Many problems in laparoscopic surgery are due to the poor degrees of freedom of movement (DOF) in controlling forceps and laparoscopes. The Multi-DOF forceps manipulator we have ne...
Ryoichi Nakamura, Etsuko Kobayashi, Ken Masamune, ...
The quantitative estimation of regional cardiac deformation from 3D image sequences has important clinical implications for the assessment of myocardial viability. The validation o...
Xenophon Papademetris, Albert J. Sinusas, Donald P...
New medical imaging modalities offering multi-valued data, such as phase contrast MRA and diffusion tensor MRI, require general representations for the development of automatized a...
Juan Ruiz-Alzola, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Simon K. Wa...
Abstract. We present a fast and accurate tool for semiautomatic segmentation of volumetric medical images based on the live wire algorithm, shape-based interpolation and a new opti...
Andrea Schenk, Guido P. M. Prause, Heinz-Otto Peit...
This paper introduces the use of spatially adaptive components into the geodesic active contour segmentation method for application to volumetric medical images. These components a...
Carl-Fredrik Westin, Liana M. Lorigo, Olivier D. F...