MICCAI 2015, Oct 5-9, Munich

Interactive Medical Image Computing (IMIC) Workshop

Part of MICCAI 2015: October 5th to 9th, 2015 - Munich, Germany

The Second Interactive Medical Image Computing (IMIC) Workshop was held in Munich, on Friday October 9th, in conjunction with MICCAI 2015. This page includes summary information and links to workshop content. We look forward to futher events on these topics.

The workshop format encourages hands-on demonstrations to stimulate interaction between developers and the user community of clinicians, neuroscientists, and biologists. Our focus is on original methods and elegant implementations that establish a human-machine dialog. Evaluation will be based on productivity, accuracy, simplicity, and overall user experience.

Attendees are encouraged to bring challenging real-world datasets and allow active experimentation with various demo tools on different data.

Take a look at last year's IMIC

Tentative Full Schedule of the Workshop

List of Demos

  1. Interactive Deformation of Volume Images for Image Registration
    Filip Malmberg, Robin Strand,Joel Kullberg
  2. Multimodal histological image registration using locally rigid transforms
    Robin Strand
  3. A Multi-Platform Interactive 3D Educational Application for Bronchoscopy & Bronchial Anatomy
    Tamara Vagg
  4. Intuitive and Smart Editing of Three-Dimensional Geometric Heart Valve Apparatus Models from Cardiac CT Data
    Félix Lades, Michael Wels, Stefan Steidl, Michael Suehling
  5. An implementation example of the deformation method for real-time simulation of biological tissue formed by fibers and fluid
    Ivan Costa (demo movie)
  6. An immersive virtual reality environment for diagnostic imaging
    Franklin King, Jayender Jagadeesan, Tina Kapur, Steve Pieper, Andras Lasso, Gabor Fichtinger
  7. Minimally Interactive Placenta Segmentation from Motion Corrupted MRI for Fetal Surgical Planning
    Guotai Wang, Maria A. Zuluaga, Rosalind Pratt,Michael Aertsen,Anna L. David, Jan Deprest, Tom Vercauteren, Sebastien Ourselin
  8. Fast Correction Method for Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation Using 2D/3D Free Form Deformation and Posterior Shape Models
    Waldo Valenzuela, Juan Cerrolaza, Mauricio Reyes, Ronald Summers, Marius Linguraru
  9. GraphMIC: Easy Prototyping of Medical Image Computing Applications
    Alexander Zehner, Alexander Eduard Szalo, Christoph Palm
  10. Early Recognition of Surgeons' Hand Actions from Continuous Surgery Videos
    Ye Li, Jun Ohya, Toshio Chiba, Rong Xu, Hiromasa Yamashita
  11. 3D Segmentation using Perceptual Computing
    Moshe Samson, Shlomo Shenzis, Leo Joskowicz
  12. A Virtual Bronchoscopic Tool to Explore the Impact of Physical Restrictions in Bronchoscopy Planning
    Agnés Borràs, Debora Gil, Antoni Rosell, Marta Diez
  13. Shape-Aware Segmentation of Colorectal Polyps in CT Colonography using Surface-Based Front Propagation
    Karthik Krishnan
  14. Model-based Catheter Segmentation in MRI-images
    Andre Mastmeyer
  15. Navigated surgical tools for breast tumor excision using SlicerIGT as an open-source platform
    Tamas Ungi, Andras Lasso, Gabrielle Gauvin, Caitlin T. Yeo, Padina Pezeshki, Thomas Vaughan, Kaci Carter, John Rudan, C. Jay Engel, Gabor Fichtinger
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Schedule

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: June 25, 2015 (note there will be No Extensions)
  • Reviewer Deadline: July 16, 2015
  • Author Notification: July 24, 2015
  • Camera Ready Versions: August 5, 2015
  • Workshop: Friday, October 9, 2015
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Topics

  • Visualization of large multiparametric, multimodal, and/or multisubject imaging data
  • Interactive control of image segmentation or registration algorithms
  • Software architectures to optimize the use of high-performance computing (e.g. clusters or GPUs)
  • Novel interaction or visualization devices such as native 3D displays, head-coupled tracking, hand tracking, gesture detection, custom user input devices and related technologies
  • Interactive simulations of body systems, disease processes, and interventions
  • Education and training systems that use interactive methods
  • Other research that involves interactive computing applied to medical image computing
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IMIC

Interactive systems are widely used in research and clinical practice, yet most scientific venues make it impossible to fully communicate exactly how they work. IMIC combines live demos, hands-on examples, and scientific publications to support exchange of ideas among a community of like-minded researchers. IMIC seeks to showcase and disseminate the best examples of dynamic interaction with medical imagery.

