This title is part of a two-volume set that constitute the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2007. Coverage in this first volume includes diffusion tensor imaging and computing, cardiac imaging and robotics, image segmentation and classification, image guided intervention and robotics, innovative clinical and biological applications, brain atlas computing, and simulation of therapy.

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Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Computing.- Geodesic-Loxodromes for Diffusion Tensor Interpolation and Difference Measurement.- Quantification of Measurement Error in DTI: Theoretical Predictions and Validation.- In-utero Three Dimension High Resolution Fetal Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- Real-Time MR Diffusion Tensor and Q-Ball Imaging Using Kalman Filtering.- Finsler Tractography for White Matter Connectivity Analysis of the Cingulum Bundle.- Cardiac Imaging and Robotics.- Segmentation of Myocardial Volumes from Real-Time 3D Echocardiography Using an Incompressibility Constraint.- Localized Shape Variations for Classifying Wall Motion in Echocardiograms.- Image Guidance of Intracardiac Ultrasound with Fusion of Pre-operative Images.- 3D Reconstruction of Internal Organ Surfaces for Minimal Invasive Surgery.- Cardiolock: An Active Cardiac Stabilizer.- Image Segmentation and Classification.- Automated Segmentation of the Liver from 3D CT Images Using Probabilistic Atlas and Multi-level Statistical Shape Model.- Statistical and Topological Atlas Based Brain Image Segmentation.- A Boosted Segmentation Method for Surgical Workflow Analysis.- Detection of Spatial Activation Patterns as Unsupervised Segmentation of fMRI Data.- Image Guided Intervention and Robotics.- Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy.- Closed-Loop Control in Fused MR-TRUS Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy.- Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound.- Medical and Technical Protocol for Automatic Navigation of a Wireless Device in the Carotid Artery of a Living Swine Using a Standard Clinical MRI System.- General Medical Image Computing - I.- Improving the Contrast of Breast Cancer Masses in Ultrasound Using an Autoregressive Model Based Filter.- Outlier Rejection for Diffusion Weighted Imaging.- Generating Fiber Crossing Phantoms Out of Experimental DWIs.- Motion and Positional Error Correction for Cone Beam 3D-Reconstruction with Mobile C-Arms.- Cortical Hemisphere Registration Via Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Curve Mapping.- Tagged Volume Rendering of the Heart.- One-Class Acoustic Characterization Applied to Blood Detection in IVUS.- Phase Sensitive Reconstruction for Water/Fat Separation in MR Imaging Using Inverse Gradient.- LOCUS: LOcal Cooperative Unified Segmentation of MRI Brain Scans.- Spline Based Inhomogeneity Correction for 11C-PIB PET Segmentation Using Expectation Maximization.- Hyperspherical von Mises-Fisher Mixture (HvMF) Modelling of High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI.- Use of Varying Constraints in Optimal 3-D Graph Search for Segmentation of Macular Optical Coherence Tomography Images.- Automatic Segmentation of Bladder and Prostate Using Coupled 3D Deformable Models.- Characterizing Spatio-temporal Patterns for Disease Discrimination in Cardiac Echo Videos.- Integrating Functional and Structural Images for Simultaneous Cardiac Segmentation and Deformation Recovery.- Statistical Shape Modeling Using MDL Incorporating Shape, Appearance, and Expert Knowledge.- False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection Using Local Binary Patterns.- Fuzzy Nonparametric DTI Segmentation for Robust Cingulum-Tract Extraction.- Adaptive Metamorphs Model for 3D Medical Image Segmentation.- Coronary Artery Segmentation and Skeletonization Based on Competing Fuzzy Connectedness Tree.- Mixtures of Gaussians on Tensor Fields for DT-MRI Segmentation.- Soft Level Set Coupling for LV Segmentation in Gated Perfusion SPECT.- Nonrigid Image Registration with Subdivision Lattices: Application to Cardiac MR Image Analysis.- Spatio-temporal Registration of Real Time 3D Ultrasound to Cardiovascular MR Sequences.- Nonlinear Registration of Diffusion MR Images Based on Fiber Bundles.- Multivariate Normalization with Symmetric Diffeomorphisms for Multivariate Studies.- Non-rigid Surface Registration Using Spherical Thin-Plate Splines.- A Study of Hippocampal Shape Difference Between Genders by Efficient Hypothesis Test and Discriminative Deformation.- Graph Cuts Framework for Kidney Segmentation with Prior Shape Constraints.- Attenuation Resilient AIF Estimation Based on Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for First Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI.- Real-Time Synthesis of Image Slices in Deformed Tissue from Nominal Volume Images.- Quantitative Comparison of Two Cortical Surface Extraction Methods Using MRI Phantoms.- Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics - I.- Stabilization of Image Motion for Robotic Assisted Beating Heart Surgery.- Robotic Assistant for Transperineal Prostate Interventions in 3T Closed MRI.- Virtually Extended Surgical Drilling Device: Virtual Mirror for Navigated Spine Surgery.- Improved Statistical TRE Model When Using a Reference Frame.- 3D/2D Image Registration: The Impact of X-Ray Views and Their Number.- Magneto-Optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Laparoscope Augmentation.- Evaluation of a Novel Calibration Technique for Optically Tracked Oblique Laparoscopes.- Fiducial-Free Registration Procedure for Navigated Bronchoscopy.- Automatic Target and Trajectory Identification for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Procedures.- Application of Open Source Image Guided Therapy Software in MR-guided Therapies.- Computational Anatomy - I.- Statistical Atlases of Bone Anatomy: Construction, Iterative Improvement and Validation.- A New Benchmark for Shape Correspondence Evaluation.- Automatic Inference of Sulcus Patterns Using 3D Moment Invariants.- Classifier Selection Strategies for Label Fusion Using Large Atlas Databases.- Groupwise Combined Segmentation and Registration for Atlas Construction.- Computational Physiology - I.- Subject-Specific Biomechanical Simulation of Brain Indentation Using a Meshless Method.- Towards an Identification of Tumor Growth Parameters from Time Series of Images.- Real-Time Modeling of Vascular Flow for Angiography Simulation.- A Training System for Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion Procedures.- Anisotropic Wave Propagation and Apparent Conductivity Estimation in a Fast Electrophysiological Model: Application to XMR Interventional Imaging.- Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications - I.- Automatic Trajectory Planning for Deep Brain Stimulation: A Feasibility Study.- Automatic Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Dynamic MRI Datasets.- Automated Planning of Scan Geometries in Spine MRI Scans.- Cardiac-Motion Compensated MR Imaging and Strain Analysis of Ventricular Trabeculae.- High Throughput Analysis of Breast Cancer Specimens on the Grid.- Physiology and Physics-based Image Computing.- Thoracic CT-PET Registration Using a 3D Breathing Model.- Quantification of Blood Flow from Rotational Angiography.- Modeling Glioma Growth and Mass Effect in 3D MR Images of the Brain.- Towards Tracking Breast Cancer Across Medical Images Using Subject-Specific Biomechanical Models.- Inter-subject Modelling of Liver Deformation During Radiation Therapy.- Brain Atlas Computing.- Contributions to 3D Diffeomorphic Atlas Estimation: Application to Brain Images.- Measuring Brain Variability Via Sulcal Lines Registration: A Diffeomorphic Approach.- Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy.- Generalized Surface Flows for Deformable Registration and Cortical Matching.- Simulation of Therapy.- Real-Time Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis for Surgical Simulation Using Graphics Processing Units.- Modeling of Needle-Tissue Interaction Usi…