FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVENTION Massachusetts Institute of Technology October 11-13, 1998 Tutorials: Saturday, October 10, 1998 Conference: Sunday, October 11-Tuesday, October 13, 1998 General Co-Chairs: Takeyoshi Dohi, Tokyo University Eric Grimson, MIT Ron Kikinis, Harvard Medical School Program Co-Chairs: Alan Colchester, Kent University Scott Delp, Northwestern University William Wells, Harvard Medical School Purpose: The formation of MICCAI acknowledges the overlap and synergy of the three vigorous strands of research in medically-oriented visualization, image understanding, and robotics that is represented by the independently successful CVRMeD, MRCAS and VBC meetings. The conference has been organized to maintain the momentum of the previous meetings and launch an annual international meeting conforming to the highest possible standard that will bring together scientists from the fields of medicine and engineering. The meeting will be organized in a single track, without parallel sessions. The focus is on the introduction and validation of new image computing and image-guided interventional methodology into clinical practice. The emphasis will be on high quality work, whether methodological or clinical evaluation. The conference will continue to stress a central theme of its predecessor conferences, in which strongly coupled interactions between clinicians and scientists provide a common focus for innovative development and deployment of new methods and systems. Conference Location The technical sessions of the conference will be held at Kresge Auditorium in the center of MIT's campus. Poster sessions and oral presentations will be held at Kresge, and lunches will be served immediately adjacent to the auditorium. Hotel Accommodations & Travel The conference hotel is the Boston Marriott Cambridge, at Two Cambridge Center. This hotel is adjacent to the MIT campus and is roughly a 5-minute walk from the conference site. A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference at a special rate of $189 per night (plus local applicable taxes) for single or double accommodations. To secure the conference rate, please contact the hotel directly at 617-494-6600 (phone) or 617-494-0036 (fax) before Friday, 18 September, and be sure to mention that you are attending MICCAI at MIT. The Hotel offers two restaurants and health club facilities. Parking is available at an adjacent public garage for approximately $15 per day. Public transportation to downtown Boston and Harvard Square is also easily accessible in Kendall Square. A wide range of other hotel options within 10 minutes of MIT are available, with rates varying from $96 to $320 per night; a list of alternative hotels is on the last page. For further assistance, please contact the MIT Conference Services Office by phone at 617-253-1700, by fax at 617-258-7005 or by email at conf-serv-www@mit.edu. Please note: October is a very busy month in New England, as it is peak foliage season; it is suggested that you make your hotel reservations early. Taxi is the preferred ground transportation between Cambridge hotels and Logan International Airport. The one-way cost is approximately $15 to $20. Language The language of the conference will be English, with no simultaneous interpretation. Registration Conference Registration Fees Regular (before Sept. 10):$425 Includes technical sessions, proceedings, reception, banquet, coffee breaks and lunches. Late (after Sept. 10): $475 Includes technical sessions, proceedings, reception, banquet, coffee breaks and lunches. Student (before Sept. 10): $250 Includes technical sessions, proceedings, reception, coffee breaks and lunches, but NOT the banquet. Student (after Sept. 10): $300 Includes technical sessions, proceedings, reception, coffee breaks, but NOT the banquet. One Day ONLY: $150 Includes technical sessions for the selected day, coffee breaks and lunch, but NOT the reception, banquet, or proceedings. Tutorials (before Sept 10): $100 Includes technical sessions and coffee breaks Tutorials (after Sept 10): $125 Includes technical sessions and coffee breaks Banquet tickets: $65 Extra tickets may be purchased at this rate. Proceedings:$50 Extra copies of the proceedings may be purchased at this rate. The conference reception will be held Sunday evening, the conference banquet will be held at the New England Aquarium on Monday evening. To register please complete the form at http://web.mit.edu/conf-serv/www/MICCAI.html (form also provided at the end of this document) and send it with payment to: MIT Conference Services Office 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 7-111 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. The fee may be paid by check or money order, payable in US currency to MIT, or by credit card (MasterCard or Visa only). Credit card payments may be faxed to 617-258-7005. Questions regarding local arrangements and registration can be directed to the Conference Services Office by dialing 617-253-1700 or via email to conf-serv-www@mit.edu. A