole-Body Medical Images Yiqiang Zhan, Xiang Sean Zhou, Zhigang Peng, and Arun Krishnan LNCS 5241, p. 313 ff. Full article in PDF A New Stochastic Framework for Accurate Lung Segmentation Ayman El-Ba, Georgy Gimel’farb, Robert Falk, Trevor Holland, and Teresa Shaffer LNCS 5241, p. 322 ff. Full article in PDF Active Volume Models with Probabilistic Object Boundary Prediction Module Tian Shen, Yaoyao Zhu, Xiaolei Huang, Junzhou Huang, Dimitris Metaxas, and Leon Axel LNCS 5241, p. 331 ff. Full article in PDF Improving Parenchyma Segmentation by Simultaneous Estimation of Tissue Property T1 Map and Group-Wise Registration of Inversion Recovery MR Breast Images Ye Xing, Zhong Xue, Sarah Englander, Mitchell Schnall, and Dinggang Shen LNCS 5241, p. 342 ff. Full article in PDF Atlas-Based Segmentation of the Germinal Matrix from in Utero Clinical MRI of the Fetal Brain Piotr A. Habas, Kio Kim, Francois Rousseau, Orit A. Glenn, A. James Barkovich, and Colin Studholme LNCS 5241, p. 351 ff. Full article in PDF Segmenting Brain Tumors Using Pseudo–Conditional Random Fields Chi-Hoon Lee, Shaojun Wang, Albert Murtha, Matthew R.G. Brown, and Russell Greiner LNCS 5241, p. 359 ff. Full article in PDF Localized Priors for the Precise Segmentation of Individual Vertebras from CT Volume Data Hong Shen, Andrew Litvin, and Christopher Alvino LNCS 5241, p. 367 ff. Full article in PDF Cell Spreading Analysis with Directed Edge Profile-Guided Level Set Active Contours Ilker Ersoy, Filiz Bunyak, Kannappan Palaniappan, Mingzhai Sun, and Gabor Forgacs LNCS 5241, p. 376 ff. Full article in PDF Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Local and Global Intensity Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces Li Wang, Chunming Li, Quansen Sun, Deshen Xia, and Chiu-Yen Kao LNCS 5241, p. 384 ff. Full article in PDF Model-Based Segmentation Using Graph Representations Dieter Seghers, Jeroen Hermans, Dirk Loeckx, Frederik Maes, Dirk Vandermeulen, and Paul Suetens LNCS 5241, p. 393 ff. Full article in PDF 3D Brain Segmentation Using Active Appearance Models and Local Regressors Kolawole O. Babalola, Tim F. Cootes, Carole J. Twining, Vlad Petrovic, and Chris Taylor LNCS 5241, p. 401 ff. Full article in PDF Comparison and Evaluation of Segmentation Techniques for Subcortical Structures in Brain MRI Kolawole O. Babalola, Brian Patenaude, Paul Aljabar, Julia Schnabel, David Kennedy, William Crum, Stephen Smith, Tim F. Cootes, Mark Jenkinson, and Daniel Rueckert LNCS 5241, p. 409 ff. Full article in PDF Shape and Statistics Analysis Hierarchical Shape Statistical Model for Segmentation of Lung Fields in Chest Radiographs Yonghong Shi and Dinggang Shen LNCS 5241, p. 417 ff. Full article in PDF Sample Sufficiency and Number of Modes to Retain in Statistical Shape Modelling Lin Mei, Michael Figl, Daniel Rueckert, Ara Darzi, and Philip Edwards LNCS 5241, p. 425 ff. Full article in PDF Optimal Feature Point Selection and Automatic Initialization in Active Shape Model Search Karim Lekadir and Guang-Zhong Yang LNCS 5241, p. 434 ff. Full article in PDF MR-Less High Dimensional Spatial Normalization of 11C PiB PET Images on a Population of Elderly, Mild Cognitive Impaired and Alzheimer Disease Patients Jurgen Fripp, Pierrick Bourgeat, Parnesh Raniga, Oscar Acosta, Victor Villemagne, Gareth Jones, Graeme O’keefe, Christopher Rowe, Sébastien Ourselin, and Olivier Salvado LNCS 5241, p. 442 ff. Full article in PDF Computational Atlases of Severity of White Matter Lesions in Elderly Subjects with MRI Stathis Hadjidemetriou, Peter Lorenzen, Norbert Schuff, Susanne Mueller, and Michael Weiner LNCS 5241, p. 450 ff. Full article in PDF Simulation of Ground-Truth Validation Data Via Physically- and Statistically-Based Warps Ghassan Hamarneh, Preet Jassi, and Lisa Tang LNCS 5241, p. 459 