Beschreibung:
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in August 2008.
Invited Contributions.- Towards a Medical Virtual Reality Environment for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.- Joint Registration and Segmentation of Serial Lung CT Images in Microendoscopy Molecular Image-Guided Therapy.- Perceptual Docking for Robotic Control.- Surgical Planning and Simulation.- An Integration of Statistical Deformable Model and Finite Element Method for Bone-Related Soft Tissue Prediction in Orthognathic Surgery Planning.- Automated Preoperative Planning of Femoral Component for Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) from 3D CT Images.- Validation of Viscoelastic and Nonlinear Liver Model for Needle Insertion from in Vivo Experiments.- Simulation of Active Cardiac Electromechanical Dynamics.- Wheelchair Propulsion Analysis System That Incorporates Human Skeletal Muscular Model Analyses on the Flat Floor and Slope.- Medical Image Computing.- Automatic Detection of Fiducial Marker Center Based on Shape Index and Curvedness.- Modality-Independent Determination of Vertebral Position and Rotation in 3D.- Coupled Meshfree-BEM Platform for Electrocardiographic Simulation: Modeling and Validations.- Source Localization of Subtopographies Decomposed by Radial Basis Functions.- Estimation of the Current Density in a Dynamic Heart Model and Visualization of Its Propagation.- Image Analysis.- Identification of Atrophy Patterns in Alzheimer's Disease Based on SVM Feature Selection and Anatomical Parcellation.- A Surface-Based Fractal Information Dimension Method for Cortical Complexity Analysis.- Wavelet-Based Compression and Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images in Surgery.- A Novel Level Set Based Shape Prior Method for Liver Segmentation from MRI Images.- Shape Modeling and Morphometry.- Statistical Shape Space Analysis Based on Level Sets.- Statistical PiecewiseAssembled Model (SPAM) for the Representation of Highly Deformable Medical Organs.- Amygdala Surface Modeling with Weighted Spherical Harmonics.- Kalman Filtering for Frame-by-Frame CT to Ultrasound Rigid Registration.- Cardiac PET Motion Correction Using Materially Constrained Transform Models.- Image-Guided Robotics.- Image Guidance for Robotic Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass.- MRI-Compatible Rigid and Flexible Outer Sheath Device with Pneumatic Locking Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgery.- MR Compatible Tactile Sensing and Noise Analysis in a 1.5 Tesla MR System.- A Framework of the Non-invasive Ultrasound Theragnostic System.- Image-Guided Intervention.- In Vivo Evaluation of a Guidance System for Computer Assisted Robotized Needle Insertion Devoted to Small Animals.- Composite-Type Optical Fiberscope for Laser Surgery for Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.- Surgical Manipulator with Balloon for Stabilizing Fetus in Utero under Ultrasound Guidance.- Investigation of Partial Directed Coherence for Hand-Eye Coordination in Laparoscopic Training.- A Virtual Reality Patient and Environments for Image Guided Diagnosis.- Interventional Imaging.- A Navigation System for Brain Surgery Using Computer Vision Technology.- Computer-Aided Delivery of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for Creation of an Atrial Septal Defect in Vivo.- Basic Study on Real-Time Simulation Using Mass Spring System for Robotic Surgery.- A Precise Robotic Ablation and Division Mechanism for Liver Resection.- Image Registration.- Fast Image Mapping of Endoscopic Image Mosaics with Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image for Intrauterine Treatment of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.- Non-rigid 2D-3D Registration Based on Support Vector Regression Estimated Similarity Metric.- Real-Time Autostereoscopic Visualization of Registration-Generated 4D MR Image of Beating Heart.- Augmented Reality.- Realtime Organ Tracking for Endoscopic Augmented Reality Visualization Using Miniature Wireless Magnetic Tracker.- Fusion of Laser Guidance and 3-D Autostereoscopic Image Overlay for Precision-Guided Surgery.- Augmented Display of Anatomical Names of Bronchial Branches for Bronchoscopy Assistance.- Non-metal Slice Image Overlay Display System Used Inside the Open Type MRI.- Image Segmentation.- Extracting Curve Skeletons from Gray Value Images for Virtual Endoscopy.- Automatic Hepatic Vessel Segmentation Using Graphics Hardware.- Learning Longitudinal Deformations for Adaptive Segmentation of Lung Fields from Serial Chest Radiographs.- Automatic Extraction of Proximal Femur Contours from Calibrated X-Ray Images Using 3D Statistical Models.- Anisotropic Haralick Edge Detection Scheme with Application to Vessel Segmentation.