TABLE OF CONTENTS
Th_PM_OS1: PDEs in Biomedical Image Analysis
A Template-Propagation Method for Segmentation of Filamentous
Structures in Electron Tomograms...............................................................................1
Sriram Subramaniam, Peijun Zhang, David Germain, Tracey Rouault, NIH; Weicheng Shen, SAIC;
A New Approach for 3D Segmentation of Cellular Tomograms Obtained
Using Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy ..........................................................5
Alberto Bartesaghi, Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota; Stanton Lee, Jon Lefman, Sharon Wahl,
Sriram Subramaniam, National Institutes of Health; Jan Orenstein, George Washington University;
DT-MRI Estimation, Regularization and Fiber Tractography..................................9
Rachid Deriche, INRIA; David Tschumperle, INRIA; Christophe Lenglet, INRIA
A Hybrid 3D Segmentation Framework.....................................................................13
Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University
Variational Methods and Partial Differential Equations in Cardiac
Image Analysis ..............................................................................................................17
Nikos Paragios, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees
Image Interpolation Based on Optimal Mass Preserving Mappings .......................21
Lei Zhu, Allen Tannenbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology
Th_PM_OS2: Advanced Methods in Ultrasound Imaging
Dual-Mode Ultrasound Phased Arrays for Imaging and Therapy ..........................25
Emad Ebbini, University of Minnesota; Hui Yao, University of Minnesota
Microbubbles for Ultrasound Diagnosis and Therapy..............................................29
J. Fowlkes, Oliver Kripfgans, Paul Carson, University of Michigan
Velocity Vector Estimation in Synthetic Aperture Flow and B-Mode Imaging .....33
Jorgen Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
Coded Excitation Methods in Biomedical Ultrasound ..............................................37
Matthew O'Donnell, Yao Wang, University of Michigan
Imaging Tissue Mechanical Properties Using Impulsive Acoustic
Radiation Force.............................................................................................................41
Mary Scott Soo, Mark Palmeri, Kathryn Nightingale, Amy Congdon, Kristin Frinkley, Gregg Trahey, Duke
University
Motion Tracking for Palpation Imaging.....................................................................45
Timothy Hall, Jingfeng Jiang, University of Wisconsin
3D Intravascular Ultrasound Palpography for Vulnerable Plaque Detection........49
Ton van der Steen, Erasmus Medical Centre
Th_PM_OS3: Imaging of Gene Expression: From Microarrays to In
Vivo Studies
Automated Interpretation of Subcellular Location Patterns....................................53
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University
M-FISH Image Registration and Classification.........................................................57
Yu-Ping Wang, UMKC
Super-Resolution Tracking of Weak Fluorescent Markers in 3D: Application in
Dissecting Mechanics of Chromosome Segregation using Fluorescence
Imaging and Molecular Genetics in Yeast..................................................................61
Gaudenz Danuser, The Scripps Research Institute
Pareto Depth Sampling Distributions for Gene Ranking .........................................65
Alfred Hero, Sepidarseh Zareparsi, Anand Swaroop, University of Michigan; Gilles Fleury, ESE
Automated Confocal Microscopy: The Way of Achieving both Quality and
Quantity in 3D Image Cytometry................................................................................69
Michal Kozubek, Petr Matula, Pavel Matula, Masaryk University
High Resolution Detection of Chromosome Abnormalities with Single Copy
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization.............................................................................73
Peter Rogan, Joan Knoll, Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics
Th_PM_OC4: Image Segmentation
Cortical Surface Flattening Using Least Square Conformal Mapping with
Minimal Metric Distortion ...........................................................................................77
Lili Ju, Josh Stern, Kelly Rehm, Kirt Schaper, David Rottenberg, University of Minnesota; Monica Hurdal,
Florida State University
Anatomical Guided Segmentation with Non-Stationary Tissue Class
Distributions in an Expectation-Maximization Framework.....................................81
Kilian Pohl, W. Eric Grimson, MIT; Sylvain Bouix, Ron Kikinis, Harvard
Segmentation of 3D Deformable Objects with Level Set Based Prior Models........85
Jing Yang, Hemant Tagare, Lawrence Staib, James Duncan, Yale University
Skeletonzation by Blocks for Large 3D Datasets: Application To Brain
Microcirculation............................................................................................................89
Celine Fouard, Gregoire Malandain, INRIA; Steffen Prohaska, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB); Malte
Westerhoff, INDEED Visual Concept; Francis Cassot, INSERM U455; Christophe Mazel, Didier Asselot,
TGS Europe; Jean-Pierre Marc-Vergnes, INSER
Segmentation of Connective Tissue in the Optic Nerve Head Using an
Anisotropic Markov Random Field ............................................................................93
Vicente Grau, LSU Eye Center; J. Crawford Downs, Claude Burgoyne, LSU Eye Center
Level Set Method for Skull-Stripping MR Brain Images .........................................97
Haihong Zhuang, Daniel Valentino, University of California Los Angeles
Normalization of Joint Image-Intensity Statistics in MRI using the
Kullback-Leibler Divergence.....................................................................................101
Neil Weisenfeld, Simon Warfield, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Microarray Gene Expression Data Analysis ............................................................105
Yuhua Ding, Jacqueline Fairley, George Vachtsevanos, Andrew Gardner, Georgia Inst. Technology; Petia
Simeonova, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Robust Unsupervised Tissue Classification in MR Images.....................................109
Dzung Pham, Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins University
Likelihood Function Analysis for Segmentation of Mammographic Masses for
Various Margin Groups .............................................................................................113
Lisa Kinnard, Georgetown University, Howard University; Shih-Chung Lo, Georgetown University; Erini
Makariou, Georgetown University; Teresa Osicka, Georgetown University; Paul Wang, Howard
University; Matthew Freedman, Georgetown University; Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University
Fr_AM_P1: Image Segmentation I
Quality Processing of Microarray Image Data through Image Inpainting and
Texture Synthesis ........................................................................................................117
Paul O'Neill, George Magoulas, Xiaohui Liu, Brunel Univeristy
Toward Leukocyte Recognition Using Morphometry, Texture And Color ..........121
Daniela Sabino, Luciano Costa, USP; Marco Zago, Edgar Rizzatti, FMRP-USP
4-D Lesion Detection Using Expectation-Maximization and Hidden Markov
Model............................................................................................................................125
Jeffrey Solomon, Sensor Systems, Inc.; Arun Sood, George Mason University
Segmentation of in-vitro Endothelial Cell Networks................................................129
Fabrizio Lamberti, Bartolomeo Montrucchio, Politecnico di Torino
Vascular Segmentation in Three-Dimensional Rotational Angiography
Based on Maximum Intensity Projections................................................................133
Rui Gan, Albert C. S. Chung, Wilbur C. K. Wong, Department of Computer Science, the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology; Simon C.H. Yu, The Prince of Wales Hospital
A New Image Segmentation And Smoothing Model ...............................................137
Song Gao, Tien Bui, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University
An Adaptive Speed Term Based on Generalized Fuzzy Operator for
Level Set Segmentation...............................................................................................141
Yazhong Lin, Wufan Chen, First Military Medical University
Tissue Color Images Segemntation Using Artificial Neural Networks..................145
Mohamed Sammouda, Mohamed Benaichouche, Prince Sultan University; Rachid Sammouda, Sharjah
University; Noboru Niki, Tokushima University
Image Segmentation with the Combination of the PCA- and ICA-Based
Modes of Shape Variation ..........................................................................................149
Juha Koikkalainen, Helsinki University of Technology; Jyrki Lötjönen, VTT Information Technology
Automatic 2D Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Tagged Cardiac MRI
Using Motion Information .........................................................................................153
Julien Milles, Anneke van Susteren, Theo Arts, CARIM - Maastricht University; Patrick Clarysse, Pierre
Croisille, Isabelle Magnin, CREATIS - INSA Lyon University
Hierarchical Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in Multi-Sequence
MRI ..............................................................................................................................157
Guillaume Dugas-Phocion, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache,
INRIA Sophia; Christine Lebrun, Stéphane Chanalet, Caroline Bensa, CHU Pasteur, Service de
Neurologie
Combining Fuzzy Logic and Level Set Methods for 3D MRI Brain
Segmentation ...............................................................................................................161
Cybèle Ciofolo, Christian Barillot, IRISA/CNRS; Pierre Hellier, IRISA/INRIA
Multiresolution Automatic Segmentation of T1-Weighted Brain MR Images .....165
Mahmood Zeydabadi, Reza A. Zoroofi, Hamid Soltanian-zadeh, Engineering Faculty, Tehran University
Fr_AM_P2: Shape Analysis
Meta-Analysis of Functional Imaging Studies Using a Geometric Model
of the Cortical Surface................................................................................................169
Roberto Toro, Yves Burnod, Institut des Sciences Cognitives
Large Deformation Minimum Mean Squared Error Template Estimation for
Computational Anatomy ............................................................................................173
Brad Davis, Peter Lorenzen, Sarang Joshi, University of North Carolina
3D Model-Based Vascular Tree Analysis Using Differential Geometry................177
Kun-Chang Yu, William Higgins, The Pennsylvania State University; Erik Ritman, Mayo Clinic
A New Method for Robust Contour Tracking In Cardiac Image Sequences .......181
Shoujun Zhou, Wufan Chen, Dept.of BME, The First Military Medical University; Bin Liang, Guang Dong
Branch of Network Security Bureau of China
Toward Real-Time, Physically-Correct Soft Tissue Behavior Simulation ............185
Yuan-Fang Wang, Dan Koppel, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, University of California
Local Weak Form Geometric Active Contours for Medical Image
Segmentation ...............................................................................................................189
H.F. Liu, H.P. Ho, P.C. Shi, HKUST
Population Analysis of Knee Cartilage Thickness Maps using Model Based
Correspondence...........................................................................................................193
Tomos Williams, Christopher Taylor, University of Manchester; John Waterton, Andrew Holmes,
AstraZeneca
Correspondence Recovery In 2-View Mammography ............................................197
Yan Qiu, Dmitry Goldgof, Lihua Li, Sudeep Sarkar, Yong Zhang, Sorin Anton, University of South Florida
NERVES -- Level Sets for Interactive 3D Segmentation of Nerve Channels........201
Nils Hanssen, Zbigniew Burgielski, Thomas Jansen, Marc Lievin, Lutz Ritter, Bartosz v. Rymon-Lipinski,
Erwin Keeve, Research Center Caesar
Fr_AM_P3: MRI Acquisition and Analysis
Longitudinal Measurements of Signal Intensity as a Potential Marker
for Cartilage Degeneration in Osteoarthritis ...........................................................205
Josephine Naish, University of Manchester; Graham Vincent, imorphics; Mike Bowes, imorphics; Manish
Kothari, Synarc Inc.; David White, Synarc Inc.; John Waterton, AstraZeneca; Chris Taylor, University of
Manchester
Iterative Image Reconstruction in MRI With Separate Magnitude and Phase
Regularization .............................................................................................................209
Jeffrey Fessler, Doug Noll, The University of Michigan
Matched Filter vs. Least-Squares for Multiple-Coil MRI ......................................213
Molly Scheffe, G. P. Zientara, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Parallel Imaging with Prior Information for Dynamic MRI..................................217
Feng Huang, James Akao, Andrew Rubin, George Duensing, MRI Devices Corporation
Analysis of Serial MR Images of Joints ....................................................................221