confirmation of registration, including details about on-site registration and a map of the MIT campus, will be sent to you approximately one month prior to the conference. Cancellation Policy Notifications of cancellation submitted in writing prior to 1 October 1998 will be entitled to a refund less a $50 processing fee. No refunds will be granted after 1 October, but substitutions may be made until the start of the conference. Questions Please direct inquiries regarding registration to the MIT Conference Services Office at 617-253-1700 (phone), 617-258-7005 (fax), or conf-serv-www@mit.edu. For program information, send email to miccai@ai.mit.edu or visit the MICCAI web site at: http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/miccai98.html. For handicapped participants, if you need any assistance, please contact MIT Conference Services at the above number. Tutorials Four tutorials will be offered on Saturday, October 10, immediately preceding the conference. Tutorial 1: Virtual body models and 3D anatomy atlases Andreas Pommert and Thomas Schiemann Spatial body models based on tomographic images play an increasingly important role in medical research and education, planning of interventions, and simulation of procedures. However, in order to end up with comprehensively useful virtual body models or 3D anatomy atlases, it is essential to link the spatial models with symbolic knowledge from different sources. This tutorial will present state-of-the-art methos for this purpose. Suitable data structures like "intelligent volumes" for integrating volume data and symbolic information will be presented. These structures are filled using volume segmentation and knowledge editing techniques. The resulting virtual body models can be explored via volume visualization. Simulations can be performed using volume deformation methods or involving inference procedures within semantic networks. The methods will be illustrated with various examples from body models based on radiological images as well as the anatomical Visible Human data. Typical applications include simulation of endoscopy and laparoscopy, planning of surgical procedures, authoring of multimedia documents, or interpretation support for PET studies and ultrasound images. The tutorial will include online demos of the scientific software VOXEL-MAN, which includes the presented methods. Intended audience: This tutorial is of specific interest to biomedical scientists (medical or technical) who are new to the field of virtual body models or are interested in expanding their knowledge in this field. Tutorial 2: Object Shape Stephen Pizer, Christopher Taylor, Timothy Cootes Representations of the shape of anatomic objects appearing in medical images are useful in medical image object extraction (extract the liver-shaped object), registration of medical images (find the geometric transformation that makes the abdominal organs in an MR image fall upon those organs in a CT image), and studies of the relation of shape to disease (describe the shape sequence of the left ventricle that corresponds to hypokinesis of the apex of the endocardium). Shape is defined as those geometric and topological properties of an object that are equivariant to translation, rotation, and magnification. Typically shape has a significant statistical aspect, specifying the kind of variations in geometric properties that are likely within a particular shape and typically calculating probabilistic measures of the shape such as central tendency and measures of variability of the geometric properties using a set of training instances of the shape. In this tutorial we will set forth the position that shape lies in the statistical variations in the spatial properties of the relationships between neighboring object primitives. We will present models of shape based on a variety of primitives and mathematical and statistical approaches relevant to describing the spatial properties of these relationships. We will focus on four types of primitives on which there is much literature: landmarks; voxels; boundary points & normals; and medial points, widths, & boundary normals. Reference will be made to the work not only of our own groups, but also Mardia & Dryden, Kendall, Bookstein, Grenander, Christensen, Zucker, Gerig, among others. The following outlines the presentation we plan. The presentation will be of mathematics, statistics, and algorithms, supported by illustrative results from medical image analysis and display. The major focus will be on objects in 3D images, such as organs, discrete brain structures, and patterns of structures such as brain gyri and blood vessels. Tutorial 3: International Workshop on Soft Tissue Deformation and Tissue Palpation organized by Gabor Szekely Modeling of elastic tissue deformation is becoming increasingly important in a wide range of medical applications such as surgical simulation and planning, telesurgery, or image guided surgery and diagnosis. The further development of these fields will critically depend on the availability of efficient methods and