| Tubular Structures | |
| Automated Nomenclature Labeling of the Bronchial Tree in 3D-CT Lung Images | p. 1 |
| Segmentation, Skeletonization, and Branchpoint Matching -A Fully Automated Quantitative Evaluation of Human Intrathoracic Airway Trees | p. 12 |
| Improving Virtual Endoscopy for the Intestinal Tract | p. 20 |
| Finding a Non-continuous Tube by Fuzzy Inference for Segmenting the MR Cholangiography Image | p. 28 |
| Level-Set Based Carotid Artery Segmentation for Stenosis Grading | p. 36 |
| Interventions - Augmented Reality | |
| PC-Based Control Unit for a Head Mounted Operating Microscope for Augmented Reality Visualization in Surgical Navigation | p. 44 |
| Technical Developments for MR-Guided Microwave Thermocoagulation Therapy of Liver Tumors | p. 52 |
| Robust Automatic C-Arm Calibration for Fluoroscopy-Based Navigation: A Practical Approach | p. 60 |
| Application of a Population Based Electrophysiological Database to the Planning and Guidance of Deep Brain Stereotactic Neurosurgery | p. 69 |
| An Image Overlay System with Enhanced Reality for Percutaneous Therapy Performed Inside CT Scanner | p. 77 |
| High-Resolution Stereoscopic Surgical Display Using Parallel Integral Videography and Multi-projector | p. 85 |
| Three-Dimensional Display for Multi-sourced Activities and Their Relations in the Human Brain by Information Flow between Estimated Dipoles | p. 93 |
| Interventions - Navigation | |
| 2D Guide Wire Tracking during Endovascular Interventions | p. 101 |
| Specification Method of Surface Measurement for Surgical Navigation: Ridgeline Based Organ Registration | p. 109 |
| An Augmented Reality Navigation System with a Single-Camera Tracker: System Design and Needle Biopsy Phantom Trial | p. 116 |
| A Novel Laser Guidance System for Alignment of Linear Surgical Tools: Its Principles and Performance Evaluation as a Man-Machine System | p. 125 |
| Navigation of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Applicator with an Integrated Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging System | p. 133 |
| Robust Registration of Multi-modal Images: Towards Real-Time Clinical Applications | p. 140 |
| 3D Ultrasound System Using a Magneto-optic Hybrid Tracker for Augmented Reality Visualization in Laparoscopic Liver Surgery | p. 148 |
| Interactive Intra-operative 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction and Visualization | p. 156 |
| Projection Profile Matching for Intraoperative MRI Registration Embedded in MR Imaging Sequence | p. 164 |
| Simulation | |
| A New Tool for Surgical Training in Knee Arthroscopy | p. 170 |
| Combining Volumetric Soft Tissue Cuts for Interventional Surgery Simulation | p. 178 |
| Virtual Endoscopy Using Cubic QuickTime-VR Panorama Views | p. 186 |
| High Level Simulation & Modeling for Medical Applications - Ultrasound Case | p. 193 |
| Generation of Pathologies for Surgical Training Simulators | p. 202 |
| Collision Detection Algorithm for Deformable Objects Using OpenGL | p. 211 |
| Online Multiresolution Volumetric Mass Spring Model for Real Time Soft Tissue Deformation | p. 219 |
| Orthosis Design System for Malformed Ears Based on Spline Approximation | p. 227 |
| Cutting Simulation of Manifold Volumetric Meshes | p. 235 |
| Simulation of Guide Wire Propagation for Minimally Invasive Vascular Interventions | p. 245 |
| Needle Insertion Modelling for the Interactive Simulation of Percutaneous Procedures | p. 253 |
| 3D Analysis of the Alignment of the Lower Extremity in High Tibial Osteotomy | p. 261 |
| Simulation of Intra-operative 3D Coronary Angiography for Enhanced Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Intervention | p. 268 |
| Computer Investigation into the Anatomical Location of the Axes of Rotation in the Normal Knee | p. 276 |
| Modeling | |
| Macroscopic Modeling of Vascular Systems | p. 284 |
| Spatio-temporal Directional Filtering for Improved Inversion of MR Elastography Images | p. 293 |
| RBF-Based Representation of Volumetric Data: Application in Visualization and Segmentation | p. 300 |
| An Anatomical Model of the Knee Joint Obtained by Computer Dissection | p. 308 |
| Models for Planning and Simulation in Computer Assisted Orthognatic Surgery | p. 315 |
| Simulation of the Exophthalmia Reduction Using a Finite Element Model of the Orbital Soft Tissues | p. 323 |
| A Real-Time Deformable Model for Flexible Instruments Inserted into Tubular Structures | p. 331 |
