Personalized Blood Flow Simulation from an Image-Derived Model: Changing the Paradigm for Cardiovascular Diagnostics Abstract: Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for 1/3 of all global deaths. Treatment of stable coronary heart disease is typically performed by medication/lifestyle for a lower disease burden or PCI (stenting) for a greater disease … Continued
Improving clinical application of cardiac diffusion tensor MRI Abstract Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (MRDTI), also known as DTI, has emerged as a powerful non-invasive tool for mapping the orientation-dependent microanatomical organization of fibrous organs such as brain white matter and myocardium. To do so, it elegantly relates the self-diffusion of water molecules that undergo Brownian … Continued
Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging for Diagnosis and Intervention: A Machine Learning Approach Abstract: In recent years, quantitative ultrasound has emerged as a promising technology to improve diagnosis, increase the precision of interventions, and automate the acquisition of data specially in point-of- care settings. Advancements in machine learning and computation power have contributed significantly to these developments in quantitative imaging. In … Continued
Segmenting 2D+T ultrasound imaging data in fetus: improving the estimation of biomarkers of risky adaptations Abstract: Approximately 10% of the pregnancies are complicated by growth restriction and 7% of pregnancies are complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). In addition, the increasing rate of obesity will likely rise the proportion of pregnancies complicated by both Type … Continued
Fourth MICCAI Workshop & Challenge on Spine Imaging In this workshop, we are inviting researchers to share and exchange their experience and expertise in spinal imaging and method development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Clinical applications of spine imaging Computer-aided diagnosis of spine conditions Image-guided spine intervention and treatment … Continued
Understanding brain connectivity in a network-theoretic context has shown much promise in recent years. This type of analysis identifies brain organisational principles, bringing a new perspective to neuroscience. At the same time, large public databases of connectomic data are now available. However, connectome analysis is still an emerging field and there is a crucial need … Continued
This year we are co-organising the Workshop on Brain Analysis using Connectivity Networks at MICCAI’16 in Athens in the morning of Monday 17/10/2016. Please consider to submit your work until 10/06/2016! This workshop targets researchers for whom the effects of motion are critical in image analysis or visualisation. By inviting contributions across application areas we … Continued
U-net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation Abstract: In this talk I will present our u-net for biomedical image segmentation. The architecture consists of an analysis path and a synthesis path with additional shortcut-connections. The network is trained end-to-end from scratch with a very low number of annotated images per application. The surprisingly simple strategy to … Continued
Quantifying MRI: from reconstruction to application in neuroimaging Abstract: To understand the origin and development of neurological disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has proven to provide valuable quantitative measures. In this overview presentation, I will touch upon several topics. Volumetric measures obtained via segmentation find their application in prenatal famine exposure, HIV and ischemic stroke. … Continued
Finding the needle in the haystack: detection, tracking and registration in biomedical imaging Abstract From centimeter-sized observations visible in endoscopy to nanometer large intra-cellular structures discernible with Electron Microscopes, searching and locating objects of interest in images is a central problem in medical image computing. If anything, the need for efficient object detection techniques … Continued