Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2009

Cardiovascular Image Guided Intervention and Robotics.- Optimal Transseptal Puncture Location for Robot-Assisted Left Atrial Catheter Ablation.- Towards Guidance of Electrophysiological Procedures with Real-Time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography Fusion to C-arm CT.- Personalized Pulmonary Trunk Modeling for Intervention Planning and Valve Assessment Estimated from CT Data.- Robotic Force Stabilization for Beating Heart Intracardiac Surgery.- Non-rigid Reconstruction of the Beating Heart Surface for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.- Surgical Navigation and Tissue Interaction.- 3D Meshless Prostate Segmentation and Registration in Image Guided Radiotherapy.- A Computer Model of Soft Tissue Interaction with a Surgical Aspirator.- Optimal Matching for Prostate Brachytherapy Seed Localization with Dimension Reduction.- Prostate Biopsy Assistance System with Gland Deformation Estimation for Enhanced Precision.- Prediction of the Repair Surface over Cartilage Defects: A Comparison of Three Methods in a Sheep Model.- Intra-operative Optical Imaging and Endoscopic Navigation.- A Coaxial Laser Endoscope with Arbitrary Spots in Endoscopic View for Fetal Surgery.- Toward Video-Based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery.- Correcting Motion Artifacts in Retinal Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography via Image Registration.- Single Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography Microsurgical Instruments for Computer and Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery.- Motion Modelling and Image Formation.- Coronary Tree Extraction Using Motion Layer Separation.- A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow.- Interventional 4-D Motion Estimation and Reconstruction of Cardiac Vasculature without Motion Periodicity Assumption.- Estimating Continuous 4D Wall Motion of Cerebral Aneurysms from 3D Rotational Angiography.- NIBART: A New Interval Based Algebraic Reconstruction Technique for Error Quantification of Emission Tomography Images.- Image Registration.- A Log-Euclidean Polyaffine Registration for Articulated Structures in Medical Images.- Nonrigid Registration of Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Pseudo Ground Truth.- Parallax-Free Long Bone X-ray Image Stitching.- Diffusion Tensor Field Registration in the Presence of Uncertainty.- Non-rigid Registration of High Angular Resolution Diffusion Images Represented by Gaussian Mixture Fields.- Modelling and Segmentation.- Toward Real-Time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolization.- A Dynamical Shape Prior for LV Segmentation from RT3D Echocardiography.- A Statistical Model of Right Ventricle in Tetralogy of Fallot for Prediction of Remodelling and Therapy Planning.- Bayesian Maximal Paths for Coronary Artery Segmentation from 3D CT Angiograms.- Image Segmentation and Classification.- Hierarchical Normalized Cuts: Unsupervised Segmentation of Vascular Biomarkers from Ovarian Cancer Tissue Microarrays.- Nonparametric Intensity Priors for Level Set Segmentation of Low Contrast Structures.- Improving Pit-Pattern Classification of Endoscopy Images by a Combination of Experts.- Fast Automatic Segmentation of the Esophagus from 3D CT Data Using a Probabilistic Model.- Automatic Segmentation of the Pulmonary Lobes from Fissures, Airways, and Lung Borders: Evaluation of Robustness against Missing Data.- Segmentation and Atlas Based Techniques.- Joint Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases.- Robust Medical Images Segmentation Using Learned Shape and Appearance Models.- A Spatio-temporal Atlas of the Human Fetal Brain with Application to Tissue Segmentation.- Spatiotemporal Atlas Estimation for Developmental Delay Detection in Longitudinal Datasets.- On the Manifold Structure of the Space of Brain Images.- Neuroimage Analysis.- Gyral Folding Pattern Analysis via Surface Profiling.- Constrained Data Decomposition and Regression for Analyzing Healthy Aging from Fiber Tract Diffusion Properties.- Two-Compartment Models of the Diffu...

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in London, UK, in September 2009.

Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 259 revised papers from 804 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The first volume includes 125 papers divided in topical sections on cardiovascular image guided intervention and robotics; surgical navigation and tissue interaction; intra-operative imaging and endoscopic navigation; motion modelling and image formation; image registration; modelling and segmentation; image segmentation and classification; segmentation and atlas based techniques; neuroimage analysis; surgical navigation and robotics; image registration; and neuroimage analysis: structure and function.