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Program Committee Andreas Adam, MB, RCP, FRCR Guy’s Hospital, London (UK)

Davide Caramella, MD University of Pisa (I)

Paul R. Algra, MD, PhD Medisch Centrum Alkmaar (NL)

Robert Cavézian, MD Cabinet de Radiologie, Paris (F)

David J. Allison, MD Hammersmith Hospital, London (UK)

Curtis Ssu-Kuang Chen, DDS, MSD, PhD National Taiwan University, Taipei (CHN)

Mostafa Analoui, PhD Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN (USA)

S. James Chen, PhD University of Colorado, Denver, CO (USA)

Yutaka Ando, MD Keio University, Tokyo (J)

Kiyoyuki Chinzei, PhD Mechanical Engineering Lab. AIST, Ibaraki (J)

Licinio Angelini, MD, FACS Università “La Sapienza”, Rome (I)

Philippe Cinquin, MD, PhD CHU Grenoble, La Tronche (F)

Takehide Asano, MD, PhD Chiba University School of Medicine (J)

Michel Claudon, MD Hôpitaux de Brabois, Vandoeuvre (F)

Charles Babbush, DDS, MScD Beachwood, OH (USA)

Claus D. Claussen, MD Eberhard-Karls-Univ. Tübingen (D)

Frits H. Barneveld Binkhuysen, MD, PhD Hospital Eemland, Amersfoort (NL)

Kevin Cleary, PhD Georgetown University, Washington, DC (USA)

Leonard Berliner, MD Swissray International, Staten Island, NY (USA)

Alan C.F. Colchester, MD, PhD University of Kent, Canterbury (UK)

Silvio Diego Bianchi, MD Università degli Studi di Torino (I)

Bernard L. Crowe, BA, MPH Health Inf. Soc. of Australia, Canberra (AUS)

Desmond H. Birkett, MD Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA (USA)

Steven L. Dawson, MD Massachusetts Gen. Hospital, Boston, MA (USA)

Uldis Bite, MD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (USA)

Albert de Roos, MD Leiden University Medical Center (NL)

Michel Bléry, MD Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (F)

Carlo del Favero, MD Ospedale ”Valduce”, Como (I)

Siegfried Bocionek, PhD Siemens Health Services GmbH, Erlangen (D)

Robert Di Paola, PhD CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris (F)

Klaus Bohndorf, MD Zentralklinikum Augsburg (D)

Anthony M. DiGioia III, MD Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)

Nicolaas Bom, PhD Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (NL)

Rüdiger Dillmann, PhD University of Karlsruhe (D)

Carlos A. Bruguera, MD Inst. de Ensenanza Audiovisual, Buenos Aires (RA)

Takeyoshi Dohi, PhD The University of Tokyo (J)

Jean Noel Bruneton, MD Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice (F)

Gerhard Michael Doll, MD, DDS Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (D)

Richard D. Bucholz, MD, FACS Saint Louis University (USA)

Huilong Duan, PhD Zhejiang University Hangzhou (RC)

Gerhard Buess, MD Nova Med Klinik, München (D)

André J. Duerinckx, MD, PhD VA North Texas HC System, Dallas, TX (USA)

Oliver Burgert University of Karlsruhe (D)

Samuel J. Dwyer III, PhD University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (USA)

Jean-Marie Caillé, MD Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux (F)

Masahiro Endo, PhD National Inst. of Radiological Sciences, Chiba (J)

vii Rolf Ewers, MD, DMD Allg. Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien (A)

Steven C. Horii, MD Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (USA)

Taeko T. Farman, PhD, DMD, RT University of Louisville (USA)

Walter Hruby, MD Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Ost, Wien (A)

Kevin T. Foley, MD Image-Guided Surgery Research Center, Memphis, TN (USA)

H.K. Huang, DSc, FRCR (Hon.) Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Erik Fosse, MD, PhD University of Oslo (N) Manfred Franetzki Centre for Dental Innovations, Bensheim (D) Bernard Fraysse, MD Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse (F) Barry Freydberg, DDS Skokie, IL (USA) Hiroshi Fujita, PhD Gifu University (J)

Junpei Ikezoe, MD Ehime University (J) Herwig Imhof, MD Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien (A) Hiroshi Iseki, MD, PhD Tokyo Women's Medical College (J) Takeo Ishigaki, MD, PhD Nagoya University (J) Akira Ito, PhD Japanese Foundation for Cancer Res., Tokyo (J)

Günther Gell, PhD Universität Graz - Landeskrankenhaus (A)