algorithms for the simulation of soft tissue deformation, the depth of understanding of the underlying physical processes, and the possibility to present the resulting surgical scene including geometrical, force, tactile and texture information to the user in a natural and pleasing manner. These goals can only be achieved through coordinated research and development in a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines including biomechanics, electrical and mechanical engineering, medical image acquisition, analysis and visualization, and computer science. The goal of the workshop is to provide an information and discussion forum by overviewing the current state of the art in the aforementioned research areas and identifying the major trends and needs of the coming years. The meeting will be organized as a day-long accompanying tutorial of the MICCAI'98 conference. Invited lectures will cover the following major topics: - Soft tissue biomechanics - Approximation techniques for soft tissue deformation modeling - Measurement of elastic tissue behavior - Medical imaging techniques for elastometry - Tissue property data bases - Tissue deformation modeling in surgical simulators - Modeling and simulation of tissue palpation - Deformation models for dynamic systems Program Committee: N. Ayache, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis B. Davies, Imperial College, London S. Delp, Northwestern University J. Duncan, Yale University, New Haven S. Gibson, Mitshubishi Electric Research Lab, Boston R. Howe, Harvard University, Cambridge E. Keeve, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston D. Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania R. Robb, Mayo Clinic, Rochester R. Satava, Yale University, New Haven G. Szekely, ETH Zurich R. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University D. Terzopoulos, University of Toronto Tutorial 4: Medical Image Analysis and Applications organized by Eric Grimson and Ron Kikinis This tutorial will feature presentations by selected international leaders in the field, summarizing the current state of the art in various aspects of medical image analysis, computer assisted interventions and other associated applications of the technology. Details on speakers and topics to be announced shortly. Sightseeing Boston provides a wide variety of tradition and trend for its visitors; its role in shaping American history is unique. Paul Revere's House, the Boston Tea Party Ship, the Old North Church-history is on every corner in Boston. Walk the Freedom Trail for a premiere tour of the most treasured sites in American history and for a view of some of the city's many diverse neighborhoods. Boston is renowned as an international center of cultural and intellectual activity, boasting the Museum of Science, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Mapparium at the Christian Science Center, the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Faneuil Hall and the Marketplace, the historic Waterfront, the Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. Shoppers will delight in the many retail offerings at Downtown Crossing, Copley Place, and the newly renovated Prudential Center. Cambridge is just one bridge away from Boston, yet it's a different world. It could easily be characterized as a college town with its 28,000 students, but it is far more than that. At Harvard Square, a hub of activity both day and night, browse the world's largest concentration of bookstores, launch into cyberspace at a high tech cafe, or explore the treasures hidden in the home of the 19th-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Kendall Square is home to MIT and the heart of Massachusetts' high tech and biotech industries. Shop at the nearby CambridgeSide Galleria or take a relaxing tour of Boston and Cambridge from a riverboat along the scenic Charles River. Other worthwhile visits include Central Square, Inman Square and Porter Square. MIT is located on 146 acres that extend more than a mile along the Cambridge side of the Charles River. Many world-renowned architects have designed buildings throughout the campus including Alvar Aalto, Eduardo Catalano, I.M. Pei and Eero Saarinen. Sculptures, murals and paintings abound, including the works of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore and Louise Nevelson. MIT is the home of the List Visual Arts Center, which is located in the Wiesner Building. Internationally recognized for its contemporary art exhibitions, the Center maintains MIT's permanent collection of over 1,000 paintings, sculptures, photographs and contemporary prints. Also on campus, the MIT Museum offers exhibitions and programs that explore the interplay among the areas of art, science, and technology. Its public exhibitions are housed in the Museum, the Compton Gallery and the Hart Nautical Gallery. Guided walking tours of campus are available twice daily and depart from the lobby of Building 7, the main entrance at 77 Massachusetts Avenue. Information on Other Hotels Listed below for your convenience are