A6: Statistical Shape Modelling and its Applications in CAOS

Statistical shape analysis enjoys a remarkable popularity within the medical image analysis community, and has been widely used to study human anatomy. These techniques hold potential for novel approaches in image guided surgery planning, simulation and execution. Among possible applications, the need for pre- and/or intraoperative CT data sets to gather bone surface information may be removed, pathologies could be detected automatically or structural biomechanical behaviour of human structures incorporated during planning.

The aim of the workshop is to introduce and present statistical shape modelling to researchers working in Orthopaedics and related topics. The workshop introduces a varied list of international renowned speakers working actively on the topic of statistical shape and intensity modelling. The workshop aims at emphasizing not only on the methodologies but also on the practical aspects of statistical shape modelling.

Date:	Wednesday, June 15th 2011, 14:00-18:15
Location:	The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre Puddle Dock Blackfriars London EC4V 3DB Great Britain
Room:	Miles
Conveners:	Mauricio Reyes & Guoyan Zheng
Program:	Habib Bou-Sleiman (University of Bern, Switzerland) Introduction to statistical shape modeling and practical implementation aspects Steffen Schumann (University of Bern, Switzerland) Statistical shape model based methods for determination of pelvis orientation from sparse B-mode ultrasound images André Goossen (Philips Technologie) Joint alignment measurements derived from planar pre- and post-operative orthopaedic radiographs Andy Turner (Imperial College London, UK) Optimization of statistical shape models of the innominate bone Guoyan Zheng (Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland) Medical image computing for computer-assisted orthopaedic applications: statistical atlas-based solutions Xiahai Zhuang (University College London, UK) Extracting prior shape information without a training stage for image segmentation and registration
Fees:	€ 85.- (workshop only) € 65.- (attendees of the main conference)