Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality: Second International Workshop, MIAR 2004 Beijing, China, August 19-20, 2004 Proceedings: 3150 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3150) - Tapa blanda

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Rapid technical advances in medical imaging, including its growing application to drug/gene therapy and invasive/interventional procedures, have attracted significant interest in close integration of research in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and engineering. This is motivated by the clinical and basic science research requi- ment of obtaining more detailed physiological and pathological information about the body for establishing localized genesis and progression of diseases. Current research is also motivated by the fact that medical imaging is increasingly moving from a primarily diagnostic modality towards a therapeutic and interventional aid, driven by recent advances in minimal-access and robotic-assisted surgery. It was our great pleasure to welcome the attendees to MIAR 2004, the 2nd Int- national Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, held at the Xia- shan (Fragrant Hills) Hotel, Beijing, during August 19-20, 2004. The goal of MIAR 2004 was to bring together researchers in computer vision, graphics, robotics, and medical imaging to present the state-of-the-art developments in this ever-growing research area. The meeting consisted of a single track of oral/poster presentations, with each session led by an invited lecture from our distinguished international f- ulty members. For MIAR 2004, we received 93 full submissions, which were sub- quently reviewed by up to 5 reviewers, resulting in the acceptance of the 41 full - pers included in this volume.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2004, held in Beijing, China, in August 2004.

The 41 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing, reconstruction, and coding; statistical and shape based segmentation; brain image analysis; cardiac modeling and segmentation; image registration; and surgical navigation and augmented reality.