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Research At CAMP I was working on the methodological aspects of deformable registration with focus on problems arising in medical applications. Activities in Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis Communities Organization of the Tutorial on Deformable Registration at MICCAI 2010, with several colleagues from different groups. I have been serving as reviewer for a number of conferences and journals: Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) IEEE Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis (4DMOD) Publications 2014 M. Baust, D. Zikic, N. Navab Variational Level Set Segmentation in Riemannian Sobolev Spaces British Machine Vision Conference, Nottingham, GB, September 2014. (bib) 2011 D. Zikic, M. Baust, A. Kamen, N. Navab A General Preconditioning Scheme for Difference Measures in Deformable Registration IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Barcelona, Spain, November 06-13 2011. (bib) 2010 D. Zikic, B. Glocker, O. Kutter, M. Groher, N. Komodakis, A. Kamen, N. Paragios, N. Navab Linear Intensity-based Image Registration by Markov Random Fields and Discrete Optimization Medical Image Analysis, 22 April, 2010. (bib) D. Zikic, M. Baust, A. Kamen, N. Navab Generalization of Deformable Registration in Riemannian Sobolev Spaces International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) in Beijing, China, September 20-24 2010. (bib) D. Zikic, A. Kamen, N. Navab Revisiting Horn and Schunck: Interpretation as Gauß-Newton Optimisation British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) in Aberystwyth, Wales, 31th August - 3rd September 2010. (bib) M. Baust, D. Zikic, N. Navab Diffusion-based Regularisation Strategies for Variational Level Set Segmentation 21st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, August 31 - September 3 2010. (bib) D. Zikic, A. Kamen, N. Navab Unifying Characterization of Deformable Registration Methods Based on the Inherent Parameterization International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), in Lübeck, Germany, July 11-13 2010. (bib) M. Groher, M. Baust, D. Zikic, N. Navab Monocular Deformable Model-to-Image Registration of Vascular Structures International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), in Lübeck, Germany, July 11-13 2010. (bib) D. Zikic, A. Kamen, N. Navab Natural Gradients for Deformable Registration IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in San Francisco, CA, USA, June 13-18 2010. (bib) W. Wein, O. Kutter, A. Aichert, D. Zikic, A. Kamen, N. Navab Automatic non-linear mapping of pre-procedure CT volumes to 3D ultrasound IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 14 - 17 2010. (bib) D. Zikic, B. Glocker, O. Kutter, M. Groher, N. Komodakis, A. Kamen, N. Paragios, N. Navab Markov Random Field Optimization for Intensity-based 2D-3D Registration SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 13-18 February 2010 (bib) 2009 A. Khamene, D. Zikic, M. Diallo, T. Boettger, E. Rietzel A Novel Intensity Similarity Metric with Soft Spatial Constraint for a Deformable Image Registration Problem in Radiation Therapy. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), London, UK, September 20-24 2009. (bib) B. Glocker, D. Zikic, N. Komodakis, N. Paragios, N. Navab Linear Image Registration through MRF Optimization IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Boston, MA, USA, June 28-July 1 2009. (bib) M. Groher, D. Zikic, N. Navab Deformable 2D-3D Registration of Vascular Structures in a One View Scenario IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 28 (6), pp. 847-860 (bib) 2008 D. Zikic, B. Glocker, M. S. Hansen, A. Khamene, N. Navab Construction of Statistical Shape Models from Minimal Deformations Workshop "Manifolds in Medical Imaging: Metrics, Learning and Beyond" in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), New York City, NY, USA, September 2008 (bib) D. Zikic, M. S. Hansen, B. Glocker, A. Khamene, R. Larsen, N. Navab Computing Minimal Deformations: Application to Construction of Statistical Shape Models. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 24-26, 2008 (bib) D. Zikic, M. Groher, A. Khamene, N. Navab Deformable Registration of 3D Vessel Structures to a Single Projection Image. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (bib) D. Zikic, S. Sourbron, X. Feng, H. J. Michaely, A. Khamene, N. Navab Automatic Alignment of Renal DCE-MRI Image Series for Improvement of Quantitative Tracer Kinetic Studies. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (bib) S. Atasoy, M. Groher, D. Zikic, B. Glocker, T. Waggershauser, M. Pfister, N. Navab Real-Time Respiratory Motion Tracking: Roadmap Correction for Hepatic Artery Catheterizations SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (bib) 2007 A. Khamene, L. Schwarz, D. Zikic, F. Azar, E. Rietzel, N. Navab A Unified and Efficient Approach for Free-form Deformable Registration IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 2007 (bib) M. Blume, D. Zikic, W. Wein, N. Navab A New and General Method for Blind Shift-Variant Deconvolution of Biomedical Images Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 2007 (bib) A. Martinez-Möller, D. Zikic, R. Botnar, R. Bundschuh, W. Howe, S. I. Ziegler, N. Navab, M. Schwaiger, S. Nekolla Dual Cardiac-Respiratory Gated PET: Implementation and Results from a Feasibility Study European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2007;34:1447-1454. (bib) 2006 D. Zikic, W. Wein, A. Khamene, D.-A. Clevert, N. Navab Fast Deformable Registration of 3D-Ultrasound Using a Variational Approach Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2006), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2006 (bib) D. Zikic, A. Khamene, N. Navab Intensity-Unbiased Force Computation for Variational Motion Estimation. Workshop on Image Registration in Deformable Environments in conjunction with the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2006 (bib)

Finished Student Projects

• Multimodal Deformable Registration by Mutual Information, (SEP) Ralf Stauder
• Cardiac PET-SPECT Registration, (IDP) Brian Jensen
• Analysis of the Intensity-Bias in Image Registration, (SEP) Thomas Kasper
• Application of Different Regularization Methods to Non-Rigid Registration of Medical Images, (SEP) Christian Konrad
• Non-rigid Registration Using Free-form Deformations, (Diploma Thesis) Loren Schwarz
• Implementation of Direct Optimization Techniques for Deformable Image Registration, (SEP) Patrick Wucherer
• Regularization Terms for Deformable Registration, (IDP) Christian Konrad
• Deformable Registration for Bolus Tracking Procedures, (SEP) Xinxing Feng
• Towards Fusion of IVUS and OCT Images, (Diploma Thesis) Olivier Pauly
• Discrete Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation in Non-Rigid Image Registration, (Diploma Thesis) Ben Glocker
• Multi-View Deconvolution of Biomedical Images, (Diploma Thesis) Moritz Blume

Teaching Assistance

Courses and projects I did at the group as undergraduate student

• Variational Deformable Registration for Medical Applications (Diploma Thesis - 2006/04/15)
• MR Based Attenuation Maps for PET Measurements (IDP - 2005/02/01)
• 3D Rotations and Quaternions^? (Seminar - Summer Term 2004)
• Computed Tomography Reconstruction (Algebraic and Stochastic Approach)^? (Seminar - Summer Term 2004)

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