Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions

1. Front Matter

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2. Simulation

   1. Development and Procedural Evaluation of Immersive Medical Simulation Environments

      • Patrick Wucherer, Philipp Stefan, Simon Weidert, Pascal Fallavollita, Nassir Navab

      Pages 1-10

   2. Generation of Synthetic 4D Cardiac CT Images for Guidance of Minimally Invasive Beating Heart Interventions

      • Feng P. Li, Martin Rajchl, James A. White, Aashish Goela, Terry M. Peters

      Pages 11-20

3. Neurosurgical Interventions

   1. Intra-operative Identification of the Subthalamic Nucleus Motor Zone Using Goniometers

      • Reuben R. Shamir, Renana Eitan, Sivan Sheffer, Odeya Marmor-Levin, Dan Valsky, Shay Moshel et al.

      Pages 21-29

   2. Model-Guided Placement of Cerebral Ventricular Catheters

      • Ingerid Reinertsen, Asgeir Jakola, Ole Solheim, Frank Lindseth, Geirmund Unsgård

      Pages 30-39

4. Ultrasound-Guided Interventions

   1. Ultrasound-Based Image Guidance for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Initial in-vivo Results

      • Omid Mohareri, Caitlin Schneider, Troy K. Adebar, Mike C. Yip, Peter Black, Christopher Y. Nguan et al.

      Pages 40-50

   2. Augmentation of Paramedian 3D Ultrasound Images of the Spine

      • Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi

      Pages 51-60

   3. 3D Segmentation of Curved Needles Using Doppler Ultrasound and Vibration

      • Troy K. Adebar, Allison M. Okamura

      Pages 61-70

   4. Mobile EM Field Generator for Ultrasound Guided Navigated Needle Insertions

      • Keno März, Alfred M. Franz, Bram Stieltjes, Justin Iszatt, Alexander Seitel, Boris Radeleff et al.

      Pages 71-80

5. Image-Guided Interventions

   1. First Flexible Robotic Intra-operative Nuclear Imaging for Image-Guided Surgery

      • José Gardiazabal, Tobias Reichl, Aslı Okur, Tobias Lasser, Nassir Navab

      Pages 81-90

   2. Robust Real-Time Image-Guided Endoscopy: A New Discriminative Structural Similarity Measure for Video to Volume Registration

      • Xiongbiao Luo, Hirotsugu Takabatake, Hiroshi Natori, Kensaku Mori

      Pages 91-100

   3. Declustering n-Connected Components for Segmentation of Iodine Implants in C-Arm Fluoroscopy Images

      • Chiara Amat di San Filippo, Gabor Fichtinger, William James Morris, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Ehsan Dehghan, Pascal Fallavollita

      Pages 101-110

6. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2013, held in Heidelberg, Germany, on June 26, 2013. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on simulation, neurosurgical interventions, ultrasound guided interventions, and image guided interventions.

• 3D ultrasound
• image segmentation
• patient-specific modeling
• real-time imaging
• robot surgery

• Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, UK

  Dean Barratt

• INRIA, Shacra, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

  Stéphane Cotin

• School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

  Gabor Fichtinger

• Inserm/Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

  Pierre Jannin

• Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

  Nassir Navab

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