ff. Full article in PDF Shape Analysis with Overcomplete Spherical Wavelets B.T. Thomas Yeo, Peng Yu, P. Ellen Grant, Bruce Fischl, and Polina Golland LNCS 5241, p. 468 ff. Full article in PDF Particle-Based Shape Analysis of Multi-object Complexes Joshua Cates, P. Thomas Fletcher, Martin Styner, Heather Cody Hazlett, and Ross Whitaker LNCS 5241, p. 477 ff. Full article in PDF Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Whole Brain Structural Networks Obtained Using Probabilistic Tractography Emma C. Robinson, Michel Valstar, Alexander Hammers, Anders Ericsson, A. David Edwards, and Daniel Rueckert LNCS 5241, p. 486 ff. Full article in PDF Optimized Conformal Parameterization of Cortical Surfaces Using Shape Based Matching of Landmark Curves Lok Ming Lui, Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Yalin Wang, Tony Chan, and Paul Thompson LNCS 5241, p. 494 ff. Full article in PDF Construction of Hierarchical Multi-Organ Statistical Atlases and Their Application to Multi-Organ Segmentation from CT Images Toshiyuki Okada, Keita Yokota, Masatoshi Hori, Masahiko Nakamoto, Hironobu Nakamura, and Yoshinobu Sato LNCS 5241, p. 502 ff. Full article in PDF Shape-Based Alignment of Hippocampal Subfields: Evaluation in Postmortem MRI Paul A. Yushkevich, Brian B. Avants, John Pluta, David Minkoff, John A. Detre, Murray Grossman, and James C. Gee LNCS 5241, p. 510 ff. Full article in PDF Customized Design of Hearing Aids Using Statistical Shape Learning Gozde Unal, Delphine Nain, Greg Slabaugh, and Tong Fang LNCS 5241, p. 518 ff. Full article in PDF A Novel Explicit 2D+t Cyclic Shape Model Applied to Echocardiography Ramón Casero and J. Alison Noble LNCS 5241, p. 527 ff. Full article in PDF Spatial Consistency in 3D Tract-Based Clustering Statistics Matthan Caan, Lucas van Vliet, Charles Majoie, Eline Aukema, Kees Grimbergen, and Frans Vos LNCS 5241, p. 535 ff. Full article in PDF Dynamic Probabilistic Atlas of Functional Brain Regions for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Juha Koikkalainen, Mervi Könönen, Jari Karhu, Jarmo Ruohonen, Eini Niskanen, and Jyrki Lötjönen LNCS 5241, p. 543 ff. Full article in PDF Unbiased Stratification of Left Ventricles Rajagopalan Srinivasan, K.S. Shriram, and Srikanth Suryanarayanan LNCS 5241, p. 551 ff. Full article in PDF 3D Cerebral Cortical Morphometry in Autism: Increased Folding in Children and Adolescents in Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal Lobes Suyash P. Awate, Lawrence Win, Paul Yushkevich, Robert T. Schultz, and James C. Gee LNCS 5241, p. 559 ff. Full article in PDF Prediction of Biomechanical Parameters of the Proximal Femur Using Statistical Appearance Models and Support Vector Regression Karl Fritscher, Benedikt Schuler, Thomas Link, Felix Eckstein, Norbert Suhm, Markus Hänni, Clemens Hengg, and Rainer Schubert LNCS 5241, p. 568 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Labeling of Anatomical Structures in MR FastView Images Using a Statistical Atlas Matthias Fenchel, Stefan Thesen, and Andreas Schilling LNCS 5241, p. 576 ff. Full article in PDF Conformal Slit Mapping and Its Applications to Brain Surface Parameterization Yalin Wang, Xianfeng Gu, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, and Shing-Tung Yau LNCS 5241, p. 585 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Determination of Arterial Input Function for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in Tumor Assessment Jeremy Chen, Jianhua Yao, and David Thomasson LNCS 5241, p. 594 ff. Full article in PDF Robust Vessel Tree Modeling M. Akif Gülsün and Hüseyin Tek LNCS 5241, p. 602 ff. Full article in PDF Exploratory Identification of Image-Based Biomarkers for Solid Mass Pulmonary Tumors Ifeoma Nwogu and Jason J. Corso LNCS 5241, p. 612 ff. Full article in PDF Measuring