selected other hotels within easy access of MIT. None of these hotels are directly connected with MICCAI, and thus do NOT have special rates for conference attendees. They are simply listed here to give you a set of options in addition to the conference hotel. Rates listed are approximate, based on a recent sampling of the hotels, and the conference organizers DO NOT guarantee these rates. Unless noted otherwise, you should request the MIT rate when reserving. Boston Back Bay Hilton 40 Dalton St. Boston 02115 617-867-6300 800-874-0663 5 min drive to MIT Accessible by subway $192 Cambridge Inn Ramada 250 Monsignor O'Brien Hwy. Cambridge 02141 02115 617-441-9200 1 mile drive to MIT $89 S, $131 D The Colonnade Boston 120 Huntington Ave. Boston 02116 617-424-7018 800-962-3030 10 min drive to MIT Accessible by subway $160 (Ivy League Rate) The Copley Plaza 138 St. James Ave. Boston 02116 617-267-5300 10 min drive to MIT Accessible by subway $209 Doubletree Guest Suites 400 Soldiers Field Road Boston 02134 617-783-0090 5 min drive to MIT Complementary shuttle to MIT $145 (Ivy League Rate) The Eliot Suite Hotel 370 Commonwealth Ave. Boston 02215 617-267-1607 2 min drive to MIT $165 Harvard Square Hotel 10 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge 02138 617-864-5200 800-458-5886 1 mile drive to MIT Accessible by subway $135 (Ivy League Rate) Holiday Inn 30 Washington St. Somerville 02143 617-628-1000 7 min drive to MIT Accessible by subway$96 Howard Johnson Hotel 777 Memorial Drive Cambridge 02139 617-492-7777 1 mile drive to MIT $129 Hyatt Regency Hotel 575 Memorial Drive Cambridge 02139 617-492-1234 800-223-1234 Adjacent to MIT campus Complementary shuttle to MIT $185 The Inn at Harvard 1201 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge 02138 617-491-2222 1 mile drive to MIT Accessible by subway $169 (Ivy League Rate) Royal Sonesta Hotel 5 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge 02142 617-491-3600 5 min to MIT Courtesy shuttle to Kendall Square $160 Sheraton Commander 16 Garden St. Cambridge 02138 617-547-4800 800-535-5007 10 min drive to MIT Accessible by subway $175 University Park Hotel at MIT 20 Sidney St. Cambridge 02139 617-577-0200 Hotel scheduled to open 8/98 .25 mile from MIT ======================================================================= MICCAI REGISTRATION FORM First Name:______________________________________ Family Name:_____________________________________ Email address:___________________________________ Complete mailing address:______________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Phone number:____________________________________ Fax number:______________________________________ Name Badge Infomation: Name as you would like it to appear on your conference badge: ________________________________________________________________ Company/Affiliation as you would like it to appear: (if over 40 letters, please abbreviate) ________________________________________________________________ Full Registration: (includes technical sessions, reception, banquet, proceedings, coffee breaks and 3 lunches): ____ Regular @ $425 (before September 10) ____ Late Registration @ $475 (after September 10) Full Student Registration: (includes technical sessions, reception, proceedings, coffee breaks and 3 lunches; banquet tickets must be purchased separately): ____ Regular @ $250 (before September 10) ____ Late Registration @ $300 (after September 10) Registration for One Day only: (includes technical sessions and lunch only; banquet tickets and proceedings can be purchased separately) ____ One day only @ $150 Please specify date of attendance: ____ 11 October ____ 12 October ____ 13 October Proceedings/Banquet ____ Proceedings @ $50 ____ Banquet tickets @ $65 Tutorials Please specify which tutorial you are interested in attending: ____ Tutorial fee @ $100 (before September 10) ____ Late Tutorial fee @ $125 (after September 10) Tutorials Offered: ____ Virtual Body Models & D Anatomy Alases (A. Pommert & T. Schiemann) ____ Object Shape (S. Pizer, C. Taylor, T. Cootes) ____ International Workshop on Soft Tissue Deformation & Tissue Palpation (organized by G. Szekely, with Ayache et al.) ____ Medical Image Analysis & Application (organized by E. Grimson & R. Kikinis, featuring selected leaders in the field) TOTAL FEES: Registration:________ Banquet Ticket:___________ Tutorial:______________ TOTAL AMOUNT DUE:__________________ Payment Method Send check of money order made payable to MIT to: MIT Conference Services Room 7-111, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA Or fax the following credit card information to MIT Conference Services at +617-258-7005. (Visa or MasterCard ONLY) Conference attendee's name Account number Expiration date Cardholder name (please print) Signature Please do not send credit card information electronically. Approximately one month prior to the conference, you will receive a letter confirming receipt of payment along with on-site registration information. For questions regarding the conference registration, please contact