Ian T. Jackson, MD Inst. for Craniofacial and Reconstr. Surgery, Southfield, MI (USA)

Bernard Gibaud Université de Rennes I (F)

Pierre Jannin, PhD Université de Rennes I (F)

Maryellen L. Giger, PhD The University of Chicago (USA)

Werner Jaschke, MD Univ-Klinik für Radiodiagnostik, Innsbruck (A)

Stephen Golding, FRCR University of Oxford, Headington (UK)

Jack Jellins, PhD Intern. Breast Ultrasound School, Sydney (AUS)

Cornelis A. Grimbergen, MSc, PhD University of Amsterdam (NL)

Peter Jensch, PhD OFFIS e.V., Oldenburg (D)

Dietrich H.W. Grönemeyer, MD Universität Witten-Herdecke (D)

Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)

Sven Gürke, PhD Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt (D)

Leo Joskowicz, PhD The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)

Daijo Hashimoto, MD, PhD Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital (J)

Willi A. Kalender, PhD Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen (D)

Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD, FACS Kyushu University, Fukuoka (J)

Eiji Kanehira, MD Kanazawa University (J)

Stefan Haßfeld, MD, MDS Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg (D)

Isamu Kashima, DDS, PhD Kanagawa Dental College (J)

David J. Hawkes, PhD Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Hosp., London (UK)

Amami Kato, MD, PhD Osaka University Medical School (J)

J.H.C. Hendriks, MD University Hospital Nijmegen (NL)

Ron Kikinis, MD Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)

Claudia I. Henschke, MD, PhD The New York Hospital (USA)

Reinhard Klette, PhD University of Auckland (NZ)

Atsuko Heshiki, MD Saitama Medical School (J)

Klaus Jochen Klose, MD Universitäts-Klinikum, Marburg (D)

Kenneth R. Hoffmann, PhD University at Buffalo (USA)

Goran Knezevic, DDS, PhD University of Zagreb (HR)

Karl-Heinz Höhne, PhD Universität Hamburg (D)

Hidefumi Kobatake, PhD Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (J)

viii Masahiro Kobayashi, MD Keio University, Tokyo (J)

Hans-Peter Meinzer, PhD Deutsches Krebsforschungsz., Heidelberg (D)

Martti Kormano, MD, PhD Turku University Central Hospital (FIN)

Andreas Melzer, MD Mühlheimer Radiologie Inst., Mülheim/Ruhr (D)

Takahiro Kozuka, MD, PhD Kaizuka Municipal Hospital, Osaka (J)

Reto A. Meuli, MD CHUV, Lausanne (CH)

Uwe G. Kühnapfel, PhD Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (D)

Kazuo Miyasaka, MD Hokkaido University, Sapporo (J)

Chikazumi Kuroda, MD Osaka Medical Center for Cancer (J)

Kensaku Mori, PhD Nagoya University (J)

Frode Laerum, MD, PhD, MHA University of Oslo (N) J. Thomas Lambrecht, MD, DMD, PhD University of Basle (CH) Philipp Lang, MD Stanford University Medical Center (USA) Tore A. Larheim, PhD, DDS University of Oslo (N) Stéphane Lavallée, PhD PRAXIM, La Tronche (F) Swamy Laxminarayan, PhD New Jersey Inst.of Technology, Newark, NJ (USA) Lilian L.Y. Leong, MBBS Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong (RC) Yves Ligier, PhD CareON S.A., Grand Saconnex (CH) Jae Hoon Lim, MD Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul (ROK) Martin J. Lipton, MD The University of Chicago Hospitals (USA) Yu-Qing Liu, MD FuWai Hospital & Cardiovascular Inst., Beijing (RC) Tim C. Lueth, PhD Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin (D) Riley H. Lunn, DDS Chattanoooga, TN (USA) Heber MacMahon, MD The University of Chicago (USA) Sumio Makino, PhD Yokohama-City (J)

Seong K. Mun, PhD Georgetown University, Washington, DC (USA) Robert M. Nishikawa, PhD The University of Chicago (USA) Hiromu Nishitani, MD, PhD The University of Tokushima (J) Lutz-P. Nolte, PhD Maurice E. Müller Institute , Bern (CH) Fridtjof Nüsslin, PhD Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen (D) Takahiro Ochi Osaka University (J) Masahiro Ohgami, MD, PhD Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo (J) Nagaaki Ohyama, PhD Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama (J) Tomohiro Okano, DDS, PhD Showa University, Tokyo (J) Silas Olsson, MSc Telia Research AB, Farsta (S) Stelios Orphanoudakis, PhD Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion (GR) Michel Osteaux, MD, PhD Vrije Universiteit Brussels (B) Paolo Pavone, MD Università “La Sapienza”, Rome (I) Heinz-Otto Peitgen, PhD University of Bremen (D) Prem Pillay, MD Asian Brain Spine Nerve Center, Singapore (SGP) E. James Potchen, MD Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (USA)