Brain Lesion Progression with a Supervised Tissue Classification System Evangelia I. Zacharaki, Stathis Kanterakis, R. Nick Bryan, and Christos Davatzikos LNCS 5241, p. 620 ff. Full article in PDF Regularized Discriminative Direction for Shape Difference Analysis Luping Zhou, Richard Hartley, Lei Wang, Paulette Lieby, and Nick Barnes LNCS 5241, p. 628 ff. Full article in PDF LV Motion and Strain Computation from tMRI Based on Meshless Deformable Models Xiaoxu Wang, Ting Chen, Shaoting Zhang, Dimitris Metaxas, and Leon Axel LNCS 5241, p. 636 ff. Full article in PDF Surface-Based Texture and Morphological Analysis Detects Subtle Cortical Dysplasia Pierre Besson, Neda Bernasconi, Olivier Colliot, Alan Evans, and Andrea Bernasconi LNCS 5241, p. 645 ff. Full article in PDF Multi-Attribute Non-initializing Texture Reconstruction Based Active Shape Model (MANTRA) Robert Toth, Jonathan Chappelow, Mark Rosen, Sona Pungavkar, Arjun Kalyanpur, and Anant Madabhushi LNCS 5241, p. 653 ff. Full article in PDF A Comprehensive Segmentation, Registration, and Cancer Detection Scheme on 3 Tesla In Vivo Prostate DCE-MRI Satish Viswanath, B. Nicolas Bloch, Elisabeth Genega, Neil Rofsky, Robert Lenkinski, Jonathan Chappelow, Robert Toth, and Anant Madabhushi LNCS 5241, p. 662 ff. Full article in PDF Modeling I A New Method for Creating Electrophysiological Maps for DBS Surgery and Their Application to Surgical Guidance Srivatsan Pallavaram, Pierre-Francois D’Haese, Chris Kao, Hong Yu, Michael Remple, Joseph Neimat, Peter Konrad, and Benoit Dawant LNCS 5241, p. 670 ff. Full article in PDF Cardiac Electrophysiology Model Adjustment Using the Fusion of MR and Optical Imaging Damien Lepiller, Maxime Sermesant, Mihaela Pop, Hervé Delingette, Graham A. Wright, and Nicholas Ayache LNCS 5241, p. 678 ff. Full article in PDF Dynamic Model-Driven Quantitative and Visual Evaluation of the Aortic Valve from 4D CT Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Bogdan Georgescu, Eva Gassner, Sebastian Vogt, Oliver Kutter, Michael Scheuering, Nassir Navab, and Dorin Comaniciu LNCS 5241, p. 686 ff. Full article in PDF Interactive Simulation of Embolization Coils: Modeling and Experimental Validation Jérémie Dequidt, Maud Marchal, Christian Duriez, Erwan Kerien, and Stéphane Cotin LNCS 5241, p. 695 ff. Full article in PDF Modelling Anisotropic Viscoelasticity for Real-Time Soft Tissue Simulation Zeike A. Taylor, Olivier Comas, Mario Cheng, Josh Passenger, David J. Hawkes, David Atkinson, and Sébastien Ourselin LNCS 5241, p. 703 ff. Full article in PDF Motion Tracking and Compensation 3D Ultrasound-Guided Motion Compensation System for Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair Shelten G. Yuen, Samuel B. Kesner, Nikolay V. Vasilyev, Pedro J. Del Nido, and Robert D. Howe LNCS 5241, p. 711 ff. Full article in PDF A Novel Algorithm for Heart Motion Analysis Based on Geometric Constraints Mingxing Hu, Graeme Penney, Daniel Rueckert, Philip Edwards, Michael Figl, Philip Pratt, and David Hawkes LNCS 5241, p. 720 ff. Full article in PDF On-the-Fly Motion-Compensated Cone-Beam CT Using an a Priori Motion Model Simon Rit, Jochem Wolthaus, Marcel van Herk, and Jan-Jakob Sonke LNCS 5241, p. 729 ff. Full article in PDF A Statistical Motion Model Based on Biomechanical Simulations for Data Fusion during Image-Guided Prostate Interventions Yipeng Hu, Dominic Morgan, Hashim Uddin Ahmed, Doug Pendsé, Mahua Sahu, Clare Allen, Mark Emberton, David Hawkes, and Dean Barratt LNCS 5241, p. 737 ff. Full article in PDF Registration I Spherical Demons: Fast Surface Registration B.T. Thomas Yeo, Mert Sabuncu, Tom Vercauteren, Nicholas Ayache, Bruce Fischl, and Polina Golland LNCS 5241, p. 745 ff. Full article in PDF Symmetric Log-Domain Diffeomorphic Registration: A Demons-Based Approach Tom