Kelvin Leung, Derek Hill, King's College London; Rolf Heckemann, Daniel Rueckert, Joseph Hajnal,
Imperial College; Nadeem Saeed, Keith Brooks, Jacky Buckton, Kumar Changani, David Reid,
GlaxoSmithKline
Computed Simultaneous Imaging of Multiple Functional Biomarkers.................225
Yue Wang, Virginia Tech; Rujirutana Srikanchana, Peter Choyka, National Institutes of Health; Jianhua
Xuan, The Catholic University of America; Zsolt Szabo, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Risk for Alcoholism And Developmental Defects of Specific Brain
Structures: A MR Morphometric Study...................................................................229
George Antony, Vivek Benegal, P.N. Jayakumar, National Institute Of Mental Health And Neurosiences
Multi-Resolution Hierarchical Blind Recovery of Biochemical Markers of
Brain Cancer In MRSI ...............................................................................................233
Shuyan Du, Paul Sajda, Columbia University; Xiangling Mao, Dikoma Shungu, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine
Optimal Variable-Density k-Space Sampling in MRI.............................................237
Jin Hyung Lee, Dwight Nishimura, Brad Osgood, Stanford University
On the Regularization of SENSE and Space-RIP in Parallel MR Imaging ..........241
William Hoge, Bruno Madore, Walid Kyriakos, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical
School; Dana Brooks, Northeastern University
Fr_AM_P4: Image Guided Diagnosis, Surgery and Therapy
Computer Aided Monitoring of Fibrous Dysplasia Disease in
Craniofacial Bones ......................................................................................................245
Jianhua Yao, Michael Collins, John Butman, National Institute of Health; Janice Lee, Univerisity of
California at San Francisco
Automatic Quantification of Pupil Dilation Under Stress ......................................249
Julien Jomier, Erwann Rault, Stephen Aylward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Classification of Breast MRI Lesions Using A Backpropagation
Neural Network (BNN)...............................................................................................253
Lina Arbach, Alan Stolpen, Joseph Reinhardt, University of Iowa
Improved Prediction of Prostate Cancer Recurrence Based on an
Automated Tissue Image Analysis System ...............................................................257
Mikhail Teverovskiy, Vinay Kumar, Junshui Ma, Angeliki Kotsianti, David Verbel, Ho-Yuen Pang, Yevgen
Vengrenyuk, Stephen Fogarasi, Olivier Saidi, Aureon Biosciences Corporation; Ali Tabesh, University of
Arizona
Distance Contained Centerline for Virtual Endoscopy...........................................261
Liu Jianfei, Zhang Xiaopeng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Frederic Blaise, ISA
INRIA Lorraine
Image-Guidance for Cardiac Surgery Using Dynamic Autostereoscpic
Display System ............................................................................................................265
Hongen Liao, Nobuhiko Hata, Takeyoshi Dohi, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo
Image-Based Rendering And Modeling In Video-Endoscopy ................................269
Yuan-Fang Wang, Dan Koppel, Hua Lee, University of California
Method for Assessing Augmented Reality Needle Guidance Using a
Virtual Biopsy Task ....................................................................................................273
Damion Shelton, Roberta Klatzky, Carnegie Mellon University; George Stetten, University of Pittsburgh
New Function for Accurate MR-Guided Microwave Ablation Using Vertically
Opened 0.5-T MR System ..........................................................................................276
Koichiro Sato, Yoshimasa Kurumi, Shigeyuki Naka, Koichi Demura, Hisanori Shiomi, Tohru Tani, Shiga
University of Medical Science; Shigehiro Morikawa, Toshiro Inubushi, Shiga University of Medical
Science; Hasnine A Haque, GE-Yokogawa Medical Systems
A Virtual Reality Based 3D Real-Time Interactive Brachytherapy
Simulation of Needle Insertion and Seed Implantation...........................................280
Xiaogang Wang, Aaron Fenster, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute
Automatic Detection of Head Refixation Errors in Fractionated Stereotactic
Radiotherapy (FSR)....................................................................................................284
Shidong Li, Daniele Rigamonti, Lawrence Kleinberg, Shanjin He, Theodore DeWeese, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine; Jason Geng, Dezhi Liu, Genex Technologies Inc.
Haptic Guided Seeding of MRA Images for Semi-Automatic Segmentation........288
Erik Vidholm, Ingela Nyström, Ewert Bengtsson, Uppsala University, Centre for Image Analysis; Xavier
Tizon, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Centre for Image Analysis
Colon Straightening Based on an Elastic Mechanics Model...................................292
Zhan Zhang, Michael Ackerman, Office of High Performance Computing & Communications, National
Library of Medicine; Jixing Li, Electronic Information College, Wuhan University
MRI-Guided Laser Thermal Ablation: Model and Parameter Estimates
Relating MR Thermometry Images to Cell Death...................................................296
Michael Breen, David Wilson, Gerald Saidel, Case Western Reserve University; Kim Butts, Stanford
University; Lili Chen, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Fr_AM_OC1: Cardiac Imaging and Motion
Vorticity Imaging of Diastolic Cardiac Inflow by Phase-Contrast MRI ...............300
William Kerwin, Edward Gill, Jason Cooke, University of Washington; Jean Hertzberg, Heather Chluda,
Robin Shandas, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Choice of Tracking Feature In Ultrasound-Based Strain Imaging
Analysis ........................................................................................................................304
Weichuan Yu, James Duncan, Yale University
Bimodal Myocardial Motion Analysis from B-mode and Tissue Doppler
Ultrasound ...................................................................................................................308
Michael Sühling, Muthuvel Arigovindan, Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
(EPFL); Christian Jansen, Patrick Hunziker, University Hospital Basel
Automated Tracking of Multiple Body Parts in Video Recordings of
Neonatal Seizures ........................................................................................................312
Abdul Sami, Nicolaos Karayiannis, University of Houston; James Frost, Jr., Merrill Wise, Eli Mizrahi,
Baylor College of Medicine
A Posteriori Navigator Echo for Perfusion Imaging of The Liver With
Contrast Ultrasound ...................................................................................................316
Gilles Renault, Frédérique Frouin, Alain Herment, Inserm; François Tranquart, Aurore Bleuzen, CIT
Ultrasons
Generalized Robust Point Matching Using An Extended Free-Form
Deformation Model: Application to Cardiac Images ..............................................320
Ning Lin, James Duncan, Yale University
Fr_AM_OC2: Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Towards Diffusion Profile Image Registration ........................................................324
Hui Zhang, Paul Yushkevich, James Gee, University of Pennsylvania
DT-MRI Data Visualisation using the Dual Tree Complex Wavelet
Transform....................................................................................................................328
Nick Kingsbury, Argyris Zymnis, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Signal Processing
Group; Alonso Pena, Department of Radiology and Academic Neurosurgery Unit, University of Cambridge
Modelling Noise-Induced Fibre-Orientation Error in Diffusion-Tensor MRI .....332
Philip Cook, Daniel Alexander, University College London; Geoffrey Parker, University of Manchester
DT-MRI Regularization Using Anisotropic Tensor Field Filtering.......................336
Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Florido, Juan Ruiz-Alzola, Centro de Tecnologia Medica y Dto. Ing. Telemática
de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Carl-Fredrik Westin, Laboratory of Mathematics in
Imaging, Harvard Medical School
Constrained Free Form Deformation Based Algorithm for Geometric
Distortion Correction of Echo Planar Diffusion Tensor Images ............................340
Siamak Ardekani, Usha Sinha, University of California Los Angeles
Towards a Shape Model of White Matter Fiber Bundles Using Diffusion Tensor
MRI ..............................................................................................................................344
Isabelle Corouge, Guido Gerig, University of North Carolina; Sylvain Gouttard, ESCPE Lyon
Fr_AM_OC3: Image Reconstruction I: Model Based
Maximum-Lesion-Detectability Reconstruction Using Penalized
Maximum Likelihood .................................................................................................348
Jinyi Qi, Ronald H Huesman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Blind Deconvolution of Images Acquired
Through Scattering Media .........................................................................................352
Michael Bronstein, Alexander Bronstein, Yehoshua Zeevi, Michael Zibulevsky, Technion - Israel Institute
of Technology
Reconstruction of 2D Pet Data with Monte Carlo Generated Natural Pixels.......356
Charles Byrne, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Stefaan Vandenberghe, University of
Massachusetts, University Ghent; Ed Soares, College of the Holy Cross; Ignace Lemahieu, University
Ghent; Stephen Glick, University Of Massachusetts Medical School
Analytical Approach to Channelized Hotelling Observer Performance For
Regularized Tomographic Image Reconstruction ...................................................360
Anastasia Yendiki, Jeffrey Fessler, The University of Michigan
Fourier-Based Forward and Back-Projectors in Iterative Fan-Beam
Tomographic Image Reconstruction.........................................................................364
Yingying Zhang, Jeffrey Fessler, University of Michigan
Covariance of Kinetic Parameter Estimators Based on Time Activity
Curve Reconstructions: Preliminary Study on 1D Dynamic Imaging...................368
Sangtae Ahn, Jeffrey Fessler, Thomas Nichols, Robert Koeppe, University of Michigan
Fr_AM_OC4: Functional Brain Mapping
Nonlinear Dimension Reduction of fMRI Data: The Laplacian Embedding
Approach .....................................................................................................................372
Olivier Faugeras, Bertrand Thirion, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Incremental Activation Detection in fMRI Series Using Kalman Filtering ..........376
Alexis Roche, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Pierre-Jean Layahe, CEA/SHFJ
Imaging Cortical Oscillations During Sustained Visuomotor Coordination
in MEG.........................................................................................................................380
Karim Jerbi, Sylvain Baillet, Line Garnero, Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging Laboratory; JeanPhilippe Lachaux, Mental Processes and Brain Activation Laboratory INSERM U280
The Influence of Heart Beat and Respiration on Functional Connectivity
Networks ......................................................................................................................384
Silke Dodel, SHFJ; Jean-Baptiste Poline, SHFJ; Jean-Luc Anton, IFR 45 "Sciences du cerveau"; Matthew
Brett, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Médical Research Council
Controling The False Positive Detection Rate In Fuzzy Clustering of
fMRI Data....................................................................................................................388
Hesamoddin Jahanian, Institute for Studies In Theoritical Physics and Mathematics (IPM); Hamid
Soltanian Zadeh, Gholam Ali Hossein Zadeh, University of Tehran
Outlier Detection for Robust Region-Based Estimation of the Hemodynamic
Response Function in Event-Related fMRI..............................................................392
Philippe Ciuciu, Alexis Roche, SHFJ/CEA; Jérôme Idier, IRCCyN/CNRS; Christophe Pallier, INSERM
U562/SHFJ
Fr_PM_P1: Atlases and Computational Anatomy
Matching of Diffusion Tensor Images using Gabor Features.................................396
Ragini Verma, Christos Davatzikos, University of Pennsylvania
A Deformable Brodmann Area Atlas........................................................................400
Paul Rasser, Philip Ward, Neuroscience Institute of Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders, Sydney,
Australia; Patrick Johnston, Centre for Mental Health Studies, Newcastle, Australia; Paul Thompson,
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Performance-Based Multi-Classifier Decision Fusion for Atlas-Based
Segmentation of Biomedical Images..........................................................................404
Torsten Rohlfing, Daniel Russakoff, Calvin Maurer, Stanford University; Robert Brandt, Indeed - Visual
Concepts GmbH; Randolf Menzel, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Non-Rigid Registration Algorithm With Spatially Varying Stiffness