Roman Marciniak, MD Medical University Wroclaw (PL)

Henri Primo Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Iselin, NJ (USA)

Borut Marincek, MD Universitätsspital Zürich (CH)

Jörg Raczkowsky, PhD University of Karlsruhe (D)

Herbert K. Matthies, PhD Hannover Medical School (D)

Osman M. Ratib, MD, PhD University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

ix Hans F. Reinhardt, MD Bethesda Spital, Basle (CH)

Shin-ichi Tamura, PhD Osaka University Medical School (J)

Maximilian Reiser, MD Klinikum Großhadern, München (D)

Russell H. Taylor, PhD Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)

Stephen J. Riederer, PhD Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (USA)

Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, PhD University Hospital Utrecht (NL)

Otto Rienhoff, MD Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen (D)

Andrew E. Todd-Pokropek, PhD University College of London (UK)

Richard A. Robb, PhD Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN (USA)

Thomas Tolxdorff, PhD Freie Universität Berlin (D)

Ichiro Sakuma, PhD The University of Tokyo (J)

Jun-Ichiro Toriwaki, PhD Nagoya University (J)

Georges Salamon, MD NW University Med. School, Chicago, IL (USA)

Hikmet Umar, DMD, MSIS, DIC, PhD Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (USA)

Richard M. Satava, MD Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA)

Vlastimil Valek, MD, PhD University Hospital Brno (CZ)

Ronald B. Schilling, PhD PGI Corporation, Los Altos Hills, CA (USA)

Ernst E. van der Wall Leiden University Medical Center (NL)

Peter M. Schlag, MD, PhD Robert-Rössle-Klinik, Berlin (D)

Rob van Geuns Philips Medical Systems, Best (NL)

Wolfgang Schlegel, PhD Deutsches Krebsforschungsz., Heidelberg (D)

Paul P.F.G.M. van Waes, MD, PhD University Hospital Utrecht (NL)

Rainer M.M. Seibel, MD Universität Witten/Herdecke, Mülheim/Ruhr (D)

Jos Vander Sloten, PhD Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee (B)

Wolfhard Semmler, MD Deutsches Krebsforschungsz., Heidelberg (D)

Robert H. Vandre, DDS, MS US Army, Maryland, MD (USA)

Jean Sequeira, PhD Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille (F)

Max A. Viergever, PhD Utrecht University (NL)

Iekado Shibata, MD, PhD Toho University, Tokyo (J)

Clemens von Birgelen, MD Universitätsklinikum Essen (D)

Faina Shtern, MD Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA)

J. Anthony von Fraunhofer, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD (USA)

Robert Sigal, MD, PhD Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif (F)

Robert F. Wagner, PhD Food and Drug Admin., Rockville, MD (USA)

Milan Sonka, PhD University of Iowa (USA)

Richard. Webber, DDS, PhD Bowman Gray School, Winston-Salem, NC (USA)

Edward V. Staab, MD National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD (USA)

Thomas Wendler, PhD Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg (D)

Nobuhiko Sugano, MD Osaka University Med. School (J)

Karl-Jürgen Wolf, MD Univ.-Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, Berlin (D)

Naoki Suzuki, MD, PhD Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo (J)

Richard Wootton, PhD, DSc The Univ. of Queensland, St. Lucia (AUS)

Takashi Takahashi, PhD Kyoto University Hospital (J)

Hirouki Yoshida, PhD The University of Chicago (USA)

Hiroshi Takeda, MD, PhD Osaka University Medical School (J)

Frans W. Zonneveld, PhD University Hospital Utrecht (NL)

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CARS 2001 in cooperation with: AAOMR

American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

BAR

Bulgarian Association of Radiology

BIR

The British Institute of Radiology

CRS

Czech Radiology Society

DGBMT

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik e.V.

DRG

Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft

ESEM

European Society for Engineering and Medicine

GI

Gesellschaft für Informatik

GMDS

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V.

