Augmented Reality Environments for Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Interventions [electronic resource] : 6th International Workshop, MIAR 2013 and 8th International Workshop, AE-CAI 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Hongen Liao, Cristian A. Linte, Ken Masamune, Terry M. Peters, Guoyan Zheng.

Simultaneous Tensor and Fiber Registration (STFR) for Diffusion Tensor Images of the Brain -- Real-Time Marker-Free Patient Registration and Image-Based Navigation Using Stereovision for Dental Surgery -- Segmentation of 3D Transesophageal Echocardiograms by Multi-cavity Active Shape Model and Gamma Mixture Model -- Automatic and Real-Time Identification of Breathing Pattern from Ultrasound Liver Images -- Simultaneous Tracking, 3D Reconstruction and Deforming Point Detection for Stereoscope Guided Surgery -- Hybrid Multimodal Deformable Registration with a Data-Driven Deformation Prior -- Planning of Middle Hepatic Vein-Guided Hemihepatectomy: Resection Pathway Construction and Optimization -- Cascaded Shape Regression for Automatic Prostate Segmentation from Extracorporeal Ultrasound Images -- Evaluation of Endoscopic Image Enhancement for Feature Tracking: A New Validation Framework -- Intensity-Based 3D-2D Mesh-to-Image Registration Using Mesh-Based Digitally Reconstructed Radiography -- Toward Accurate and Robust 2-D/3-D Registration of Implant Models to Single-Plane Fluoroscopy -- Ultrasound Image-Guided Mapping of Endoscopic Views on a 3D Placenta Model: A Tracker-Less Approach -- An Augmented Reality Approach for Initializing 2D/3D Registration -- Surface Reconstruction from Tracked Endoscopic Video Using the Structure from Motion Approach -- Towards CT Enhanced Ultrasound Guidance for Off-pump Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair -- A Bayesian Approach for Construction of Sparse Statistical Shape Models Using Dirichlet Distribution -- Brain-Cloud: A Generalized and Flexible Registration Framework for Brain MR Images -- Realtime Wide-Baseline Registration of the Uterus in Monocular Laparoscopic Videos -- 3D Robotic Catheter Shape Reconstruction and Localisation Using Appearance Priors and Adaptive C-Arm Positioning -- Uncertainty-Encoded Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Phantom Study -- Quantized Local Edge Distribution: A Descriptor for B-mode Ultrasound Images -- Registration of Preoperative Liver Model for Laparoscopic Surgery from Intraoperative 3D Acquisition -- Volume Visualization for Neurovascular Augmented Reality Surgery -- Reinforcement Learning Based Model Selection and Parameter Estimation for Pharmacokinetic Analysis in Drug Selection -- Delineating 3D Angiogenic Sprouting in OCT Images via Multiple Active Contours -- The Role of Augmented Reality in Training the Planning of Brain Tumor Resection -- Matching Functional Connectivity Patterns for Spatial Correspondence Detection in fMRI Registration -- Calibration and Stereo Tracking of a Laparoscopic Ultrasound Transducer for Augmented Reality in Surgery -- Evaluation of Multiple Voxel-Based Morphometry Approaches and Applications in the Analysis of White Matter Changes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.