Properties.....................................................................................................................408
Valerie Duay, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne ; Pierre-Francois D'Haese, Rui Li, Benoit
Dawant, Vanderbilt University
Building a 4D Atlas of the Cardiac Anatomy and Motion Using MR Imaging ....412
Dimitrios Perperidis, Raghavendra Chandrashekara, Maria Lorenzo-Valdes, Gerardo-Ivar Sanchez-Ortiz,
Anil Rao, Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London, Department of Computing; Raad Mohiaddin, Royal
Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
Grid-Enabled Automatic Construction of A Two-Chamber Cardiac PDM from a
Large Database of Dynamic 3D Shapes ....................................................................416
Sebastian Ordas, Loic Boisrobert, Matias Bossa, Salvador Olmos, Alejandro Frangi, Aragon Institute of
Engineering Research; Huguet Marina, CETIR Sant Jordi; Marcos Laucelli, GridSystems
Finite Element Mesh Generation and Remeshing from Segmented
Medical Images............................................................................................................420
Ashraf Mohamed, Johns Hopkins University; Christos Davatzikos, University of Pennsylvania
Automated Identification of Microstructures on Histology Slides.........................424
Constandine Katsinis, Sokol Petushi, Chip Coward, Aydin Tozeren, Drexel University; Fernando Garcia,
Graduate Hospital
Cortical Surface Parameterization by P-Harmonic Energy Minimization...........428
Anand Joshi, Richard Leahy, University of Southern California; Paul Thompson, David Shattuck,
University of California Los Angeles
Diffusion Smoothing on Brain Surface via Finite Element Method.......................432
Moo Chung, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University
Clustering On Image Boundary Regions for Deformable Model
Segmentation ...............................................................................................................436
Joshua Stough, Stephen Pizer, Edward Chaney, Manjari Rao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Probabilistic Framework for the Detection and Tracking in Time of
Multiple Sclerosis Lesions ..........................................................................................440
Allon Shahar, Hayit Greenspan, Tel-Aviv University
Modeling of Tumor Conspicuity In Hepatic CT Images: Combined
Compartment and Vascular Models .........................................................................444
Marek Kretowski, Technical University of Bialystok; Pierrick Coupe, Johanne Bezy-Wendling, Rennes
University
Fr_PM_P2: Image Motion and Sequence Analysis
Analysis of Time-Varying Psoriasis Lesion Image Patterns ...................................448
Bjarne Ersbøll, DTU; Allan Nielsen, IMM-DTU; Gabriela Maletti, KVL; David Delgado Gómez, IMMDTU
Relationship Between the Morphology and Functionality of Articular
Surfaces. Applications to 3D Navigation ..................................................................452
Gwenael Guillard, Chafiaa Hamitouche, Julio Daniel Gil Cano, Christian Roux, ENST Bretagne; Eric
Stindel, CHU de Brest, Hopital de la Cavale Blanche
Measuring Blood Cells Velocity in Microvessels from a Single Image:
Application to In Vivo and In Situ Confocal Microscopy........................................456
Nicolas Savoire, Georges Le Goualher, Aymeric Perchant, François Lacombe, Mauna Kea Technologies;
Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache, INRIA - Epidaure
Parametric Analysis of Main Motion : Application To The Assessment of
Left Ventricular Wall Motion by MR Imaging........................................................460
Nadjia Kachenoura, Cinta Ruiz Doninguez, Annie Delouche, Odile Jolivet, Frederique Frouin, U494
INSERM; Alban Redheuil, Benoit Diebold, Service D'Echocardiographie HEGP ;Elie Mousseaux, Service
de Radiologie Cardiovasculaire
Meshfree Cardiac Motion Analysis Using Composite Material Model and
Total Lagrangian Formulation..................................................................................464
Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu, Alexandra Wong, Ken Wong, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology; Albert Sinusas, Yale University
Cardiac Motion Tracking in Tagged MR Images Using a 4D B-spline
Motion Model and Nonrigid Image Registration.....................................................468
Raghavendra Chandrashekara, Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College; Raad Mohiaddin, Royal Brompton and
Harefield NHS Trust
Effects of Breathing Motion On The Spatial Resolution In Microscopic
Imaging Techniques of Rodents ................................................................................472
Wilfried Mai, Cristian Badea, Charles Wheeler, Laurence Hedlund, G. Johnson, Center for In Vivo
Microscopy
Tracking Fluorescent Cells With Coupled Geometric Active Contours ...............476
Christophe Zimmer, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Institut Pasteur; Bo Zhang, ENST
Respiratory Motion Estimation From Slowly Rotating X-Ray Projections..........480
Rongping Zeng, Jeffrey Fessler, James Balter, The University of Michigan
Non-Rigid Image Transformation for Assessing Changes in Fluorescence
Imaging Data of Molecular Activity in Time-Dependent Geometries ...................484
Kostas Marias, Stelios Orphanoudakis, Institute of Computer Science-FORTH; Jorge Ripoll, Inst. of
Electronic Structure & Laser - FORTH; Vasilis Ntziachristos, MGH / Harvard Medical School
Fr_PM_P3: Ultrasound Imaging
Image Analysis of Doppler Echocardiography for Patients with Atrial
Fibrillation ...................................................................................................................488
Oron Shechner, Hayit Greenspan, Mickey Sheinovitz, Micha Feinberg, Tel Aviv University
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Tracked Freehand Ultrasound
Using Non-Rigid Registration....................................................................................492
Graeme Penney, Krista Joosten, Marloes Letteboer, Max Viergever, Wiro Niessen, Image Sciences Institute
Automatic Segmentation of Prostate Boundaries From Abdominal
Ultrasound Images Using Priori Knowledge............................................................496
Nacim Betrouni, Jean Rousseau, Maximilien Vermandel, ITM; Maouche Salah, USTL
Advantages in Using Multi-Frequency Driving to Enhance Ultrasound
Contrast Microbubble Non-Linearities for Optimizing Echo Particle Image
Velocimetry Techniques .............................................................................................500
Hairong Zheng, Osama Mukdadi, Hyoung Bum Kim, Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado at Boulder;
Robin Shandas, The Children's Hospital, Denver
Numerical Modeling of Ultrasound Imaging Using Contrast Agents for
Particle Image Velocimetry In Vivo..........................................................................504
Osama Mukdadi, H.B. Kim, J.R. Hertzberg, University of Colorado; Robin Shandas, University of
Colorado and The Children’s Hospital, Denver
Quantitation of Regional Myocardial Function During Short-Lived Events
With Ultrasound Imaging ..........................................................................................508
Eileen McMahon, Jianwen Wang, Josef Korinek, Marek Belohlavek, Stig Urheim, Mayo Clinic
Atomic Layer Deposition for Fabricating Capacitive Micromachined
Ultrasonic Transducers: Initial Characterization ...................................................512
Lingli Liu, Osama Mukdadi, Hyoung Kim, Jean Hertzberg, Robin Shandas, Victor Bright, University of
Colorado at Boulder
A Study of Pressure-Dependent Attenuation In Ultrasound Contrast
Imaging ........................................................................................................................516
Meng-Xing Tang, J. Noble, Oxford University; Robert Eckersley, Imperial College London
Monitoring Angiogenesis in Human Melanoma Xenografts using ContrastEnhanced Ultrasound .................................................................................................520
Raymond Ro, Drexel University/Thomas Jefferson University; Flemming Forsberg, Ji-Bin Liu, Kathryn
James, Magdalena Potoczek, Levon Nazarian, Thomas Jefferson University; Peter Lewin, Drexel
University
Interactive Rendering of Real-Time Volumetric Ultrasound Images....................523
Gregory Bredthauer, Olaf von Ramm, Duke University
A Novel Closed Form Solution for Ultrasound Calibration ...................................527
Emad Boctor, Anand Viswanathan, Michael Choti, Russell Taylor, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory Hager, The
Johns Hopkins University
Quantitative Analysis of Circumferential Plaque Distribution in Human
Coronary Arteries in Relation to Local Vessel Curvature......................................531
Andreas Wahle, Mark Olszewski, Sarah Vigmostad, Kathleen Braddy, Theresa Brennan, James Rossen,
Krishnan Chandran, Milan Sonka, The University of Iowa; Ruben Medina, Universidad de Los Andes; A
Coskun, Northeastern University; Charles Feldman, Peter Stone, Brigham & Women's Hospital
The Accuracy of Blood Velocity Measurement Using Ultrasound.........................535
Siobhan Meagher, Tamie Poepping, John Cosgroave, Clive Greated, Peter Hoskins, Univeristy of
Edinburgh
A Software Package for Portable Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging.........539
Tiantian Zhang, X. Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xinlin Chen, Hubei Women & Children's Hospital
Simultaneous Elastic Image Registration and Elastic Modulus
Reconstruction.............................................................................................................543
Paul Barbone, Nachiket Gokhale, Michael Richards, Assad Oberai, Boston University; Marvin Doyley,
Dartmouth College
Speckle Reduction on Ultrasound Image by Variational Methods and
Adaptive Lagrangian Multipliers..............................................................................547
Arnaud Ogier, Pierre Hellier, Christian Barillot, IRISA
Fr_PM_P4: Image Reconstruction & Restoration I
A Method for Reconstructing Label Images From a Few Projections, as
Motivated by Electron Microscopy ...........................................................................551
Hstau Liao, Gabor Herman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
A Fast Fully 4D Incremental Gradient Reconstruction Algorithm for
List Mode PET Data ...................................................................................................555
Quanzheng Li, Evren Asma, Richard Leahy, University of Southern California
Three-Dimensional Multi-Resolution Statistical Reconstruction for
Tomosynthesis .............................................................................................................559
Pei Chen, Kenneth E. Barner, University of Delaware
A "Brick" Caching Scheme for 3D Medical Imaging .............................................563
Jianchun Li, Christos Papachristou, Case Western Reserve University; Raj Shekhar, Cleveland Clinic
Foundation
3D Region of Interest X-Ray CT for Geometric Magnification from
Multiresolution Acquisitions......................................................................................567
Greg Tisson, Paul Scheunders, Dirk Van Dyck, University of Antwerp
Ultra-Fast 3D Filtered Backprojection On Commodity Graphics Hardware ......571
Klaus Mueller, Fang Xu, Stony Brook University
Image Reconstruction from Truncated Cone-Beam Projections ...........................575
Hermann Schomberg, Philips Research Hamburg
Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Dual Energy X-ray CT..........................579
Joseph O'Sullivan, Jasenka Benac, Washington University; Jeffrey Williamson, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Fr_PM_OS1: Atlases and Nonrigid Registration
Genetic Influences on Human Brain Morphology...................................................583
Theo van Erp, Tyrone Cannon, Helen Tran, Amber Wobbekind, University of California Los Angeles
Department of Psychology; Matti Huttunen, Jouko Lönnqvist, Department of Mental Health, National
Public Health Institute of Finland; Oili Salonen, Leena Valanne, Veli-Pekka Poutanen, Carl-Gustav
Standertskjöld-Nordenstam, Department of Radiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Arthur
Toga, Paul Thompson, Laboratory of Neuroimaging, University of California Los Angeles School of
Medicine, Los Angeles
Morphological Classification of Medical Images using Nonlinear Support
Vector Machines..........................................................................................................587
Christos Davatzikos, Dinggang Shen, Zhiqiang Lao, Zhong Xue, Bilge Karacali, University of
Pennsylvania
Inverse Consistent Registration with Object Boundary Constraints ....................591
Gary Christensen, University of Iowa
Shape Averaging with Diffeomorphic Flows for Atlas Creation............................595
Brian Avants, James Gee, University of Pennsylvania
Challenges and Progress Toward Quantitative Deformation Morphometry
of Gyral Anatomy .......................................................................................................599
Colin Studholme, Corina Drapaca, Valerie Cardenas, Michael Weiner, U.C.S.F.
