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MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Segmentation and Reconstruction Technique for 3D Vascular Structures
Abstract. In the context of stroke therapy simulation, a method for the segmentation and reconstruction of human vasculature is presented and evaluated. Based on CTA scans, semi-au...
Vincent Luboz, Xunlei Wu, Karl Krissian, Carl-Fred...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
76-Space Analysis of Grey Matter Diffusivity: Methods and Applications
Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) are widely used in the study and diagnosis of neurological diseases involving the White Matter (WM). However, ma...
Tianming Liu, Geoffrey Young, Ling Huang, Nankuei ...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions
Robotic surgical systems such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system provide a rich source of motion and video data from surgical procedures. In principle, this data can be u...
Henry C. Lin, Izhak Shafran, Todd E. Murphy, Allis...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Subject Specific Finite Element Modelling of the Levator Ani
Understanding of the dynamic behaviour of the levator ani is important to the assessment of pelvic floor dysfunction. Whilst shape modelling allows the depiction of 3D morphologica...
Su-Lin Lee, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
MR Diffusion-Based Inference of a Fiber Bundle Model from a Population of Subjects
This paper proposes a method to infer a high level model of the white matter organization from a population of subjects using MR diffusion imaging. This method takes as input for e...
Vincent El Kouby, Yann Cointepas, Cyril Poupon, De...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Parametric Response Surface Models for Analysis of Multi-site fMRI Data
Analyses of fMRI brain data are often based on statistical tests applied to each voxel or use summary statistics within a region of interest (such as mean or peak activation). Thes...
Seyoung Kim, Padhraic Smyth, Hal S. Stern, Jessica...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Semi-automated Basal Ganglia Segmentation Using Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping
Ali R. Khan, Elizabeth Aylward, Michael I. Miller,...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Spatial Motion Constraints for Robot Assisted Suturing Using Virtual Fixtures
We address the problem of the stitching task in endoscopic surgery using a circular needle under robotic assistance. Our main focus is to present an algorithm for suturing using gu...
Ankur Kapoor, Ming Li, Russell H. Taylor
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic Vascular Tree Formation Using the Mahalanobis Distance
We present a novel technique for the automatic formation of vascular trees from segmented tubular structures. Our method combines a minimum spanning tree algorithm with a minimizat...
Julien Jomier, Vincent LeDigarcher, Stephen R. Ayl...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Comparison of Vessel Segmentations Using STAPLE
We propose a novel method for the validation of vascular segmentations. Our technique combines morphological operators and the STAPLE algorithm to obtain ground truth of centerline...
Julien Jomier, Vincent LeDigarcher, Stephen R. Ayl...