Guang-Zhong Yang David Hawkes

Daniel Rueckert Alison Noble

Chris Taylor (Eds.)

Medical

Image Computingand Computer-AssistedIntervention -MICCAI2009

12th International Conference

London, UK, September 20-24, 2009

Proceedings, Part II

4l1 Springer

Table of Contents — Part II

Shape Modelling and Analysis

Building Shape Models from Lousy Data 1

Marcel Liithi, Thomas Albrecht, and Thomas Vetter

Statistical Location Model for Abdominal Organ Localization 9

Jianhua Yao and Ronald M. Summers

Volumetric Shape Model for Oriented Tubular Structure from DTI

Data 18

Hon Pong Ho, Xenophon Papademetris, Fei Wang,

Hilary P. Blumberg, and Lawrence H. Staib

A Generic Probabilistic Active Shape Model for Organ Segmentation ...26

Andreas Wimmer, Grzegorz Soza, and Joachim Hornegger

Organ Segmentation with Level Sets Using Local Shape and

Appearance Priors 34

Timo Kohlberger, M. Gdkhan Uzunbas, Christopher Alvino,

Timor Kadir, Daniel 0. Slosrnan, and Gareth Funka-Lea

Liver Segmentation Using Automatically Defined Patient Specific

B-Spline Surface Models 43

Yi Song, Andy J. Bulpitt, and Ken W. Brodlie

Airway Tree Extraction with Locally Optimal Paths 51

Pechin Lo, Jon Sporring, Jesper Johannes Hoist Pedersen, and

Marleen de Bruijne

A Deformable Surface Model for Vascular Segmentation 59

Max W.K. Law and Albert C.S. Chung

A Deformation Tracking Approach to 4D Coronary Artery Tree

Reconstruction 68

Yanghai Tsin, Klaus J. Kirchberg, Guenter Lauritsch, and

Chenyang Xu

Automatic Extraction of Mandibular Nerve and Bone from Cone-Beam

CTData 76

Dagmar Kainmueller, Hans Lamecker, Heiko Seim,

Max Zinser, and Stefan Zachow

Conditional Variability of Statistical Shape Models Based on SurrogateVariables 84

Remi Blanc, Mauricio Reyes, Christof Seiler, and Gdbor Szekely

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Surface/Volume-Based Articulated 3D Spine Inference through Markov

Random Fields 92

Samuel Kadoury and Nikos Paragios

A Shape Relationship Descriptor for Radiation Therapy Planning 100

Michael Kazhdan, Patricio Sim,ari, Todd McNutt, Binbin Wu,

Robert Jacques, Ming Chuang, and Russell Taylor

Feature-Based Morphometry 109

Matthew Toews, William M. Wells III, D. Louis Collins, and

Tal Arbel

Constructing a Dictionary of Human Brain Folding Patterns 117

Zhong Yi Sun, Matthieu Perrot, Alan Tucholka, Denis Riviere, and

Jean-Francois Mangin

Topological Correction of Brain Surface Meshes Using SphericalHarmonics 125

Rachel Aine Yotter, Robert Dahnke, and Christian Gaser

Teichmuller Shape Space Theory and Its Application to Brain

Morphometry 133

Yalin Wang. Wei Dai, Xianfeng Gu, Tony F. Chan, Shing-Tung Yau,Arthur W. Toga, and Paul M. Thompson

A Tract-Specific Framework for White Matter Morphometry CombiningMacroscopic and Microscopic Tract Features 141

Hui Zhang, Suyash P. Awate, Sandhitsu R. Das, John H. Woo,Elias R. Melhem, James C. Gee, and Paul A. Yushkevich

