This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2000, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in October 2000.The 136 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 194 submissions. The book offers topical sections on neuroimaging and neuroscience, segmentation, oncology, medical image analysis and visualization, registration, surgical planning and simulation, endoscopy and laparoscopy, cardiac image analysis, vascular image analysis, visualization, surgical navigation, medical robotics, plastic and craniofacial surgery, and orthopaedics.
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Neuroimaging and Neurosurgery.- A 3-Dimensional Database of Deep Brain Functional Anatomy, and Its Application to Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- Simulation of Corticospinal Tract Displacement in Patients with Brain Tumors.- Registration of 3D Intraoperative MR Images of the Brain Using a Finite Element Biomechanical Model.- Telesurgery System for Intravascular Neurosurgery.- Automatic Recognition of Cortical Sulci Using a Congregation of Neural Networks.- BrainSuite: An Automated Cortical Surface Identification Tool.- Incorporating Spatial Priors into an Information Theoretic Approach for fMRI Data Analysis.- Small Sample Size Learning for Shape Analysis of Anatomical Structures.- Robust Midsagittal Plane Extraction from Coarse, Pathological 3D Images.- 3-D Reconstruction of Macroscopic Optical Brain Slice Images.- Ultrasound/MRI Overlay with Image Warping for Neurosurgery.- Model-Updated Image-Guided Neurosurgery: Preliminary Analysis Using Intraoperative MR.- Automatic Landmarking of Cortical Sulci.- The Skull Stripping Problem in MRI Solved by a Single 3D Watershed Transform.- A Comparative Statistical Error Analysis of Neuronavigation Systems in a Clinical Setting.- Segmentation.- Detection and Quantification of Line and Sheet Structures in 3-D Images.- Fusing Speed and Phase Information for Vascular Segmentation in Phase Contrast MR Angiograms.- Intraoperative Segmentation and Nonrigid Registration for Image Guided Therapy.- Efficient Semiautomatic Segmentation of 3D Objects in Medical Images.- Space and Time Shape Constrained Deformable Surfaces for 4D Medical Image Segmentation.- Adaptive-Focus Statistical Shape Model for Segmentation of 3D MR Structures.- Non-linear Diffusion for Interactive Multi-scale Watershed Segmentation.- Medial-Guided Fuzzy Segmentation.- Robust 3D Segmentation of Anatomical Structures with Level Sets.- A Curve Evolution Approach to Medical Image Magnification via the Mumford-Shah Functional.- Image Segmentation Based on the Integration of Markov Random Fields and Deformable Models.- Segmentation by Adaptive Geodesic Active Contours.- Interactive Organ Segmentation Using Graph Cuts.- Oncology.- Distribution of Prostate Cancer for Optimized Biopsy Protocols.- Hybrid Classification Approach of Malignant and Benign Pulmonary Nodules Based on Topological and Histogram Features.- MRI - Mammography 2D/3D Data Fusion for Breast Pathology Assessment.- Pre- and Intra-operative Planning and Simulation of Percutaneous Tumor Ablation.- Volume and Shape Preservation of Enhancing Lesions when Applying Non-rigid Registration to a Time Series of Contrast Enhancing MR Breast Images.- Local Integration of Commercially Available Intra-operative MR-scanner and Neurosurgical Guidance for Metalloporphyrin-Guided Tumor Resection and Photodynamic Therapy.- Differential Geometry Based Vector Fields for Characterizing Surrounding Structures of Pulmonary Nodules.- Medical Image Analysis and Visualization.- Non-distorting Flattening for Virtual Colonoscopy.- HeartPerfect: Data Mining in a Large Database of Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy.- Retrospective Correction of MR Intensity Inhomogeneity by Information Minimization.- Comparison of Three High-End Endoscopic Visualization Systems on Telesurgical Performance.- Three-Dimensional Slice Image Overlay System with Accurate Depth Perception for Surgery.