DTI Tractography Challenge MICCAI 2012

Introduction

The MICCAI Grand Challenge on DTI Tractography will be held on Monday October 1st, 2012, as part of the 15th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2012) in Nice, France. (Note: this page is under construction)

Outline

DTI tractography holds promises for mapping white matter pathways in-vivo. However, the validation of tractography results remains the major bottleneck to clinical usability and utility, since neurosurgeons and scientists face the challenge of selecting the appropriate tractography method in the absence of ground truth. This workshop aims at comparing tractography algorithms performances in the reconstruction of the corticospinal tract in a controlled environment using software generated DTI phantoms and in a clinical workflow of neurosurgical cases. Quantitative evaluation criteria will be based on fiber diffusion profiles, fiber geometry and distance between bundles. Clinical assessment will focus on anatomical correctness, depiction of lesion infiltration and tract displacement.

Faculty

• Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Martin Styner, Ph.D., Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratory, University of North Carolina
• Alexandra Golby, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Arya Nabavi, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
• Guido Gerig, Ph.D.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
• William Wells, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D., Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Sylvain Gouttard, M.Sc.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah

Important Dates

• March 30: call for submission of papers to the workshop
• May 30: workshop paper submission deadline
• July 6: workshop paper acceptance
• July 15: draft program of the workshop to be sent to MICCAI
• July 30: deadline for camera ready papers
• August 20: final version of the workshop proceedings to be sent to MICCAI.

MICCAI 2012 DTI Tractography Challenge (under construction)

MICCAI 2011 DTI Tractography Challenge

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