Brain Warping with Implicit Representations.........................................................603
Alexia Leow, Paul Thomspon, Hillary Protas, Sung Cheng Huang, University of California Los Angeles
Fr_PM_OS2: Dynamic Image Formation and Analysis
Dynamic SPECT Imaging: Exploring A New Frontier in Medical Imaging ........607
Grant Gullberg, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tracer Kinetic Parametric Imaging in PET.............................................................612
Richard Carson, National Institutes of Health
Phase-Correlated Dynamic CT..................................................................................616
Marc Kachelriess, Institute of Medical Physics (IMP)
Level Set Methods for Dynamic Tomography .........................................................620
Yonggang Shi, William Karl, Boston University
Imaging the Evolution of Three-Dimensional Myocardial Strains using a
Fast MR Imaging Technique .....................................................................................624
Smita Sampath, Nael Osman, Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins University
Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Adaptive Acquisition for Cardiac MRI..............628
Nitin Aggarwal, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Yoram Bresler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fr_PM_OS3: Public Domain Software Packages for Biomedical
Imaging
3D Slicer.......................................................................................................................632
Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc.; Michael Halle, Ron Kikinis, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
Simulation of Advanced Ultrasound Systems using Field II ..................................636
Jørgen Jensen, Techn. University of Denmark
SCIRun/BioPSE: Integrated Problem Solving Environment for Bioelectric
Field Problems and Visualization..............................................................................640
Rob MacLeod, David Weinstein, Davison de St. Germain, Christopher Johnson, Steven Parker, University
of Utah; Dana Brooks, Northeastern University
DUFF: Software Tools for Visualization and Processing of
Neuroimaging Data.....................................................................................................644
David Shattuck, Allan MacKenzie-Graham, Arthur Toga, University of California Los Angeles Laboratory
of Neuro Imaging
Software Process: The Key to Developing Robust, Reusable and
Maintainable Open-Source Software........................................................................648
William Schroeder, Luis Ibanez, Kenneth Martin, Kitware, Inc.
Electromagnetic Brain Mapping using BrainStorm................................................652
Sylvain Baillet, Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Lab; John Mosher, Los Alamos National
Laboratory; Richard Leahy, Signal and Image Processing Group, University of Southern California
Fr_PM_OC4: Optical Imaging & Microscopy
Automatic Quantification of Microtubule Dynamics ..............................................656
Stathis Hadjidemetriou, James Duncan, Yale University; Derek Toomre, David Tuck, Yale University
School of Medicine
Extended Depth-of-Focus for Multi-Channel Microscopy Images:
A Complex Wavelet Approach ..................................................................................660
Brigitte Forster, Dimitri Van De Ville, Jesse Berent, Daniel Sage, Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Lausanne
A Multiple Target Approach for Single Quantum Dot Tracking ..........................664
Stephane Bonneau, Laurent Cohen, Ceremade; Maxime Dahan, Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel
Deep Tissue Imaging Approaches By Direct Capture of Two-Photon
Absorption ...................................................................................................................668
Tong Ye, Warren Warren, Martin Fischer, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Wolfgan
Wagner, Peifang Tian, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University; Gunay Yurtsever, Department of
Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
Reduction of Physiological Interference in Optical Functional
Neuroimaging Using Eigenvector-Based Spatial Filtering .....................................672
Yiheng Zhang, Dana Brooks, Northeastern University; Maria Franceschini, David Boas, Mass General
Hospital
A Method for Dynamically Suppressing Sidelobes in Optical Coherence
Tomography ................................................................................................................676
Daniel Marks, Paul Carney, Stephen Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3-D Multispectral Monitoring of Living Cell Signaling Using
Confocal-Imaging And FPGA Processing ................................................................680
Marianne Sowa Resat, James Solinsky, H. Wiley, Kenneth Perrine, Thomas Seim, PNNL; Scott Budge,
Utah State University
Development of A Percutaneous Optical Imaging System for
Tracking Vascular Gene Expression: An Ultrasound-Guided Ex Vivo
Feasibility Study..........................................................................................................684
Sourav Kar, Ananda Kumar, Xiaoming Yang, Johns Hopkins University
In Vivo Multi Lifetime Discrimination Using Time Domain Fluorescence
Imaging ........................................................................................................................688
Frederic Lesage, Alexander Belenkov, ART Recherches et Technologies Avancees Inc.
An Integrated Fibered Confocal Microscopy System for In Vivo And
In Situ Fluorescence Imaging -- Applications to Endoscopy in Small Animal
Imaging ........................................................................................................................692
Aymeric Perchant, Georges Le Goualher, Magalie Genet, Bertrand Viellerobe, Frederic Berier, Mauna
Kea Technologies
Sa_AM_P1: Image Registration
Evaluation of a Similarity-Based Elastography Technique using Four
Similarity Metrics .......................................................................................................696
Michael Miga, Megan Rothney, Vanderbilt University; Chad Washington, University of Mississippi School
of Medicine
Subpixel Registration in Renal Perfusion MR Image Sequence ............................700
Ying Sun, Jose' Moura, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University;
Chien Ho, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Local Feature Matching Using Entropic Graphs ....................................................704
Huzefa Neemuchwala, Alfred Hero, Paul Carson, Charles Meyer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2D-3D Vascular Registration Between Digital Subtraction
Angiographic (DSA) And Magnetic Resonance Angiographic (MRA) Images ....708
Albert Chung, H.M. Chan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Simon Yu, The Prince of
Wales Hospital; William Wells, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Multi-Channel Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images Using Directional
Information..................................................................................................................712
Gustavo Rohde, Sinisa Pajevic, Carlo Pierpaoli, National Institues of Health
Ground Truth Data for Validation of Nonrigid Image Registration
Algorithms ...................................................................................................................716
Yi-Yu Chou, Oskar Skrinjar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Model Based Symmetric Information Theoretic Large Deformation
Multi-Modal Image Registration...............................................................................720
Peter Lorenzen, Brad Davis, Sarang Joshi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Unified Feature-Based Registration Method for Multimodality Images...........724
Jie Zhang, Anand Rangarajan, University of Florida
Quadrature-Based Image Registration Method using Mutual Information.........728
Clinton Fookes, Anthony Maeder, Queensland University of Technology
Differential Evolution with Powell's Direction Set Method in Medical Image
Registration .................................................................................................................732
Robert Dony, Xiaoyan Xu, University of Guelph
An Extendable Registration Similarity Metric for Anatomical Image
Sequence Alignment....................................................................................................736
Rongkai Zhao, Michael Gabriel, Geneva Belford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Surface Matching Algorithms for Computer Aided Reconstructive Plastic
Surgery.........................................................................................................................740
Suchendra Bhandarkar, Ananda Chowdhury, Yarong Tang, Ernest Tollner, University of Georgia; Jack Yu,
Medical College of Georgia
Sa_AM_P2: Image Reconstruction & Restoration II
Symmetry-Based 3D Brain Reconstruction..............................................................744
Smadar Gefen, Yingli Fan, Louise Bertrand, Jonathan Nissanov, Drexel University
Penalized Likelihood Transmission Image Reconstruction : Unconstrained
Monotonic Algorithms................................................................................................748
Somesh Srivastava, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Jeffrey Fessler, EECS Dept., University of
Michigan
A Geometric Approach to Parameter Estimation from Tomographic Data.........752
Alexey Chernyavskiy, Ross Whitaker, University of Utah
Compact Representation of PET 3D System Response Matrices...........................756
William Worstell, Haris Kudrolli, John Nevin, Stephen Adler, Leonid Romanov, PhotoDetection Systems,
Inc.
Volterra-Type Nonlinear Image Restoration of Medical Imagery Using
Principal Dynamic Modes ..........................................................................................760
Synho Do, Vasilis Marmarelis, University of Southern California; Dae Shin, Jeong-Won Jeong, Tae-Seong
Kim, Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering
A Bayesian Approach to Image Restoration ............................................................764
Andreas Wrangsjö, Magnus Borga, Hans Knutsson, Medical Informatics
Robust Filtering Strategies for Soft Tissue Young's Modulus
Characterization .........................................................................................................768
Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Albert Sinusas, Yale
University
Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Regularization Methods for Linear Inverse
Problems from a Common Statistical Framework ..................................................772
Yiheng Zhang, Alireza Ghodrati, Dana Brooks, Northeastern University
New Method of Image Reconstruction from Projections........................................776
Artyom Grigoryan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Shih-Chia Liu, EE Dept., University of Texas
at San Antonio
An Imaging Method In Diffraction Tomography Based On The Topological
Derivative.....................................................................................................................780
Gonzalo Feijoo, Sandia National Laboratories
Fast Spiral Fourier Transform for Iterative MR Image Reconstruction..............784
Michael Lustig, Jacob Tsaig, Jin Hyung Lee, David Donoho, Stanford University
An Adaptive Window Approach for Poisson Noise Reduction and Structure
Preserving in Confocal Microscopy ..........................................................................788
Alain Trubuil, INRA-MIA; Charles Kervrann, IRISA-INRIA Rennes / INRA-MIA
Sa_AM_P3: Image Analysis and Quality Assessment
Regional Lung Ventilation from Volumetric CT Scans Using Image
Warping Functions .....................................................................................................792
Smita Krishnan, Kenneth Beck, Joseph Reinhardt, Katherine Carlson, Eric Hoffman, University of Iowa;
Brett Simon, Johns Hopkins Med. Inst; Richard Albert, Denver Health Medical Center and University of
Colorado
Search Space Partitioning Using Convex Hull and Concavity Features for
Fast Medical Image Retrieval ....................................................................................796
Phillip Mlsna, Nikolay Sirakov, Northern Arizona University
Using Grey-Level And Shape Information for Decomposing Proteins In 3D
Images ..........................................................................................................................800
Ida-Maria Sintorn, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Centre for Image Anaysis; Susana Mata,
Rey Juan Carlos University, Department of Computer Science, Statistics and Telematics
Quantitative Analysis of Volumetric TPLSM Data.................................................804
Agustin Ifarraguerri, Beverly Thompson, Science Applications International Corporation; Philbert Tsai,
Beth Friedman, Chris Schaffer, Varda Lev-Ram, Roger Tsien, David Kleinfeld, University of California at
San Diego; Jeff Squier, Colorado School of Mines
A Minimum Reliable Scale Selection In 3D Images ................................................808
Christopher Wyatt, Virginia Tech; Yaorong Ge, PointDx, Inc.