Shape Modelling for Tract Selection 150

Jonathan D. Clayden, Martin D. King, and Chris A. Clark

Topological Characterization of Signal in Brain Images Using Min-Max

Diagrams 158

Moo K. Chung, Vikas Singh, Peter T. Kim,. Kim M. Dalton, and

Richard J. Davidson

Particle Based Shape Regression of Open Surfaces with Applications to

Developmental Neuroimaging 167

Manasi Datar, Joshua Cates, P. Thomas Fletcher, Sylvain Gouttard,

Guido Gerig, and Ross Whitaker

Setting Priors and Enforcing Constraints on Matches for Nonlinear

Registration of Meshes 175

Benoit Combes and Sylvain Prima

Parametric Representation of Cortical Surface Folding Based on

Polynomials 184

Tuo Zhang, Lei Guo, Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, and Tianming Liu

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Intrinsic Regression Models for Manifold-Valued Data 192

Xiaoyan Shi, Martin Styner, Jeffrey Lieberman, Joseph G. Ibrahim,Weili Lin, and Hongtu Zhu

Gender Differences in Cerebral Cortical Folding: Multivariate

Complexity-Shape Analysis with Insights into Handling Brain-Volume

Differences 200

Suyash P. Awate, Paul Yushkevich, Daniel Licht, and James C. Gee

Cortical Shape Analysis in the Laplace-Beltrami Feature Space 208

Yonggang Shi, Ivo Dinov, and Arthur W. Toga

Shape Analysis of Human Brain Interhemispheric Fissure Bending in

MRI 216

Lu Zhao, Jarmo Hietala, and Jussi Tohka

Subject-Matched Templates for Spatial Normalization 224

Torsten Rohlfing, Edith V. Sullivan, and Adolf Pfefferbaum

Mapping Growth Patterns and Genetic Influences on Early Brain

Development in Twins 232

Yasheng Chen, Hongtu Zhu, Dinggang Shen, Hongyu An,John Gilmore, and Weili Lin

Tensor-Based Morphometry with Mappings Parameterized by

Stationary Velocity Fields in Alzheimer's Disease NeuroimagingInitiative 240

Matias Nicolas Bossa, Ernesto Zacur, and Salvador Olmos

Motion Analysis, Physical Based Modelling and

Image Reconstruction

High-Quality Model Generation for Finite Element Simulation of

Tissue Deformation 248

Orcun Goksel and Septimiu E. Salcudean

Biomechanically-Constrained 4D Estimation of Myocardial Motion 257

Hari Sundar, Christos Davatzikos, and George Biros

Predictive Simulation of Bidirectional Glenn Shunt Using a HybridBlood Vessel Model 266

Hao Li, Wee Kheng Leow, and Ing-Sh Chiu

Surgical Planning and Patient-Specific Biomechanical Simulation for

Tracheal Endoprostheses Interventions 275

Miguel A. Gonzalez Ballester, Amaya Perez del Palomar,Jose Luis Lopez Villalobos, Laura Lara Rodriguez, Olfa Trabelsi,

Frederic Perez, Angel Ginel Canamaque, Emilia Barrot Cortes,Francisco Rodriguez Panadero, Manuel Doblare Castellano, and

Javier Herrero Jover

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Mesh Generation from 3D Multi-material Images 283

Dobrina Boltcheva, Mariette Yvinec, and Jean-Daniel Boissonnat

Interactive Simulation of Flexible Needle Insertions Based on Constraint

Models 291

Christian Duriez, Christophe Guebert, Maud Marchal,

Stephane Cotin, and Laurent Grisoni

Real-Time Prediction of Brain Shift Using Nonlinear Finite Element

Algorithms 300

Grand Roman Joldes, Adam Wittek, Mathieu Couton,Simon K. Warfield, and Karol Miller

Model-Based Estimation of Ventricular Deformation in the Cat

Brain 308

Fenghong Liu, S. Scott Lollis, Songbai Ji, Keith D. Paulsen,

Alexander Hartov, and David W. Roberts

Contact Studies between Total Knee Replacement Components

Developed Using Explicit Finite Elements Analysis 316

Lucian Gheorghe Gruionu, Gabriel Gruionu, Stefan Pastrama,Nicolae Iliescu, and Taina Avramescu

