Contact Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Ben Glocker email phone +49 (89) 289-17071 fax +49 (89) 289-17059 room 03.13.057 address Institut für Informatik I-16 Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching b. München Germany skype

Research My Ph.D. Advisors are Prof. Nassir Navab and Prof. Nikos Paragios Fields of Interest Discrete Optimization Deformable Registration Statistical Models & Atlas-based Segmentation Research Groups Registration and Visualization Medical Imaging

Professional Activities Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Teaching Assistance Sommer Term 2008 Hauptseminar Statistical Models of Shape and Appearance for Medical Image Analysis Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures II Winter Term 2007 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures Summer Term 2007 Lecture Computer Aided Medical Procedures II Summer Term 2005 Praktikum 3D Computer Vision

Student Projects (SEPs, IDPs, Bachelor/Master/Diploma Theses) Available Come by and ask! Running GPU Accelerated Deformable Registration, DA/MA/BA by Philipp Stefan (15/05/2009) Finished Assessment of Knee Cartilage Thickness using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, SEP by Lorenz König (2007/07/25) Development and Implementation of a User-Friendly Tool for Analysis of the Patella Cartilage Using Magnetic Resonance Tomography, IDP by Lorenz König (2007/04/01) Image-based Quantification of Patella Cartilage using MRI - Evaluation of Novel Methods for Segmentation, Volume and Thickness Estimation, Master Thesis by Shanshan Cui ()

Software

Our software for deformable registration using discrete optimization is now available on http://campar.in.tum.de/Main/Drop

Publications Journal Articles 2008 B. Glocker, N. Komodakis, G. Tziritas, N. Navab, N. Paragios Dense Image Registration through MRFs and Efficient Linear Programming Medical Image Analysis 12 (2008), 731-741 (bib) International Conferences 2009 C. Wachinger, S. Baumann, J. Zeltner, B. Glocker, N. Navab Sphere Extraction in MR Images with Application to Whole-Body MRI. SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, Florida, USA, 7-12 February 2009 (bib) 2008 D. Zikic, M. S. Hansen, B. Glocker, A. Khamene, R. Larsen, N. Navab Computing Minimal Deformations: Application to Construction of Statistical Shape Models. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 24-26, 2008 (bib) M. S. Hansen, B. Glocker, N. Navab, R. Larsen Adaptive Parametrization of Multivariate B-splines for Image Registration IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 24-26, 2008 (bib) B. Glocker, N. Paragios, N. Komodakis, G. Tziritas, N. Navab Optical Flow Estimation with Uncertainties through Dynamic MRFs IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 24-26, 2008 (bib) C. Wachinger, B. Glocker, J. Zeltner, N. Paragios, N. Komodakis, M. S. Hansen, N. Navab Deformable Mosaicing for Whole-body MRI Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI, 2008, New York, USA, September 6-10 2008 (bib) S. Atasoy, M. Groher, D. Zikic, B. Glocker, T. Waggershauser, M. Pfister, N. Navab Real-Time Respiratory Motion Tracking: Roadmap Correction for Hepatic Artery Catheterizations SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 16-21 February 2008 (to be published) (bib) 2007 B. Glocker, N. Komodakis, N. Paragios, Ch. Glaser, G. Tziritas, N. Navab Primal/Dual Linear Programming and Statistical Atlases for Cartilage Segmentation Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 29 - November 2 2007 (bib) B. Glocker, N. Komodakis, N. Paragios, G. Tziritas, N. Navab Inter and Intra-Modal Deformable Registration: Continuous Deformations Meet Efficient Optimal Linear Programming Information Processing in Medical Imaging, (IPMI 2007), Kerkrade, Netherlands, July 2-6 2007. This work won the Erbsmann prize for the best oral presentation among all first-time presenters at IPMI 2007. (bib) B. Glocker, S. Buhmann, C. Kirchhoff, T. Mussack, M. Reiser, N. Navab Towards a Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Colon Motility Dysfunctions SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, California, USA, 17-22 February 2007 (bib) Symposiums / Workshops 2008 D. Zikic, B. Glocker, M. S. Hansen, A. Khamene, N. Navab Construction of Statistical Shape Models from Minimal Deformations Workshop "Manifolds in Medical Imaging: Metrics, Learning and Beyond" in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2008), New York City, NY, USA, September 2008 (bib) 2007 A. Besbes, N. Komodakis, B. Glocker, G. Tziritas, N. Paragios 4D Ventricular Segmentation and Wall Motion Estimation Using Efficient Discrete Optimization 3rd International Symposium in Visual Computing, (ISVC 2007), Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California, USA, November 26-28 2007. (bib)

Awards Francois Erbsmann prize for the best oral presentation among all first-time presenters at Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2007 Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2007 for the diploma thesis "Discrete Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation in Non-rigid Image Registration"

Deformable Registraton using Discrete Optimization Image Registration Surface Registration Atlas-based Segmentation Motion Estimation Optical Flow