Enhanced Snake-Based Segmentation of Vocal Folds.............................................812
Sonya Allin, John Galeotti, George Stetten, Carnegie Mellon University; Seth Dailey, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
Image Enhancement by The Tensor Transform......................................................816
Artyom Grigoryan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Fatma Arslan, EE Dept., University of Texas
at San Antonio
Trilateral Filtering for Biomedical Images...............................................................820
Wilbur C. K. Wong, Albert C. S. Chung, Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, HK; Simon C. H. Yu, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging,
The Prince of Wales Hospital, HK
Evaluation of Reproducibility for Perfusion Assessment of Tumors in MRI .......824
Edward Ashton, Seung Kim, VirtualScopics, LLC
Cardiac MR Image Segmentation: Quality Assessment of STACS .......................828
Charnchai Pluempitiwiriyawej, Jose Moura, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University; Yi-Jen Lin Wu, Chien Ho, Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Reseach, Carnegie Mellon
University;
Model-Observer Based Quality Measures for Decompressed Medical
Images ..........................................................................................................................832
Dunling LI, Murray Loew, George Washington University
Medical Software Control Quality Using the 3D Mojette Projector......................836
Jean-Pierre Guedon, Myriam Servieres, Nicolas Normand, IRCCyN - IVC Polytech'Nantes; Stephane
Beaumont, Radiotherapy Dpt, Hospital Center
Focal Cartilage Defect Progression Detection: Measurement of Precision
and Variation in Natural Characteristics of Cartilage Thickness Maps
Derived from 3D MRI Data .......................................................................................840
Monica Barbu-McInnis, Jose Tamez-Pena, Saara Totterman, VirtualScopics
Sa_AM_P4: Functional Neuroimaging I
An Exploratory Approach to Modelling Effective Connectivity............................844
Jagath Rajapakse, Kanyan Yang, Nanyang Technological University
Identification of A Large-Scale Functional Network In Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging .....................................................................................................848
Pierre Bellec, Guillaume Marrelec, Vincent Perlbarg, Saâd Jbabdi, Odile Jolivet, Mélanie Pélégrini-Issac,
Habib Benali, INSERM, IFR 49; Julien Doyon, Univeristy of Montreal
Selection of Spatially Independent Components to Explain Functional
Connectivity In fMRI .................................................................................................852
Vincent Perlbarg, Pierre Bellec, Habib Benali, Guillaume Marrelec, Saâd Jbabdi, Inserm
Combining Voxel Intensity And Cluster Extent With A Permutation Test
Framework ..................................................................................................................856
Satoru Hayasaka, VA SF Medical Center; Thomas Nichols, University of Michigan
Semi-Blind Deconvolution of Neural Impulse Response in Event-Related
fMRI Using a Gibbs Sampler ....................................................................................860
Salima Makni, Philippe Ciuciu, Jean Baptiste Poline, SHFJ/CEA; Jérôme Idier, IRCCyN/CNRS
Fusion of Simultaneous fMRI/EEG Data Based on the Electro-Metabolic
Coupling.......................................................................................................................864
Pierre-Jean Lahaye, Jean-Baptiste Poline, CEA, IFR 49; Sylvain Baillet, Line Garnero, LENA / CNRS, IFR
49
Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo Signal Detection In Functional
Neuroimaging Analysis...............................................................................................868
Ana Lukic, Miles Wernick, Yongyi Yang, Illinois Institute of Technology; Nikolas Galatsanos, University of
Ioannina; Stephen Strother, University Minnesota and VA Medical Center
Analysis of Correlated Activity in fMRI Data by Artificial Neural Networks .....872
Marotesa Voultsidou, University of Crete; Silke Dodel, Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot; Michael
Herrmann, Goettingen University
An fMRI Activation Method Using Complex Data .................................................876
Daniel Rowe, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin; Brent Logan, Division of
Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Sa_AM_OC1: MRI - New Approaches and Methods
Reconstruction of 3D Dense Cardiac Motion From Tagged MR Sequences ........880
Hsun-Hsien Chang, José Moura, Yijen Wu, Kazuya Sato, Chien Ho, Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Range of Harmonic Phase Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(HARP-MRI) ...............................................................................................................884
Vijay Parthasarathy, Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins University; Moriel NessAiver, University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Combined Tag Tracking and Myocardium Motion Reconstruction from Planar
Tagged MR Image Data Without User-Defined Myocardial Contours.................888
Thomas Denney, Xiang Deng, Auburn University
Accelerated Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Adaptive K-Space
Sampling ......................................................................................................................892
Nitin Aggarwal, Yoram Bresler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Motion Artifact Reduction in MRI through Generalized DFT ..............................896
Hans Knutsson, Mats Andersson, Magnus Borga, Medical Informatics, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,
Linköping University; Lars Wigström, Andreas Sigfridsson, Center for Medical Image Science and
Visualization, Linköping University
Unique Planar Color Coding of Fiber Bundles And Its Application To Fiber
Integrity Quantification..............................................................................................900
Mathias Schlueter, Jan Rexilius, Horst Hahn, Heinz Peitgen, MeVis; Bram Stieltjes, German Cancer
Research Center
Sa_AM_OC2: Image Registration
4D Image Warping for Measurement of Longitudinal Brain Changes .................904
Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania
Consistent Groupwise Non-Rigid Registration for Atlas Construction.................908
K.K. Bhatia, J.V. Hajnal, B.K. Puri, A.D. Edwards, D. Rueckert, Imperial College London
A Simulated Charged Fluid for Deformable Models...............................................912
Herng-Hua Chang, Daniel Valentino, University of California Los Angeles
Isolation and Minimization of Effects of Motion on fMRI Using Multiple
Reference Images ........................................................................................................916
Rui Liao, Jeffrey Krolik, Duke University; Martin McKeown, University of British Columbia
Symmetric, Transitive, Geometric Deformation And Intensity Variation
Invariant Nonrigid Image Registration ....................................................................920
Oskar Skrinjar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hemant Tagare, Yale Univeristy
Non-Rigid Registration of Shapes Via Diffeomorphic Point Matching.................924
Hongyu Guo, Anand Rangarajan, University of Florida; S. Joshi, University of North Carolina; L. Younes,
Johns Hopkins University
Sa_AM_OC3: Image Reconstruction II: Analytic
Directional Interpolation of Sparsely Sampled Cone-Beam CT Sinogram
Data ..............................................................................................................................928
Matthias Bertram, Georg Rose, Dirk Schäfer, Philips Research Laboratories; Jens Wiegert, Til Aach,
University of Lübeck
Exact 3D Cone-Beam Reconstruction From Projections Obtained Over a
Wobble Trajectory on a C-ARM...............................................................................932
Krishnakumar Ramamurthi, Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins University; Norbert Strobel, Siemens Medical
Solutions
Gridding-Based Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction From Projections
With Arbitrary Directions .........................................................................................936
Pawel Penczek, Robert Renka, The University of North Texas; Hermann Schomberg, Philips Research
An Observer Model Evaluation of Simultaneous Reconstruction And Motion
Estimation for Emission Tomography ......................................................................940
Zixiong Cao, David Gilland, University of Florida; Bernard Mair, North Carolina State University;
Benjamin Tsui, Johns Hopkins University
Cerebral Aneurysm Hemodynamics Modeling from 3D Rotational
Angiography ................................................................................................................944
Juan Cebral, Marcelo Castro, George Mason University; James Burgess, Christopher Putman, Inova
Fairfax Hospital
Multiple-Image Computed Tomography..................................................................948
Miles Wernick, Jovan Brankov, Dean Chapman, Mark Anastasio, Illinois Institute of Technology; Zhong
Zhong, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Carol Muehleman, Jun Li, Rush Medical College
Sa_AM_OC4: Ultrasound Imaging
A Regularized Approach to Freehand Ultrasound Elastography of
Breast Lesions..............................................................................................................952
Claire Pellot-Barakat, Michael Insana, Jerome Mai, Jean Tsou, Karen Lindfors, UC Davis; Frederique
Frouin, Alain Herment, INSERM U494; Patrick Von Behren, Siemens Medical Solutions
Comparison of Doppler Ultrasound Flow Resistance Indices in
Beta-Thalassemic, Sickle Cell Anemic and Control Mice.......................................956
Ekatherina Stoyanova, Guy Cloutier, University of Montreal Hospital Research Center; Marie Trudel,
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal; F. Foster, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health
Sciences Centre
Oblique Needle Segmentation for 3D Trus-Guided Robot-Aided Transperineal
Prostate Brachytherapy..............................................................................................960
Zhouping Wei, Lori Gardi, Donal Downey, Aaron Fenster, Robarts Research Institute
Coded Pulse Excitation for Ultrasonic Strain Imaging ...........................................964
Jie Liu, Michael Insana, University of California, Davis
3-D High Resolution Images of Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography
Compared To Magnetic Resonance And Optical Images .......................................968
Jeong-Won Jeong, Dae Shin, Tae-Seong Kim, Chengzheng Huang, Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical
Engineering; Synho Do, Manbir Singh, Vasilis Marmarelis, University of Southern California
Spatial Angular Compounding For Ultrasound Elastography ..............................972
Udomchai Techavipoo, Quan Chen, Tomy Varghese, James Zagzebski, Ernest Madsen, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Sa_PM_P1: Functional Neuroimaging II
Detecting Cortical Activations from fMRI Data Using a Recursive
STAP Algorithm..........................................................................................................976
Elizabeth Thompson, Purdue University Fort Wayne; Scott Holland, Vincent Schmithorst, Cincinnati
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Detection of Functional Networks In The Resting Brain ........................................980
Yong He, Yufeng Zang, Tianzi Jiang, Yingli Lu, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of
Automation; Xuchu Weng, Laboratory for Higher Brain Function, Institute of Psychology
Independent Component Analysis of Complex-Valued Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Data by Complex Nonlinearities .............................................984
Vince Calhoun, Institute of Living/Yale University; Tulay Adali, Yiou Li, University of Maryland Baltimore
County
Dimensionality and Degrees of Freedom in fMRI Data Analysis - A
Comparative Study .....................................................................................................988
Joakim Rydell, Magnus Borga, Hans Knutsson, Peter Lundberg, Linköping University
Selection of Temporal Models for Event-Related fMRI .........................................992
Sophie Donnet, Marc Lavielle, Université Paris-Sud; Philippe Ciuciu, Jean-Baptiste Poline, SHFJ/CEA
Simultaneous Estimation of Kinetic Parameters and the Input Function
