Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality : Third International Workshop, Shanghai, China, August 17-18, 2006 : proceedings

Invited Contributions.- Statistics of Pose and Shape in Multi-object Complexes Using Principal Geodesic Analysis.- Geodesic Image Normalization and Temporal Parameterization in the Space of Diffeomorphisms.- Connectivity Analysis of Human Functional MRI Data: From Linear to Nonlinear and Static to Dynamic.- Lessons from Brain Mapping in Surgery for Low-Grade Gliomas: Study of Cerebral Connectivity and Plasticity.- Shape Modeling and Morphometry.- Multi-scale Voxel-Based Morphometry Via Weighted Spherical Harmonic Representation.- An Embedding Framework for Myocardial Velocity Processing with MRI.- A Multiscale Morphological Approach to Topology Correction of Cortical Surfaces.- Finding Deformable Shapes by Point Set Matching Through Nonparametric Belief Propagation.- Robust and Accurate Reconstruction of Patient-Specific 3D Surface Models from Sparse Point Sets: A Sequential Three-Stage Trimmed Optimization Approach.- Generalized n-D C k B-Spline Scattered Data Approximation with Confidence Values.- Improved Shape Modeling of Tubular Objects Using Cylindrical Parameterization.- Patient Specific Modeling and Qualification.- Role of 3T High Field BOLD fMRI in Brain Cortical Mapping for Glioma Involving Eloquent Areas.- Noninvasive Temperature Monitoring in a Wide Range Based on Textures of Ultrasound Images.- A Novel Liver Perfusion Analysis Based on Active Contours and Chamfer Matching.- Cerebral Vascular Tree Matching of 3D-RA Data Based on Tree Edit Distance.- Application of SVD-Based Metabolite Quantification Methods in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging.- An Inverse Recovery of Cardiac Electrical Propagation from Image Sequences.- Surgical Simulation and Skills Assessment.- Optical Mapping of the Frontal Cortex During a Surgical Knot-Tying Task, a Feasibility Study.- Tracking of Instruments in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Surgical Skill Analysis.- The Effect of Depth Perception on Visual-Motor Compensation in Minimal Invasive Surgery.- Efficient and Accurate Collision Detection Based on Surgery Simulation.- Medical Simulation with Haptic and Graphic Feedback.- Surgical Guidance and Navigation.- Towards a Hybrid Navigation Interface: Comparison of a Slice Based Navigation System with In-Situ Visualization.- Surgical Navigation of Integral Videography Image Overlay for Open MRI-Guided Glioma Surgery.- Automatic Pose Recovery of the Distal Locking Holes from Single Calibrated Fluoroscopic Image for Computer-Assisted Intramedullary Nailing of Femoral Shaft Fractures.- A Framework for Image-Guided Breast Surgery.- 3D US Imaging System for the Guidance of Uterine Adenoma and Uterine Bleeding RF Ablation.- Image Registration.- A General Learning Framework for Non-rigid Image Registration.- Learning-Based 2D/3D Rigid Registration Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence for Image-Guided Surgery.- Sparse Appearance Model Based Registration of 3D Ultrasound Images.- A Neighborhood Incorporated Method in Image Registration.- Robust Click-Point Linking for Longitudinal Follow-Up Studies.- 3D Gabor Wavelets for Evaluating Medical Image Registration Algorithms.- A Novel 3D Correspondence-Less Method for MRI and Paxinos-Watson Atlas of Rat Brain Registration.- Multi-modality Image Registration Using Gradient Vector Flow Intensity.- Multi-stage Registration for Quantification of Lung Perfusion in Chest CT Images.- PET Image Reconstruction.- List-Mode Affine Rebinning for Respiratory Motion Correction in PET Cardiac Imaging.- Simultaneous Estimation of PET Attenuation and Activity Images with Divided Difference Filters.- Convergent Bayesian Reconstruction for PET Using New MRF Quadratic Membrane-Plate Hybrid Multi-order Prior.- Image Segmentation.- Automatic Segmentation of the Aortic Dissection Membrane from 3D CTA Images.- Inferring Vascular Structures in Coronary Artery X-Ray Angiograms Based on Multi-Feature Fuzzy Recognition Algorithm.- Hierarchical 3D Shape Model for Segmentation of 4D MR Cardiac Images.- An Improved Statistical Approach for Cerebrovascular Tree Extraction.- Segmentation of 3-D MRI Brain Images Using Information Propagation.- Pulsative Flow Segmentation in MRA Image Series by AR Modeling and EM Algorithm.- Abdominal Organ Identification Based on Atlas Registration and Its Application in Fuzzy Connectedness Segmentation.- An Improved 2D Colonic Polyp Segmentation Framework Based on Gradient Vector Flow Deformable Model.- Segmentation for Medical Image Using a Statistical Initial Process and a Level Set Method.- Leukocyte Detection Using Nucleus Contour Propagation.