In the four years of its existence, MICCAI has developed into the premier - nual conference on medical image computing and computer-assisted interv- tion. The single-track conference has an interdisciplinary character, bringing - getherresearchersfromboththenaturalsciencesandvariousmedicaldisciplines. It provides the international forum for developments concerning all aspects of medical image processing and visualization, image-guided and computer-aided techniques, and robot technology in medicine. The strong interest in MICCAI is con?rmed by the large number of subm- sions we received this year, which by far surpassed our expectations. The arrival of the shipload of papers just before the deadlines (one in the European and the otherin theAmericantime zone)wasa particularlyenjoyableexperience,aswas the whole procedure of preparing the scienti?c programme. Both the quantity and quality of the submissions allowed us to compose a volume of high quality papers, which we are sure will contribute to the further development of this exciting ?eld of research. As for the hard numbers, in total 338 submissions were received. Next to full papers, short communications were solicited for works in progress,hardware prototypes, and clinical case studies. Long papers were reviewed by three or four reviewers and short papers by two or three reviewers. The ?nal selection of papers was carried out by the Programme Board. Out of the 246 long papers, 36 were accepted for oral presentation and 100 as full posters. An additional 75 of the long papers, and 47 out of 92 short papers were accepted as short posters.
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Oral Sessions.- A Method for Tracking the Camera Motion of Real Endoscope by Epipolar Geometry Analysis and Virtual Endoscopy System.- Real-Time Visual Tracking of the Surgeon's Face for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Computer-Based Periaxial Rotation Measurement for Aligning Fractured Femur Fragments: Method and Preliminary Results.- Shape versus Size: Improved Understanding of the Morphology of Brain Structures.- Hippocampal Shape Analysis Using Medial Surfaces.- Detecting Spatially Consistent Structural Differences in Alzheimer's and Fronto Temporal Dementia Using Deformation Morphometry.- Quantifying Small Changes in Brain Ventricular Volume Using Non-rigid Registration.- An Efficient Method for Constructing Optimal Statistical Shape Models.- Deformable Organisms for Automatic Medical Image Analysis.- Automatic Construction of 3D Statistical Deformation Models Using Non-rigid Registration.- A Learning Method for Automated Polyp Detection.- A CAD System for 3D Locating of Lesions in Mammogram.- Analysis of Pulmonary Nodule Evolutions Using a Sequence of Three-Dimensional Thoracic CT Images.- Intensity-Based Non-rigid Registration Using Adaptive Multilevel Free-Form Deformation with an Incompressibility Constraint.- Mass Preserving Mappings and Image Registration.- Inverse Finite Element Characterization of Soft Tissues.- A Microsurgery Simulation System.- A Surgery Simulation Supporting Cuts and Finite Element Deformation.- Patient-Specific Simulation of Carotid Artery Stenting Using Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Volume Rendering of Segmented Tubular Objects.- Clinical Evaluation of an Automatic Path Tracker for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Evaluation of Diffusion Techniques for Improved Vessel Visualization and Quantification in Three-Dimensional Rotational Angiography.- Eddy-Current Distortion Correction and Robust Tensor Estimation for MR Diffusion Imaging.- Edge Preserving Regularization and Tracking for Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- A Statistical Framework for Partial Volume Segmentation.- From Sinograms to Surfaces: A Direct Approach to the Segmentation of Tomographic Data.- An Electro-mechanical Model of the Heart for Cardiac Image Analysis.- A Mechanical, Three-Dimensional, Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy Apparatus.- Augmented Reality Guidance for Needle Biopsies: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in Phantoms.- Robotic Kidney and Spine Percutaneous Procedures Using a New Laser-Based CT Registration Method.- Retrospective Evaluation of Inter-subject Brain Registration.- A Binary Entropy Measure to Assess Nonrigid Registration Algorithms.- A Methodology to Validate MRI/SPECT Registration Methods Using Realistic Simulated SPECT Data.- Correction of Probe Pressure Artifacts in Freehand 3D Ultrasound.- In-Vitro Validation of a Novel Model-Based Approach to the Measurement of Arterial Blood Flow Waveforms from Dynamic Digital X-ray Images.- Retrospective Correction of the Heel Effect in Hand Radiographs.- Posters.- SCALPP: A Safe Methodology to Robotize Skin Harvesting.- Surgical Motion Adaptive Robotic Technology (S.M.A.R.T): Taking the Motion out of Physiological Motion.- TER: A System for Robotic Tele-echography.- Digital Angioplasty Balloon Inflation Device for Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures.- A Computer-Assisted Robotic Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy System for Video-Assisted Surgery.- Dynamic Brachytherapy of the Prostate Under Active Image Guidance.- Computer-Assisted Soft-Tissue Surgery Training and Monitoring.- Towards Dynamic Planning and Guidance of Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Bypass Surgical Procedures.- Novel Real-Time Tremor Transduction Technique for Microsurgery.- Computer Assisted Dental Implantology: A New Method and a Clinical Validation.- Intra-operative Real-Time 3-D Information Display System Based on Integral Videography.- Towards Motion-Robust Magnetic Resonance Thermometry.- A Non-CT Based Total Knee Arthroplasty System Featuring Complete Soft-Tissue Balancing.- A Statistical Atlas of Prostate Cancer for Optimal Biopsy.- A New Approach to Cutting into Finite Element Models.- Methodology of Precise Skull Model Creation.- Medial Axis Seeding of a Guided Evolutionary Simulated Annealing (GESA) Algorithm for Automated Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Treatment Planning.- A Software Framework for Creating Patient Specific Geometric Models from Medical Imaging Data for Simulation Based Medical Planning of Vascular Surgery.- Interactive Catheter Shape Modeling in Interventional Radiology Simulation.- Parametric Eyeball Model for Interactive Simulation of Ophthalmologic Surgery.- Improved 3D Osteotomy Planning in Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery.- Combining Edge, Region, and Shape Information to Segment the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MR Images.- Vessel Segmentation for Visualization of MRA with Blood Pool Contrast Agent.- Segmenting Articulated Structures by Hierarchical Statistical Modeling of Shape, Appearance, and Topology.- Validation of Nonlinear Spatial Filtering to Improve Tissue Segmentation of MR Brain Images.- Valmet: A New Validation Tool for Assessing and Improving 3D Object Segmentation.- A Dual Dynamic Programming Approach to the Detection of Spine Boundaries.- Geometrical Transformation Approximation for 2D/3D Intensity-Based Registration of Portal Images and CT Scan.- Elastic Matching Using a Deformation Sphere.- Affine Registration with Feature Space Mutual Information.- A New Method for the Registration of Cardiac PET and MR Images Using Deformable Model Based Segmentation of the Main Thorax Structures.- Modeling Surgical Procedures for Multimodal Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- A Generic Framework for Non-rigid Registration Based on Non-uniform Multi-level Free-Form Deformations.- Improving the Robustness in Extracting 3D Point Landmarks from 3D Medical Images Using Parametric Deformable Models.- Poster Session II.- Integration and Clinical Evaluation of an Interactive Controllable Robotic System for Anaplastology.- Smart Alignment Tool for Knee MosaicPlasty Surgery.- Multi-DOF Forceps Manipulator System for Laparoscopic Surgery - Mechanism Miniaturized & Evaluation of New Interface -.- The Development of a Haptic Robot to Take Blood Samples from the Forearm.- Computer Aided Diagnosis for Virtual Colonography.- Filtering h int Images for the Detection of Microcalcifications.- Using Optical Flow Fields for Polyp Detection in Vir…