from DCE-MRI Data: Theory and Simulation ........................................................996
Zhu Han, Z. Jane Wang, K. J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland, College Park; Yue Wang, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
Solving for Motion and Activation Simultaneously in an fMRI Experiment
with Multiple Stimulus Conditions .........................................................................1000
Jeff Orchard, University of Waterloo; M. Atkins, Simon Fraser University
Relevance Vector Machine Analysis of Functional Neuroimages ........................1004
Dimitris Tzikas, Aristeidis Likas, Nikolaos Galatsanos, University of Ioannina; Ana Lukic, Miles Wernick,
Illinois Institute of Technology
Clustering-Based Framework for Comparing fMRI Analysis Methods .............1008
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Henry Ford Health System; Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh, Ali-Mohammad
Golestani, University of Tehran
Comparison of Supervised And Unsupervised Linear Methods for
Recovering Task-Relevant Activity In EEG...........................................................1012
An Luo, Paul Sajda, Adam Gerson, Columbia University
Sa_PM_P2: MRI Cardiac and Diffusion Imaging
Constrained Projection Reconstruction for Reduced Encoding MR Diffusion
Tensor Imaging .........................................................................................................1016
Yi Jiang, Edward Hsu, Duke University
Distortion Correction using Mutual Information in 3D Diffusion Tensor
Microscopy.................................................................................................................1020
Nilesh Mistry, Edward Hsu, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
A Level Set Method for Building Anatomical Connectivity Paths Between
Brain Areas Using DTI.............................................................................................1024
Saâd Jbabdi, Pierre Bellec, Guillaume Marrelec, Habib Benali, INSERM
Recovery of Intra-voxel Structure from HARD DWI ...........................................1028
Yunmei Chen, Weihong Guo, Qingguo Zeng, Guojun He, Baba Vemuri, Yijun Liu, University of Florida
Statistical Analysis of a Nonlinear Estimator for ADC and Its Application to
Optimizing Diffusion Weighting Factors................................................................1032
Zhizhou Wang, Baba Vemuri, Evren Ozarslan, Yunmei Chen, Thomas Mareci, University Of Florida
Fiber Orientation Mapping Using Generalized Diffusion Tensor Imaging ........1036
Evren Ozarslan, Baba Vemuri, Thomas Mareci, University of Florida
PDE Denoising of MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data ........................................1039
Bin Chen, Edward Hsu, Duke University
A New Method to Measure Cross Sectional Area of Vessels in MRI Image
and Its Application in Stenosis Detection ...............................................................1043
Jing Jiang, Ming Dong, Waye State University; E. Mark Haacke, MRI Insitute
Improved Reconstruction of Dynamic Cardiac Perfusion MRI with
Use of a Reference Frame.........................................................................................1047
Dmitri Riabkov, Ed Di Bella, University of Utah
A Technique for Improving Tag Contrast Persistence in SSFP MRI
Imaging Using Adaptive Flip Angle ........................................................................1051
El-Sayed Ibrahim, Nael Osman, Johns Hopkins University
Detecting the Onset of Myocardial Contraction for Establishing Inverse
Electro-Mechanical Coupling in XMR Guided RF Ablation ...............................1055
Gerardo Sanchez-Ortiz, Raghavendra Chandrashekara, Imperial College London; Maxime Sermesant,
Kawal Rhode, Reza Razavi, Derek Hill, Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London
Spatial-Spectral Fat Suppression In Phase-Contrast Coronary Flow
Imaging ......................................................................................................................1059
Ersin Bayram, Robert Kraft, W. Hundley, Craig Hamilton, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Reconstruction of the Heart Boundary from Undersampled Cardiac
MRI using Fourier Shape Descriptors and Local Basis Functions ......................1063
Simon Arridge, Iason Kastanis, UCL; Avi Silver, Derek Hill, Reza Ravazi, KCL
Simplified Gamma-Variate Fitting of Perfusion Curves ......................................1067
Antoinette Chan, Sarah Nelson, University of California, San Francisco
Sa_PM_P3: Optical Imaging and Microscopy
Contaminant Detection: Improving Template Matching Based Particle
Selection for Cryo-Electron Microscopy ................................................................1071
Yuanxin Zhu, Bridget Carragher, Clinton Potter, The Scripps Research Institute
Estimating Alignment Errors in Sets of Images.....................................................1075
Philip Baldwin, Pawel Penczek, The University of Texas Houston Medical School
Dynamic Light Transport Through Scattering and Absorbing Media :
A Study Based on the Radiative Transfer Equation .............................................1079
Rachid Elaloufi, University College London; Rémi Carminati, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Ecole Centrale Paris
A Time and Photon Efficient Method of 3D Microscopic Imaging......................1083
Shuhong Li, Cha-Mei Tang, Creatv MIcroTech, Inc.; Cha-Min Tang, University of Maryland
How Accurately Can a Single Molecule be Localized When Imaged
Through an Optical Microscope?............................................................................1087
Raimund Ober, Sripad Ram, Sally Ward, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Confocal Microendoscope for Use in OB/GYN Applications ...............................1091
Josh Udovich, Andrew Rouse, Angelique Kano, Shona Kroto, Arthur Gmitro, University of Arizona
Penalty/Modified Barrier Function Method for Diagnostic Imaging Using
Area and Point Illumination Geometries in Fluorescence-Enhanced Optical
Tomography ..............................................................................................................1095
Ranadhir Roy, Anuradha Godavarty, Alan Thompson, Eva Sevick-Muraca, Texas A&M University
Contrast Enhancement and Artifact Reduction for Projected Index
Computed Tomography ...........................................................................................1099
Adam Zysk, Daniel Marks, P Carney, Stephen Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Fluorescence Enhanced Frequency
Domain Optical Tomography: Forward Imaging Problem..................................1103
Amit Joshi, Eva Sevick-Muraca, Alan Thompson, Texas A & M University; Wolfgang Bangerth, University
of Texas
Direct Reconstruction of Kinetic Parameter Images in Fluorescence Optical
Diffusion Tomography..............................................................................................1107
Adam Milstein, Seungseok Oh, Kevin Webb, Charles Bouman, Purdue University
Amplified Bimorph Scanning Mirror for Optical Coherence Tomography.......1111
Paul Patterson, Patrick Mills, Jason Zara, George Washington University
A Spatial Truncation Approach to the Analysis of Optical Imaging of the
Retina in Humans and Cats .....................................................................................1115
Michael Abramoff, Young Kwon, Randy Kardon, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; Daniel Ts'o,
SUNY Health Sciences; Pete Soliz, Kestrel co; Simone Berriga, Kestrel co; Hingbin Li, SUNY
Precision, Repeatability And Validation of Indirect 3D Anthropometric
Measurements With Light-Based Imaging Techniques ........................................1119
Reyes Enciso, Emmanuel Alexandroni, Krystal Benyamein, Robert Keim, James Mah, University of
Southern California
Enhancement of Microtubules In EM Tomography .............................................1123
Ming Jiang, Qiang Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Bruce McEwen, Wadsworth Center
Sa_PM_P4: Detection, Classification and Image Retrieval
Feature Based Statistical Analysis of Structural MR Data for Automatic
Detection of Focal Cortical Dysplastic (FCD) Lesions ..........................................1127
Siddharth Srivastava, Dirk Vandermeulen, Frederik Maes, Paul Suetens, MIC/PSI/ESAT Katholieke
University Leuven; Wim Van Paesschen, Dept. Of Neurology, University Hospital, Gasthuisberg; Patrick
Dupont, Dept. Of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Gasthuisberg
Full-Field Mammogram Analysis Based On The Identification of Normal
Regions .......................................................................................................................1131
Yajie Sun, Charles Babbs, Edward Delp, Purdue University
Detection of Bronchovascular pairs on HRCT Lung Images Through
Relational Learning ..................................................................................................1135
Mithun Prasad, Arcot Sowmya, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Automated Classification of Subcellular Patterns In Multicell Images
Without Segmentation Into Single Cells .................................................................1139
Kai Huang, Robert Murphy, Department of Biological Science & Center for Automated Learning and
Discovery,Carnegie Mellon University
MR Signal Inhomogeneity Correction for Visual And Computerized
Atherosclerosis Lesion Assessment .........................................................................1143
Olivier Salvado, David Wilson, Jasjit Suri, Case Western Reserve University; Claudia Hillenbrand,
Shaoxiong Zhang, University Hospitals of Cleveland
Feature Selection for The Characterization of Ultrasonic Images of The
Placenta Using Texture Classification ....................................................................1147
Pedro Linares, P. J. McCullagh, N. D. Black, University of Ulster; J. Dornan, Royal Jubilee Maternity
Service
Multi-set Multi-temporal Canonical Analysis of Psoriasis Images ......................1151
David Delgado Gomez, Allan Nielsen, Bjarne Ersboll, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling; Gabriela
Maletti, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Department of Agricultural Sciences
Qualitative Asymmetry Measure for Melanoma Detection ..................................1155
Michele d'Amico, Massimo Ferri, University di Bologna; Ignazio Stanganelli, Istituto Oncologico
Romagnolo
An Approximately Complete String Representation of Local Object Boundary
Features for Concept-Based Biomedical Image Retrieval ....................................1159
Sennay Ghebreab, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam; Arnold Smeulders, University of
Amsterdam
Mammogram Retrieval Based On Incremental Learning ....................................1163
Issam El Naqa, Washington University; Yongyi Yang, Nikolas Galatsanos, Miles Wernick, Illinois Institute
of Technology
Sa_PM_OS1: Wavelets in Biomedical Imaging
Wavelet-Based fMRI Statistical Analysis and Spatial Interpretation:
A Unifying Approach................................................................................................1167
Dimitri Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Penalized Partially Linear Models using Orthonormal Wavelet Bases with an
Application to fMRI Time Series.............................................................................1171
Jalal Fadili, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072; Ed Bullmore, Brain Mapping Unit University of Cambridge
Multiscale Analysis of fMRI Data with Mixture of Gaussian Densities ..............1175
Francois Meyer, Xilin Shen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Artifact Free Image Denoising with Morlet Integrated Wavelets........................1179
Peter Heinlein, Image Diagnost GmbH
Wavelet Analysis of Gene Expression (WAGE).....................................................1183
Federico Turkheimer, Dawn Duke, Linda Moran, Manuel Graeber, Imperial College London
Fusion of Brushlet and Wavelet Denoising Methods for Nuclear Images...........1188
Andrew Laine, Elsa Angelini, Y. Jin, P. Esser, R. Van Heertum, Columbia University
Fast Multiresolution Photon-Limited Image Reconstruction...............................1192
Rebecca Willett, Rice University; Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin
Sa_PM_OS2: Recent Advances in MRI: Methodologies and
Applications
Fast-Scan Imaging ....................................................................................................1196
Craig Meyer, University of Virginia
Parallel Imaging: System Design and Limitations.................................................1200
Steven Wright, Mary McDougall, Krishna Kurpad, David Brown, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas
