Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality: Second International Workshop, MIAR 2004, Beijing, China, August 19-20, 2004. Proceedings

Stephen J. Riederer (auth.), Guang-Zhong Yang, Tian-Zi Jiang (eds.)3540228772, 9783540228776, 9783540286264

Rapid technical advances in medical imaging, including its growing application to drug/gene therapy and invasive/interventional procedures, have attracted significant interest in close integration of research in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and engineering. This is motivated by the clinical and basic science research requi- ment of obtaining more detailed physiological and pathological information about the body for establishing localized genesis and progression of diseases. Current research is also motivated by the fact that medical imaging is increasingly moving from a primarily diagnostic modality towards a therapeutic and interventional aid, driven by recent advances in minimal-access and robotic-assisted surgery. It was our great pleasure to welcome the attendees to MIAR 2004, the 2nd Int- national Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, held at the Xia- shan (Fragrant Hills) Hotel, Beijing, during August 19–20, 2004. The goal of MIAR 2004 was to bring together researchers in computer vision, graphics, robotics, and medical imaging to present the state-of-the-art developments in this ever-growing research area. The meeting consisted of a single track of oral/poster presentations, with each session led by an invited lecture from our distinguished international f- ulty members. For MIAR 2004, we received 93 full submissions, which were sub- quently reviewed by up to 5 reviewers, resulting in the acceptance of the 41 full – pers included in this volume.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
New Advances in MRI….Pages 1-9
Segmentation of Focal Brain Lesions….Pages 10-18
Imaging Support of Minimally Invasive Procedures….Pages 19-26
Hands-On Robotic Surgery: Is This the Future?….Pages 27-37
An Adaptive Enhancement Method for Ultrasound Images….Pages 38-45
State Space Strategies for Estimation of Activity Map in PET Imaging….Pages 46-53
Applying ICA Mixture Analysis for Segmenting Liver from Multi-phase Abdominal CT Images….Pages 54-61
Extracting Pathologic Patterns from NIR Breast Images with Digital Image Processing Techniques….Pages 62-69
Comparison of Phase-Encoded and Sensitivity-Encoded Spectroscopic Imaging….Pages 70-77
Detection and Restoration of a Tampered Medical Image….Pages 78-85
Efficient Lossy to Lossless Medical Image Compression Using Integer Wavelet Transform and Multiple Subband Decomposition….Pages 86-93
Geodesic Active Regions Using Non-parametric Statistical Regional Description and Their Application to Aneurysm Segmentation from CTA….Pages 94-102
An Efficient Method for Deformable Segmentation of 3D US Prostate Images….Pages 103-112
White Matter Lesion Segmentation from Volumetric MR Images….Pages 113-120
Active Shape Model Segmentation Using Local Edge Structures and AdaBoost….Pages 121-128
Segmental Active Contour Model Integrating Region Information for Medical Image Segmentation….Pages 129-136
A Level Set Algorithm for Contour Tracking in Medical Images….Pages 137-144
Robust Object Segmentation with Constrained Curve Embedding Potential Field….Pages 145-153
Tracking Lumbar Vertebrae in Digital Videofluoroscopic Video Automatically….Pages 154-162
A New Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Gibbs Random Fields for Image Segmentation….Pages 163-170
Improved Fiber Tracking for Diffusion Tensor MRI….Pages 171-178
Rapid and Automatic Extraction of the Modified Talairach Cortical Landmarks from MR Neuroimages….Pages 179-187
Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy Clustering with Spatial Constraints Based on Markov Random Field Theory….Pages 188-195
Anatomy Dependent Multi-context Fuzzy Clustering for Separation of Brain Tissues in MR Images….Pages 196-203
Visual Search in Alzheimer’s Disease — fMRI Study….Pages 204-212
Spatio-temporal Identification of Hemodynamics in fMRI: A Data-Driven Approach….Pages 213-220
Left Ventricular Motion Estimation Under Stochastic Uncertainties….Pages 221-228
Combined CFD/MRI Analysis of Left Ventricular Flow….Pages 229-236
Dynamic Heart Modeling Based on a Hybrid 3D Segmentation Approach….Pages 237-244
Tag Stripes Tracking from Cardiac MRI by Bayesian Theory….Pages 245-252
Determination of the Intracranial Volume: A Registration Approach….Pages 253-260
Shape and Pixel-Property Based Automatic Affine Registration Between Ultrasound Images of Different Fetal Head….Pages 261-269
Multimodal Brain Image Registration Based on Wavelet Transform Using SAD and MI….Pages 270-277
Reducing Activation-Related Bias in FMRI Registration….Pages 278-285
A Robust Algorithm for Nerve Slice Contours Correspondence….Pages 286-293
Assessing Spline-Based Multi-resolution 2D-3D Image Registration for Practical Use in Surgical Guidance….Pages 294-301
An Augmented Reality & Virtuality Interface for a Puncture Guidance System: Design and Validation on an Abdominal Phantom….Pages 302-310
Gaze Contingent Depth Recovery and Motion Stabilisation for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery….Pages 311-319
Freehand Cocalibration of Optical and Electromagnetic Trackers for Navigated Bronchoscopy….Pages 320-328
3D Automatic Fiducial Marker Localization Approach for Frameless Stereotactic Neuro-surgery Navigation….Pages 329-336
Contact Modelling Based on Displacement Field Redistribution for Surgical Simulation….Pages 337-345
Real-Time Photo-Realistic Rendering for Surgical Simulations with Graphics Hardware….Pages 346-352
Computer-Assisted Evaluation of Double-Bundle ACL Reconstruction….Pages 353-360
Integral Videography Overlay Navigation System Using Mutual Information-Based Registration….Pages 361-368
Clinical Experience and Perception in Stereo Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation….Pages 369-376
Back Matter….Pages –