A Hybrid ID and 3D Approach to Hemodynamics Modelling for a

Patient-Specific Cerebral Vasculature and Aneurysm 323

Harvey Ho, Gregory Sands, Holger Schmid, Kumar Mithraratne,

Gordon Mallinson, and Peter Hunter

Incompressible Cardiac Motion Estimation of the Left Ventricle Using

Tagged MR Images 331

Xiaofeng Liu, Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem, and Jerry L. Prince

Vibro-Elastography for Visualization of the Prostate Region: Method

Evaluation 339

Seyedeh Sara Mahdavi, Mehdi Moradi, Xu Wen,William J. Morris, and Septimiu E. Salcudean

Modeling Respiratory Motion for Cancer Radiation Therapy Based on

Patient-Specific 4DCT Data 348

Jaesung Eom, Chengyu Shi, Xie George Xu, and Suvranu De

Correlating Chest Surface Motion to Motion of the Liver Using£-SVR - A Porcine Study 356

Floris Ernst, Volker Martens, Stefan Schlichting, Armin Besirevic,

Markus Kleemann, Christoph Koch, Dirk Petersen, and

Achim Schweikard

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Respiratory Motion Estimation from Cone-Beam Projections Using a

Prior Model 365

Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Jan Kybic, Patrick Clarysse, and

David Sarrut

Heart Motion Abnormality Detection via an Information Measure and

Bayesian Filtering 373

Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Shuo Li, Ismail Ben Ayed, Ian Ross,Ali Islam, and Jaron Chong

Automatic Image-Based Cardiac and Respiratory Cycle Synchronizationand Gating of Image Sequences 381

Hari Sundar, Ali Khamene, Liron Yatziv, and Chenyang Xu

Dynamic Cone Beam Reconstruction Using a New Level Set

Formulation 389

Andreas Keil, Jakob Vogel, Giinter Lauritsch, and Nassir Navab

Spatio-temporal Reconstruction of dPET Data Using Complex Wavelet

Regularisation 398

Andrew McLennan and Michael Brady

Evaluation of g-Space Sampling Strategies for the Diffusion MagneticResonance Imaging 406

Haz-Edine Assemlal, David Tschumperle, and Luc Brun

On the Blurring of the Funk-Radon Transform in Q-Ball Imaging 415

Antonio Tristan-Vega, Santiago Aja-Fernandez, and

Carl-Fredrik Westin

Multiple Q-Shell ODF Reconstruction in Q-Ball Imaging 423

Iman Aganj, Christophe Lenglet, Guillermo Sapiro, Essa Yacoub,Kamil Ugurbil, and Noam Harel

Neuro, Cell and Multiscale Image Analysis

Lossless Online Ensemble Learning (LOEL) and Its Application to

Subcortical Segmentation 432

Jonathan H. Morra, Zhuowen Tu, Arthur W. Toga, and

Paul M. Thompson

Improved Maximum a Posteriori Cortical Segmentation by Iterative

Relaxation of Priors 441

Manuel Jorge Cardoso, Matthew J. Clarkson, Gerard R. Ridgway,Marc Modat, Nick C. Fox, and Sebastien Ourselin

Anatomically Informed Bayesian Model Selection for fMRI Group Data

Analysis 450

Merlin Keller, Marc Lavielle, Matthieu Perrot, and Alexis Roche

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A Computational Model of Cerebral Cortex Folding 458

Jingxin Nie, Gang Li, Lei Guo, and Tianming Liu

Tensor-Based Morphometry of Fibrous Structures with Application to

Human Brain White Matter 466

Hui Zhang, Paul A. Yushkevich, Daniel Rueckert, and James C. Gee

A Fuzzy Region-Based Hidden Markov Model for Partial-Volume

Classification in Brain MRI 474

Albert Huang, Rafeef Abugharbieh, and Roger Tarn

Brain Connectivity Using Geodesies in HARDI 482

Michael Pechaud, Maxime Descoteaux, and Renaud Keriven

Functional Segmentation of fMRI Data Using Adaptive Non-negativeSparse PCA (ANSPCA) 490