A&M University
Parallel Imaging: Some Signal Processing Issues and Solutions ..........................1204
Zhi-Pei Liang, Dan Xu, Lei Yuan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lei Ying, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Technical Challenges in Functional Neuroimaging ...............................................1208
Douglas Noll, University of Michigan
Cardiac MRI..............................................................................................................1211
Leon Axel, NYU School of Medicine
Triple Quantum Filtered Sodium MRI of Primary Brain Tumors .....................1215
Fernando Boada, Denise Davis, Kevin Walter, Alejandro Torres-Trejo, Douglas Kondziolka, Walter
Bartynski, Frank Lieberman, University of Pittsburgh
Sa_PM_OS3: Image Formation and Analysis in Microscopy
Neurite Tracing in Fluorescence Microscopy Images using Ridge Filtering
and Graph Searching: Principles and Validation..................................................1219
Erik Meijering, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam; Mathews Jacob, J.-C. Floyd Sarria,
Pascal Steiner, Harald Hirling, Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
A Deconvolution Method for Confocal Microscopy with Total Variation
Regularization ...........................................................................................................1223
Nicolas Dey, Laure Blanc-Faraud, Josianne Zerubia, INRIA/I3S; Christophe Zimmer, Jean-Christophe
Olivo-Marin, Institut Pasteur; Zvi Kam, Weizmann Institute of Science
Quantitative Imaging: How to Measure Size Features in Digitized Images........1227
Lucas van Vliet, Piet Verbeek, Ian Young, Delft University of Technology
On the Feasibility of Axial Tracking of Fluorescent Nano-Particles Using a
Defocusing Model......................................................................................................1231
Nadja Subotic, Dimitri Van De Ville, Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Detection and Tracking of Rolling Leukocytes from Intravital Microscopy ......1235
Scott Acton, Nilanjan Ray, University of Virginia
Interacting Multiple Model Based Method to Track Moving Fluorescent
Biological Spots .........................................................................................................1239
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin, Auguste Genovesio, Bo Zhang, Institut Pasteur
Cell-Based Screening for Function..........................................................................1243
Zvi Kam, Tal Shay, Suha Naffar-Abu-Amara, Yael Paran, Eli Zamir, Yuvalal Liron, Benjamin Geiger,
Weizmann
Sa_PM_OC4: Shape Analysis
Differentiable Minimin Shape Distance For Incorporating Topological
Priors in Biomedical Imaging ..................................................................................1247
Yonggang Shi, William Karl, Boston University
Representing Multi-Figure Anatomical Objects....................................................1251
Qiong Han, Conglin Lu, Shawn Liu, Stephen Pizer, Sarang Joshi, Andrew Thall, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bone Model Morphing for Enhanced Surgical Visualization...............................1255
Kumar Rajamani, Martin Styner, M. E. Müller Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics;
Sarang Joshi, Medical Image Analysis Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Compact Support Radial Basis Functions for Soft Tissue Deformation .............1259
Mark Wachowiak, Xiaogang Wang, Aaron Fenster, Terry Peters, Robarts Research Institute
Simultaneous Recovery of Left Ventricular Shape and Motion Using
Meshfree Particle Framework .................................................................................1263
Pengcheng Shi, Huafeng Liu, Alexandra Wong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Albert
Sinusas, Yale University
Population Classification Based on Structural Morphometry of
Cortical Sulci .............................................................................................................1267
Edouard Duchesnay, Jean-François Mangin, Alexis Roche, Denis Rivière, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos,
Yann Cointepas, SHFJ/CEA
An Automated Method for Finding Curves of Sulcal Fundi On Human
Cortical Surfaces.......................................................................................................1271
Xiaodong Tao, Jerry Prince, The Johns Hopkins University; Christos Davatzikos, University of
Pennsylvania
Volumetric Harmonic Brain Mapping....................................................................1275
Xianfeng Gu, University of Florida; Tony Chan, University of California Los Angeles; Paul Thompson,
LONI, University of California Los Angeles Medical School; Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University; Yalin
Wang, Mathematics Department
Predictive Modeling of Anatomic Structures Using Canonical Correlation
Analysis ......................................................................................................................1279
Tianming Liu, Dinggang Shen, Christos Davatzikos, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Surface-Based Morphometry Using a Non-Parametric Approach ....1283
Dimitrios Pantazis, Richard Leahy, Signal and Image Processing Institute, Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California; Thomas Nichols, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan;
Martin Styner, Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics, University of Bern
Su_AM_P1: Image Segmentation II
Automatic Delimitation of Lung Fields on Chest Radiographs............................1287
Ana Mendonça, Jorge Silva, Aurélio Campilho, INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica
Segmentation and Separation of Point Like Fluorescent Markers in
Digital Images............................................................................................................1291
Patrick Karlsson, Joakim Lindblad, Centre for Image Analysis
A Supervised Method for Calculation of Perfusion/Diffusion Mismatch
Volume In Acute Stroke ...........................................................................................1295
Olaniiyi Osuntokun, Karmen Yoder, Askiel Bruno, Indiana University School Of Medicine; Judy James,
Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis; Evan Morris, Indiana University- Purdue University,
Indianapolis; Indiana University School Of Medicine
Domain Partitioning Level Set Surface for Topology Constrained
Multi-Object Segmentation......................................................................................1299
Gary Ho, Pengcheng Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Breast Mass Segmentation on Digital Mammograms by a Combined
Deterministic Annealing Method.............................................................................1303
AiZe Cao, Qing Song, XuLei Yang, Sheng Liu, Nanyang Technological University
A Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) Based Algorithm for Intensity Inhomogeneity
Correction and Segmentation of MR Images.........................................................1307
Weijie Chen, Maryellen Giger, The University of Chicago
An Adaptive Fuzzy Segmentation of Intravascular Ultrasound Images .............1311
Esmeraldo Santos Filho, Akira Tanaka, Takahiro Iwamoto, Tohoku University; Makoto Yoshizawa,
Information Sinergy Center; Yoshifumi Saijo, Tomoyuki Yambe, Shin-ichi Nitta, Institute of Development,
Aging and Cancer
Segmentation of Ultrasonic Images Using Learning Vector Quantization
Network......................................................................................................................1315
Michael Rychagov, Yuri Masloboev, Stanislav Ilin, Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical
University)
Segmentation of Arterial Geometry From Ultrasound Images Using Balloon
Models ........................................................................................................................1319
Chaoquan Chen, Tamie Poepping, Jason Beech-Brandt, Steven Hammer, Paul Allan, William Easson,
Peter Hoskins, University of Edinburgh; Richard Baldock, Bill Hill, MRC Human Genetics Unit
Comparison of Ventricular Geometry for Two Real Time 3D Ultrasound
Machines With Three Dimensional Level Set ........................................................1323
Andrew Laine, Elsa Angelini, Ryo Otsuka, Sunishi Homma, Columbia University
Sequential vs Simultaneous Stochastic Segmentation ...........................................1327
Eilat Vardi-Gonen, Gabor Herman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Su_AM_P2: EEG, MEG and Novel Imaging Modalities
Single-Cell Level Continuous Observation of Microorganism Galvanotaxis
Using High-Speed Vision..........................................................................................1331
Naoko Ogawa, Koichi Hashimoto, Masatoshi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo; Hiromasa Oku, PRESTO, JST
EEG Cortical Imaging: A Vector Field Approach for Laplacian Denoising
and Missing Data Estimation...................................................................................1335
Teodor Alecu, Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Thierry Pun, University of Geneva
Line-source Modeling and Estimation with Magnetoencephalography ..............1339
Imam Yetik, Arye Nehorai, University of Illinois at Chicago; Carlos Muravchik, Universidad Nacional de
La Plata, Argentina; Jens Haueisen, Neurological University Hospital, Philosophenweg 3D, Germany
Data-Driven Cortex Parcelling : A Regularization Tool for the EEG/MEG Inverse
Problem......................................................................................................................1343
Jean Daunizeau, Habib Benali, Imagerie Médicale Quantitative (U494), INSERM, Paris, France; Jeremie
Mattout, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, London,UK; Jean-Marc Lina, Bernard Goulard, CRM,
Montreal, Canada
Frequency Dispersion of Wave Velocity in Arterial Vessels.................................1347
Xiaoming Zhang, Mostafa Fatemi, James Greenleaf, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Development of Microwave Tomography for Functional Cardiac Imaging.......1350
Serguei Semenov, Vitaly Posukh, Alexander Bulyshev, Thomas Williams, Paula Clark, Carolinas Medical
Center; Yuri Sizov, Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research; Boris Voinov, Scientific
Research Insitutte of Experimental Physics
Nanoparticle-Enhanced Proton Computed Tomography: A Monte Carlo
Simulation Study.......................................................................................................1353
Reinhard Schulte, Vladimir Bashkirov, Loma Linda University Medical Center; David Williams, Hartmut
Sadrozinski, University of California at Santa Cruz; Tianfang Li, Zhengrong Liang, State University New
York Stony Brook; Steven Peggs, Todd Satogata, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Better Conditioning the MEG/EEG Inverse Problem: The Multivariate
Source Prelocalization Approach ............................................................................1361
Jeremie Mattout, University College London; Jean Daunizeau, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques;
Melanie Pelegrini-Issac, U483 INSERM; Line Garnero, UPR640 CNRS; Habib Benali, U494 INSERM
microRT: A Conformal Small Animal Irradiator .................................................1365
Daniel Low, Sasa Mutic, Perry Grigsby, Milos Vicic, Joseph Deasy, Andrew Hope, Washington University
Microwave Breast Imaging with an Under-Determined Reconstruction
Parameter Mesh ........................................................................................................1369
Paul Meaney, Qianqian Fang, Margaret Fanning, Sarah Pendergrass, Timothy Raynolds, Colleen Fox,
Keith Paulsen, Dartmouth College
Su_AM_P3: PET, SPECT and X-ray Imaging
Prompt Gamma-Ray Imaging for Small Animals .................................................1373
Robin Gardner, Libai Xu, North Carolina State University
Volumetric Micro-CT System for In Vivo Microscopy.........................................1377
Cristian Badea, Laurence Hedlund, Charles Wheeler, Wilfried Mai, G. Johnson, Duke University Medical
Center
A Likelihood-Based Framework for Quantification of Brain Receptor
PET Studies in The Pixel Domain ...........................................................................1381
Z. Jane Wang, Zhu Han, K. J. Ray Liu, UMD, CP; Zsolt Szabo, Johns Hopkins University Medical
Institution; József Varga, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Effect of Detector Scatter Restoration on Image Spatial Resolution and
Partial Volume ..........................................................................................................1384
