Publications

2016
C. Wachinger, D. Salat, M. Weiner, M. Reuter,
Whole-brain Analysis Reveals Increased Neuroanatomical Asymmetries in Dementia for Hippocampus and Amygdala (PDF),
Brain, 2016.

C. Wachinger, M. Brennan, G. Sharp, P. Golland,
Efficient Descriptor-Based Segmentation of Parotid Glands with Non-Local Means,
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, in press.

C. Wachinger, M. Reuter,
Domain Adaptation for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostics,
NeuroImage, Vol 139, pp. 470-479, 2016

C. Wachinger, M. Reuter,
Shape-based Classification and Domain Adaptation for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostics,
Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2016.

2015
C. Wachinger, K. Fritscher, G. Sharp, P. Golland,
Contour-Driven Atlas-Based Segmentation,
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol 34(12), pp. 2492-505, 2015.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland, B. Fischl, M. Reuter,
BrainPrint - A Compact Shape Description of the Brain for Identification and Classification,
Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2015.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland,
Diverse Landmark Sampling from Determinantal Point Processes for Scalable Manifold Learning,
ArXiv, 2015.

C. Wachinger, M. Toews, G. Langs, W. Wells, P. Golland,
Keypoint Transfer Segmentation (Presentation),
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2015.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland,
Sampling from Determinantal Point Processes for Scalable Manifold Learning (Presentation),
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2015.
See ArXiv article for an extended version.

M. Toews, C. Wachinger, R. Jose, W. Wells,
A Feature-based Approach for Big Data Analysis of Medical Images,
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2015.

E. Bron, M. Smits, et al., C. Wachinger, M. Reuter, J. van Swieten, W. Niessen, S. Klein,
Standardized evaluation of algorithms for computer-aided diagnosis of dementia based on structural MRI: The CADDementia challenge,
NeuroImage, 2015.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland, C. Magnain, B. Fischl, M. Reuter,
Multi-Modal Robust Inverse-Consistent Linear Registration,
Human Brain Mapping, Volume 35, Issue 4, 2015.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland, W. Kremen, B. Fischl, M. Reuter,
BrainPrint: A Discriminative Characterization of Brain Morphology,
NeuroImage, Volume 109, Pages 232-248, 2015 (Cover).

M. Reuter, C. Wachinger, H. Lombaert,
Proceedings of the workshop on Spectral Analysis in Medical Imaging (SAMI),
Midas, 2015

2014
C. Wachinger, M. Brennan, G. Sharp, P. Golland,
On the Importance of Location and Features for Patch-Based Segmentation of Parotid Glands (Presentation),
Workshop on Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy, MICCAI, 2014.

C. Wachinger, K. Batmanghelich, P. Golland, M. Reuter,
BrainPrint in the Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (Presentation),
Challenge on Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Dementia, MICCAI, 2014.
Second prize in classification challenge.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland,
Atlas-Based Under-Segmentation (Presentation),
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2014.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland, M. Reuter,
BrainPrint: Identifying Subjects by their Brain (Presentation),
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2014.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland, M. Reuter, W. Wells,
Gaussian Process Interpolation for Uncertainty Estimation in Image Registration (Presentation),
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2014.

C. Magnain, J. Augustinack, M. Reuter, C. Wachinger, M. Frosch, T. Ragan, T. Akkin, V. Wedeen, D. Boas and B. Fischl,
Blockface Histology with Optical Coherence Tomography: A Comparison with Nissl Staining,
NeuroImage, 2014.

G. Sharp, C. Wachinger, W. Birkfellner, C. Pinter,
Proceedings of the workshop on Image-Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy (IGART),
Midas, 2014.

2013
C. Wachinger, G. Sharp, P. Golland,
Contour-Driven Regression for Label Inference in Atlas-Based Segmentation,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2013.

C. Wachingr, P. Golland, B. Fischl, M. Reuter,
Robust registration of multi-modal images,
Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, 2013.

C. Wachinger,
Image Representations for Registration with Gaussian Processes,
9th Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics, 2013.

G. H. Chen, C. Wachinger, P. Golland,
Sparse Projections of Medical Images onto Manifolds,
IPMI, 2013.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Simultaneous Registration of Multiple Images: Similarity Metrics and Efficient Optimization,
Appendix Supplementary Video
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI),
Volume 35, Number 5, Pages 1221-1233, 2013.

2012
C. Wachinger,
Ultraschall-Mosaicing und Bewegungsmodellierung: Anwendungen der medizinischen Bildregistrierung,
Editor: Steffen Hoelldobler et al.
Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2011, GI-Edition - Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI),
Bonner Koellen Verlag (2012), ISBN 978-3-88579-416-5.

