Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health (CAPI)
Motivation: Women’s health and particularly the application of sophisticated imaging and analysis tools to the female pelvis is recently attracting fast growing interest.
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Taking endometriosis as an example, often referred to as the chameleon disease, research and improvements in care are clearly required: “Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases, but it can take up to 10 years to get a diagnosis.” Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., former NICHD Director.
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The female reproductive organs display an extraordinary variability, both between individuals, within the same individual with different stages of the menstrual cycle and even more dramatically over the female patient’s life span.​​ The influence of hormones and the requirement to assess any imaging with respect to the phase to differentiate between normal and pathological findings further complicate diagnosis and decision making.
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Furthermore, the pelvis is an area of extraordinary dynamic events, from the natural peristalsis to breathing motion, to the influence of surrounding tissues such as the bowel on the imaging process. Both diagnosis and therapies often include laparoscopic interventions, amplifying the challenges stated above and placing further emphasis on the need for individualized imaging and analysis techniques. Robotic surgeries are becoming more complex and new surgical developments lead to highly specialized tools and advanced methods for surgical planning.
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This area therefore poses excellent challenges, both on the image acquisition side as well as on the analysis side, calling for expertise in advanced methods in these areas, such as perfectly represented in the MICCAI community.
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Programme
13:30 - 14:00
Introduction “Computer-Aided Pelvic Imaging for Female Health”
14:00 - 14:45
Prof. Julia Schnabel, TUM, Munich Germany
14:45 - 15:30
1st Oral Session
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Short talk: Publicly Available Female Pelvis MRI Datasets: Current Resources and Limitations for Image-Based Research
Maximilian Lindholz, Tillmann Arlt, Richard Ruppel, Robin Schmidt, Yasmin El-Nahry, Sylvia Mechsner, Sophia Elisabeth Ellen Schulze-Weddige, Georg Lukas Baumgärtner, Charlie Alexander Hamm, Lynn Jeanette Savic, Sebastian Arndt, Lisa Siegler, Leonard Stepansky, Matthias May, and Tobias Penzkofer
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A Prospective Dual-Modality Tool for Monitoring Uterine Peristalsis: Integrating Dynamic MRI and Electrohysterography
Maria Camila Bustos Vivas, Smiti Tripathy, and Jana Hutter
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Visionerves: Automatic and Reproducible Hybrid AI for Peripheral Nervous System Recognition Applied to Endometriosis Cases
Giammarco La Barbera, Enzo Bonnot, Thomas Isla, Juan Pablo de la Plata, Joy-Rose Dunoyer de Segonzac, Jennifer Attali, Cécile Lozach, Alexandre Bellucci, Louis Marcellin, Laure Fournier, Sabine Sarnacki, Pietro Gori, and Isabelle Bloch
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Diffusing the Blind Spot: Uterine MRI Synthesis with Diffusion Models
Johanna P. Müller, Anika Knupfer, Pedro Blöss, Edoardo Berardi Vittur, Bernhard Kainz, Jana Hutter
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:55
2nd Oral Session
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Multi-Step Segmentation of Pelvic Fractures: Handling Variable Fracture Counts Through Anatomical and Surface Analysis
Artur Jurgas, Maciej Stanuch, Marek Wodziński, and Andrzej Skalski
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Delineation Uncertainty from Clinician Ranges in Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy Planning
Omar Todd, Sooha Kim, Katherine Mackay, Raghav Mehta, Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, David Bernstein, Alexandra Taylor, Ben Glocker
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UteroVAE: A Shape-Informed Variational Autoencoder for Uterine MRI Encoding in Adenomyosis, Fibroids, and Healthy Uteri
Richard Ruppel, Maximilian Lindholz, Robin Schmidt, Yasmin El-Nahry, Syliva Mechsner, Sophia Elisabeth Ellen Schulze-Weddige, Georg Lukas Baumgärtner, Tillmann Arlt, Charlie Alexander Hamm, Sebastian Arndt, Lisa Siegler, Leonard Stepansky, Jana Hutter, Matthias May, Tobias Penzkofer
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Real-Time Automated Analysis and Reporting of Uterine MRI
Deepak Bhatia, Jordina Aviles Verdera, Michael Kitzberger, Smiti Tripathy, Maria Camila Bustos Vivas, Lieselotte Kratzsch, Anika Knupfer, and Jana Hutter
17:00 - 17:45
Joint Panel Session with the WOMEN’s Workshop
17:45 - 18:00
Closing + Award Ceremony