Bernard Ng, Rafeef Abugharbieh, and Martin J. McKeown

Genetics of Anisotropy Asymmetry: Registration and Sample Size

Effects 498

Neda Jahanshad, Agatha D. Lee, Natasha Lepore, Yi-Yu Chou,Caroline C. Brun, Marina Barysheva, Arthur W. Toga,Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Margaret J. Wright, and

Paul M. Thompson

Extending Genetic Linkage Analysis to Diffusion Tensor Images to MapSingle Gene Effects on Brain Fiber Architecture 506

Ming-Chang Chiang, Christina Avedissian, Marina Barysheva,Arthur W. Toga, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray,Margaret J. Wright, and Paul M. Thompson

Vascular Territory Image Analysis Using Vessel Encoded Arterial SpinLabeling 514

Michael A. Chappell, Thomas W. Okell, Peter Jezzard, and

Mark W. Woolrich

Predicting MGMT Methylation Status of Glioblastomas from MRI

Texture 522

Ilya Levner, Sylvia Drabycz, Gloria Roldan, Paula De Robles,J. Gregory Cairncross, and Ross Mitchell

Tumor Invasion Margin on the Riemannian Space of Brain Fibers 531

Dana Cobzas, Parisa Mosayebi, Albert Murtha, and

Martin Jagersand

A Conditional Random Field Approach for Coupling Local Registrationwith Robust Tissue and Structure Segmentation 540

Benoit Scherrer, Florence Forbes, and Michel Dojat

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Robust Atlas-Based Brain Segmentation Using Multi-structure

Confidence-Weighted Registration 549

Ali R. Khan, Moo K. Chung, and Mirza Faisal Beg

Discriminative, Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tissue in MR

Images 558

Zhao Yi, Antonio Criminisi, Jamie Shotton, and Andrew Blake

Use of Simulated Atrophy for Performance Analysis of Brain AtrophyEstimation Approaches 566

Swati Sharma, Vincent Noblet, Frangois Rousseau, Fabrice Heitz,Lucien Rumbach, and Jean-Paul Armspach

Fast and Robust 3-D MRI Brain Structure Segmentation 575

Michael Wels, Yefeng Zheng, Gustavo Carneiro, Martin Ruber,Joachim Hornegger, and Dorin Comaniciu

Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation Using an Automatic Multimodal

Graph Cuts 584

Daniel Garcia-Lorenzo, Jeremy Lecoeur, Douglas L. Arnold,D. Louis Collins, and Christian Barillot

Towards Accurate, Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus and

Amygdala from MRI 592

D. Louis Collins and Jens C. Pruessner

An Object-Based Method for Rician Noise Estimation in MR Images . . . 601

Pierrick Coupe, Jose V. Manjon, Elias Gedamu, Douglas Arnold,Montserrat Robles, and D. Louis Collins

Cell Segmentation Using Front Vector Flow Guided Active Contours. . .

609

Fuhai Li, Xiaobo Zhou, Hong Zhao, and Stephen T. C. Wong

Segmentation and Classification of Cell Cycle Phases in Fluorescence

Imaging 617

Ilker Ersoy, Filiz Bunyak, Vadim Chagin,M. Christina Cardoso, and Kannappan Palaniappan

Steerable Features for Statistical 3D Dendrite Detection 625

German Gonzalez, Frangois Aguet, Frangois Fleuret,Michael Unser, and Pascal Fua

Graph-Based Pancreatic Islet Segmentation for Early Type 2 Diabetes

Mellitus on Histopathological Tissue 633

Xenofon Floros, Thomas J. Fuchs, Markus P. Rechsteiner,

Giatgen Spinas, Holger Moch, and Joachim M. Buhmann

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Detection of Spatially Correlated Objects in 3D Images Using

Appearance Models and Coupled Active Contours 641

Kishore Mosaliganti, Arnaud Gelas, Alexandre Gouaillard,Ramil Noche, Nikolaus Obholzer, and Sean Megason

Intra-retinal Layer Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography

Using an Active Contour Approach 649

Azadeh Yazdanpanah, Ghassan Hamarneh, Benjamin Smith, and

Marinko Sarunic

Mapping Tissue Optical Attenuation to Identify Cancer Using OpticalCoherence Tomography 657

