MICCAI
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2006
Springer
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has recognized benefits of reduced patient trauma and recovery time. In practice, MIS procedures present a number of challenges due to the loss of ...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
Ground Glass Opacity (GGO) is defined as hazy increased attenuation within a lung that is not associated with obscured underlying vessels. Since pure (nonsolid) or mixed (partially...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we present a left atrium registration system which utilizes a 3D intra-cardiac ultrasound catheter for faster (more than 700 times) and higher quality surface regist...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents a learning based method for automatic extraction of the major cortical sulci from MRI volumes or extracted surfaces. Instead of using a few pre-defined rules su...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
Reconstruction of patient-specific 3D bone surface from 2D calibrated fluoroscopic images and a point distribution model is discussed. We present a 2D/3D reconstruction scheme comb...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Quality of segmentations obtained by 3D Active Appearance Models (AAMs) crucially depends on underlying training data. MRI heart data, however, often come noisy, incomple...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
This work studies limits on estimating the width of thin tubular structures in 3D images. Based on nonlinear estimation theory we analyze the minimal stochastic error of estimating...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
We introduce an elastic registration approach which is based on a physical deformation model and uses Gaussian elastic body splines (GEBS). We formulate an extended energy function...
MICCAI
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2006
Springer
We propose a novel trace-based method to extract vessel axes from gray-scale angiograms without preliminary segmentations. Our method traces the axes on an optimization framework w...