| Modeling of the Human Orbit from MR Images | p. 339 |
| Accurate and High Quality Triangle Models from 3D Grey Scale Images | p. 348 |
| Intraoperative Fast 3D Shape Recovery of Abdominal Organs in Laparoscopy | p. 356 |
| Statistical Shape Modeling | |
| Integrated Approach for Matching Statistical Shape Models with Intra-operative 2D and 3D Data | p. 364 |
| Building and Testing a Statistical Shape Model of the Human Ear Canal | p. 373 |
| Shape Characterization of the Corpus Callosum in Schizophrenia Using Template Deformation | p. 381 |
| 3D Prostate Surface Detection from Ultrasound Images Based on Level Set Method | p. 389 |
| A Bayesian Approach to in vivo Kidney Ultrasound Contour Detection Using Markov Random Fields | p. 397 |
| Level Set Based Integration of Segmentation and Computational Fluid Dynamics for Flow Correction in Phase Contrast Angiography | p. 405 |
| Comparative Exudate Classification Using Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks | p. 413 |
| A Statistical Shape Model for the Liver | p. 421 |
| Statistical 2D and 3D Shape Analysis Using Non-Euclidean Metrics | p. 428 |
| Kernel Fisher for Shape Based Classification in Epilepsy | p. 436 |
| A Noise Robust Statistical Texture Model | p. 444 |
| A Combined Statistical and Biomechanical Model for Estimation of Intra-operative Prostate Deformation | p. 452 |
| Registration - 2D/D Fusion | |
| "Gold Standard" 2D/3D Registration of X-Ray to CT and MR Images | p. 461 |
| A Novel Image Similarity Measure for Registration of 3-D MR Images X-Ray Projection Images | p. 469 |
| Registration of Preoperative CTA and Intraoperative Fluoroscopic Images for Assisting Aortic Stent Grafting | p. 477 |
| Preoperative Analysis of Optimal Imaging Orientation in Fluoroscopy for Voxel-Based 2-D/3-D Registration | p. 485 |
| Registration - Similarity Measures | |
| A New Similarity Measure for Nonrigid Volume Registration Using Known Joint Distribution of Target Tissue: Application to Dynamic CT Data of the Liver | p. 493 |
| 2D-3D Intensity Based Registration of DSA and MRA - A Comparison of Similarity Measures | p. 501 |
| Model Based Spatial and Temporal Similarity Measures between Series of Functional Magnetic Resonance Images | p. 509 |
| A Comparison of 2D-3D Intensity-Based Registration and Feature-Based Registration for Neurointerventions | p. 517 |
| Multi-modal Image Registration by Minimising Kullback-Leibler Distance | p. 525 |
| Cortical Surface Registration Using Texture Mapped Point Clouds and Mutual Information | p. 533 |
| Non-rigid Registration | |
| A Viscous Fluid Model for Multimodal Non-rigid Image Registration Using Mutual Information | p. 541 |
| Non-rigid Registration with Use of Hardware-Based 3D Bézier Functions | p. 549 |
| Brownian Warps: A Least Committed Prior for Non-rigid Registration | p. 557 |
| Using Points and Surfaces to Improve Voxel-Based Non-rigid Registration | p. 565 |
| Intra-patient Prone to Supine Colon Registration for Synchronized Virtual Colonoscopy | p. 573 |
| Nonrigid Registration Using Regularized Matching Weighted by Local Structure | p. 581 |
| Inter-subject Registration of Functional and Anatomical Data Using SPM | p. 590 |
| Visualization | |
| Evaluation of Image Quality in Medical Volume Visualization: The State of the Art | p. 598 |
| Shear-Warp Volume Rendering Algorithms Using Linear Level Octree for PC-Based Medical Simulation | p. 606 |
| Line Integral Convolution for Visualization of Fiber Tract Maps from DTI | p. 615 |
| On the Accuracy of Isosurfaces in Tomographic Volume Visualization | p. 623 |
| A Method for Detecting Undisplayed Regions in Virtual Colonoscopy Its Application to Quantitative Evaluation of Fly-Through Methods | p. 631 |
| Novel Imaging Techniques | |
| 3D Respiratory Motion Compensation by Template Propagation | p. 639 |
| An Efficient Observer Model for Assessing Signal Detection Performance of Lossy-Compressed Images | p. 647 |
| Statistical Modeling of Pairs of Sulci in the Context of Neuroimaging Probabilistic Atlas | p. 655 |
| Two-Stage Alignment of fMRI Time Series Using the Experiment Profile to Discard Activation-Related Bias | p. 663 |
| Real-Time DRR Generation Using Cylindrical Harmonics | p. 671 |
| Strengthening the Potential of Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) by a Combination of High-Resolution Data Acquisition and Omni-directional Stereoscopic Viewing | p. 679 |
| Author Index | p. 687 |
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