Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• N. Ayache, H. Delingette, X. Pennec, M. Sermesant, G. Malandain, I. Strobant, A. Cortell were largely involved in the organization of the MICCAI 2012 conference (Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions). The conference gathered together 1200 from more than 40 countries between October 1 to October 5, 2012 in Nice Acropolis.

• The ERC Advanced Grant MedYMA on Biophysical Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Medical Images has started in April 2012 for a period of 5 years.

• Stéphanie Marchesseau received the Young Investigator award at the MICCAI 2012 conference held in Nice (Oct. 2012) for her paper [43] .

• Hervé Lombaert won the MCV 2012 best paper award at the MICCAI workshop on Medical Computer Vision (Oct. 2012) for his paper [39] .

• Hervé Lombaert has received a prize from the research fund of Québec FRQ (http://www.frq.gouv.qc.ca ) as the "star research student" of the month January 2013 for his paper  [14] .

Best Papers Awards :

[43] Cardiac Mechanical Parameter Calibration based on the Unscented Transform in Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2012 (MICCAI).

S. Marchesseau, H. Delingette, M. Sermesant, K. Rhode, S. Duckett, C. Aldo. Rinaldi, R. Razavi, N. Ayache.



[39] Groupwise Spectral Log-Demons Framework for Atlas Construction in Medical Computer Vision (MCV'12) MICCAI workshop.

H. Lombaert, L. Grady, X. Pennec, J.-M. Peyrat, N. Ayache, F. Cheriet.



[14] Human Atlas of the Cardiac Fiber Architecture: Study on a Healthy Population in IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging.

H. Lombaert, J.-M. Peyrat, P. Croisille, S. Rapacchi, L. Fanton, F. Cheriet, P. Clarysse, I. Magnin, H. Delingette, N. Ayache.