Otman Sarrhini, Simon-Alexandre Lhussier, M'hamed Bentourkia, Université de Sherbrooke
Can the Specificity of MRI Breast Imaging be Improved by Fusing 3D
MRI Volume Data Sets with FDG PET? ................................................................1388
Marilyn E. Noz, Linda Moy, Fabio Ponzo, Elissa Kramer, NYU; Gerald Maguire Jr, Royal Institute of
Technology;
Lesion Quantification In Dual-Modality Mammography Using Expectation
Maximization With Attenuation Correction ..........................................................1392
Heng Li, Yibin Zheng, Mitali J. More, Patricia J. Goodale, Mark B. Williams, University of Virginia
Application of a PET Device with 1.5 mm FWHM Intrinsic Spatial
Resolution to Breast Cancer Imaging .....................................................................1396
Irving Weinberg, David Beylin, Steve Yarnall, Edward Anashkin, Pavel Stepanov, Sergei Dolinsky,
Naviscan PET System
Assessing The Similarity of Spatial Configurations Using Distance Differences
and Bending Energy: Application To Chromosomal Interphase Arrangements
In HeLa Cell Clones..................................................................................................1400
Juntao Gao, Roland Eils, German Cancer Research Center; Daniela Köhler, Irina Solovei, Thomas
Cremer, Ludwig Maximilians University; Julian Mattes, German Cancer Research Center and Ludwig
Maximilians University
Algorithm to Extend Reconstruction Field-of-View..............................................1404
Jiang Hsieh, Ed Chao, Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Brian Grekowicz, Amy Horst, Scott McOlash, Tom Myers,
GE Medical Systems
A New, Fast, Relaxation-Free, Convergent, Hessian-based, Ordered-Subsets
Algorithm for Emission Tomography.....................................................................1408
Ing-Tsung Hsiao, Chang-Gung University, Taiwan; Anand Rangarajan, Department of Computer and
Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida; Parmeshwar Khurd, Gene Gindi, Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook
Optimized Radiographic Spectra for Digital Subtraction Angiography in the
Mouse .........................................................................................................................1412
Ming De Lin, Cristian Badea, G. Johnson, Duke University
Tomographic Reconstruction From an Uncontrolled Sensor Trajectory ...........1416
Chris Baker, Christian Debrunner, William Hoff, Jamon Bowen, Colorado School of Mines; Mohamed
Mahfouz, University of TN, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
A Hierarchical Algorithm for Fast Backprojection in Helical Cone-Beam
Tomography ..............................................................................................................1420
Jeffrey Brokish, Yoram Bresler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fast Reconstruction for Unconstrained Cone Beam Tomosynthesis ...................1424
Beilei Wang, Kenneth Barner, University of Delaware; Denny Lee, Direct Radiography Corporation
Noise Analysis for Diffraction Enhanced Imaging ................................................1428
Miles Wernick, Jovan Brankov, Alejandro Saiz-Herranz, Illinois Institute of Technology
Effect of Scan Duration on Lesion Detectability in PET Oncology Imaging ......1432
Phillip Cheng, Paul Kinahan, Jae-Seung Kim, Thomas Lewellen, University of Washington; Claude
Comtat, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot; Carole Lartizien, ANIMAGE-CERMEP
Su_AM_P4: Non-Rigid Registration
2-D Electrophoresis Gel Registration Using Feature Matching ...........................1436
Mike Rogers, Jim Graham, University of Manchester; Robert Tonge, Astra Zenica
Intermodality Nonrigid Breast-Image Registration ..............................................1439
Ioana Coman, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ithaca College; Andrzej Krol, David
Feiglin, Wei Li, Department of Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Edward Lipson, Department
of Physics, Syracuse University; James Mandel, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Syracuse University; Karl Baum, Mehmet Unlu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Syracuse University;
Nonrigid Registration of Medical Image by Maxwell Model of
Viscoelasticity ............................................................................................................1443
Songyuan Tang, Tianzi Jiang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Evaluation of Cardiac PET-MRI Registration Methods Using a Numerical
Breathing Phantom...................................................................................................1447
Mika Pollari, Timo Mäkelä, Helsinki University of Technology; Jyrki Lötjönen, VTT Information
Technology; Nicoleta Pauna, Patrick Clarysse, CREATIS INSA; Anthonin Reilhac, McGill University;
Elastic Registration of Gel Electrophoresis Images Based on Landmarks and
Intensities ...................................................................................................................1451
Pascal Cathier, Siemens Medical Solutions; Stefan Woerz, Karl Rohr, International University in Germany
Fully Elastic Multi-Modality Image Registration Using Mutual Information....1455
Bilge Karacali, University of Pennsylvania
Multi-Modal Non-Rigid Registration Using a Stochastic Gradient
Approximation ..........................................................................................................1459
Mathieu De Craene, Aloys du Bois d'Aische, Benoît Macq, Université Catholique de Louvain; Florian
Kipfmueller, Neil Weisenfeld, Steven Haker, Simon Warfield, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Deformable Registration of Male Pelvises in CT Images......................................1463
Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania; Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins University
Su_AM_OS1: Optical Tomographic Imaging
Optical Tomographic Imaging of Small Tissue Volumes: From Rat Brains
to Human Finger Joints............................................................................................1467
Andreas Hielscher, A.D. Klose, A. Bluestone, J.M. Lasker, B. Moa-Anderson, J.M. Masciotti, G.
Abdoulaev, Columbia University; A. Scheel, Georg-August-University; M. Stewart, SUNY Downstate
Medical Center; U. Netz, J. Beuthan, Charité-University Medicine
Image-Quality Assessment in Optical Tomography..............................................1471
Matthew Kupinski, Eric Clarkson, The University of Arizona
Fluorescence Molecular Tomography: New Detection Schemes for
Acquiring High Information Content Measurements ...........................................1475
Vasilis Ntziachristos, Edward Graves, Ralf Schultz, Jorge Ripoll, Harvard University
High-Resolution Functional Photoacoustic Tomography .....................................1478
Lihong Wang, Xueding Wang, Geng Ku, George Stoica, Texas A&M University
Fluorescence-Enhanced Optical Imaging and Tomography for Cancer
Diagnostics .................................................................................................................1482
Eva Sevick-Muraca, Texas A&M University
Time Domain Optical Tomography ........................................................................1486
Simon Arridge, University College London
Su_AM_OS2: Methods for Functional Brain Mapping
Probabilistic ICA for fMRI......................................................................................1490
Christian Beckmann, Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain
Subspace Models for Functional MRI Data Analysis............................................1494
Ola Friman, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical
School
New Procedures for False Discovery Control ........................................................1498
Christopher Genovese, Carnegie Mellon University; Elisha Merriam, University of Pittsburgh
Effective Connectivity Analysis: Testing Commonalities and Differences
Across Multi-Subjects' Network by State-Space Model........................................1502
Moon-ho Ho, McGill University
A Closed-Form Method for Improving Inter-Subject Coherence in Diffusion
Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging .....................................................................1506
Nicholas Lange, Harvard University; Derek Jones, Carlo Pierpaoli, National Institutes of Health
SUMA: An Interface for Surface-Based Intra- and Inter-Subject Analysis
with AFNI ..................................................................................................................1510
Ziad Saad, Richard Reynolds, Robert Cox, Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of
Mental Health; Brenna Argall, Shruti Japee, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of
Mental Health
Su_AM_OC3: Novel Imaging Modalities
Magneto-Optical Detection of Weak Magnetic Fields...........................................1512
J Talmadge, J Eden, J Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Micro-CT System for Small Animal Imaging with Ultrafast Laser-Based
X-Ray Source.............................................................................................................1516
Andrzej Krol, Charles Chamberlain, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Jean-Claude Kieffer, Liming
Chen, INRS-Énergie et Matériaux, Université du Québec; Remy Toth, INRS-Énergie et Matériaux,
Université du Québec; Ioana Coman, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Ithaca College;
Edward Lipson, R.E. Kincaid, Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Bionano-Imaging Analysis in Cell Behavior Study................................................1521
Pushkar Mukewar, Georgia Institute of Technology; May Wang, School of Biomedical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Evaluation of Arterial Endothelial Function Using Transit Times of Artificially
Induced Pulses...........................................................................................................1525
Jonathan Maltz, Thomas Budinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Hyperspectral Imaging of Biological Targets: The Difference A High Resolution
Spectral Dimension And Multivariate Analysis Can Make..................................1529
Jerilyn Timlin, David Haaland, Michael Sinclair, Monica Manginell, Susan Brozik, Sandia National Labs;
M. Juanita Martinez, Margaret Werner-Werner-Washburne, John Guzowski, University of New Mexico
Developing Metrology for Tissue Engineering: Collinear Optical Coherence and
Confocal Fluorescence Microscopies.......................................................................1533
Joy Dunkers, Forrest Landis, Marcus Cicerone, James Cooper, Newell Washburn, NIST
Su_AM_OC4: Image Guided Surgery & Therapy
Radiofrequency Thermal Ablation: 3D MR-histology Correlation for
Localization of Cell Death in MR Lesion Images ..................................................1537
Michael Breen, Roee Lazebnik, Jonathan Lewin, Case Western Reserve University; Sherif Nour, University
Hospitals of Cleveland; David Wilson, Case Western Reserve University
A Segmentation-Based Automatic Navigation Technique for Virtual
Endoscopy..................................................................................................................1541
Bruno Carvalho, University of Pennsylvania; Gabor Herman, The Graduate Center - CUNY
Refining the Sonic Flashlight for Interventional Procedures ...............................1545
Wilson Chang, George Stetten, University of Pittsburgh; Nikhil Amesur, Michael Horowitz, University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center
Assessment of Radiation Mediated Gene Therapy Via Multi-Modality
Imaging ......................................................................................................................1549
Chad Haney, Adrian Parasca, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Martyna Elas, Marta Zamora, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory
Karczmar, Howard Halpern, Charles Pelizzari, University of Chicago
Application of Support Vector Clustering to the Visualization of Medical
Images ........................................................................................................................1553
Cristina Garcia, Jose Moreno, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Detection of The Functional Knee Center Using The Mean Helical Axis:
Application In Computer Assisted High Tibial Osteotomy ..................................1557
J. Daniel Gil, Chafiaâ Hamitouche, Christian Roux, LaTIM - INSERM and ENST Bretagne; Gwenaël
Guillard, LaTIM - INSERM; Eric Stindel, LaTIM - INSERM and Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche