| Objective Assessment of Image Quality | |
| On the Difficulty of Detecting Tumors in Mammograms | p. 1 |
| Objective Comparison of Quantitative Imaging Modalities Without the Use of a Gold Standard | p. 12 |
| Theory for Estimating Human-Observer Templates in Two-Alternative Forced-Choice Experiments | p. 24 |
| Shape Modeling | |
| The Active Elastic Model | p. 36 |
| A Minimum Description Length Approach to Statistical Shape Modelling | p. 50 |
| Multi-scale 3-D Deformable Model Segmentation Based on Medial Description | p. 64 |
| Automatic 3D ASM Construction via Atlas-Based Landmarking and Volumetric Elastic Registration | p. 78 |
| Molecular and Diffusion Tensor Imaging | |
| A Regularization Scheme for Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images | p. 92 |
| Distributed Anatomical Brain Connectivity Derived from Diffusion Tensor Imaging | p. 106 |
| Study of Connectivity in the Brain Using the Full Diffusion Tensor from MRI | p. 121 |
| Poster Session I: Registration and Structural Analysis | |
| Incorporating Image Processing in a Clinical Decision Support System | p. 134 |
| Automated Estimation of Brain Volume in Multiple Sclerosis with BICCR | p. 141 |
| Automatic Image Registration for MR and Ultrasound Cardiac Images | p. 148 |
| Estimating Sparse Deformation Fields Using Multiscale Bayesian Priors and 3-D Ultrasound | p. 155 |
| Automatic Registration of Mammograms Based on Linear Structures | p. 162 |
| Tracking Brain Deformations in Time-Sequences of 3D US Images | p. 169 |
| Robust Multimodal Image Registration Using Local Frequency Representations | p. 176 |
| Steps Toward a Stereo-Camera-Guided Biomechanical Model for Brain Shift Compensation | p. 183 |
| Poster Session I: Functional Image Analysis | |
| Spatiotemporal Analysis of Functional Images Using the Fixed Effect Model | p. 190 |
| Spatio-temporal Covariance Model for Medical Images Sequences: Application to Functional MRI Data | p. 197 |
| Microvascular Dynamics in the Nailfolds of Scleroderma Patients Studied Using Na-fluorescein Dye | p. 204 |
| Time Curve Analysis Techniques for Dynamic Contrast MRI Studies | p. 211 |
| Detecting Functionally Coherent Networks in fMRI Data of the Human Brain Using Replicator Dynamics | p. 218 |
| Smoothness Prior Information in Principal Component Analysis of Dynamic Image Data | p. 225 |
| Estimation of Baseline Drifts in fMRI | p. 232 |
| Analyzing the Neocortical Fine-Structure | p. 239 |
| fMRI/EEG/MEG | |
| Motion Correction Algorithms of the Brain Mapping Community Create Spurious Functional Activations | p. 246 |
| Estimability of Spatio-temporal Activation in fMRI | p. 259 |
| A New Approach to the MEG/EEG Inverse Problem for the Recovery of Cortical Phase-Synchrony | p. 272 |
| Neural Field Dynamics on the Folded Three-Dimensional Cortical Sheet and Its Forward EEG and MEG | p. 286 |
| Deformable Registration | |
| A Unified Feature Registration Method for Brain Mapping | p. 300 |
| Cooperation between Local and Global Approaches to Register Brain Images | p. 315 |
| Landmark and Intensity-Based, Consistent Thin-Plate Spline Image Registration | p. 329 |
| Validation of Non-rigid Registration Using Finite Element Methods | p. 344 |
| Poster Session II Shape Analysis | |
| A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing the Euclidean Distance Transform in Arbitrary Dimensions | p. 358 |
| An Elliptic Operator for Constructing Conformal Metrics in Geometric Deformable Models | p. 365 |
| Using a Linear Diagnostic Function and Non-rigid Registration to Search for Morphological Differences Between Populations: An Example Involving the Male and Female Corpus Callosum | p. 372 |
| Shape Constrained Deformable Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation | p. 380 |
| Stenosis Detection Using a New Shape Space for Second Order 3D-Variations | p. 388 |
| Graph-Based Topology Correction for Brain Cortex Segmentation | p. 395 |
| Intuitive, Localized Analysis of Shape Variability | p. 402 |
| A Sequential 3D Thinning Algorithm and Its Medical Applications | p. 409 |
| Functional Image Analysis | |
| An Adaptive Level Set Method for Medical Image Segmentation | p. 416 |
| Partial Volume Segmentation of Cerebral MRI Scans with Mixture Model Clustering | p. 423 |
| Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing and Segmentation of 4-D Medical Images via Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis | p. 431 |
| Spatio-temporal Segmentation of Active Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Serial MRI Data | p. 438 |
| Time-Continuous Segmentation of Cardiac Image Sequences Using Active Appearance Motion Models | p. 446 |
| Feature Enhancement in Low Quality Images with Application to Echocardiography | p. 453 |
| 3D Vascular Segmentation Using MRA Statistics and Velocity Field Information in PC-MRA | p. 461 |
| Markov Random Field Models for Segmentation of PET Images | p. 468 |
| Analysis of Brain Structure | |
| Statistical Study on Cortical Sulci of Human Brains | p. 475 |
| Detecting Disease-Specific Patterns of Brain Structure Using Cortical Pattern Matching and a Population-Based Probabilistic Brain Atlas | p. 488 |
| Medial Models Incorporating Object Variability for 3D Shape Analysis | p. 02 |
| Deformation Analysis for Shape Based Classification | p. 517 |
| Subject Index | p. 531 |
| Author Index | p. 535 |
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