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 Diffusio