The fifth international Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2002) was held in Tokyo from September 25th to 28th, 2002. This was the first time that the conference was held in Asia since its foundation in 1998. The objective of the conference is to offer clinicians and scientists the opportunity to collaboratively create and explore the new medical field. Specifically, MICCAI offers a forum for the discussion of the state of art in computer-assisted interventions, medical robotics, and image processing among experts from multi-disciplinary professions, including but not limited to clinical doctors, computer scientists, and mechanical and biomedical engineers. The expectations of society are very high; the advancement of medicine will depend on computer and device technology in coming decades, as they did in the last decades. We received 321 manuscripts, of which 41 were chosen for oral presentation and 143 for poster presentation. Each paper has been included in these proceedings in eight-page full paper format, without any differentiation between oral and poster papers. Adherence to this full paper format, along with the increased number of manuscripts, surpassing all our expectations, has led us to issue two proceedings volumes for the first time in MICCAI's history. Keeping to a single volume by assigning fewer pages to each paper was certainly an option for us considering our budget constraints. However, we decided to increase the volume to offer authors maximum opportunity to argue the state of art in their work and to initiate constructive discussions among the MICCAI audience.
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Robotics - Endoscopic Device.- Using an Endoscopic Solo Surgery Simulator for Quantitative Evaluation of Human-Machine Interface in Robotic Camera Positioning Systems.- Automatic 3-D Positioning of Surgical Instruments during Robotized Laparoscopic Surgery Using Automatic Visual Feedback.- Development of a Compact Cable-Driven Laparoscopic Endoscope Manipulator.- Flexible Calibration of Actuated Stereoscopic Endoscope for Overlay in Robot Assisted Surgery.- Metrics for Laparoscopic Skills Trainers: The Weakest Link!.- Surgical Skill Evaluation by Force Data for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training System.- Development of a Master Slave Combined Manipulator for Laparoscopic Surgery.- Development of Three-Dimensional Endoscopic Ultrasound System with Optical Tracking.- Real-Time Haptic Feedback in Laparoscopic Tools for Use in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery*.- Small Occupancy Robotic Mechanisms for Endoscopic Surgery.- Robotics in Image-Guided Surgery.- Development of MR Compatible Surgical Manipulator toward a Unified Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease.- Transrectal Prostate Biopsy Inside Closed MRI Scanner with Remote Actuation, under Real-Time Image Guidance.- A New, Compact MR-Compatible Surgical Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery.- Micro-grasping Forceps Manipulator for MR-Guided Neurosurgery.- Endoscope Manipulator for Trans-nasal Neurosurgery, Optimized for and Compatible to Vertical Field Open MRI.- A Motion Adaptable Needle Placement Instrument Based on Tumor Specific Ultrasonic Image Segmentation.- Robotics - Tele-operation.- Experiment of Wireless Tele-echography System by Controlling Echographic Diagnosis Robot.- Experiments with the TER Tele-echography Robot.- The Effect of Visual and Haptic Feedback on Manual and Teleoperated Needle Insertion.- Analysis of Suture Manipulation Forces for Teleoperation with Force Feedback.- Remote Microsurgery System for Deep and Narrow Space - Development of New Surgical Procedure and Micro-robotic Tool.- Hyper-finger for Remote Minimally Invasive Surgery in Deep Area.- Robotics - Device.- Safety-Active Catheter with Multiple-Segments Driven by Micro-hydraulic Actuators.- A Stem Cell Harvesting Manipulator with Flexible Drilling Unit for Bone Marrow Transplantation.- Liver Tumor Biopsy in a Respiring Phantom with the Assistance of a Novel Electromagnetic Navigation Device.- Non-invasive Measurement of Biomechanical Properties of in vivo Soft Tissues.- Measurement of the Tip and Friction Force Acting on a Needle during Penetration.- Contact Force Evaluation of Orthoses for the Treatment of Malformed Ears.- Computer-Assisted Correction of Bone Deformities Using a 6-DOF Parallel Spatial Mechanism.- Robotics - System.- Development of 4-Dimensional Human Model System for the Patient after Total Hip Arthroplasty.- Development of a Training System for Cardiac Muscle Palpation.- Preliminary Results of an Early Clinical Experience with the Acrobot(TM) System for Total Knee Replacement Surgery.- A Prostate Brachytherapy Training Rehearsal System - Simulation of Deformable Needle Insertion.- A Versatile System for Computer Integrated Mini-invasive Robotic Surgery.- Measurements of Soft-Tissue Mechanical Properties to Support Development of a Physically Based Virtual Animal Model.- Validation.- Validation of Tissue Modelization and Classification Techniques in T1-Weighted MR Brain Images.- Validation of Image Segmentation and Expert Quality with an Expectation-Maximization Algorithm.- Validation of Volume-Preserving Non-rigid Registration: Application to Contrast-Enhanced MR-Mammography.- Statistical Validation of Automated Probabilistic Segmentation against Composite Latent Expert Ground Truth in MR Imaging of Brain Tumors.- A Posteriori Validation of Pre-operative Planning in Functional Neurosurgery by Quantification of Brain Pneumocephalus.- Affine Transformations and Atlases: Assessing a New Navigation Tool for Knee Arthroplasty.- Effectiveness of the ROBODOC System during Total Hip Arthroplasty in Preventing Intraoperative Pulmonary Embolism.- Medical Image Synthesis via Monte Carlo Simulation.- Performance Issues in Shape Classification.- Brain-Tumor, Cortex, Vascular Structure.- Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal MRI Data: Applications for Detection of Disease Activity in MS.- Automatic Brain and Tumor Segmentation.- Atlas-Based Segmentation of Pathological Brains Using a Model of Tumor Growth.- Recognizing Deviations from Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation.- 3D-Visualization and Registration for Neurovascular Compression Syndrome Analysis.- 3D Guide Wire Reconstruction from Biplane Image Sequences for 3D Navigation in Endovascular Interventions.- Standardized Analysis of Intracranial Aneurysms Using Digital Video Sequences.- Demarcation of Aneurysms Using the Seed and Cull Algorithm.- Gyral Parcellation of the Cortical Surface Using Geodesic Voronoï Diagrams.- Regularized Stochastic White Matter Tractography Using Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Sulcal Segmentation for Cortical Thickness Measurements.- Labeling the Brain Surface Using a Deformable Multiresolution Mesh.- Brain - Imaging and Analysis.- New Approaches to Estimation of White Matter Connectivity in Diffusion Tensor MRI: Elliptic PDEs and Geodesics in a Tensor-Warped Space.- Improved Detection Sensitivity in Functional MRI Data Using a Brain Parcelling Technique.- A Spin Glass Based Framework to Untangle Fiber Crossing in MR Diffusion Based Tracking.- Automated Approximation of Lateral Ventricular Shape in Magnetic Resonance Images of Multiple Sclerosis Patients.- An Intensity Consistent Approach to the Cross Sectional Analysis of Deformation Tensor Derived Maps of Brain Shape.- Detection of Inter-hemispheric Asymmetries of Brain Perfusion in SPECT.- Discriminative Analysis for Image-Based Studies.- Automatic Generation of Training Data for Brain Tissue Classification from MRI.- The Putamen Intensity Gradient in CJD Diagnosis.- A Dynamic Brain Atlas.- Model Library for Deformable Model-Based Segmentation of 3-D Brain MR-Images.- Co-registration of Histological, Optical and MR Data of the Human Brain.- Segmentation.- An Automated Segmentation Method of Kidney Using Statistical Information.- Incorporating Non-rigid Registration into Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Segment M…