Vercauteren, Xavier Pennec, Aymeric Perchant, and Nicholas Ayache LNCS 5241, p. 754 ff. Full article in PDF EEG to MRI Registration Based on Global and Local Similarities of MRI Intensity Distributions iga Špiclin, Arne Hans, Frank H. Duffy, Simon K. Warfield, Boštjan Likar, and Franjo Pernuš LNCS 5241, p. 762 ff. Full article in PDF Nonrigid Registration of Dynamic Renal MR Images Using a Saliency Based MRF Model Dwarikanath Mahapatra and Ying Sun LNCS 5241, p. 771 ff. Full article in PDF A Constrained Non-rigid Registration Algorithm for Use in Prostate Image-Guided Radiotherapy William H. Greene, Sudhakar Chelikani, Kailas Purushothaman, Zhe Chen, Jonathan P. S Knisely, Lawrence H. Staib, Xenophon Papademetris, and Jim Duncan LNCS 5241, p. 780 ff. Full article in PDF Miscellaneous I Identifying Regional Cardiac Abnormalities from Myocardial Strains Using Spatio-temporal Tensor Analysis Zhen Qian, Qingshan Liu, Dimitris N. Metaxas, and Leon Axel LNCS 5241, p. 789 ff. Full article in PDF Volume Reconstruction by Inverse Interpolation: Application to Interleaved MR Motion Correction Torsten Rohlfing, Martin H. Rademacher, and Adolf Pfefferbaum LNCS 5241, p. 798 ff. Full article in PDF A Hybrid System for the Semantic Annotation of Sulco-Gyral Anatomy in MRI Images Ammar Mechouche, Xavier Morandi, Christine Golbreich, and Bernard Gibaud LNCS 5241, p. 807 ff. Full article in PDF Towards Multi-Directional OCT for Speckle Noise Reduction Lukas Ramrath, Guillermo Moreno, Heike Mueller, Tim Bonin, Gereon Huettmann, and Achim Schweikard LNCS 5241, p. 815 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Tracking of Escherichia Coli Bacteria Jun Xie, Shahid Khan, and Mubarak Shah LNCS 5241, p. 824 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Image Analysis of Histopathology Specimens Using Concave Vertex Graph Lin Yang, Oncel Tuzel, Peter Meer, and David J. Foran LNCS 5241, p. 833 ff. Full article in PDF Analysis of Surfaces Using Constrained Regression Models Sune Darkner, Mert R. Sabuncu, Polina Golland, Rasmus R. Paulsen, and Rasmus Larsen LNCS 5241, p. 842 ff. Full article in PDF A Global Approach for Automatic Fibroscopic Video Mosaicing in Minimally Invasive Diagnosis Selen Atasoy, David P. Noonan, Selim Benhimane, Nassir Navab, and Guang-Zhong Yang LNCS 5241, p. 850 ff. Full article in PDF Riemannian Framework for Estimating Symmetric Positive Definite 4th Order Diffusion Tensors Aurobrata Ghosh, Maxime Descoteaux, and Rachid Deriche LNCS 5241, p. 858 ff. Full article in PDF Non-uniform Gradient Prescription for Precise Angular Measurements Using DTI Nathan Yanasak, Jerry D. Allison, Qun Zhao, Tom C.-C. Hu, and Krishnan Dhandapani LNCS 5241, p. 866 ff. Full article in PDF Spatial Weighed Element Based FEM Incorporating a Priori Information on Bioluminescence Tomography Jin Shi, Jie Tian, Min Xu, and Wei Yang LNCS 5241, p. 874 ff. Full article in PDF Geometric Deformable Model Driven by CoCRFs: Application to Optical Coherence Tomography Gabriel Tsechpenakis, Brandon Lujan, Oscar Martinez, Giovanni Gregori, and Philip J. Rosenfeld LNCS 5241, p. 883 ff. Full article in PDF Contractile Analysis with Kriging Based on MR Myocardial Velocity Imaging Su-Lin Lee, Andrew Huntbatch, and Guang-Zhong Yang LNCS 5241, p. 892 ff. Full article in PDF Averaging Centerlines: Mean Shift on Paths Theo van Walsum, Michiel Schaap, Coert T. Metz, Alina G. van der Giessen, and Wiro J. Niessen LNCS 5241, p. 900 ff. Full article in PDF On Classifying Disease-Induced Patterns in the Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Images Peng Wang and Ragini Verma LNCS 5241, p. 908 ff. Full article in PDF Findings in Schizophrenia by Tract-Oriented DT-MRI Analysis Mahnaz Maddah, Marek Kubicki, William M. Wells, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Martha