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Surgical Planning Laboratory
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts USA
a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School
Featured Image: MRI signal intensity based B-Spline nonrigid registration for pre- and intraoperative imaging during prostate brachytherapy.
In the checkerboard display between the preoperative image (before deformation) and intraoperative image, a black line indicates a contour of the total gland, whereas a white line indicates a contour of the central gland. a: The contours showed discrepancy at white arrows. b: In a checkerboard display between deformed preoperative and intraoperative images, the contours match closely after registration has been performed. A slight discrepancy remained at the posterior part of the prostate (black arrow).
The Surgical Planning Laboratory is a research laboratory in the Department of Radiology of Brigham and Women's Hospital. The Core Mission of the SPL is the extraction of medically relevant information from diagnostic imaging data and to concepts of computation and image analysis to new field of biomedical research. The lab collaborates with groups within Brigham and Women's Hospital, with other researchers at the Harvard Medical School, with local universities such as Harvard and MIT, and with clinicians, researchers, and engineers throughout the world.
Each year, the MICCAI conference presents a number of awards to graduate student and early career scientists for outstanding papers published in the MICCAI proceedings. For MICCAI 2009, the Young Scientist Awards winner in the Medical Image Computing: Segmentation and Analysis category was Joint Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases by Tammy Riklin Raviv, Koen Van Leemput, William M. Wells III, Polina Golland. In the Medical Image Computing: Shape Analysis category the first prize went to Local White Matter Geometry Indices from Diffusion Tensor Gradients by Peter Savadjiev, Gordon Kindlmann, Sylvain Bouix, Martha E. Shenton, Carl-Fredrik Westin.