14 Papers accepted at MICCAI 2007

Once again hard and intelligent collaborative work has been paid off. The last year success was remarkable and this year we have gone even further.
We have 14 papers accepted at MICCAI 2007!

MICCAI is based on full paper submissions and double blind review process in which each paper receives at least 6 peer reviews. MICCAI 2007 received 637 papers submissions. Only 237 got accepted (35% acceptance rate).
Congratulations ...

Primal/Dual Linear Programming and Statistical Atlases for Cartilage Segmentation
Ben Glocker^1,2, Nikos Komodakis², Nikos Paragios², Christian Glaser³, Georgios Tziritas⁴, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, Technische Universität München, Germany
²GALEN Group, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
³Department of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
⁴Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece

Segmentation-driven 2D-3D Registration for Abdominal Catheter Interventions
Martin Groher¹, Frederik Bender¹, Ralph-Thorsten Hoffmann, MD², Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²Department of Clinical Radiology, University-Hospitals Munich-Großhadern, Germany

A Multi-View Opto-Xray Imaging System: Development and First Application in Trauma Surgery
Joerg Traub¹, Hauke Tim Heibel¹, Philipp Dressel¹, Sandro-Michael Heining², Rainer Graumann³, Nassir Navab^1
1 Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
² Trauma Surgery Department, Hospital Innenstadt, LMU Munich
³ Siemens AX, Erlangen, Germany

Virtually Extended Surgical Drilling Device: Virtual Mirror for Navigated Spine Surgery
Christoph Bichlmeier¹, Sandro Michael Heining², Mohammad Rustaee¹, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²Trauma Surgery Department, Klinikum Innenstadt, Ludwig Maximilian Universität München

Online Estimation of the Target Registration Error for n-ocular Optical Tracking Systems
Tobias Sielhorst, Martin Bauer, Gudrun Klinker, Nassir Navab
Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich

Fiducial-Free Registration Procedure for Navigated Bronchoscopy
Tassilo Klein¹, Joerg Traub¹, Hubert Hautmann², Alireza Ahmadian³, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²Pneumology Department, Hospital rechts der Isar, TU Munich
³Biomedical Systems and Medical Physics Group in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, TUMS

Towards intra-operative 3D nuclear imaging: reconstruction of 3D radioactive distributions using tracked gamma probes
Thomas Wendler¹, Alexander Hartl¹, Tobias Lasser¹, Joerg Traub¹, Farhad Daghighian² ,Sibylle Ziegler³, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²IntraMedical Imaging LLC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
³Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital rechts der Isar, TU Munich

A Boosted Segmentation Method for Surgical Workflow Analysis
Nicolas Padoy¹, Tobias Blum¹, Irfan Essa², H. Feussner³, Marie-Odile Berger⁴, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA
³Surgery Department, Hospital rechts der Isar, TU Munich
⁴LORIA-MAGRIT, INRIA Lorraine, Nancy, France

Magneto-optic Tracking of a Flexible Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Laparoscope Augmentation
Marco Feuerstein¹, Tobias Reichl¹, Jakob Vogel¹, Armin Schneider², Hubertus Feussner², Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²Surgery Department, Hospital rechts der Isar, TU Munich

Real-time fusion of ultrasound and gamma probe for navigated localization of liver metastases
Thomas Wendler¹, Marco Feuerstein¹, Jörg Traub¹, Tobias Lasser¹, Jakob Vogel¹, Sibylle Ziegler², Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich
²Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital rechts der Isar, TU Munich

Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound
Wolfgang Wein^1,2, Ali Khamene¹, Dirk-Andre Clevert³, Oliver Kutter², Nassir Navab^2
1Imaging & Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ USA
²Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich, Germany
³Department of Clinical Radiology, University-Hospitals Munich-Großhadern, Germany

Quality-based Registration and Reconstruction of Optical Tomography Volumes
Wolfgang Wein^1,2, Moritz Blume¹, Ulrich Leischner³, Hans-Ulrich Dodt³, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich, Germany
²Imaging & Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ USA
³Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

A New and General Method for Blind Shift-Variant Deconvolution of Biomedical Images
Moritz Blume¹, Darko Zikic¹, Wolfgang Wein^1,2, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich, Germany
²Imaging & Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ USA

Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing
Christian Wachinger¹, Wolfgang Wein^1,2, Nassir Navab^1
1Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality, TU Munich, Germany
²Imaging & Visualization Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ USA