IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

June 11-12 2000


Final Progam


Saturday, June 10, 2000

7:00 - 9:00 pm     Registration

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Sunday, June 11, 2000
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7:00-8:00          Registration
 

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7:45-8:00          Welcome and Introduction

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8:00-9:00          Invited Talk: Max Viergever

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9:00-10:30         Session I (Segmentation-A)
                   Session chair:James Duncan

Level Set Based Segmentation with Intensity and Curvature Priors
Leventon, Grimson, and Wells

Medical Image Segmentation via Coupled Curve Evolution Equations with
Global Constraints
Yezzi, Tsai, and Willsky

Watersheds on the cortical surface for automated sulcal segmentation
Rettman, Han, and Prince

Interactive Relative Fuzzy Connectedness and Object Fefinition:
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in Image Segmentation
Saha and Udupa
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10:30-10:50        Coffee Break

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10:50-12:20        Session II (Deformable Models)
                   Session chair:Baba Vemuri

A Finite Element Model of the Breast for Predicting Mechanical
Deformations during Biopsy Procedures
Azar, Metaxas, and Schnall

Visual Servoing for Automatic and Uncalibrated Needle Placement for
Percutaneous Procedures
Navab, Bascle, Loser, Geiger, and Taylor

Preserving Intrinsic Surface Distances-Application to Electrode
Grid Manipulation
Skrinjar and Duncan

Statistical Shape Model-based Segmentation of digital X-ray Images
Behiels, Vandermeulen, and Suetens
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12:20-1:30         Lunch

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1:30-3:00          Session III (Registration-A):
                   Session chair:Jerry Prince

Constructing 2D Curve Atlases
Sebastian, Klein, Crisco, and Kimia

Invariant Surface Alignment in the Presence of Affine and Some
Nonlinear Transformations
Cohen

A Level-set based Approach to Image Registration
Vemuri, Ye, Chen, Leonard, and Blackband

Segmentation of 3D brain structures using level sets and dense registration
Baillard, Hellier, and Barillot

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3:00-3:20          Coffee Break

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3:20-5:15          Session IV (Flow and Motion):
                   Session chair:Dimitris Metaxas

Recovery of Flow Patterns in an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Phantom
from Phase-Contrast MRI
Fatouraee and Amini

Three-dimensional model-based stenosis quantification in the cartoid
arteries from contrast-enhanced MR Angiography
Frangi, Niessen, Nederkoorn, Elgersma, and Viergever

Fast computation of tagged MRI motion fields with subspace
approximation techniques
Wang and Amini

Four Dimensional Processing of Deformable Cardiac PET Data
Klein

A Task-Specific Contour Tracker for Ultrasound
Akgul, Kambhamettu, and Stone


Monday, June 12, 2000
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8:00-9:00        Invited Talk: Nicholas Ayache

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9:00-10:30       Session V (Segmentation-B)
                 Session chair:Guido Gerig

A Hierarchiacal Deformable Model Using Statistical and Geometric Information
Shen and Davatzikos

Measuring the Neocortical Thickness
Kruggel and von Cramon

Entropy minimization for automatic correction of intensity nonuniformity
Mangin

Unsupervised Partial Volume Estimation in Single-Channel Image Data
Pham and Prince
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10:30-10:50      Coffee Break

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10:50-12:20      Panel Discussion

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12:20-1:30       Lunch

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1:30-3:00        Session VI (Registration-B)
                 Session chair:Alok Gupta

3D Non-Rigid Registration by Gradient Descent on a Gaussian-Windowed
Similarity Measure using Convolutions
Cachier and Pennec

A Feature Registration Framework using Mixture Models
Chui and Rangarajan

2D-3D Registration Based on Shape Matching
Cyr, Kamal, Sebastian, and Kimia

Recovering Projection Geometry: How a cheap camera can outperform
an expensive stereo system
Mitschke and Navab
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3:00-3:20        Coffee Break

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3:20-4:50        Session VII (Shape)
                 Session chair:Christos Davatzikos

A Study of the Anisotropically Weighted Procrustes Problem
Batchelor and Fitzpatrick

A Factor Analytic Approach to Structural Characterization
Machado, Gee, and Campos

Disease-Specific Probabilistic Brain Atlases
Thompson, Mega, and Toga

Hybrid boundary-medial shape description for the analysis of
biologically variable shapes
Styner and Gerig
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