- Surgical Navigation System with Intuitive Three-Dimensional Display.- Functional Analysis of the Vertebral Column Based on MR and Direct Volume Rendering.- Toward a Common Validation Methodology for Segmentation and Registration Algorithms.- An Improved Metric Space for Pixel Signatures.- Registration.- Evaluation of an Automatic System for Simulator/Portal Image Matching.- Image Registration by Maximization of Combined Mutual Information and Gradient Information.- An Image Registration Approach to Automated Calibration for Freehand 3D Ultrasound.- Symmetrization of the Non-rigid Registration Problem Using Inversion-Invariant Energies: Application to Multiple Sclerosis.- Modeling and Analysis of Ultrasonic Echoes Reflected from a Surface under Two Layers.- Localization of 3D Anatomical Point Landmarks in 3D Tomographic Images Using Deformable Models.- Fiducial Registration from a Single X-Ray Image: A New Technique for Fluoroscopic Guidance and Radiotherapy.- Multimodal Non-rigid Warping for Correction of Distortions in Functional MRI.- Robust 3D Deformation Field Estimation by Template Propagation.- Tetrahedral Mesh Modeling of Density Data for Anatomical Atlases and Intensity-Based Registration.- Nonrigid Registration of 3D Scalar, Vector and Tensor Medical Data.- A Fluoroscopic X-Ray Registration Process for Three-Dimensional Surgical Navigation.- Block Matching: A General Framework to Improve Robustness of Rigid Registration of Medical Images.- Generalized Correlation Ratio for Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound with MR Images.- Surgical Planning and Simulation.- Simulating Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Interventions Using an Active Manipulator.- Bayesian Estimation of Intra-operative Deformation for Image-Guided Surgery Using 3-D Ultrasound.- Modifying Soft Tissue Models: Progressive Cutting with Minimal New Element Creation.- Interaction Techniques and Vessel Analysis for Preoperative Planning in Liver Surgery.- First Steps in Eliminating the Need for Animals and Cadavers in Advanced Trauma Life Support®.- Planning and Simulation of Robotically Assisted Minimal Invasive Surgery.- A Framework for Predictive Modeling of Intra-operative Deformations: A Simulation-Based Study.- Real-Time Large Displacement Elasticity for Surgery Simulation: Non-linear Tensor-Mass Model.- Endoscopy/Laproscopy.- Multi-DOF Forceps Manipulator System for Laparoscopic Surgery.- A Wide-Angle View Endoscope System Using Wedge Prisms.- Computer-Assisted TURP Training and Monitoring.- Cardiac Image Analysis.- Estimating 3D Strain from 4D Cine-MRI and Echocardiography: In-Vivo Validation.- Automating 3D Echocardiographic Image Analysis.- MyoTrack: A 3D Deformation Field Method to Measure Cardiac Motion from Gated SPECT.- Vascular Image Analysis.- An Adaptive Minimal Path Generation Technique for Vessel Tracking in CTA/CE-MRA Volume Images.- Exploiting Weak Shape Constraints to Segment Capillary Images in Microangiopathy.- Guide Eire Tracking During Endovascular Interventions.- A Deformable Vessel Model with Single Point Initialization for Segmentation, Quantification, and Visualization of Blood Vessels in 3D MRA.- Development of a Computer Program for Volume Estimation of Arteriovenous Malformations from Biplane DSA Images.- Geometrical and Morphological Analysis of Vascular Branches from Fundus Retinal Images.- Visualization.- Computer-Based Assessment of Body Image Distortion in Anorexia Nervosa Patients.- A Realistic Model of the Inner Organs from the Visible Human Data.- Automatic Centerline Extraction for 3D Virtual Bronchoscopy.- Mixed Reality Merging of Endoscopic Images and 3-D Surfaces.- Improving Triangle Mesh Quality with SurfaceNets.- diSNei: A Collaborative Environment for Medical Images Analysis and Visualization.- Surgical Navigation.- Impact of Combined Preoperative Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography and Intraoperative Real-Time Three-Dimensional Ultrasonography on Liver Surgery.…