Robert A. McLaughlin, Loretta Scolaro, Peter Robbins,Christobel Saunders, Steven L. Jacques, and David D. Sampson

Analysis of MR Images of Mice in Preclinical Treatment Monitoring of

Polycystic Kidney Disease 665

Stathis Hadjidemetriou, Wilfried Reichardt, Martin Buechert,

Juergen Hennig, and Dominik von Elverfeldt

Actin Filament Tracking Based on Particle Filters and Stretching OpenActive Contour Models 673

Hongsheng Li, Tian Shen, Dimitrios Vavylonis, and Xiaolei Huang

Image Analysis and Computer Aided Diagnosis

Toward Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer 682

Ayman El-Baz, Georgy GimeVfarb, Robert Falk,Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Sabrina Rainey,David Heredia, and Teresa Shaffer

Lung Extraction, Lobe Segmentation and Hierarchical RegionAssessment for Quantitative Analysis on High Resolution Computed

Tomography Images 690

James C. Ross, Raul San Jose Estepar, Alejandro Diaz,Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ron Kikinis, Edwin K. Silverman, and

George R. Washko

Learning COPD Sensitive Filters in Pulmonary CT 699

Lauge S0rensen, Pechin Lo, Haseem Ashraf Jon Sporring,Mads Nielsen, and Marleen de Bruijne

Automated Anatomical Labeling of Bronchial Branches Extracted

from CT Datasets Based on Machine Learning and Combination

Optimization and Its Application to Bronchoscope Guidance 707

Kensaku Mori, Shunsuke Ota, Daisuke Deguchi, Takayuki Kitasaka,Yasuhito Suenaga, Shingo Iwano, Yosihnori Hasegawa,

Hirotsugu Takabatake, Masaki Mori, and Hiroshi Natori

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Multi-level Ground Glass Nodule Detection and Segmentation in CT

Lung Images 715

Yimo Tao, Le Lu, Maneesh Dewan, Albert Y. Chen, Jason Corso,

Jianhua Xuan, Marcos Salganicoff, and Arun Krishnan

Global and Local Multi-valued Dissimilarity-Based Classification:

Application to Computer-Aided Detection of Tuberculosis 724

Yulia Arzhaeva, Laurens Hogeweg, Pirn A. de Jong,Max A. Viergever, and Bram van Ginneken

Noninvasive Imaging of Electrophysiological Substrates in Post

Myocardial Infarction

Linwei Wang, Heye Zhang, Ken C.L. Wong, Huafeng Liu, and

Pengcheng Shi

Unsupervised Inline Analysis of Cardiac Perfusion MRI

Hui Xue, Sven Zuehlsdorff, Peter Kellman, Andrew Arai,Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Christophe Chefdhotel,

Christine H. Lorenz, and Jens Guehring

Pattern Recognition of Abnormal Left Ventricle Wall Motion in Cardiac

MR 750

Yingli Lu, Perry Radau, Kim Connelly, Alexander Dick, and

Graham Wright

Septal Flash Assessment on CRT Candidates Based on Statistical

Atlases of Motion 759

Nicolas Duchateau, Mathieu De Craene, Etel Silva, Marta Sitges,

Bart H. Bijnens, and Alejandro F. Frangi

Personalized Modeling and Assessment of the Aortic-Mitral Couplingfrom 4D TEE and CT 767

Razvan loan Ionasec, Ingmar Voigt, Bogdan Georgescu,

Yang Wang, Helene Houle, Joachim Hornegger, Nassir Navab, and

Dorin Comaniciu

A New 3-D Automated Computational Method to Evaluate In-Stent

Neointimal Hyperplasia in In-Vivo Intravascular Optical Coherence

Tomography Pullbacks 776

Serhan Gurmeric, Gozde Gul Isguder, Stephane Carlier, and

Gozde Unal

MKL for Robust Multi-modality AD Classification 786

Chris Hinrichs, Vikas Singh, Guofan Xu, and Sterling Johnson

A New Approach for Creating Customizable CytoarchitectonicProbabilistic Maps without a Template 795