the Conference Service Office at +617-253-1700 or send email to conf-serv-www@mit.edu. Questions regarding the program may be directed to miccai98@ai.mit.edu. =========================================================================================================== Previous information: Call for Papers Purpose: The formation of MICCAI acknowledges the overlap and synergy of the three vigorous strands of research in medically-oriented visualization, image understanding, and robotics that is represented by the independently successful CVRMeD, MRCAS and VBC meetings. The goal of the organizing committee is to maintain the momentum of the previous meetings and launch an annual meeting that will be recognized as the premier conference of its type. The meeting will be organized in a single track, without parallel sessions. The focus is on the introduction and validation of new image computing and image-guided interventional methodology into clinical practice. The emphasis will be on high quality work, whether methodological or clinical evaluation. The conference will continue to stress a central theme of its predecessor conferences, in which strongly coupled interactions between clinicians and scientists provide a common focus for innovative development and deployment of new methods and systems. Topics to be addressed in this conference include, but are not restricted to: Medical Image Computing: - constructing patient-specific models - multimodal fusion - virtual or augmented reality visualizations - image guided therapy - anatomical atlases - data registration - tracking and localization of patients and tools - clinical analysis, change detection, diagnosis Computer Assisted Interventional Systems: - medical telepresence and telesurgery - surgical simulators - therapy planning - medical manipulators - safety issues Clinical Applications of Computer Assisted Systems: - clinical evaluation of systems - novel applications of interventional systems in surgical specialites (e.g. Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, ENT surgery, Radiation therapy) Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts for competitive review -- abstracts will not be accepted. Submission details: Authors should submit 4 copies of their manuscript to: MICCAI 1998 c/o Eric Grimson MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square Cambridge MA 02139 LENGTH AND FORMAT UPDATE Feb 18, 1998: The length and format specifications for the initial submission have been relaxed somewhat. You may utilize any reasonably readable format, with the maximum length depending on the main text font size as follows: 10 point main text font : maximum length 8 pages 11 point main text font : maximum length 10 pages 12 point main text font : maximum length 12 pages The proceedings are probably going to be produced in the computer science lecture notes series by Springer Verlag, and formatting instructions, including templates in MS Word and in Latex are are available from Springer Verlag Author Instructions (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/Authors.html) However *note* the following two points: The initial submissions should be sent to the address listed above, NOT to Springer Verlag. Also note that use of the Springer formats is *not* required for the initial submission. Contrary to earlier information, we are not providing for electronic submission of the initial manuscripts; please send 4 copies to the address listed above. Key dates: Submission of manuscripts: March 3, 1998 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 1998 Receipt of camera ready copy: July 21, 1998 Conference starts: October 10, 1998 For additional information, please consult the following web page which will be updated on a regular basis: http://www.ai.mit.edu/miccai98.html Alternatively, contact: MICCAI 1998 c/o Eric Grimson MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square Cambridge MA 02139 ================================================= Executive Committee Nicholas Ayache - INRIA ayache@sophia.inria.fr Anthony DiGioia - Shadyside digioia@cs.cmu.edu James Duncan - Yale duncan.james@yale.edu Karl-Heinz Hoehne - University of Hamburg hoehne@uke.uni-hamburg.de Stephane Lavallee - IMAG Stephen Pizer - University of North Carolina pizer@cs.unc.edu Richard Robb - Mayo Clinic rar@mayo.edu Russell Taylor - Johns Hopkins University rht@cs.jhu.edu ================================================= Program Committee ================================================= Ancestors of MICCAI 98: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine (CVRMED): Nice, France 1995 CVRMED-MRCAS Grenoble, France 1997 Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS): MRCAS95 Baltimore, MD USA 1995 MRCAS94 Pittsburgh, PA USA 1994 Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC): VBC96 Hamburg Germany 1996 VBC94 Rochester MN USA 1994 VBC92 Chapel Hill NC USA 1992 VBC90 Atlanta GA USA 1990 ================================================ Questions/comments: miccai@ai.mit.edu ================================================