MedIA-MICCAI Prizes 2007

2 prizes were awarded by Elsevier during MICCAI 2007 to the first authors of 2 outstanding articles of the special issue of the Medical Image Analysis journal (volume 11, issue 5, October 2007) dedicated to the previous MICCAI' 06 conference:

• 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.

MICCAI Young Scientist Awards 2007

Selection process:

• We selected the 21 highest score papers selected with first author a graduate student
• The papers were categorized into one of seven prize categories (3 papers/category)
• A sub-set from the program committee voted on ranking of the 3 papers
• The oral or poster presentation were attended before the final decision

Prize 1: Computational Anatomy

Winner:

• Effects of Registration Regularization and Atlas Sharpness on Segmentation Accuracy, Boon Thye Thomas Yeo, Mert T Sabuncu., Rahul Desikan, Bruce Fischl, Polina Golland, CSAIL MIT, Boston School of Medicine, Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA.

Runners-up:

• Localized Shape Variations for Classifying Wall Motion in Echocardiograms, KY Esther Leung, Johan G Bosch, Erasmus MC, NL.


• Automated segmentation of the liver from 3D CT images using probabilistic atlas and multi-level statistical shape model, Toshiyuki Okada, Ryuji Shimada, Yoshinobu Sato, Masatoshi Hort, Keita Yokota, Masahiko Nakamoto, Yen-Wei Chen, Hironobu Nakamura, Shinichi Tamura. Division of image analysis, Department of Radiology, Osaka University, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan Universty, Japan.

Prize 2: Computational Physiology

Winner:

• Modelling Intravasation of Liquid Distension Media in Surgical Simulators, Stephan Tuchschmid, M Bajka, D Szezerba, B Lloyd, G Szekely, M Harders, Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Clinic of Gynecology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.

Runners-up:

• Towards Tracking Breast Cancer Across Medical Images Using Subject-Specific Biomechanical Models, Vijay Rajagopal, Angela Lee, Jae-Hoon Chung, Ruth Warren, Ralph P Highnam, Poul MF Nielsen, Martyn P Nash, Bioengineering Institute, U Auckland NZ, Dept Radiology Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge UK, Highnam Associates Ltd NZ.


• Real-time nonlinear finite element analysis for surgical simulation using graphics processing units, Zeike A Taylor, Mario Cheng, Sebastien Ourselin, BioMedIA Lab, CSIRO ICT Centre Brisbane Australia, CMIC UCL London UK.

Prize 3:Innovative Clinical and Biological Applications

Winner:

• Quantification of Blood Flow from Rotational Angiography, Irina Waechter, J Bredno, DC Barratt, J Weese, DJ Hawkes, University College London, UK, Philips Research Aachen, Germany.

Runners-up:

• Needle Insertion Force Modeling using Ultrasound Displacement Measurement, Ehsan Dehghan, Xu Wen, Reza Zahiri-Azar, Maud Marchal, Septimui E Salucusean, Dept ECE U British Columbia Canada, TINC-GMCAO Laboratory, Grenoble, France.


• Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy in Novice and Expert Surgeons �~@~S a Manifold Embedding Approach, Daniel R Leff, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Louis Atallah, Ara Darzi, Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London, UK.

Prize 4: Visualization and Interaction

Winner:

• Simulation and Fully Automatic Multimodal Registration of Medical Ultrasound, Wolfgang Wein, Ali Kharmene, Dirk-Andre Clevert, Oliver Kutter, Nassir Navab, Siemens Corporate Research Princeton USA, CAMP Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, University Hospitals Munich-Grosshadern, Germany.

Runners-up:

• Three-dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing, Christian Wachinger, Wolfgang Wein, Nassir Navab, CAMP Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany, Siemens Corporate Research, Princetown USA.


• pq-space Based Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Augmented Reality, Mirna Lerotic, Adrian J Chung, George Mylona, Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London, UK.

Prize 5: Biological and Neuroscience Image Computing

Winner:

• Cell Population Tracking and Lineage Construction with Spatiotemporal Context, Kang Li, Mei Chen, Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, Intel Research Pittsburgh USA.

Runners-up:

• In-utero Three Dimension High Resolution Fetal Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Shuzhou Jiang, H Xue, S Counsell, M Anjari, J Allsop, M Rutherford, D Rueckert, JV Hajnal, Imperial College London, UK.


• Contributions to 3D diffeomorphic atlas estimation: application to brain images, Matias Bossa, Monica Hernandez, Salvador Olmos, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Prize 6: Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Robotics

Winner:

• Cardiolock : an active cardiac stabilizer - First in vivo experiments using a new robotized device, Wael Bachta, Pierre Renaud, Edouard Laroche, Jacques Gangloff, Antonello Forgione, LSIIT Strasbourg,LGeCo INSA Strasbourg,University Hospital of Strasbourg, France.

Runners-up:

• Automatic Target and Trajectory Identification for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Procedures, Ting Guo, Andrew G Parrent, Terry M Peters, Robarts Research Institute U Western Ontario, The London Health Sciences Centre, Dept Neurosurgery, London Ontario, Canada.


• Closed-loop control in fused MR-TRUS image-guided prostate biopsy, Sheng Xu, Jochen Kruecker, Peter Guion, Neil Glossop, Ziv Neeman, Peter Choyke, Anurag K Singh, Bradford J Wood, Philips Research North America Briarcliff, NIH Bethesda USA, Traxtal Inc Toronto Canada.

Prize 7: Medical Image Computing

Winner:

• Multivariate Normalization with Symmetric Diffeomorphisms for Multivariate Studies, Brian B Avants, JT Duda, H Zhang, JC Gee, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Runners-up:

• A Hierarchical Unsupervised Clustering Scheme for Detection of Prostate Cancer from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), Pallavi Tiwari, Anant Madabhushi, Mark Rosen, Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania, USA.


• Non-parametric Diffeomorphic Image Registration with the Demons Algorithm, Tom Vercauteren, Xavier Pennec, Aymeric Perchant, Nicholas Ayache, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Mauna Kea Technologies Paris, France.

Previous Years’ Winners of MedIA-MICCAI Prize Awards

In 2006, the prize was offered to T. Vercauteren, first author of the article:

• T. Vercauteren, A. Perchant, X. Pennec, G. Malandain and N. Ayache, "Mosaicing of Confocal Microscopic In Vivo Soft Tissue Video Sequences"

In 2005, the prize was offered to D. Burschka and M. Jackowski who are the first authors of the articles:

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

Previous Years’ Winners of MICCAI Young Scientist Awards

MICCAI 2006 - Copenhagen

At MICCAI 2006, five prizes each valued at €400 were awarded in the following categories:

MICCAI 2005 - Palm Springs

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