Biomedical Image Registration: Second International Workshop, WBIR 2003, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 23-24, 2003, Revised Papers

Regularization.- New Vector Field Regularization Techniques for Nonrigid Image Registration.- Free-Form Registration Using Mutual Information and Curvature Regularization.- Formulation and Evaluation of Variational Curve Matching with Prior Constraints.- Novel.- Normalized Mutual Information Based PET-MR Registration Using K-Means Clustering and Shading Correction.- Computational Anatomy and Implicit Object Representation: A Level Set Approach.- Constructing Data-Driven Optimal Representations for Iterative Pairwise Non-rigid Registration.- Brain.- Non-rigid Registration of Serial Intra-operative Images for Automatic Brain Shift Estimation.- Inverse Consistent Image Registration of MR Brain Scans: Handedness in Normal Adult Males.- Simultaneous Population Based Image Alignment for Template Free Spatial Normalisation of Brain Anatomy.- Piecewise Affine.- Piecewise Affine Registration of Biological Images.- Elastic Registration with Partial Data.- Information Theoretic.- Point Similarity Measure Based on Mutual Information.- An Information Theoretic Approach for Non-rigid Image Registration Using Voxel Class Probabilities.- Spatial Information in Entropy-Based Image Registration.- Interventional.- Computerized Atlas-Guided Positioning of Deep Brain Stimulators: A Feasibility Study.- Evaluation of Intensity-Based 2D-3D Spine Image Registration Using Clinical Gold-Standard Data.- Correction of C-Arm Projection Matrices by 3D-2D Rigid Registration of CT-Images Using Mutual Information.- Applications.- Image Registration for Distortion Correction in Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- Rigid Registration of Echoplanar and Conventional Magnetic Resonance Images by Minimizing the Kullback-Leibler Distance.- Non-rigid Spatio-Temporal Alignment of 4D Cardiac MR Images.- Invited Papers.- Digital Anatomy Atlas and Its Registration to MRI, fMRI, PET: The Past Presents a Future.- 2D-3D Registration for Interventional Procedures: A Clinical Perspective.- Posters.- A Comprehensive Approach for Multi-channel Image Registration.- Free Form Deformations Guided by Gradient Vector Flow: A Surface Registration Method in Thoracic and Abdominal PET-CT Applications.- High-Dimensional Multi-modal Image Registration.- A New Technique for Multi-modal 3D Image Registration.- Multimodal Registration Using Patch Algorithm.- FLIRT: A Flexible Image Registration Toolbox.- Narrow Band to Image Registration in the Insight Toolkit.- Non-rigid Registration of Mammograms Obtained with Variable Breast Compression: A Phantom Study.- An Alternating-Constraints Algorithm for Volume-Preserving Non-rigid Registration of Contrast-Enhanced MR Breast Images.- Efficient 3D-3D Vascular Registration Based on Multiple Orthogonal 2D Projections.- Semi-automatic Image Registration of MRI to CT Data of the Prostate Using Gold Markers as Fiducials.- Image Registration for Interventional MRI Guided Procedures: Interpolation Methods, Similarity Measurements, and Applications to the Prostate.- A Protocol for Optimization-Independent Similarity Measure Evaluation.- Medial Node Correspondences towards Automated Registration.- Mouse Brain Spatial Normalization: The Challenge of Sparse Data.- Towards Physically-Sound Registration Using Object-Specific Properties for Regularization.- Characterizing Shape Differences between Phantom Image Populations via Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Inverse Consistent Transformations.- A Gradient-Informed Robust Motion Correction Method for FMRI.- Clinical Applications from Head to Toe Using a Semiautomatic 3D Inter/Intramodality Fusion Technique.- A Parallel Implementation of Non-rigid Registration Using a Volumetric Biomechanical Model.