Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a novel multi-stage algorithm for 3D medical image segmentation that is inspired by an improved Fast Marching method and a morphological reconst...
Jianfeng Xu, Lixu Gu, Xiahai Zhuang, Terry M. Pete...
Aortic valve disease is an important cardio-vascular disorder, which affects 2.5% of the global population and often requires elaborate clinical management. Experts agree that visu...
Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Bogdan Georgescu, Eva Gassn...
Over the last five years, new "voxel-based" approaches have allowed important progress in multimodal image registration, notably due to the increasing use of information-...
Most existing methods for registration of three-dimensional tomographic images to two-dimensional projection images use simulated projection images and either intensity-based or fe...