MICCAI

Sliding Geometries in Deformable Image Registration

Regularization is used in deformable image registration to encourage plausible displacement fields, and significantly impacts the derived correspondences. Sliding motion, such as that between the lungs and chest wall and between the abdominal organs, …

Appearance Normalization of Histology Slides

This paper presents a method for automatic color and intensity normalization of digitized histology slides stained with two different agents. In comparison to previous approaches, prior information on the stain vectors is used in the estimation …

DTI Longitudinal Atlas Construction as an Average of Growth Models

Existing atlas-building methods for di usion-tensor images are not designed for longitudinal data. This paper proposes a novel longitudinal atlas-building framework explicitly accounting for temporal dependencies of longitudinal MRI data. …

Prediction-driven Respiratory Motion Atlas Formation for 4D Image-guided Radiation Therapy in Lung

Respiratory motion challenges lung radiation therapy with uncertainties of the location of important anatomical structures in the thorax. To capture the trajectory of the motion, dense image matching methods and learning-based motion prediction …

Robust model-based transformation and averaging of diffusion weighted images - applied to diffusion weighted atlas construction

This paper describes a method for model-based averaging of sets of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance images (DW-MRI) under space transformations (resulting for example from registration methods). A robust weighted least squares method is …

Tubular Surface Evolution for Segmentation of the Cingulum Bundle from DW-MRI

This work provides a framework for modeling and extracting the Cingulum Bundle (CB) from Diffusion-Weighted Imagery (DW-MRI) of the brain. The CB is a tube-like structure in the brain that is of potentially of tremendous importance to clinicians …

Finsler Tractography for White Matter Connectivity Analysis of the Cingulum Bundle

In this paper, we present a novel approach for the segmentation of white matter tracts based on Finsler active contours. This technique provides an optimal measure of connectivity, explicitly segments the connecting fiber bundle, and is equipped with …

Geodesic-Loxodromes for Diffusion Tensor Interpolation and Difference Measurement

In algorithms for processing diffusion tensor images, two common ingredients are interpolating tensors, and measuring the distance between them. We propose a new class of interpolation paths for tensors, termed geodesic-loxodromes, which explicitly …

Global Medical Shape Analysis Using the Laplace-Beltrami Spectrum

This paper proposes to use the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum (LBS) as a global shape descriptor for medical shape analysis, allowing for shape comparisons using minimal shape preprocessing: no registration, mapping, or remeshing is necessary. The …

Outlier Rejection for Diffusion Weighted Imaging

This paper introduces an outlier rejection and signal reconstruction method for high angular resolution diffusion weighted imaging. The approach is based on the thresholding of Laplacian measurements over the sphere of the apparent diffusion …