Invited Contributions -- Towards a Medical Virtual Reality Environment for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery -- Joint Registration and Segmentation of Serial Lung CT Images in Microendoscopy Molecular Image-Guided Therapy -- Perceptual Docking for Robotic Control -- Surgical Planning and Simulation -- An Integration of Statistical Deformable Model and Finite Element Method for Bone-Related Soft Tissue Prediction in Orthognathic Surgery Planning -- Automated Preoperative Planning of Femoral Component for Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) from 3D CT Images -- Validation of Viscoelastic and Nonlinear Liver Model for Needle Insertion from in Vivo Experiments -- Simulation of Active Cardiac Electromechanical Dynamics -- Wheelchair Propulsion Analysis System That Incorporates Human Skeletal Muscular Model Analyses on the Flat Floor and Slope -- Medical Image Computing -- Automatic Detection of Fiducial Marker Center Based on Shape Index and Curvedness -- Modality-Independent Determination of Vertebral Position and Rotation in 3D -- Coupled Meshfree-BEM Platform for Electrocardiographic Simulation: Modeling and Validations -- Source Localization of Subtopographies Decomposed by Radial Basis Functions -- Estimation of the Current Density in a Dynamic Heart Model and Visualization of Its Propagation -- Image Analysis -- Identification of Atrophy Patterns in Alzheimer's Disease Based on SVM Feature Selection and Anatomical Parcellation -- A Surface-Based Fractal Information Dimension Method for Cortical Complexity Analysis -- Wavelet-Based Compression and Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images in Surgery -- A Novel Level Set Based Shape Prior Method for Liver Segmentation from MRI Images -- Shape Modeling and Morphometry -- Statistical Shape Space Analysis Based on Level Sets -- Statistical Piecewise Assembled Model (SPAM) for the Representation of Highly Deformable Medical Organs -- Amygdala Surface Modeling with Weighted Spherical Harmonics -- Kalman Filtering for Frame-by-Frame CT to Ultrasound Rigid Registration -- Cardiac PET Motion Correction Using Materially Constrained Transform Models -- Image-Guided Robotics -- Image Guidance for Robotic Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass -- MRI-Compatible Rigid and Flexible Outer Sheath Device with Pneumatic Locking Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgery -- MR Compatible Tactile Sensing and Noise Analysis in a 1.5 Tesla MR System -- A Framework of the Non-invasive Ultrasound Theragnostic System -- Image-Guided Intervention -- In Vivo Evaluation of a Guidance System for Computer Assisted Robotized Needle Insertion Devoted to Small Animals -- Composite-Type Optical Fiberscope for Laser Surgery for Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome -- Surgical Manipulator with Balloon for Stabilizing Fetus in Utero under Ultrasound Guidance -- Investigation of Partial Directed Coherence for Hand-Eye Coordination in Laparoscopic Training -- A Virtual Reality Patient and Environments for Image Guided Diagnosis -- Interventional Imaging -- A Navigation System for Brain Surgery Using Computer Vision Technology -- Computer-Aided Delivery of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for Creation of an Atrial Septal Defect in Vivo -- Basic Study on Real-Time Simulation Using Mass Spring System for Robotic Surgery -- A Precise Robotic Ablation and Division Mechanism for Liver Resection -- Image Registration -- Fast Image Mapping of Endoscopic Image Mosaics with Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Image for Intrauterine Treatment of Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome -- Non-rigid 2D-3D Registration Based on Support Vector Regression Estimated Similarity Metric -- Real-Time Autostereoscopic Visualization of Registration-Generated 4D MR Image of Beating Heart -- Augmented Reality -- Realtime Organ Tracking for Endoscopic Augmented Reality Visualization Using Miniature Wireless Magnetic Tracker -- Fusion of Laser Guidance and 3-D Autostereoscopic Image Overlay for Precision-Guided Surgery -- Augmented Display of Anatomical Names of Bronchial Branches for Bronchoscopy Assistance -- Non-metal Slice Image Overlay Display System Used Inside the Open Type MRI -- Image Segmentation -- Extracting Curve Skeletons from Gray Value Images for Virtual Endoscopy -- Automatic Hepatic Vessel Segmentation Using Graphics Hardware -- Learning Longitudinal Deformations for Adaptive Segmentation of Lung Fields from Serial Chest Radiographs -- Automatic Extraction of Proximal Femur Contours from Calibrated X-Ray Images Using 3D Statistical Models -- Anisotropic Haralick Edge Detection Scheme with Application to Vessel Segmentation.