Hungarian Society for Computer Assisted Radiology IADMFR

The International Association of Dento-Maxillo-Facial Radiology

IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IPMI

Information Processing in Medical Imaging

JCR

Japanese College of Radiology

JRS

Japan Radiological Society

JSOMR

Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

NVvR

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Radiologie

ÖRG

Österreichische Röntgengesellschaft

Polish Section of the Polish-German Radiological Society RCR

The Royal College of Radiologists

SFR

Société Française de Radiologie Médicale

SGMR

Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Radiologie

SIRM

Associazione Italiana di Radiologia Medica

Chinese Society for Computer Assisted Radiology SPIE

The International Society for Optical Engineering

SRS

Slovak Radiological Society

TU

Technische Universität Berlin

WABT

World Academy of Biomedical Technologies

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ISCAS - International Society for Computer Aided Surgery Administrative Council President: Kintomo Takakura, MD, PhD Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo (J) Past President: Michael W. Vannier, MD The University of Iowa (USA) Vice Presidents: J. Thomas Lambrecht, MD, DMD, PhD University of Basle (CH) Jeffrey L. Marsh, MD St. Louis Children’s Hospital (USA)

General Secretary: Heinz U. Lemke, PhD Technical University Berlin (D) Adjoint Secretary: Takeyoshi Dohi, PhD The University of Tokyo (J) Treasurer: Toyomi Fujino, MD, PhD International Med. Information Center, Tokyo (J) Adjoint Treasurer: Rolf Ewers, MD, DMD Allg. Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien (A)

Board Members Richard D. Bucholz, MD, FACS Saint Louis University (USA) Alan C.F. Colchester, MD, PhD University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) Daijo Hashimoto, MD, PhD Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital (J) Richard A. Robb, PhD

Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN (USA) Russell H. Taylor, PhD Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA) Jun-Ichiro Toriwaki, PhD Nagoya University (J)

Honorary Board Member: Pierre Rabischong, MD, PhD Centre Propara, Montpellier (F)

EuroPACS - European Association for the Promotion of Information Exchange on PACS Research Board Members President: Nicola H. Strickland, MD Hammersmith Hospital, London (UK) Secretary: Davide Caramella, MD University of Pisa (I) Günther Gell, PhD Universität Graz - Landeskrankenhaus (A) Bernard Gibaud Université de Rennes I (F) Stelios Orphanoudakis, PhD Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion (GR)

Michel Osteaux, MD, PhD Vrije Universiteit Brussels (B) Joaquim Piqueras, MD Hospital Universitare-U.A.B., Barcelona (E) Jarmo Reponen, MD Oulu University Hospital (FIN) Andrew E. Todd-Pokropek, PhD University College of London (UK) Jan Schillebeeckx Imeldaziekenhuis, Bonheiden (B) Berthold B. Wein, MD RWTH Klinikum Aachen (D)

Honorary Board Members H.K. Huang, DSc, FRCR (Hon.) Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Heinz U. Lemke, PhD Technical University Berlin (D)

Hiromu Nishitani, MD, PhD The University of Tokushima (J) Osman M. Ratib, MD, PhD University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

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SMIT- Society for Medical Innovation and Technology President & Meeting Chairman: Marc O. Schurr, Tübingen (D) Co-President & Meeting Chairman: Harald Fischer, Karlsruhe (D)

Meeting Secretaries

Meeting Committee

Daniel Kalanovic, Tübingen (D) E. Hempel, Karlsruhe (D) A. Welle, Karlsruhe (D)

Chairman: Gerhard Buess Tübingen (D)

Medical Committee Desmond Birkett, Boston, MA (USA) Steven Dawson, Boston, MA (USA) Volkmar Falk, Leipzig (D) Erik Fosse, Oslo (N) Eiji Kanehira, Kanazawa (J) Andreas Melzer, Mülheim/Ruhr (D)

Peter Plinkert, Homburg/Saar (D) Richard Satava, New Haven, CT (USA) Rainer M.M. Seibel, Mülheim/Ruhr (D) Roger Welter, Luxembourg (L)

Technological Committee Tom Duerig, Fremont, CA (USA) Matthias Faensen, Berlin (D) Georgi Graschew, Berlin (D) Kees Grimbergen, Delft (NL) Heinz U. Lemke, Berlin (D)

Klaus Roth, Tübingen (D) Ludger Schnieder, Tübingen (D) Michael Torma, Shreveport, LA (USA)

Other SMIT Officers General Secretary

Editors In Chief

Andreas Melzer, Mülheim/Ruhr (D)

John Wickham, London (UK) Gerhard Buess (Coordinating), Tübingen (D)

Treasurers

President Elect

Chris Russel, London (UK) Rainer M.M. Seibel, Mülheim/Ruhr (D)

Erik Fosse, Oslo (N)

Honorary President Past President Steven L. Dawson, Boston, MA (USA)

John Wickham, London (UK)