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MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Video-Based Navigation for Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery
Abstract. Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery (ESBS) requires high accuracy to ensure safe navigation of the critical anatomy at the anterior skull base. Current navigation sys...
Daniel Mirota, Hanzi Wang, Russell H. Taylor, M...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Prostate Biopsy Assistance System with Gland Deformation Estimation for Enhanced Precision
Computer-assisted prostate biopsies became a very active research area during the last years. Prostate tracking makes it possible to overcome several drawbacks of the current stand...
Michael Baumann, Pierre Mozer, Vincent Daanen, ...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Robotic Force Stabilization for Beating Heart Intracardiac Surgery
Abstract. The manipulation of fast moving, delicate tissues in beating heart procedures presents a considerable challenge to surgeons. We present a new robotic force stabilization ...
Shelten G. Yuen, Michael C. Yip, Nikolay V. Vasi...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Personalized Pulmonary Trunk Modeling for Intervention Planning and Valve Assessment Estimated from CT Data
Pulmonary valve disease affects a significant portion of the global population and often occurs in conjunction with other heart dysfunctions. Emerging interventional methods enable...
Dime Vitanovski, Razvan Ioan Ionasec, Bogdan Geo...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Optimal Transseptal Puncture Location for Robot-Assisted Left Atrial Catheter Ablation
The preferred method of treatment for Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is by catheter ablation wherein a catheter is guided into the left atrium through a transseptal puncture. However, th...
Jagadeesan Jayender, Rajni V. Patel, Gregory F. ...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Markov Dependence Tree-Based Segmentation of Deep Brain Structures
We propose a new framework for multi-object segmentation of deep brain structures, which have significant shape variations and relatively small sizes in medical brain images. In th...
Jue Wu, Albert C. S. Chung
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Variational Level Set Approach to Segmentation and Bias Correction of Images with Intensity Inhomogeneity
Abstract. This paper presents a variational level set approach to joint segmentation and bias correction of images with intensity inhomogeneity. Our method is based on an observati...
Chunming Li, Rui Huang, Zhaohua Ding, Chris Gat...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Deformable Diffusion Tensor Registration for Fiber Population Analysis
In this work, we propose a novel method for deformable tensor?to?tensor registration of Diffusion Tensor Images. Our registration method models the distances in between the tensors...
M. Okan Irfanoglu, Raghu Machiraju, Steffen Samm...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Registration of 4D Time-Series of Cardiac Images with Multichannel Diffeomorphic Demons
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a generic framework for intersubject non-linear registration of 4D time-series images. In this framework, spatio-temporal registration is define...
Jean-Marc Peyrat, Hervé Delingette, Maxime ...
MICCAI
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Local Mutual Information Guided Denoising Technique and Its Application to Self-calibrated Partially Parallel Imaging
Abstract. The application of Partially Parallel Imaging (PPI) techniques to regular clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies has brought about the benefit of significantly...
Weihong Guo, Feng Huang