Amir M. Tahmasebi, Purang Abolmaesumi, Xiujuan Geng,Patricia Morosan, Katrin Amunts, Gary E. Christensen, and

Ingrid S. Johnsrude

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A Computer-Aided Diagnosis System of Nuclear Cataract via

Ranking 803

Wei Huang. Huiqi Li, Kap Luk Chan, Joo Hwee Lira,

Jiang Liu, and Tien Yin Wong

Automated Segmentation of the Femur and Pelvis from 3D CT Data

of Diseased Hip Using Hierarchical Statistical Shape Model of Joint

Structure 811

Futoshi Yokota, Toshiyuki Okada, Masaki Takao, Nobuhiko Sugano,Yukio Tada, and Yoshinobu Sato

Computer-Aided Assessment of Anomalies in the Scoliotic Spine in 3-D

MRI Images 819

Florian Jager, Joachim Hornegger, Siegfried Schwab, and Rolf Janka

Optimal Graph Search Segmentation Using Arc-Weighted Graph for

Simultaneous Surface Detection of Bladder and Prostate 827

Qi Song, Xiaodong Wu, Yunlong Liu, Mark Smith,John Buatti, and Milan Sonka

Automated Calibration for Computerized Analysis of Prostate Lesions

Using Pharmacokinetic Magnetic Resonance Images 836

Pieter C. Vos, Thomas Hambrock, Telle O. Barenstz, and

Henkjan J. Huisman

Spectral Embedding Based Probabilistic Boosting Tree (ScEPTre):Classifying High Dimensional Heterogeneous Biomedical Data 844

Pallavi Tiwari, Mark Rosen, Galen Reed, John Kurhanewicz, and

Anant Madabhushi

Automatic Correction of Intensity Nonuniformity from Sparseness of

Gradient Distribution in Medical Images 852

Yuanjie Zheng, Murray Grossman, Suyash P. Awate, and

James C. Gee

Weakly Supervised Group-Wise Model Learning Based on Discrete

Optimization 860

Rene Donner, Horst Wildenauer, Horst Bischof, and Georg Langs

Image Segmentation and Analysis

ECOC Random Fields for Lumen Segmentation in Radial Artery IVUS

Sequences 869

Francesco Ciompi, Oriol Pujol, Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias,

Josepa Mauri, and Petia Radeva

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Dynamic Layer Separation for Coronary DSA and Enhancement in

Fluoroscopic Sequences 877

Ying Zhu, Simone Prummer, Peng Wang, Terrence Chen,Dorin Comaniciu, and Martin Ostermeier

An Inverse Scattering Algorithm for the Segmentation of the Luminal

Border on Intravascular Ultrasound Data 885

E. Gerardo Mendizabal-Ruiz, George Biros, and

Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Image-Driven Cardiac Left Ventricle Segmentation for the Evaluation

of Multiview Fused Real-Time 3-Dimensional EchocardiographyImages 893

Kashif Rajpoot, J. Alison Noble, Vicente Grau,

Cezary Szmigielski, and Harold Becher

Left Ventricle Segmentation via Graph Cut Distribution Matching 901

Ismail Ben Ayed, Kumaradevan Punithakumar, Shuo Li,AH Islam, and Jaron Chong

Combining Registration and Minimum Surfaces for the Segmentationof the Left Ventricle in Cardiac Cine MR Images 910

Marie-Pierre Jolly, Hui Xue, Leo Grady, and Jens Guehring

Left Ventricle Segmentation Using Diffusion Wavelets and Boosting .... 919

Salma Essafi,, Georg Langs, and Nikos Paragios

3D Cardiac Segmentation Using Temporal Correlation of Radio

Frequency Ultrasound Data 927

Maartje M. Nillesen, Richard G.P. Lopata, Henkjan J. Huisman,Johan M. Thijssen, Livia Kapusta, and Chris L. de Korte