C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab,
The 2D Analytic Signal for Envelope Detection and Feature Extraction on Ultrasound Images,
Medical Image Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 1073-1084, 10.1016/j.media.2012.05.001.

C. Wachinger, P. Golland,
Spectral Label Fusion,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Nice, 2012

Mehdi Moradi, Christian Wachinger, Andriy Fedorov, William Wells, Tina Kapur, Luciant Wolfsberg, Paul Nguyen, Clare Tempany,
MRI confirmed prostate tissue classification with Laplacian eigenmaps of ultrasound RF spectra,
MICCAI Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, 2012.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
A Contextual Maximum Likelihood Framework for Modeling Image Registration,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island (USA), June 2012.

C. Wachinger, M. Yigitsoy, E. Rijkhorst, N. Navab,
Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating in Ultrasound and MRI,
Medical Image Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 806-818.

C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab,
Locally adaptive Nakagami-based ultrasound similarity measures,
Ultrasonics, Volume 52, Issue 4, April 2012, Pages 547-554.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Entropy and Laplacian Images: Structural Representations for Multi-Modal Registration,
Medical Image Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1-17.

2011
Christian Wachinger,
Ultrasound Mosaicing and Motion Modeling - Applications in Medical Image Registration,
Dissertation,
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 2011

M. Yigitsoy, C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Temporal Groupwise Registration for Motion Modeling,
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), July 3-8 2011.

S. Demirci, A. Bigdelou, L. Wang, C. Wachinger, M. Baust, R. Tibrewal, R. Ghotbi, H-H. Eckstein, N. Navab,
3D Stent Recovery from One X-ray Projection,
14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Toronto (CA), September 18-22, 2011

C. Wachinger, T. Klein, N. Navab,
The 2D Analytic Signal on RF and B-mode Ultrasound Images,
Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), July 3-8 2011.

M. Yigitsoy, C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Manifold learning for image-based breathing gating in MRI,
SPIE Medical Imaging, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, USA, February 2011

2010
C. Wachinger, M. Yigitsoy, N. Navab,
Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating with Application to 4D Ultrasound,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, pp. 26-33, 2010.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Manifold Learning for Multi-Modal Image Registration,
21st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pp. 82.1-82.12, 2010.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Structural Image Representation for Image Registration,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), pp. 23-30, 2010.

C. Wachinger, D. Mateus, A. Keil, N. Navab,
Manifold Learning for Patient Position Detection in MRI,
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 1353 - 1356, 2010.

2009
C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Alignment of Viewing-Angle Dependent Ultrasound Images,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 1, pp. 667-674, 2009.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Similarity Metrics and Efficient Optimization for Simultaneous Registration,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 779-786, 2009.

C. Wachinger, S. Baumann, J. Zeltner, B. Glocker, N. Navab,
Sphere Extraction in MR Images with Application to Whole-Body MRI,
pp. 72594J.1-72594J.8, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009.

C. Wachinger, R. Shams, N. Navab:
Towards an Estimation of Acoustic Impedance from Multiple Ultrasound Images.
Bildverarbeitung fuer die Medizin, pp. 405-409, 2009.

B. Glocker, C. Wachinger, J. Zeltner, N. Paragios, N. Komodakis, M. Hansen, N. Navab:
MRI Composing for Whole Body Imaging.
Bildverarbeitung fuer die Medizin, pp. 420-424, 2009.

2008
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), vol. 2, pp. 113-121, 2008.

C. Wachinger, R. Shams, N. Navab,
Estimation of Acoustic Impedance from Multiple Ultrasound Images with Application to Spatial Compounding,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), pp. 1-8, 2008.

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Ultrasound Specific Similarity Measures for Three-Dimensional Mosaicing,
SPIE Medical Imaging, pp. 69140F.1-69140F.9, 2008.

C. Wachinger, W. Wein, N. Navab,
Registration Strategies and Similarity Measures for Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing,
Journal of Academic Radiology, 2008.

2007
C. Wachinger, W. Wein, N. Navab,
Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mosaicing,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, pp. 327-335, 2007 (runner-up young scientist award).
2006
A. Keil, C. Wachinger, G. Brinker, S. Thesen, N. Navab,
Patient Position Detection for SAR Optimization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), vol. 2, pp.49-57, 2006.

Patents

C. Wachinger, N. Navab,
Anwendung eines zweidimensionalen analytischen Signals in der Sonographie,
WO 2012/055543, Date: 03.05.2012.

C. Wachinger, B. Glocker, J. Zeltner, N. Navab,
Method for combining images and magnetic resonance scanner,
Patent application number: 12/461993, Date: 03/18/2010.