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The Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration – WBIR 2006
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The Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration – WBIR 2006
The Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR 2006) was held July 9–11, 2006, at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Following the success of the first workshop (WBIR 1999), held in Bled, Slovenia, and the second workshop (WBIR 2003), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this meeting (WBIR 2006) aimed to once again gather leading researchers in the area of biomedical image registration so as to present and discuss recent developments in the field. In modern medicine and biology, a valuable method of gathering knowledge about healthy and diseased organs, tissues, and cells is the integration of complementary information from volumetric images of these objects. Such information may be obtained by different imaging modalities, different image acquisition set-ups, different object preparation procedures, or by sequential image acquisition in follow-up studies or in dynamic imaging. A necessary pre-processing step for the integration of image information is image registration by which images, containing complementary information, are brought into the best possible spatial correspondence with respect to each other. Enabling combination and quantification of information about location, form and function, image registration is nowadays finding increasing use in diagnosis, treatment planning, and surgical guidance. The WBIR 2006 workshop consisted of 20 oral presentations, 18 poster presentations, two tutorials and ample time for discussion, making the meeting an interesting, fruitful, enjoyable and stimulating experience. The proceedings were published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4057, 2006. Of all the papers presented, 13 papers were considered for possible inclusion in this special issue on WBIR 2006. The authors were invited to submit extended journal versions, which went through the regular review and revision process of the Medical Image Analysis journal. Each submitted paper was thoroughly reviewed 1361-8415/$ - see front matter Ó 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.media.2007.07.006
by three experts in the field of biomedical image registration. Finally, six papers could be included in this special issue. The paper by Andronache et al. from ETH Zurich addresses hierarchical non-rigid registration of multimodal images using both mutual information and cross-correlation via intermediate pseudo-modality obtained by local intensity mapping. Pitiot and Guimond from the University of Nottingham and Siemens Molecular Imaging, respectively, concern robust histological image registration and propose an adaptive geometrical regularization of displacement fields. The paper by Avants et al. from the University of Pennsylvania deals with automated labelling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain by symmetric diffeomorphic image registration. Sˇkerl et al. from the University of Ljubljana propose an optimization independent protocol for systematic statistical evaluation of similarity measure properties for nonrigid registration. The paper by Bistoquet et al. from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University presents a method for biventricular myocardial deformation recovery from cine magnetic resonance images, which is based on a nearly incompressible deformable model. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the workshop and the special issue: the authors for their excellent contributions, the members of the Programme Committee for their review work under extremely tight time limits, the tutorial speakers for their outstanding educational contributions, the local organisation staff for their precious time and diligent efforts, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands, for kind and generous financial support, all the attendees for their active participation in the formal and informal discussions, the publishing office and MedIA administration for their significant efforts, and last but not least, the Editors of the Medical Image Analysis journal for their precious support.
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Editorial / Medical Image Analysis 12 (2008) 1–2
Guest Editors Bosˇtjan Likar University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel.: +38614768248 E-mail address: [email protected]
Josien P.W. Pluim University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Available online 3 August 2007
Medical Image Analysis 12 (2008) 1–2 www.elsevier.com/locate/media
Editorial
The Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration – WBIR 2006
The Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR 2006) was held July 9–11, 2006, at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Following the success of the first workshop (WBIR 1999), held in Bled, Slovenia, and the second workshop (WBIR 2003), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this meeting (WBIR 2006) aimed to once again gather leading researchers in the area of biomedical image registration so as to present and discuss recent developments in the field. In modern medicine and biology, a valuable method of gathering knowledge about healthy and diseased organs, tissues, and cells is the integration of complementary information from volumetric images of these objects. Such information may be obtained by different imaging modalities, different image acquisition set-ups, different object preparation procedures, or by sequential image acquisition in follow-up studies or in dynamic imaging. A necessary pre-processing step for the integration of image information is image registration by which images, containing complementary information, are brought into the best possible spatial correspondence with respect to each other. Enabling combination and quantification of information about location, form and function, image registration is nowadays finding increasing use in diagnosis, treatment planning, and surgical guidance. The WBIR 2006 workshop consisted of 20 oral presentations, 18 poster presentations, two tutorials and ample time for discussion, making the meeting an interesting, fruitful, enjoyable and stimulating experience. The proceedings were published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4057, 2006. Of all the papers presented, 13 papers were considered for possible inclusion in this special issue on WBIR 2006. The authors were invited to submit extended journal versions, which went through the regular review and revision process of the Medical Image Analysis journal. Each submitted paper was thoroughly reviewed 1361-8415/$ - see front matter Ó 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.media.2007.07.006
by three experts in the field of biomedical image registration. Finally, six papers could be included in this special issue. The paper by Andronache et al. from ETH Zurich addresses hierarchical non-rigid registration of multimodal images using both mutual information and cross-correlation via intermediate pseudo-modality obtained by local intensity mapping. Pitiot and Guimond from the University of Nottingham and Siemens Molecular Imaging, respectively, concern robust histological image registration and propose an adaptive geometrical regularization of displacement fields. The paper by Avants et al. from the University of Pennsylvania deals with automated labelling of elderly and neurodegenerative brain by symmetric diffeomorphic image registration. Sˇkerl et al. from the University of Ljubljana propose an optimization independent protocol for systematic statistical evaluation of similarity measure properties for nonrigid registration. The paper by Bistoquet et al. from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University presents a method for biventricular myocardial deformation recovery from cine magnetic resonance images, which is based on a nearly incompressible deformable model. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the workshop and the special issue: the authors for their excellent contributions, the members of the Programme Committee for their review work under extremely tight time limits, the tutorial speakers for their outstanding educational contributions, the local organisation staff for their precious time and diligent efforts, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands, for kind and generous financial support, all the attendees for their active participation in the formal and informal discussions, the publishing office and MedIA administration for their significant efforts, and last but not least, the Editors of the Medical Image Analysis journal for their precious support.
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Editorial / Medical Image Analysis 12 (2008) 1–2
Guest Editors Bosˇtjan Likar University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel.: +38614768248 E-mail address: [email protected]
Josien P.W. Pluim University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Available online 3 August 2007