Scientific and Clinical Topics
MICCAI encompasses the following broad topics:
Medical Image Computing and Analysis
- data-driven segmentation
- anatomical atlases, object-based models and model-matching
- time series analysis
- functional image analysis co-registration (alignment) and image fusion
- combination of structural & functional information
- combination of information across scales quantitative analysis
- finite element models
- tensor & vector field analysis
Computer Assisted Interventional Systems and Robotics
- instrument & patient localisation & tracking
- planning of interventions, invasive & minimally invasive
- simulation & training systems
- computer aided endoscopy
- guidance of surgery & minimally invasive procedures
- robotics
- clinical evaluation of systems
- safety issues
- medical telepresence & telesurgery
Bioscience Applications & Computer-Aided Diagnosis
- applications to different organs & systems
- biomechanics, tissue modelling & deformation analysis
- applications to different clinical specialities
- quantitative validation
New Applications for Specific Imaging Systems
- magnetic resonance (MRI) applications
- CT & new x-ray tomography applications
- nuclear medicine
- conventioned microscopy
- confocal microscopy
- molecular imaging
- macroscopic optical imaging
Visualization and Feedback
- new display systems
- enhanced or augmented realtiy
- virtual reality
- non-visual feedback