E. Shenton, and W. Eric L. Grimson LNCS 5241, p. 917 ff. Full article in PDF Task-Specific Functional Brain Geometry from Model Maps Georg Langs, Dimitris Samaras, Nikos Paragios, Jean Honorio, Nelly Alia-Klein, Dardo Tomasi, Nora D. Volkow, and Rita Z. Goldstein LNCS 5241, p. 925 ff. Full article in PDF Texture Classification in Lung CT Using Local Binary Patterns Lauge Srensen, Saher B. Shaker, and Marleen de Bruijne LNCS 5241, p. 934 ff. Full article in PDF A Symmetry-Based Method for the Determination of Vertebral Rotation in 3D Toma Vrtovec, Franjo Pernuš, and Boštjan Likar LNCS 5241, p. 942 ff. Full article in PDF Spatio-temporal Speckle Reduction in Ultrasound Sequences Noura Azzabou and Nikos Paragios LNCS 5241, p. 951 ff. Full article in PDF Surface-Based Structural Group Analysis of fMRI Data Grégory Operto, Cédric Clouchoux, Rémy Bulot, Jean-Luc Anton, and Olivier Coulon LNCS 5241, p. 959 ff. Full article in PDF Dynamic Cardiac Mapping on Patient-Specific Cardiac Models Kevin Wilson, Gerard Guiraudon, Doug Jones, Cristian A. Linte, Chris Wedlake, John Moore, and Terry M. Peters LNCS 5241, p. 967 ff. Full article in PDF Detection of DTI White Matter Abnormalities in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Olivier Commowick, Pierre Fillard, Olivier Clatz, and Simon K. Warfield LNCS 5241, p. 975 ff. Full article in PDF Automatic Mitral Valve Inflow Measurements from Doppler Echocardiography JinHyeong Park, S. Kevin Zhou, John Jackson, and Dorin Comaniciu LNCS 5241, p. 983 ff. Full article in PDF Motion Robust Magnetic Susceptibility and Field Inhomogeneity Estimation Using Regularized Image Restoration Techniques for fMRI Desmond Teck Beng Yeo, Jeffrey A. Fessler, and Boklye Kim LNCS 5241, p. 991 ff. Full article in PDF Cortical Surface Thickness as a Classifier: Boosting for Autism Classification Vikas Singh, Lopamudra Mukherjee, and Moo K. Chung LNCS 5241, p. 999 ff. Full article in PDF Surface-Based Vector Analysis Using Heat Equation Interpolation: A New Approach to Quantify Local Hippocampal Volume Changes Hosung Kim, Pierre Besson, Olivier Colliot, Andrea Bernasconi, and Neda Bernasconi LNCS 5241, p. 1008 ff. Full article in PDF Discovering Structure in the Space of Activation Profiles in fMRI Danial Lashkari, Ed Vul, Nancy Kanwisher, and Polina Golland LNCS 5241, p. 1016 ff. Full article in PDF Left Ventricle Tracking Using Overlap Priors Ismail Ben Ayed, Yingli Lu, Shuo Li, and Ian Ross LNCS 5241, p. 1025 ff. Full article in PDF Mean q-Ball Strings Obtained by Constrained Procrustes Analysis with Point Sliding Irina Kezele, Cyril Poupon, Muriel Perrin, Yann Cointepas, Vincent El Kouby, Fabrice Poupon, and Jean-François Mangin LNCS 5241, p. 1034 ff. Full article in PDF Noninvasive Functional Imaging of Volumetric Cardiac Electrical Activity: A Human Study on Myocardial Infarction Linwei Wang, Ken C.L. Wong, Heye Zhang, and Pengcheng Shi LNCS 5241, p. 1042 ff. Full article in PDF A Slicing-Based Coherence Measure for Clusters of DTI Integral Curves Çaatay Demiralp, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Song Zhang, and David H. Laidlaw LNCS 5241, p. 1051 ff. Full article in PDF Brain Fiber Architecture, Genetics, and Intelligence: A High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) Study Ming-Chang Chiang, Marina Barysheva, Agatha D. Lee, Sarah Madsen, Andrea D. Klunder, Arthur W. Toga, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Matthew Meredith, Margaret J. Wright, Anuj Srivastava, Nikolay Balov, and Paul M. Thompson LNCS 5241, p. 1060 ff. Full article in PDF Group Statistics of DTI Fiber Bundles Using Spatial Functions of Tensor Measures Casey B. Goodlett, P. Thomas Fletcher, John H. Gilmore, and Guido Gerig LNCS 5241, p. 1068 ff. 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