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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Nicholas Ayache Hervé Delingette Polina Golland Kensaku Mori (Eds.)
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012 15th International Conference Nice, France, October 1-5, 2012 Proceedings, Part III
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Volume Editors Nicholas Ayache Hervé Delingette Inria Sophia Antipolis Project Team Asclepios 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France E-mail: {nicholas.ayache, herve.delingette}@inria.fr Polina Golland MIT, CSAIL Cambridge, MA 02139, USA E-mail:
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ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-33453-5 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33454-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33454-2 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012946929 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.4, I.5, I.3.5-8, I.2.9-10, J.3, I.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 6 – Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
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Preface
The 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012, was held in Nice, France, at the Acropolis Convention Center during October 1–5, 2012. Over the past 14 years, the MICCAI conferences have become a premier international event with full articles of high standard, indexed by Pubmed, and annually attracting leading scientists, engineers and clinicians working at the intersection of sciences, technologies and medicine. It is interesting to recall t