About

MICCAI Workshop on Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis
In conjunction with MICCAI 2013.
Nagoya, Japan
Nagoya University, Room IB013
September 26, 2013

Scope

Many strategies for medical image analysis have been built on an image analysis pipeline that starts with acquired image data, performs filtering and processing, constructs geometric models of important surfaces and structures, performs simulation, and finally provides quantitative and visual analysis of the data. Within this pipeline, geometry and shape are commonly represented as a mesh, or a discretization of some domain into simpler computational elements such as quads or triangles (representative of surface pieces) or tetrahedra and hexahedra (representative of volumetric elements). This image-to-mesh (I2M) step converts volumetric images into formats that are more suitable for solving finite-element simulations, analyzing critical structures, and performing boundary surface visualization tasks. Current research in computational geometry, graphics hardware, and computer graphics has produced methods to represent, extract, refine, visualize and analyze both critical surfaces embedded in the 3D volumes, such as interfaces between tissues, as well as volumetric regions, such as organs.

The workshop investigates the role meshes have with medical image analysis and is broadly based on three overlapping themes:

1. Mesh processing,
2. The I2M pipeline,
3. Surface analysis and extraction.

While numerous I2M technologies have been developed, rarely do they get sufficient exposure so that out-of-field researchers have the necessary expertise to know the nuances between them. Similarly, researchers in geometry, meshing, and surfacing often consider their problems in independent settings, external to their use in a particular pipeline. In particular, there is a need for designing novel technologies that strictly focus on medical image domains. This workshop proposes to improve the cross-pollination of the imaging and meshing efforts by considering how meshing fits into the end-to-end pipeline from image acquisition to clinical analysis.

Previous years' workshops:

• MeshMed 2011.
• MeshMed 2012.

Proceedings

Printed proceedings will be available at the workshop. However, they will not be published by Springer, as originally announced. Proceedings for MeshMed 2012 was published by Springer.

Best paper prize

The best paper prize for MeshMed 2013 went to Sergio Vera and his coworkers for the paper: Volumetric Anatomical Parameterization and Meshing for Inter-patient Liver Coordinate System Definition. Congratulations!

Registration

Registration for the workshop is handled trough the main MICCAI conference.

Organisers

2013 Chairs

• Joshua A. Levine, SCI Institute, University of Utah, USA
• Rasmus R. Paulsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Steering Comittee

• Hervé Delingette, Asclepios, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
• Nikos P. Chrisochoides, Old Dominion University, USA
• Sylvain Prima, IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France

Sponsors

MeshMed is supported by the HEAR-EU project funded from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 304857.

Contact

Rasmus R. Paulsen Associate Professor Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Technical University of Denmark Matematiktorvet Building 324, office 110 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark Phone: +45 4525 3423 Fax: +45 4588 1397 http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~rrp rrp at imm dot dtu dot dk

Joshua A. Levine Assistant Professor School of Computing Visual Computing Division Clemson University 317 McAdams Hall Clemson, SC 29634 USA Phone: +1-864-656-0537 Fax:   http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~levinej/ levinej at clemson dot edu

Yongjie (Jessica) Zhang Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 303 Scaife Hall 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Phone: +1-412-268-5332 Fax: +1-412-268-3348 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/ user/jessicaz/ jessicaz at andrew dot cmu dot edu