MICCAI Young Scientist Award 2007 goes to Wolfgang Wein
Wolfgang Wein won this year's
MICCAI Young Scientist Award 2007 in the category "Visualization and Interaction", for the paper "Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound". Here is the quotation from the selection committee:
"This is a highly original contribution to the difficult problem of US to CT registration. In particular, the use of knowledge of simple US physics to generate an image with characteristics representative of clinical US images is highly innovative."
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