Workshop Location

Forum 8, Holiday Inn Munich City Center

Best Demo Prizes

  1. First Prize: Intuitive and Smart Editing of Three-Dimensional Geometric Heart Valve Apparatus Models from Cardiac CT Data
    Félix Lades, Michael Wels, Stefan Steidl, Michael Suehling
  2. Second Prize: Fast Correction Method for Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation Using 2D/3D Free Form Deformation and Posterior Shape Models
    Waldo Valenzuela, Juan Cerrolaza, Mauricio Reyes, Ronald Summers, Marius Linguraru

Organizing Committee

  • Tammy Riklin Raviv, The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University
  • Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc.
  • Yi Gao, Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics. Stony Brook University
  • Bjoern Menze, TU Munchen

Program Committee

  • Rafeef Abugharbieh
  • Sylvain Bouix
  • Andrey Fedorov
  • Moti Friman
  • Shiri Gordon
  • Yaniv Gur
  • Leo Joskovitch
  • Dagmar Kainmueller
  • Tina Kapur
  • Ender Konukoglu
  • Jim Miller
  • Isaiah Norton
  • Peter Savadjiev

Paper Submission Process

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMIC2015

Submissions will be carefully peer-reviewed by a selected group of researchers with extensive experience in IMIC. Workshop presentations are expected to represent a cross section of the best available research in this area. As this is an emerging field that has not been historically well-covered in the MICCAI literature, accepted submissions will set a precedent that can be expected to be widely discussed.

Note that the online submission system allows upload of supplementary files, so you may include a video, links to project information or online content, and/or a description of your live demo.

Materials from the workshop will be collated and made available via the InteractiveMedical.org web site as a record of the event and a resource to the field.

Paper format
  • Papers should be formatted using the LNCS style files.
  • Papers should have 4-8 pages, but shorter papers accompanied by videos or live demonstrations will also be given full consideration.
  • Submissions with video and/or proposing live demonstration will be given higher priority for oral presentation.
Parallel Submissions

Submitted work has to be original, not identically submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops. We accept papers that provide further detail on algorithms also validated in the MICCAI challenge workshops. We ask authors to reference the challenge contribution explicitly.

Review process

The review of the papers will be double-blind to the extent physically possible. Submissions should be anonymous according to the MICCAI guidelines.

Previous MICCAI submissions

If desired authors can upload the MICCAI reviews and rebuttal to be considered by the workshop chairs.

Patent disclosure policy

The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas and methods to advance the state of medical care. Attendees of the workshop and readers of the proceedings are expected to be able to implement and use the presented methods in their own work. Any restrictions on the usability of presented methods, whether for commercial or for non-commercial applications, must be disclosed.

This information should be included in a separate section at the end of text in the final ('camera-ready') version of the manuscript, and it will be printed in the proceedings in order to help your readers to make informed decisions.

Why IMIC?

The Medical Image Computing literature traditionally favors fully-automated analysis algorithms that offer the potential high throughput, objective, and reproducible results for large data collections. However fully-automated techniques are not able to handle many time-critical tasks, nor can they handle tasks that require contextual or general knowledge not readily available in the images alone. This workshop addresses the topic of human interaction with algorithms for initialization, steering, quality control, and visualization for problem domains such as segmentation and registration, object detection, tracking. The workshop format encourages hands-on demonstrations to stimulate interaction between developers and the user community of clinicians, neuroscientists, and biologists. Attendees are encouraged to bring challenging real-world datasets and allow active experimentation with various tools on different data. In the call for participation in the workshop we ask for extended abstracts or short papers that are accompanied by live demos. Our focus will be on original methods and elegant implementations that establish a human-machine dialog. Evaluation will be based on productivity, accuracy, simplicity, and overall user experience.