Improved Modelling of Ultrasound Contrast Agent Diminution for

Blood Perfusion Analysis 935

Christian Kier, Karsten Meyer-Wiethe, Giinter Seidel, and

Alfred Mertins

A Novel 3D Joint Markov-Gibbs Model for Extracting Blood Vessels

from PC-MRA Images 943

Ayman El-Baz, Georgy GimeVfarb, Robert Folk,Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Vedant Kumar, and David Heredia

Atlas-Based Improved Prediction of Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity for

Distortion Correction of EPI Data 951

Clare Poynton, Mark Jenkinson, and William Wells III

3D Prostate Segmentation in Ultrasound Images Based on Tapered and

Deformed Ellipsoids 960

Seyedeh Sara Mahdavi, William J. Morris, Ingrid Spadinger,Nick Chng, Orcun Goksel, and Septimiu E. Salcudean

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An Interactive Geometric Technique for Upper and Lower Teeth

Segmentation 968

Binh Huy Le, Zhigang Deng, James Xia, Yu-Bing Chang, and

Xiaobo Zhou

Enforcing Monotonic Temporal Evolution in Dry Eye Images 976

Tamir Yedidya, Peter Carr, Richard Hartley, and

Jean-Pierre Guillon

Ultrafast Localization of the Optic Disc Using DimensionalityReduction of the Search Space 985

Ahmed Essam Mahfouz and Ahmed S. Fahmy

Using Frankenstein's Creature Paradigm to Build a Patient SpecificAtlas 993

Olivier Commowick, Simon K. Warfield, and Gregoire Malandain

Atlas-Based Automated Segmentation of Spleen and Liver Using

Adaptive Enhancement Estimation 1001

Marius George Linguraru, Jesse K. Sandberg, Zhixi Li,John A. Pura, and Ronald M. Summers

A Two-Level Approach towards Semantic Colon Segmentation:Removing Extra-Colonic Findings 1009

Le Lu, Matthias Wolf, Jianming Liang, Murat Dundar,Jinbo Bi, and Marcos Salganicoff

Segmentation of Lumbar Vertebrae Using Part-Based Graphs and

Active Appearance Models 1017

Martin G. Roberts, Tim F. Cootes, Elisa Pacheco, Teik Oh, and

Judith E. Adams

Utero-Fetal Unit and Pregnant Woman Modeling Using a Computer

Graphics Approach for Dosimetry Studies 1025

Jeremie Anquez, Tamy Boubekeur, Lazar Bibin, Elsa Angelini, and

Isabelle Bloch

Cross Modality Deformable Segmentation Using Hierarchical Clusteringand Learning 1033

Yiqiang Zhan, Maneesh Dewan, and Xiang Sean Zhou

3D Multi-branch Tubular Surface and Centerline Extraction with 4D

Iterative Key Points 1042

Hua Li, Anthony Yezzi, and Laurent Cohen

Multimodal Prior Appearance Models Based on Regional Clustering of

Intensity Profiles 1051

Frangois Chung and Herve Delingette

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3D Medical Image Segmentation by Multiple-Surface Active Volume

Models 1059

Tian Shen and Xiaolei Huang

Model Completion via Deformation Cloning Based on an ExplicitGlobal Deformation Model 1067

Qiong Han, Stephen E. Strup, Melody C. Carswell,Duncan Clarke, and Williams B. Seales

Supervised Nonparametric Image Panellation 1075

Mert R. Sabuncu, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Koen Van Leemput,Bruce Fischl, and Polina Golland

Thermal Vision for Sleep Apnea Monitoring 1084

Jin Fei, Ioannis Pavlidis, and Jayasimha Murthy

Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery through

Spatio-temporal Smoothing 1092

Yan Zhou, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, and Ioannis T. Pavlidis

Depth Data Improves Skin Lesion Segmentation 1100

Xiang Li, Ben Aldridge, Lucia Ballerini, Robert Fisher, and

Jonathan Rees

A Fully Automatic Random Walker Segmentation for Skin Lesions in a

Supervised Setting 1108

Paul Wighton, Maryam Sadeghi, Tim K. Lee, and M. Stella Atkins

Author Index 1117