Awards |

MICCAI 2009 - London

awarded to Vicky Wang for the article entitled: Passive ventricular mechanics modelling using cardiac MR Imaging of Structure and Function, co-authored by: Vicky Y Wang, Hoi Leng Lam, Daniel B Ennis, Alistair A Young, Martyn P Nash

awarded to Ron Kikinis MD for his contribution in the past 13 years:
- ~ 1800 citations
- H index 66
- > 1000 cites "Multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutal information" MedIa 1996
- 3D Slicer - Global Community

awarded to Wolfgang Wein the article entitled: Towards Guidance of Electrophysiological Procedures with Real-time 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography Fusion to C-arm CT, co-authored by: Wolfgang Wein, Estelle Camus, Matthias John, Mamadou Diallo, Christophe Duong, Amin Al-Ahmad, Rebecca Fahrig, Ali Khamene, & Chenyang Xu

awarded to Marcin Balicki the article entitled: Single Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography Microsurgical Instruments for Computer and Robot Assisted Retinal Surgery, co-authored by: Marcin Balicki, Jae-Ho Han, Iulian Iordachita, Peter Gehlbach, James Handa, Russell Taylor & Jin Kang

Image Analysis for Interventions	Lejing Wang Parallax-Free Long Bone X-ray Image Stitching
Simulation and Robotics	Yiyi Wei Toward Real-Time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolization
Medical Image Computing: Registration	Christopher Rohkohl Interventional 4-D Motion Estimation and Reconstruction of Cardiac Vasculature without Motion
Medical Image Computing: Segmentation and Analysis	Tammy Riklin Raviv Joint Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases
Medical Image Computing: Shape Analysis	Peter Savadjiev Local White Matter Geometry Indices from Diffusion Tensor Gradients

First Prize awarded to Cyril Poupon for the article entitled: Real-time MR diffusion tensor and Q-ball imaging using Kalman filtering, co-authored by: Cyril Poupon, Alexis Roche, Jessica Dubois, Jean-François Mangin, Fabrice Poupon, Medical Image Analysis 12, issue 5 (2008), pages 527-534.
Second Prize awarded to Gabor Fichtinger for the article entitled: Robotic assistance for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy, co-authored by: Gabor Fichtinger, Jonathan P. Fiene, Christopher W. Kennedy, Gernot Kronreif, Iulian Iordachita, Danny Y. Song, Everette C. Burdette, Peter Kazanzides, Medical Image Analysis 12, issue 5, (2008), pages 535-545.

First Prize awarded to Kilian M. Pohl (USD $700) for the article entitled: Using the logarithm of o dds to define a vector space on probabilistic atlases, co-authored by: Kilian M. Pohl, John Fisher, Sylvain Bouix, Martha Shenton, Robert W. McCarley,W. Eric L. Grimson, Ron Kikinis and W illiam M. Wells. Medical Image Analysis 11 (2007) 465-477.
Second Prize awarded to Masahiko Nakamoto (USD $300) for the article entitled: Recovery of respiratory motion and deformation of the liver using laparoscopic freehand 3D ultrasound system, co-authored by: Masahiko Nakamoto, Hiroa ki Hirayama, Yoshinobu Sato, Kozo Konishi, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Makoto Hashizume and Shinichi Tamura. Medical Image Analysis 11 (2007) 429-442.

Computational Anatomy	Boon Thye Thomas Yeo Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy
Computational Physiology	Stephan Tuchschmid Modelling Intravasation of Liquid Distension Media in Surgical Simulators
Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications	Irina Waechter Quantification of Blood Flow from Rotational Angiography
Visualization and Interaction	Wolfgang Wein Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound
Biological and Neuroscience Image Computing	Kang Li Cell Population Tracking and Lineage Construction with Spatiotemporal Context
Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Robotics	Wael Bachta Cardiolock : an active cardiac stabilizer - First in vivo experiments using a new robotized device
Medical Image Computing	Brian B Avants Multivariate Normalization with Symmetric Diffeomorphisms for Multivariate Studies

awarded to T. Vercauteren for the article entitled: Mosaicing of Confocal Microscopic In Vivo Soft Tissue Video Sequences, co-authored by: T. Vercauteren, A. Perchant, X. Pennec, G. Malandain and N. Ayache.

The MICCAI 2006 Student Awards are sponsored by Philips. Five prizes each valued at EUR 400 were awarded in the following categories:

Image segmentation and registration	Delphine Nain Shape-driven 3D Segmentation using Spherical Wavelets
Image analysis	Karl Sjöstrand The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Domain Description
Simulation and Visualization	Andrew W. Dowsey Motion-Compensated MR Valve Imaging with COMB Tag Tracking and Super-Resolution Enhancement
Computer-Assisted Interventions and Robotics	Paul M. Novotny GPU Based Real-time Instrument Tracking with Tree Dimensional Ultrasound
Clincial applications	Jian Zhang A Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery Using Steerable Electrode Arrays

awarded to D. Burschka for the article entitled: Scale invariant registration of monucular endoscopic images to CT-Scans for sinus surgery", co-authored by: D. Burschka, M. Li, M. Ishii, R.H. Taylor, G.D. Hager
awarded to M. Jackowski for the article entitled: White matter tractography by anisotropic wavefront evolution and diffusion tensor imaging, co-authored by: M. Jackowski, C.Y. Kao, M. Qiu, R. T. Constable, L. H. Staib

At MICCAI 2005, five prizes each valued at USD 500 were awarded in the following categories:

Image segmentation and analysis	Pingkun Yan MRA Image Segmentation with Capillary Active Contour
Image registration	Ashraf Mohamed Deformable Registration of Brain Tumor Images via a Statistical Model of Tumor Induced Deformation
Computer assisted interventions and robotics	Henry C. Lin Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Robot Assisted Surgical Motions
Simulation and visualisation	Peter Savadjiev 3D Curve Inference for Diffusion MRI Regularization
Clincial application	Srinivasan Rajagopalan Schwarz Meets Schwann: Design and Fabrication of Biomorphic Tissue Engineering Scafolds